Looking to tiny houses for design inspiration, these new student housing units have been constructed in a former Rotterdam office.

This small space spread over two levels in Paris gets a minimalist and functional makeover.

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

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.

This tiny verdant island, called Vulcan Point or sometimes Vulcan Island, lies at the center of a strange-but-entirely-true natural wonder. It's known for being the world's largest volcanic island that's on a lake, on a

No half-done couch here; there's a big place to sit and socialize.

A great demonstration of how to develop tiny lots.

It does a lot more than just get you from floor to floor, in this interesting Korean courtyard house.

Want to get quickly into the tree canopy? This modular set of stairs can be quickly and easily wrapped around any tree, without doing damage to the trunk.

A good, if not very accurate, idea.

There's more than one way to go up in a small space, and this is one smart alternative.

For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

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

When one tiny home isn't quite enough, how about adding another?

And yet it still plans to sell more oil...

Conservationists are celebrating a British firm's recent pullout from a biofuel project in Kenya that they say would have destroyed the Tana River Delta, a wetland ecosystem crucial for regional wildlife.

An international music festival in the slums of Nairobi is unusual enough. But one that plans to stop a dam and save an indigenous way of life? Let's party.

It's not an 8,000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, but it's still pretty cool.

A public memorial ceremony will be held in NYC for Wangari Maathai on November 14.

Now in its sixth day, the forest fire threatens critical habitats and precious water sources.

"The Ministry of Energy has insisted that they need this energy. What we are questioning is—how was the agreement reached, what is the cost of purchasing this power?"

The estimated 80% of Kenyans that are not on a grid rely solely on kerosene to light their homes. But a pay-as-you-go home solar system promises to deliver clean, affordable lighting to rural areas.

The approved measure ups fines from $480 to $120,000, and jail time from 2 years to 15 years.

Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-backed Somali terror group responsible for Saturday's attack in a Nairobi mall, receives significant funding from the illegal poaching. This is why the US sees wildlife trafficking as a national security issue.

There's been much talk of Africa "leapfrogging" the paradigm of fossil fuel dependence. Kenya's latest announcement on solar power provides a vision of what that might look like.

This waste-to-resource project not only produces a less smoky and long-burning fire, but could also help improve health and sanitation outcomes.

As if giraffes weren't exotic enough, this very rare mother and baby seem outright otherworldly in their absence of color and pattern.

No more plastic bags means a return to old-fashioned ways of packaging and carrying goods -- not necessarily a bad thing!

Building her first tiny home meant enough financial freedom for this tiny house builder -- enough to build another off-grid tiny vacation home in Hawaii.

This is candy in its purest form -- certified organic ingredients, zero artificial colors and flavors, no preservatives or GMOs.

Tangled in fishing line with things looking grim, the story of Frito's rescue is inspiring all around.

Capt. Neill's Seafood Inc. said its blue crab meat was American-grown, but it was imported from South America and Asia.

There's always clung to the Tetra Pak a bit of uncertainty regarding its environmental credibility: is it or isn't it green? Tetra Pak recycling rates are lousy, but in at least one life cycle analysis it came out ahead of glass and PET plastic in energy

The light-filled interior of this well-insulated and cleverly designed tiny home imparts a sense of relaxation and well-being.

This family lives, works and travels in this modern tiny house, now located on a remote Scottish island.

This versatile small dwelling can be customized as a mobile office, guesthouse or "living wagon."

Kent Peterson does it with off-the-self stuff, but it should be easier than this.

This flat pack, do-it-yourself version of a chicken has a lot of features, but can it help raise happy chickens on a city balcony?

They are supposed to be better for your health, but standing desks don't come cheap. This inexpensive flat-pack design for a portable unit can turn your existing office furniture into a standing desk.

There are some pretty wonderful things going on in this little structure.

There is a whole new line of furniture that you can build, just like the toy.

Over the past three months, over a million people from all around the globe have contacted LEGO to ask them to drop their oil partnership.

Greenpeace has turned the global spotlight on Thai Union, the world's largest canned tuna producer and maker of Chicken of the Sea, for its horrific track record. Learn why you should boycott and what you can do to help.

It's good news... but we shouldn't be eating tuna at all.

One man gets creative about the affordable housing shortage in San Francisco, and pays only $400 a month to live in this sleeping pod he built in a friend's apartment.

The nations once renowned for their way of eating now have the highest childhood obesity rates in Europe.

Designed and built by architecture students, the proceeds of this lovely little home will go to help children's hospitals.

From chard on a chair to tat soi in a suitcase, artist Jenna Spevack is cultivating a tasty variety of organic microgreens in her furniture farms -- and visitors to her upcoming gallery show will be able to reap the harvest.

Meet one of the insect world's most protective moms.

A new study finds 3 carnivores that usually avoid each other at all costs have found smart ways to peacefully co-exist. #goals