Cepezed Architects design a shelter that is elegant and self-sufficient.

Streetfilms shows how a road can in fact be many things, not just a place for cars.

Like a gadget from a superhero's gizmo-kit, two engineering students have invented a device to battle blazes with noise – water and toxic chemicals not required.

Doing this was one of the best decisions I made when getting married. (So was marrying a great guy!)

Just throw yourself wherever you want to work; your office is where you are.

It actually seems to say that you can give someone an adjustable desk but you can't make them stand. That's a very different thing.

One Passive House architect gives his clients what they want.

But Passive House is so expensive! How can you build housing for the homeless and low income families this way?

For example, 72 pesticides approved for use in the United States are banned or in the process of being phased out in the EU.

Composting toilets have a lot of benefits. But can they really help save hippos?

When sunscreen chemicals wash off beach-goers, they bleach coral, stunt its growth, and sometimes kill it outright.

Many sunscreens contain chemicals that are devastating to sensitive coral and other marine life.

The gruesome deaths raise serious questions about the practices of fishing trawlers.

The Guardian columnist and environmental thinker George Monbiot usually manages to provoke a strong debate in our comments sections. Some time ago, our post on his new book Heat raised a fierce exchange of views about the impacts of flying, meanwhile his

"Let’s abandon this disastrous experiment."

Between 2002 and 2015, these 'streamer lines' helped reduce seabird by-catch in Alaskan fisheries by 78%.

Cruise ships and Disney's 'Frozen' have led to crowds of unprecedented size, about which Norwegians are not entirely happy.

This is something North American governments should copy.

With temperatures soaring even before the calendar turns to June, the shade of the solar tree will be as welcome as its many functions

Everything you need to know about building a proper blanket fort.

This bowl-like, double-roof design helps to collect rainwater before it evaporates, and also provides more shade for buildings in arid regions.

The Wall Street Journal calls them "homeless" but they look "landless" to me.

Scientists are concerned about how airports are conducive to the spread of disease.

Why do we always think other animals are so simple?

Another interesting find from Buenos Aires design fair, Feria Puro Diseno (FPD), this is a modular system designed by local studio Disenaveral to build different kinds of shelving spaces that adapt to changing situations.

They are cheaper and better than ever, and doing it can cut energy consumption for lighting by up to 90 percent.

If all Americans adopted this (almost) waterless method of cooking pasta, we'd save billions of gallons of water.

Just because garment workers are desperate doesn't mean we should exploit them.

The longer we wait, the more expensive (and dangerous) it gets.

Waste water and waste heat recovery together at last, perhaps the most interesting new thing at Greenbuild.

StackitNOW is a great idea but also demonstrates how intractable the problem is.

A lovely cottage by Yiacouvakis Hamelin Architectes breaks all the rules about roofs.

This is a beautiful house, but it raises a lot of questions about what "respect for the environment" means.

Torrey Trust, owner of Surf eCo, wanted to do more to protect the oceans and the environment so she opened up her own surf school that teaches kids young and old about the environment while helping them catch a few waves. Located in Encinitas, CA,

Fighting for her life after narrowly escaping a horrible house fire, doctors used sustainable fish skin grafts on the Rottweiler's burns to help save her life.

Whether you're in a plane, train, or car, it's important always to have good snacks.

Forty years ago, activists blocked plans to dam the Buffalo River, eventually getting Congress and President Nixon to designate the river as America's first National River. Now, a factory hog farm is putting one of Arkansas' most beautiful spots at risk.

When you try and go too fast it says, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.

Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the

When rob Hopkins watched "An Inconvenient Truth", he vowed never to fly again. When he watched "Chasing Ice", he decided to get back on a plane. Here's why.

Douglas Rushkoff explains that the real costs of a new phone are not measured in just money.

When cars first began appearing in the late 19th century, some cities moved to ban them -- but there is still one place in the US that has yet to change its mind.

Pestival, is a weekend festival packed with art, music, talks and workshops, celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. It starts from the fact that eighty percent of creatures on earth are insects, the 'pests' without whom humans

When Brighton council advertised for volunteer shepherds they never imagined that they would get hundreds of applicants. It's not the greatest job description: no pay, lots of walking on quite steep, uneven slopes, duty

This is England, the parks and gardens and countryside are supposed to be filled with golden daffodils by now. This is why we live here. But where are they? With this year's never ending winter and the long cold spell just

Globally, religious groups own 5-10% of the world's forests and influence much more.

A Jordanian permaculture teacher is exploring the intersect between environmentalism and spirituality. Her work could take permaculture mainstream in the Middle East.

British scientists do the math and find that we come up short for cobalt, lithium and copper.

The Open Sesame documentary examines the importance of open source seeds.