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Video Recreates Flying Amusement Park in Buenos Aires, Offers Refreshing View of the City

Cities can be a lot of fun seems to be the message of awesome video from Argentinean creator.




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Train Accident in Buenos Aires Leaves 51 Dead and 703 Injured, Sheds Light on State of Public Transport

A train that reportedly left a workshop yesterday failed to brake when entering a major station and crashed against the end-of-the-line barrier




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The Story of a Train Crash in Buenos Aires and What it Has to Do with Climate Action

An account of the events that led to the accident that killed 51 and injured 703 in Argentina and why its symbolism matters.




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Dream of the 1920s: Complex from 1927 in Buenos Aires is Everything a Green Home Should Be

Low rise buildings, green common spaces, culture, and community living in a housing complex which has become the it living spot for Buenos Aires’ artistic types.




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Sliding Library Instantly Creates Extra Studio at Hip Buenos Aires Apartment

In this beautiful renovation of a 1927 apartment, the architects created a moving structure that holds the owners large book collection while temporary dividing the living space.




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Tetris-Like Gardens Green Concrete Backyards in Buenos Aires

Concrete containers are placed in a metallic structure, forming a green wall to the eye and a walk in space to interact with the plants.




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Irregular Neon Fence Lights Up Parking Lot in Buenos Aires, Changes Fencing Perception

Parking lots will never be green, period. But design can make them less of an eye sore. And who knew a fence could look cool?




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Oh no! Argentina's Magellanic penguin chicks are being killed by global warming

Small changes in weather can have big consequences for many animals, including the beautiful Magellanic penguin found at the tip of South-America.




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Buenos Aires is doing a fantastic job of transforming itself into a more livable city!

Showing other cities around the world how it's done.




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Dinosaur 7x bigger than T-Rex discovered

Paleontologists in Argentina have uncovered a supermassive dinosaur




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Buenos Aires to close 140-year-old zoo, move 2,500 animals to nature reserves

'This situation of captivity is degrading for the animals,' says the Argentine capital's mayor.




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Grand theater in Buenos Aires is converted into bookstore

You don't get an experience like this online.




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Walmart Introduces Supercube Tractor Trailers to increase fuel economy, get trucks off the road

There are a lot of good ideas in this truck; will they catch on?




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Tar Sands Spill in Alberta: "This Is Not Natural -- It's Got Nothing to Do With Nature"

Government officials have no idea how to clean up these spills from a process that oil companies claim is more "environmentally friendly."




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Wood that wows: Teeple Architects' Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum

It's all about the amazing connections.




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Now Alberta is phasing out coal too

Canada's Texas appears to be going green. And environmentalists and oil companies alike are celebrating.




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Meet 'Steve,' a new kind of northern lights discovered by aurora chasers (Video)

This green and purple mystery finally gets its own name and some attention from aurora enthusiasts and researchers alike.




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Permit-free Mono mini-prefab can be set up for $22K

Built as a high-end addition for an extra office or guest room, this prefabricated structure can be erected within six to eight weeks.




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Not-So-Lonely Wanderer is a charming 202 sq. ft. tiny house (Video)

Featuring a tall living room and a big kitchen, this tiny dwelling from Canada packs a big personality.




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Johnson & Johnson's half-hearted switch from plastic to paper cotton buds isn't good enough

It's only happening in half the world. The rest of us can keep using plastic sticks. (Don't they know about ocean currents?)




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Not Enlightened by CFLs in Cathedrals (Photos)

On a recent trip to the south of Spain, I visited the beautiful Cathedral of Seville, amongst the largest of all medieval and Gothic cathedrals, in terms of both area and volume. According to Wikipedia, the interior is the




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Solar Sister and NextAid Showcase 5 Promising Technologies for Africa

Solar Sister showcased just some of the efforts taking place around the world. Here, the Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Mauritania install solar panels in their villages. They received training in Rajasthan, India. Image: Barefoot Photographers of




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Wood & Technology Become the Axalko, a Unique Bicycle for Professional Cyclists And Nature Lovers (Video)

An amazing wooden bicycle, hand-made in Spain by two brothers for professional cyclists. The wooden frame is lightweight, resistant and beautiful!




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When you need antibiotics and when you do not

Half of antibiotics prescribed by primary-care doctors are done so inappropriately and are fueling the emergence of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.




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Industries And Power Plants Downstream From Atlanta Also Need Water: Not Just For Endangered Species After All

When Governor Sonny Perdue of the US State of Georgia filed a legal complaint and then formally asked for the support of the Bush Administration to force the US Army Corps of Engineers to stop releasing water from Atlanta's Lake Lanier, perhaps he did




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US Department Of Interior Secretary Calls Atlanta Drought "No Longer A Theory"

US Department of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has reported on a compromise between three Southern US Governors who had been struggling over diminished access to shared surface waters. The language used to report this progress indicates a small




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Is The BP Spill Big Enough To Resuscitate The Environmental Movement?

Floating residues from the ongoing BP oil 'blowout' in the Gulf are expansive enough to be easily visible from space. Satellite photos of oil on salt water




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Mississippi Governor Barbour Opposes Widespread Beach Berm Building In Louisiana

"People are visible Wednesday, June 6, 2007, on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., where a section of the $4 million protective sand berm was washed away by higher-than-usual tides over the weekend. An intact section of the berm can be seen in the




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Libraries as the Next Big Pop Culture Phenomenon

We just noted the rising popularity of e-books as Amazon announced sales of digital books have consistently surpassed sales of hardcover books. However, don't think libraries will turn to ancient ruins quite yet. Pop




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ShopNothing Helps You Buy Nothing

How was your "buy nothing" day? Did you really buy nothing? Did you miss that rush, the unmistakable high of exchanging your musty old cash for something you can brag to your friends about, or for the gift that will simply take the




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Black Friday Starts At Midnight This Year; It's Time For A Buy Nothing Night

Families should be able to have Thanksgiving Dinner instead of having to go to work. This stinks.




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Andy Revkin on Buy Nothing Day

The Dot Earth Blogger on The Ad Man Behind Occupy Wall Street, and ‘Buy Nothing Day"




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Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day Roundup, Or Why It Should Be Jdimytai Damour Day

Is shopping so important that people have to die or get pepper sprayed?




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Honor your holey relics

This Friday, Patagonia encourages us to celebrate the clothes we have and the stories they tell.




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Forget Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day; Remember Small Business Saturday

A look at the intersection of three ways to deal with this weekend about shopping.




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From Zero Waste to Buy Nothing: A family's quest for simpler, greener living

Adopting a waste-conscious and anti-consumerist lifestyle is not something that happens overnight. Sometimes it's nice to hear about other people who are just starting out, like this young family from southwestern Ontario, Canada.




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Thoughts on Buy Nothing Day

We have always been conflicted about this.




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Black Friday may be dying, but Buy Nothing Day is still going strong

This year, it has a stronger environmental theme.




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Winners of the INDEX- Design For Life competition announced

Some of them are surprising and all of them will make a real difference.




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To nobody's surprise, London's Walkie Talkie wins the Carbuncle Cup

This building alternately fries the public, blows them off their feet and cheats them out of promised public amenities. And did I mention it's bloated, top-heavy and just plain ugly.




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Governor General's Medals for Architecture in Canada unveiled

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly




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TreeHugger hero Thomas Thwaites wins an Ig Nobel Prize for being a goat

And why not? It sounds like fun, just hanging around, eating grass




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2017 Architizer Awards are "a stunning celebration of innovative architecture"

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.




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Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to scientists studying circadian rhythms

Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve.




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Passivhaus Trust announces nominees for ‘the Oscars for building performance'

Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes.




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Why should autonomous vehicles look like cars? Why not hotel rooms?

The Autonomous Hotel Room from Aprilli Design Studio raises some interesting questions.




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In this time of global warming, we now have a Global Cooling Prize

Big bucks go to the teams that come up with an air conditioner that's five times as good.




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Brazil's Natura Cosmetics may be the world's biggest B Corp -- but here's what they're not telling you

Despite Natura's seemingly excellent and forward-thinking business model, their list of ingredients is surprisingly awful and toxic, which calls into question the B Corp certification standards.




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Not-so-big 409 sq. ft. apartment renovation 'densifies' functions

A lack of space becomes something more roomy with some simple design strategies.




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Airy small apartment renovation adds a loft and new bedroom

This new loft adds extra space and an extra bedroom in an urban apartment in Brazil.