Affordable housing doesn't have to look cheap, and LEED Platinum doesn't mean it has to cost a fortune.

Tiny homes aren't just about owning a home debt-free, it's also about more intangible, but equally important things, says tiny home builder Andrew Morrison.

This company is working to build a network of urban prefabs under a 'pay-as-you-go' model of home ownership.

Our favorite cartoonist solves a major problem with tiny houses.

A Seattle educational non-profit hopes to crowd-fund a series of portable, off-grid shelters for some of the city's homeless, which local high school students will design and build with the help of professional architects and builders.

High-end materials meets smart home automation in this country-styled tiny home.

Sambuca, the "City of Splendor" is hoping to save its historic structures and revive a waning community.

These are tiny homes with an activist bent, taking a stand against the incursion of a pipeline that could contaminate indigenous lands.

If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people

Going for LEED Platinum in an affordable townhouse with clean modern design

Another model for the development industry: Smart young people using their own money

One Passive House architect gives his clients what they want.

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense

From mites to cockroaches, our house dust is literally crawling with things.

A new technology developed by Korean researchers could generate electricity from the the motion of water in our toilets as well as rivers and streams, even rain drops.

Could this be even more encouraging than a FitBit to get up and walk around?

I slice and dice some recent posts on technology

But is this really a good idea? Maybe it is better to get up and flick a light switch instead of asking Alexa.

The bin-sized device would turn household waste into fuel for heating hot water.

Michael Sivak shows us the numbers.

What if we declared climate change a crisis and put some serious resources to this type of initiative?

It's going for every label from LEED to Living Building Challenge

It's the right thing to do in so many ways, as LivingHome, Make it Right, Cradle to Cradle and Hanley Wood build a comfy new home for the Lower Ninth

In exchange for cultivating someone else's backyard for a year, this activist is experimenting with an increasingly simpler lifestyle, documented step-by-step online.

Not sure if you really want to live in a tiny house? This tiny home builder is making these cabins from salvaged materials, which visitors can test out at an eco-retreat in Maryland.

We used to say this stuff should be banned because it was always installed badly. Has anything changed?

lamar5292 has an idea for getting Haitians green housing: So how do you provide quick permanent safe housing that is also green in a situation like that? My suggestion is to take all the countries excess shipping containers to Haiti to be converted

How one crowdfunded organization is using earth building techniques to build impressive and durable structures for Haiti.

We have to decarbonize, not just because of carbon dioxide and climate change in the longer term, but because it is killing us directly right now.

In the first half of 2019, Scottish wind generated enough electricity to power the equivalent of 4.47 million homes, almost double the number of homes there.

GO Logic have always designed beautiful homes. This was the next Go Logical step.

Archigram’s Plug-in City meets 3D Printing

Metsä Wood design competition produces very interesting entries, like this one from Sigurd Larsen.

Thinking about making a move into a home, but really, really want a green space? We stumbled across the perfect (little) eco-home.

They have toilets but they just dump the sewage out the back. This is nuts.

While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.

First there was foamcrete, then there was papercrete and hempcrete, and now we've got AirCrete, a foamy mixture of air bubbles and cement.

Another good reason to pile density onto subway lines: Almost free heat and cooling.

The company explains why all-electric homes are healthier, safer, and more sustainable.

A diverse team of women from the forest product sector got together for a green cause.

This 598-square-foot model home is one of the almost two dozen homes that are slated to go up as part of a tiny house community.

Elora Hardy and her team of designers, artisans, and builders at Ibuku are reimagining sustainable building, using one of nature's strongest and most versatile materials.

The Big World Homes project aims to be a new model of affordable housing, and its modular mobile design could make it a good fit for 'pop-up' communities on unused land.

In light of rising temperatures and worsening natural disasters, temporary shelters seem increasingly relevant. A Spanish firm came up with an idea to convert water tanks into minimal habitable units.

How to provide housing for the masses getting out of poverty and out of slums in the developing world, without creating sprawl? Argentine architects propose attaching new homes to existing structures.

Philadelphia builder uses our favorite material as both insulation and cladding

Books and dirt feature prominently in this family's life right now.

From a futuristic pod and a romantic treehouse to a stunning RV and a duo with a sunroom, these creative tiny homes were our most popular over the decade.

Who needs a Disney castle when you could have one of these fairytale tiny homes instead?

When things are feeling grim, the idea of self-sufficient living seems even more appealing. Here's where it's all happening, according to Instagram.