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.

Find out why one family found living on a renovated bus to be an appealing tiny-house-on-wheels alternative.

Seattle architect Mike Eliason describes what he learned about their housing policies.

Passive House multifamily buildings use almost no energy and don't cost much more than conventional buildings. They should be everywhere.

It sounds like a plot-line from a bad 1950's sci-fi movie, but unfortunately there's nothing fiction about it. Several towns in western Hungary were flooded today with a toxic red sludge after the waste product from

A state of emergency has been declared in Hungary where four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in

Using a self-invented "multiluminous" painting process, this artist transforms ordinary rooms into starry environments.

Corporate Knights Magazine asks the question and gets a different result than we did.

Because America needs more SUVs and pickup trucks to be great again

We wrote earlier: "Lick that dirty pacifier!" Now we say "Breathe that dirty air!"

In this eye-popping example of adaptive reuse, a crumbling church is remade into a public skatepark, complete with incredible murals.

Optional add-ons like desks, drawers, cabinets, trundle beds and even bike racks make this single bed a place to work, play, rest and relax.

They are so thin that it's hard to believe that they stand up.

This small space renovation turns a cramped space into one that has space for almost everything.

Via MySpace, here's the trailer for 11th Hour with a spoken intro by Leonardo. According to IMDB, the film will be released in the USA on August 17th. Check out the official 11th Hour website.

I had the chance to meet Leila Conners Petersen, the co-founder and president of Tree Media Group. Leila, along with Nadia Conners, co-directed the soon-to-be-released documentary The 11th Hour which is narrated Leonardo DiCaprio. The 11th Hour

Two weeks ago, fellow Treehugger George Spyros and I had the opportunity to catch a sneak preview of Leonardo Dicaprio's The 11th Hour. Organized by Project Greenhouse, the screening was appropriately held outdoors and under the stars at Marders, an

So if you’re anything like me, you’ve been waiting as patiently as you could for Aug 17. Last Friday was the opening weekend for two highly anticipated films: Superbad starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera & Seth Rogen, and The 11th Hour directed by

Chevron Toxico: Chevron Produces Phony Online News Coverage to Spread Misinformation about Ecuador Disaster "To promote a misinformation campaign about its role in the oil contamination of a pristine area of the rainforest in Ecuador, Chevron recently

Watch a remarkable clip of Heidi the octopus as she sleeps and dreams – from the new PBS series, Octopus: Making Contact.

Air quality, choice of materials and finishes are also concerns in this house in Oregon.

Who says the motto "to protect and serve" only applies to people?

Last week, California joined Oregon and Washington in signing a pact with British Columbia called the Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, which forms an alliance to set shared fuel standards and mandates for cutting carbon emissions.

Home is where and what you make of it -- this Oregon man made his in an old aircraft.

The themes of this stunning little house are copper, lots of natural light, and participation within an intentional tiny co-housing community.

Typically used to spot forest fires, one couple turns a fire lookout station into a simple but beautiful off-grid home.

This is not easy to do.

David Milarch is on a quest to save California's coast redwoods, some of the world's oldest and largest living things; he may be saving the planet along the way.

This couple have found a balance between financial security and freedom, by renting out their house, living out of their renovated garage, and traveling in their van conversion.

This surprising trend combines the comfort found in being around animals, along with the well-known benefits of practicing yoga.

As we move into full consumer season it can be difficult to equate your green intentions with the holiday spirit of giving. Perhaps it is time to consider the true value of a gift and how it is made. The Treehugger gift guide will certainly inspire

Etsy invited TreeHugger to write about their favorite green baby items in the Handmade Kids series; clothes and accessories made for children by independent designers. Etsy is that wonderful website that features all things handmade to buy and sell by

Photo: Gideon Tsang on Flickr We know that the concept of the "buy and sell handmade" blog Etsy has revolutionary implications for consumer culture and what it means to be part of a creative community. But does politics have a place in crafting

A photography fanatic creates beautiful iPhone docks as a homage to old cameras.

The USGBC is really on to something with their new initiative.

This wilderness explorer transformed this van into a mobile, solar-powered home that has all the amenities.

This super-insulated home is built to be earthquake-resistant too.

This couple swapped a ladder for a climbing wall up to their loft.

Compared to conventional shipping container homes, the Pod-Tainer has a relatively spacious interior, thanks to pop-outs on both sides.

A brush with death helped this family focus on the most important things in life, prompting them to convert a bus into a DIY motorhome.

This modern home is chock full of clever space-maximizing ideas.

People who live within view of water have lower psychological distress, study finds.

Here's an interesting idea: a tiny house on wheels that can be separated from its wheels.

This industrial designer's 3D/4D printed, life-like forms ask the question of whether we can design and engineer "intelligent" plants that can adapt to environmental changes.

Equipped with two bedrooms and a secondary loft, there's plenty of space to grow in this small home.

A Today Show bit today is perhaps the grossest example yet.

In great news for manatees, researchers predict that the gentle 'sea cows' will endure for at least another 100 years as long as threats continue to be managed.

Four miles from the shore of Key West, the fatigued iguana eagerly scrambled aboard the kayak and hitched a ride home.

There are lessons to be learned from this model home built by Meritage, even if it is big and beige.

This is a very good idea that all of North America should consider.