Clever idea from Finnish designer combines portable storage with fixed dresser unit

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

These paper plate eyes bring a chuckle when added to trees and rocks.

Veganism must be making serious inroads into society if McDonald's, king of industrial meat, is jumping into soy patties.

It is about time that people acknowledged that it's not just cyclists that hit their heads. Helmets for everybody!

The wheels on the desk go round and round.

New research suggested benefits for giving students the option to stand during class.

And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.

Switching to a standing desk doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing endeavor.

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.

This standing desk is packed with clever organization features, and can be customized for left or right-handed people.

It's really all you need in this era of notebook computers.

After 52,696 steps, a review of a LifeSpan treadmill desk.

Grassroots activist honored for 10-year protest against a proposed nickel mine on Mindoro Island

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

Campbell Soup Company will soon be sourcing about 15 percent of the energy used at its factory in Napoleon, Ohio (the company's largest) from solar power generated by a just-announced power purchase agreement (PPA) and land lease

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.

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

The basketball star has a soft spot for bikes, which he says gave him important freedom as a kid.

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

Quoting directly from the Philadelphia Eagles presser: "The Eagles have contracted with Orlando FL-based SolarBlue, a

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).

The mayor has portrayed the controversial soda tax as a great source of revenue with which to do fabulous things for the city, rather than a benefit for public health.

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

These sliver towers are incredibly inefficient and even have fake mechanical spaces to make them even taller. We all pay the price in carbon.

Smart cities are not a panacea, and the New York Times is on it.

Made with a tight budget and schedule, this structure was up and running within a matter of weeks.

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.

Architect Jonathan Kearns shows that you can have it all.

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.

No green energy issue is too small for the rampaging Premier.

It's being killed the name of "convenience."

220 years ago a lot of people wanted to move to Canada. Here is how they were welcomed.

One side effect of gold prices continuing to rise (now at a new record of $1500/ounce): Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon have increased up to 600% since 2003.

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.

This innovative billboard does double duty: advertising for a university's engineering program while producing much-needed clean drinking water for local communities.

New research documents that mantises worldwide are eating small birds; in the US, invasive mantis species are devouring hummingbirds.

Even the CDC recommends this botanical ingredient as comparable to DEET for repelling disease-carrying insects.

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.

From ribs and onions to chips and corn, these barbecue-friendly foods can be unfriendly to dogs and cats.

A new type of hydrokinetic turbine sits within irrigation canals and could power several homes from the flow of water.

A mix of wind, solar and hydro power could replace fossil fuels in every country in the world.

UK households can now buy 15 percent green gas and 100 percent green electricity with one easy tariff.

Oil and gas companies have until 2023 to make 'Paris compatible' plans, or face divestment.

We are all cutting back in the West, but more flying in developing countries overwhelms the savings.

That's what a lot of people are saying as new pollution rules for 2020 get closer.

Petrochemicals are becoming increasingly important to the oil industry as cars go electric.

When the harvest has been poor, rates of adulteration rise.

We apologize for the bad pun in the title, sometimes it's just hard to resist. Fair trade is a familiar concept to our readers. Aside from writing about well-known fair trade commodities like chocolate and coffee, we've also seen posts on everything

A piece of classic playground equipment gets a clean tech makeover.