Great protected bike lanes are popping up in Washington DC (video)
If we can put a center-running bike lane down the center of Pennsylvania avenue, we should be able to do it almost everywhere!
If we can put a center-running bike lane down the center of Pennsylvania avenue, we should be able to do it almost everywhere!
Get in the Valentine’s Day mood with these fun DIY beauty recipes for masks, moisturizers, and scrubs – all of which are suitably pink or red for the occasion!
The sharing economy comes to architecture as the rich and the very rich share views and height.
This eco-wine is bursting with red fruit aromas and vanilla. And it's minty finish is subtle yet clean so you won't mind a second glass. Which isn't a bad thing as this Pinot comes in under the $15 mark. And the winery is 100-percent solar-powered.
A delicate balance of dark fruit, cocoa, pepper and mushroom from a sustainable vineyard that donates to AIDS and cancer patients.
This wine is brimming with bright fruit, dark undertones and those farmyard aromas common to most Pinots. With notes of pepper, strawberry and dried mint on the palette, this wine is as food-friendly as it is drinkable.
Wrath's 2010 Ex Vite Pinot Noir is complete, with lots of black cherry and red raspberry. A bit fuller than your typical Pinot, this wine is as drinkable as it is food friendly.
Using local materials, this impressive bamboo structure features a microcosm of imaginative spaces designed for a range of playful activities.
This experimental co-living design scheme aims to foster communication, responsibility and human relationships.
Whenever my husband asks me to "pick up a couple of bottles of wine" while shopping, I get surly. My favorite bike panniers are, without exception, NOT well equipped to handle heavy, glass bottles that may shift in
Built as an extension for a local high school, this new urban space blends into its tree-lined surroundings.
Climate change is powerfully symbolized by severe drought. Extended, widespread drought can make potable water scarce. Desalination plants are energy intensive and expensive to build and run: the several recently build or planned for Australia may
Scientists find that tumors hold information like a 'black box' pointing to the specific cause of disease.
Replacing diesel systems with fuel cells could give refrigerated a clean-energy makeover.
The heat in the upper six miles of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity
You are not just buying a box but a full service design/build package. Could this take container architecture mainstream?
Watch a remarkable clip of Heidi the octopus as she sleeps and dreams – from the new PBS series, Octopus: Making Contact.
From gardening supplies and baby toys to pet products and eco-furniture, check these sustainable online shops before you hit the streets.
Made out of glass, these rentable cabins in New Zealand's wilderness are meant to reconnect guests with nature.
When a New Zealand supermarket chain ditched plastic packaging, produce sales skyrocketed.
An under-utilized element becomes a bench, a place to eat, nap and store things in this redesigned scheme.
I may have once mused on the environmental impact of my backyard chickens, but I have no doubt that, overall, keeping them has been both a wonderful experience and a significant contribution to improving our family's
Insulation in a tent makes as much sense as it does in a house, if you can get it right.
Combining elements of natural beekeeping, citizen science, open source hardware, and networked smart devices, these DIY beehives could be a powerful tool in the fight against Colony Collapse Disorder.
Founded by two sons of farmers, this company wants to grow farm-fresh food -- out of shipping containers.
Urban dwellers can get a taste of camping out in nature with this temporary island cabin just outside of Helsinki.
The Philippine Department of Tourism's hat has been thrown into ecotourism game for awhile now. They've made it part of their plan for economic development. The country's ecotourism program strives to install processes and
Every developer worth his or her weight in white beach sand is vying to be able to proclaim his or her resort the first or best or truest eco-resort.
In this tog-eat-tog world, the future of fashion—let alone that of green fashion—lies entirely in the industry's chameleon-like ability to reinvent itself. Take Italian outerwear company Allegri, for example. Although better known
This tiny verdant island, called Vulcan Point or sometimes Vulcan Island, lies at the center of a strange-but-entirely-true natural wonder. It's known for being the world's largest volcanic island that's on a lake, on a
photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara
Furthering a trend: As the United States continues virtually deadlocked on enacting any legislation pricing carbon or significantly promoting renewable energy, more Asian countries than China are likely to
As their nation's sole law enforcement agency, the Philippines National Police carry a heavy burden when it comes to keeping the country safe -- but arresting one of the biggest threats they face will take shovels, not clubs or handcuffs.
Grassroots activist honored for 10-year protest against a proposed nickel mine on Mindoro Island
"The mining companies were telling us that it's safe... We did our research and discovered they were lying through their teeth."
The move comes as a result of a petition from Greenpeace Southeast Asia, which asserts that GM crops can cause serious health issues.
A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.
A new law hopes to fix deforestation and teach young people about environmental stewardship.