A new material could be applied to roofs that would soak up rain and then "sweat" out the moisture when temperatures are high to cool down buildings without electricity.

Using an age-old method to cool the air, this terracotta "cold pot" could be an energy-efficient and low-maintenance alternative to conventional air conditioners.

It lets them be creative with their cooking and the kind of spaces they set up in.

The technology uses radiative sky cooling to help cool buildings without electricity.

Octogenarian couple united by a love of entomology

The secret to a diet that makes the microbes in your gut healthy, for fighting obesity and disease

One-third of emissions reductions needed for 2 degree target could be achieved with better land management.

You are not alone. Even when you are...

Incredibly, this appears to be the first time the government has really tried to tackle this crucial issue nationwide.

Almost half of the land on Earth is now farmland.

Are we really going to let this happen on our watch?

Serious threats are endangering lightning bugs across the globe; and they are all thanks to humans.

It's an industrial design approach, a product that is refined almost to perfection.

You have heard of "fast fashion." Get ready for fast architecture in container-sized modules.

The promise of prefab was healthy, cost-effective, energy efficient homes designed by talented architects. Is it finally here?

Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the

This is probably one of the most beautiful and awesome ads I have ever come across, thanks to Frame and Form. Watch the Xylophone of the Forest, and before you shrug it off because trees might have been killed for the making of this clip, hear me

Even if the label of "maven" is painfully over-applied, there are people who still deserve it. Zem Joaquin, the stylish polymath behind Ecofabulous.com, is one of those few. Zem has been on the editorial side of mags like House and Garden, Domino, and

These days when your coffe machine breaks, it is usually cheaper and less hassle to just buy a new one. I was therefore pleasantly surprised about the repairability of my Presso coffee maker, which still keeps serving me off the grid!

It is all about the progression through the spaces.

People have complained about his building since they started pouring the concrete.

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes

Looking for indoor plants that are hard to kill? These green troopers are resilient and don't demand too much from their keepers.

Or why the trend toward simplicity is not all it's cracked up to be.

Some plants help each other enormously, while others hinder their neighbors – use this cheat sheet to ensure harmony in the vegetable plot.

Strategically clustering indoor plants in a group is a great idea, here's why and how to do it.

Even if doomsday never comes, these 20 plants are some of the most practical you can grow.

Thanks to the folks at Daily Candy for this awesome tip! With the holidays coming up, and that inevitable office party or family gathering, maybe it's time to freshen up your kitchen

TetraPak, the company that makes aseptic milk carton-like packaging that holds everything from wine to soup to tomato sauce, has been receiving a lot of coverage in the green media lately, both good and bad. This surge in

We have been fans of Seattle's Graypants for a while; Seth, Jonathan and Jon "strive to come up with designs and ideas that are thoughtful and have an impact, whether it be furniture, lighting, architecture or graphics." Most of the work we have shown

Four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing in Hungary as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. A

The toxic red line that runs through this town -- as photographed by Palíndromo Mészáros -- is shocking evidence of what can go wrong.

Recycling aluminum uses about 95% less energy than making new one from bauxite ore, which compares very favorably with other types of recycling.

There is an alumina crisis right now. Making it is dirty and polluting, and it's back in the USA.

Built using aluminum, stainless steel and wood, this modular prefab is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled.

A new book, Allowed to Grow Old, reveals beautiful portraits of something we don't get to see very often: Elderly farm animals.

It will soon be illegal to sell, trade, or donate furs of any kind.

And a look at Amazon's office morale.

Google and Save the Elephants teamed up to bring Street View to the Kenyan wildlife reserve to show its residents and spread the need for conservation.

The underwater data center is an innovative attempt by the company to create more sustainable, energy efficient data centers.

The new program can learn and classify leaves so well that it could reveal the "tree of life" of ancient plants.

Meet the cable that has earned praise as the 'best new technology' and 'invention of the year'

A shark's fin is like its fingerprint, with each animal having its own unique patterns and scars.

The computing facility will help researchers with NASA missions while reducing its environmental impact.

Telecommuting just isn't fashionable anymore; the "water cooler effect" is.

The tech giant just agreed to purchase all of the energy from GE's Tullahennel wind farm.

The action will prevent 10 million metric tons of carbon emissions.

Researchers combine social media and artificial intelligence to better predict damage from global sea level changes

This is the second deployment of the tech company's underwater data center project.

Our photo of the day comes from Merced, California.