Post-war, Lyons Tea Shops could't redecorate, so they commissioned some great paintings instead.

This is not easy to do.

Etsy is holding a contest to pick web readers' favourite choices of handmade children's items in seven different categories: furniture, toys, eco-friendly, art, home decor, clothes and accessories. All are made for children by independent designers.

Etsy, the website that features all things handmade to buy and sell by artists and artisans, held a contest to pick web readers' favourite choices of handmade children's items in seven different categories. These were: toys, eco-friendly, furniture,

The discovery of one of the oldest penguin fossils in the world reveals higher diversity of early penguins than previously assumed.

Tar sands and thermal coal are out but natural gas and conventional oil can stay. For now...

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The Crisis of Civilization explores our modern cultural crises by sampling archive film footage from PSAs. Now the makers are asking budding film makers to have a go themselves.

In which I try out a smart lighting system in my dumb home.

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

It may lead to as many as 20,000 passive houses being built over the next five years.

When it comes to the Galapagos, most people think: Islands; tropical; Equator; volcanoes; some variation on those general ideas probably pops to mind, unless you've been here. If you have been here, you probably know that a

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.

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.

Belgian architects build a tower in a barn. But my, it uses a lot of lumber.

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

Nuclear power is so controversial; an engineer working on the Bruce Nuclear plant gives his point of view.

The cultural construct describes the enigmatic inner power that pushes people to get through hardships.

Why would an engineer at Apple quit his job to design a product to help gardeners propagate plants?

Celebrated English painter David Hockney has turned to the iPad as his canvas -- embracing the latest technology despite his age.

Inspired by massive flooding in the UK, the Church of England is renewing its commitment to fighting climate change. And that's sending a signal to the markets.

Recycled Mississippi is traveling the length of one of America's iconic rivers, which also happens to be one of the most polluted, and filming a documentary along the way.

The levels were so high that scientists are revising up their estimates for global marine microplastic pollution.

Jewish leaders met at the beginning of this month in San Francisco for the first conference dedicated to

French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo

This year, French tire giant Michelin (yes, the Michelin that made the tires on your car) held its 10th Challenge Bibendum event, this time in Rio de Janeiro. If you've never heard of this thing, don't kick yourself,

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If one geoengineering plan doesn't work, maybe two or three combined will

Anticipation hangs palpably ahead of the Frankfurt International Motor Show: what will German engineers bring to the green table? After bucking the trend for several years in favor of the already well-established "clean diesel" technology, German car

Many of us will agree that Buckminster Fuller was way ahead of the crowd with his thinking on sustainability and eco-friendly designs. In his time he was considered an eccentric inventor with impractical ideas, now we think he's a genius! Not all of us

Got an idea that can save the world? Enter the Buckminster Fuller Challenge and win a hundred thousand bucks. Come up with a "design science solution" (effective application of the principles of science to the conscious design of our total environment

The styrofoam substitute that they grow into packaging and insulation is the next big thing in building.

The real life romance sparked while making a merry romp of this endangered species protection success story could be the sequel!

The director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre says it's a huge problem that meat is so "culturally embedded in Western societies."

The Obama administration loves its czars almost as much as the media loves using the title. So here goes: The U.S. Asian Carp Czar, also known as John Goss, says he has a multi-pronged strategy to help keep Asian carp from

Scientists will be able to easier monitor the population of penguins, thanks to a high-tech solar-powered remote camera setup.

Climate change is affecting sea ice, which will have a direct impact on survival for many colonies of Emperors.

Even a species that has benefited from temperature increases in the past may be hurt by excessive warming.

... the Emperor Penguin! It vows to call for marine reserves in Antarctica to protect its imperilled species.

A posse of paper penguins has spread to major international cities in the past week, as part of a new Greenpeace campaign to protect Antarctica.

Australian Antarctic Division captures a vision of curious penguins ready for their close-up.

Award-winning photographer Sue Flood braved the extremes to bring us this marvelous new book, Emperor: The Perfect Penguin.

The 9-mile long archipelago has more Adélie penguins than the entire rest of the Antarctic peninsula combined.

It turns out you can still be a high-performing athlete on a plant-based diet.

What better way to celebrate National Penguin Awareness Day than by caving to the cute factor with videos of bitty penguins?

The Norwegian Consumer Authority thinks the fast fashion company is misleading shoppers with its so-called Conscious Collection.

This compact all-in-one cooking kit is looking to overhaul the traditional kitchen for today's hectic schedules and non-traditional living situations.

"It's an emergency," say council members. "So let's act like it."

BPA had been found to trigger the release of insulin in nearly twice the amount as when glucose is ingested.

There are 17 atriums that need to be filled with creative uses.