Architect and author of Cradle to Cradle talks about green products, his new buildings, and what happened in China.

An affordable, long-lasting and attractive chair made from 100% recycled and recyclable plastic, designed in Barcelona by Estudio Mariscal. Need it far away? Then just buy the seat and get local legs!

A great big list of things you don't need or that you can make instead of buying.

Made from virgin materials that require resource-intensive manufacturing processes, reusable water bottles aren't the perfect solution that you may think.

Recycling isn't enough when demand for aluminum is soaring. We have to use less of the stuff and eliminate single-use packaging.

Remember how aluminum cans are "100 percent recyclable into pure aluminum"? They lied.

Google and Save the Elephants teamed up to bring Street View to the Kenyan wildlife reserve to show its residents and spread the need for conservation.

So much intelligence and so much technology, to what end.

It's impossible for a human to know all of the hundreds of thousands of species of flowers on our planet, so Microsoft has developed flower learning software.

The machine with a mission exceeds everyone's wildest dreams

Telecommuting just isn't fashionable anymore; the "water cooler effect" is.

Add heritage preservation, passive house design and a butterfly roof and it pushes a lot of buttons around here.

Plenty of clever spatial overlaps and multifunctional pieces of transformer furniture in this renovation of a 376-square-foot apartment in Melbourne.

Our photo of the day delivers a bit of winter reverie from the waters of Australia.

This home has been redesigned to feel much more spacious, and connected to its surroundings.

This redesigned space in a 1920s Art Deco building features a new layout that better maximizes space and light.

Mother’s Day didn’t always involve buying cards, flowers, and candy, but it’s always been about showing moms love and appreciation.

Forest ecosystems sequester large amounts of carbon in vegetation and soils, off-setting the carbon emissions we produce and mitigating climate change. The boreal forest and its associated wetlands, in particular, provide critical carbon storage ...

The United Nations established the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in 1994 – the day is observed every year on August 9.

Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6-10, 2019, with National Teacher Day on May 7. Every year, Project Learning Tree (PLT) recognizes the educators who have made the most significant contributions to PLT with the Leadership in Education award.

Cobalt is used to build lithium-ion batteries found in mobile technology. Much of it comes from Congo, where men, women, and children endure dangerous and unhealthy conditions to satisfy our hunger for new devices. It's time we paid attention.

Our never-ending search for convenience comes at a cost.

It is a giant electric radiator that they forgot to turn on due to a software failure.

They are pushing their suppliers to go green too.

Like Kremlinology in the cold war, you take what you can get.

And what happened to the guy who won the six figure salary to serve as caretaker of a barrier reef island anyhow?

The hog-nosed rat (Hyorhinomys stuempkei) possesses traits never seen by the scientific community before.

A cautionary tale for picky eaters.

This ferociously cute snow leopard cub is poised to paw playfully at your heartstrings.

Turn your anger into action by supporting lion-loving charities that are doing great things for big cats.

Two 'active' walls enable this small living space to become flexible and adaptable throughout the day.

In an homage to influential images of Earth taken from outer space, this art installation takes it up a notch by livestreaming views of Earth in real-time, prompting us to contemplate the bigger picture.

An old, cramped apartment in Tasmania is updated with skylights, plenty of clever space-saving concepts, and a touch of hidden glamor.

Bright pops of yellow, orange and neutral wood cabinetry warm up this small apartment renovation in Moscow.

An old apartment is refreshed with a new scheme that stacks things up to gain more space.

This small 355-square-foot apartment has been redesigned to be more space-efficient, enough to accommodate a family that loves to entertain and have guests sleep over.

May technological wonders help our children look forward to a bright season as well

New technologies can be a powerful tool in the fight against climate change. But they can also be a distraction.

With coal use in China dropping, and clean tech becoming competitive, it's time for all of us to ramp up our efforts.

A handfull of states have been carrying the torch for rooftop solar.

It's only mid-November and winter has arrived with a vengeance. How do I stay sane?

The goal is to highlight the abundance that already exists around us.

The space is the first to pop up at the recently opened Casa FOA interior design exhibition, the largest in the city.

A look at this year's Casa FOA, an exhibition which combines charity and patrimony conservation showcasing the best architecture and design from the Argentine capital.

If you thought that by quitting meat or at least going weekday vegetarian you were doing your part to avoid factory farming,

Actually, the student designs steal the show every year at ICFF, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair held annually in New York. This year was not quite up to Pratt's spectacular exhibit from last year, but was close. Parsons I think Parsons the

With kids across America suffering from a severe case of nature deficit disorder as technology creeps in and takes over their room for creative play it may come as a surprise that a group of kids putting together their very own field of dreams on which

Kitting out your home with a solar power system just got a bit easier in the state of Connecticut. Under the Connecticut Solar Lease Program, qualifying low and moderate-income homeowners—those people whose household incomes is

So you think you're doing everything you can to improve your home's energy efficiency. And if you haven't done everything you can do personally, both TreeHugger and Planet Green have plenty of tips on how you can get up to

The major brands, Avent, Disney First Years, Gerber, Dr. Brown, Playtex and Evenflow have all have agreed to stop selling baby bottles manufactured from the monomer Bisphenol-A (BPA). This