Interest in rocket stoves is growing, and with good reason, as they're fast, efficient, and cleaner-burning than most other options. Here's a small affordable model for camping or emergency preparedness.

Scientists find signs that the germ causing strep throat and flesh-eating disease may be moving closer to resistance to penicillin and other related antibiotics.

Many in-home drinking water filters may not remove the most concerning contaminants.

Researchers find that even just sleeping with a shirt that one's romantic partner has worn leads to improved slumber.

After weekly ping pong sessions, participants in a pilot study had significant improvements in speech, handwriting, getting dressed, getting out of bed, and walking.

From what food to buy to how to access your medical records, here are the practical matters to consider before a pandemic strikes.

You can't really 'boost' your immune system, but certain lifestyle decisions will make its job easier.

The American Institute of Architects just announced its 2007 Housing Awards; among the winners were our beloved Loblolly House and in the Special Housing Category, the Designhabitat2 house, from The DESIGNhabitat 2 Studio School of Architecture,

He has encouraged people to pray for the following week, in attempt to bring rainfall. "Throughout our history,

When Governor Sonny Perdue of the US State of Georgia filed a legal complaint and then formally asked for the support of the Bush Administration to force the US Army Corps of Engineers to stop releasing water from Atlanta's Lake Lanier, perhaps he did

A Federal judge has ruled that seven Virginia homeowners made legitimate damage claims regarding corrosion of metal items in the home and personal inconvenience caused by use of

British Petroleum has created a 22 mile long undersea oil plume, measured as "dispersed" beneath the ocean's surface, stretching from the wellhead, toward Mobile Alabama. Via the Chron: "The thick plume was detected

There is a new use for your smashed iPhone: a clock.

In rural Alabama, an existing landmark building is converted into a new community gathering spot, instead of being torn down.

50% of Americans had reduced their electronics and apparel expenditures in the past 12 months, according to a survey conducted by management consulting firm, Booz & Company. They sum up their findings saying that "the impact

Families should be able to have Thanksgiving Dinner instead of having to go to work. This stinks.

Not up for camping at the Best Buy? We have three less costly and more comfortable options.

Whether you opt for 'Buy Nothing Day' or 'Small Business Saturday,' the journey toward sustainability begins with a single step.

A look at the intersection of three ways to deal with this weekend about shopping.

Adopting a waste-conscious and anti-consumerist lifestyle is not something that happens overnight. Sometimes it's nice to hear about other people who are just starting out, like this young family from southwestern Ontario, Canada.

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

Some of them are surprising and all of them will make a real difference.

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."

The architect/ engineer says we have the tech now to live better electrically.

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly

And why not? It sounds like fun, just hanging around, eating grass

Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve.

Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes.

RIBA has announced that all its prizes will now be sustainable. We are going to need a counterpoint.

Parks in North American cities could really take a lesson from this one in Recife, Brazil.

There are certain things I've hardly missed, and others I've missed more than I expected.

Less than half an inch in length, the brightly colored frogs are highly endemic and vulnerable to extinction.

This fascinating film reveals disturbing facts about malnutrition and infant mortality, and the role of insidious corporations in perpetuating these problems.

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

A process that recycles cigarette butts into bricks for construction could kick a nasty littering habit.

Want to build your own tiny house? Clueless about where to start? Check out this Instructables tutorial.

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

We have to use less of the stuff in our cars, our buildings, and our infrastructure.

Hurry, before the tomatoes set sail for the season, indulge in a big, beautiful Horiatiki salad.

Learn how to master the mashed potato with a few simple tweaks.

House full of guests? These recipes will make your mornings go much smoother.

It's part of a statewide effort to crack down on plastic waste.

NASA finds that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying out – here's why.

There are huge upfront carbon emissions from building new housing; a better approach is to be smarter about what we have.

A Tesla won't get a camel through the eye of a needle.

Greta Thunberg, Margaret Atwood, Michael Mann, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, Bill McKibben, George Monbiot and more make the case.

Some question if it is even possible.

Need a break from the news and bored of books? Here are some quality screen time suggestions of movies and TV shows that will (hopefully) take your mind off the pandemic.

A Chinese study says concrete actually sucks up CO2. This is not news, it's chemistry.

Is this the future of construction?