The Guardian columnist and environmental thinker George Monbiot usually manages to provoke a strong debate in our comments sections. Some time ago, our post on his new book Heat raised a fierce exchange of views about the impacts of flying, meanwhile his

Can't we all stop fencing for political position and start talking about using the overwhelming amount of data to solve problems?

It's a win-win all around as K-cup users on both sides of the political divide find reasons to smash their Keurigs.

IKEA had a choice to make it shallow and cheap or heavy and deep.

It's about time that someone did, too.

Unsuspecting visitors to the small fishing village of Cheng Long might feel the need to blink and rub their eyes. Is there really a giant bowl and chopsticks sinking into the wetlands? What are those brightly colored things growing all over that house?

Can the social media platform be blamed for the surge in camera-happy tourists?

Thirty thousand pounds of leftover food were redistributed to hungry Floridians in the days following the game.

From the impressive Vienna Vegetable Orchestra to hand-carved pipes and whistles in Japan, these creative people know how to find music anywhere, even in the crisper.

While advertising her new film "Beauty & the Beast", Watson wants people to think about how and where clothes are made.

Why did Facebook pay $1 billion for Instagram and what can the environmental movement learn from this? It's all about emotion.

UC San Diego is using one of its free gifts - some of the best solar exposure in the country - to further power and shade the campus. Several solar trees (solar panels installed on a vertical racking system that supports

Lawns use up way too much water.

Western Michigan University is installing solar-powered electric car charging. But it has to chop down nine trees to do it.

The university brings the outdoors in to help students relax and focus on studying.

By 2017, global e-waste rates will increase by 33% to 65.4 million tons per year—the weight equivalent of almost 200 Empire State Buildings.

Big Auto is increasingly coming up against Big Tech.

Docked electric cars can be worse than dockless scooters for pedestrians, but the UEone is a step in the right direction.

With guests Kathy Freston and Michael Pollan, Oprah dedicated her full show yesterday to veganism and meat production. She and her staffers went vegan for a week, some of them have decided to continue the diet (or go "veganish") even

The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought

Do we need hyperloops? No, we need trains that work.

Baltimore residents, get ready to get in on the smart grid party. Baltimore Gas & Electric has just announced that it has filed paper with the Maryland Public Service

Residents in southern Maryland have long felt like they live in an 'energy sacrifice zone.' They already have a nuclear power plant and now are trying to stop a liquid natural gas port.

It may be the most expensive and useless green roof ever built

But really, they should be dealing with the source of the problem.

A representative of the industry says I shouldn't be picking on fiber glass. He's right.

photo: J. Novak Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.

You can see the opposition to the big pipe from the tar sands on every house and every stop sign.

Technological advancements, combined with an escalating climate crisis, suggest its time to revisit some once fanciful ideas.

Despite the fact that Venice, CA seems to be the epicenter of SoCal's green lifestyle movement, the 24th annual Abbott Kinney Festival that took over the city's main drag on Sunday, September 28th was far from eco-friendly. After claiming last year

After all, who wouldn't want a glass of "pure glacial water filtered through lava"?

Many of us will agree that Buckminster Fuller was way ahead of the crowd with his thinking on sustainability and eco-friendly designs. In his time he was considered an eccentric inventor with impractical ideas, now we think he's a genius! Not all of us

Got an idea that can save the world? Enter the Buckminster Fuller Challenge and win a hundred thousand bucks. Come up with a "design science solution" (effective application of the principles of science to the conscious design of our total environment

In anticipation of a new retrospective at the Whitney, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, " Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the New Yorker, quoting Fuller about the need for innovation:

The Buckminster Fuller Institute ran a competition to update the iconic map; here are some of the finalists

The styrofoam substitute that they grow into packaging and insulation is the next big thing in building.

Not just for barbecues, some companies are switching over completely.

Too much DIY, not enough realism. Let's just do our best.

Load up the Krug and the caviar and go for a spin.

It's to time to jump off the consumption train and embrace the art of repair.

Can a recirculating fan deliver the indoor air quality we should demand?

A Czech church was 3-D mapped and made into a one of a kind musical instrument, controlled by visitors' laser pointers.

It is, quite literally, the 'outfit of the day,' never to be seen again because it has been returned to the store.

It has become a trillion dollar industry where nobody wins.

You would think that attending a conference on sustainable tourism in Costa Rica would be a bit bland: yes, they're very green, we know. But just because this Central

The scientist saw a system that oppressed both society and nature.

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.

I wrote last year about the Boulder-based Unreasonable Institute's search for people who have great ideas, who think big, who want to change the world, and who seem like they can. Last year's fellowship was a great

Using a series of rotating LED lights, this work highlights the visually transformative powers of the Moon.