After making its way through the Californian legislature with bi-partisan support (!), the California Industrial Hemp Farming Act (aka SB 566) was signed by governor Jerry Brown and became state law.

Inspired by the small, simple and efficient spaces of Japan, is this lovely tiny home that comes with a lot of luxurious features.

This ingenious design uses biodegradable waste products to build the greenest shoe you've ever owned.

So what if it doesn't have pedals and isn't as practical as an e-bike, it's so elegant and minimal.

Massimiliano Locatelli is writing a new language of design that reflects the new technology.

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.

This stunning temporary pavilion utilizes Hong Kong's time-honored bamboo construction methods in conjunction with cutting-edge computational design.

Designer Orla Reynolds Designs a Bookcase Like a Stage Set for Small Spaces

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Touch the trees, hear them hum and murmur.

Light up your life and your living room with gorgeous lights from the London Design Festival.

This classic design is 80 years young and some famous designers pay hommage.

This Finnish design doesn’t look quite finished but it is ingenious.

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

Are solar-powered trash cans a fuel-saving, money-saving way to keep the streets clean? Or are they worse than regular trash cans?

The Timber Towers Project seeks to demonstrate the viability of a mass timber high-rise.

Which side of the bed gets the stair? Batlab solves it with two.

Michael Janzen comes up with an interesting and elegant design. But is it safe?

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.

Studio Schneemann, together with the Kenyan initiative Uniqueco, collect and turn wasted flip flops from the beach into colourful and squichy furniture and lighting.

The approved measure ups fines from $480 to $120,000, and jail time from 2 years to 15 years.

I get the design part, but is it really sustainable?

Their priorities certainly are different than ours are.

"Siri, turn down the temperature in my bedroom please"

This bowl-like, double-roof design helps to collect rainwater before it evaporates, and also provides more shade for buildings in arid regions.

Most refugees live in refugee camps for an average of 12 years and most of that time it's in drafty, tattered tents. Now IKEA has a solar-powered camp house that is flatpack and quick to assemble.

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

Sleek and easy to assemble, this portable cabin offers a comfortable place to stay even in remote places.

The modern movement started as a way of dealing with tuberculosis. The same rules apply today.

Green and sustainable used to be buzzwords here. They don't appear to even exist anymore.

A new exhibition in Toronto looks at sustainable development.

Last Saturday's Marathon Oil refinery explosion and fire was yet another dangerous, polluting event in a string of environmental injustices to plague the residents of the 48217 zip code in Detroit

Yesterday TreeHugger asked whether the Monobloc was the most famous plastic chair in the world. Now, sadly, the death has been announced of the creator of another very famous plastic chair.

Our friends over at the design blog Dezeen have launched a pop-up shop in the smartest part of town. Calling it Temporium, because it is only up for 10 days, it features the best of new British design.

Many of them seem to be about bikes and transportation though....

The point of having a booth at Greenbuild is to attract attention, and like with everything else, design matters. I immediately fell in love with the Kohler booth; In some ways it is so 2005 green, with its recycled materials

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.

The Shakers may be long gone but their simplicity of design still has an influence on American furniture.

Image via: Aaron Chang Gallery Aaron Chang, popular recycled fashion swimwear designer and professional photographer, not to mention surfing legend, is opening a green art gallery in San Diego, February 28, 2009. Each of the pieces are printed with

Stories from TreeHugger's sister site about how streets are for people.

It is a cup as service, rather than cup as product.

Everybody should be doing this, planning for repairability from day one.

Fifth Third Bank shows us just how easy it is becoming for corporations to source all of their electricity from renewables.

If you want to attract good people these days you have to give them a nice place to work.

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

From scooters to cargo bikes, a bunch of alternatives to driving that car.

It looks a lot better than the usual kind, cleans the air and absorbs noise.

Kids have been digging in salt mines for thousands of years.