House of Representatives voted in favor of the XL Keystone pipeline project, in an attempt to bypass executive authority.

These are tiny homes with an activist bent, taking a stand against the incursion of a pipeline that could contaminate indigenous lands.

It actually won't take that much to reduce oil demand enough to cause serious trouble.

Tesla's tiny house integrates solar power and its Powerwall home battery into a seamless system, and can be towed by the Model X.

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.

Pioneering solar house was designed and engineered by women

This home for a family of three and two cats has been built with efficiency, comfort and health in mind.

It is both a parody of the real estate business and a shocking exposé of Hong Kong Housing

The CATable will keep the cat off the keyboard.

No high-tech bells and whistles here, but tried-and-true strategies are used in this renovation to make a small space feel much bigger.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real estate market, and an uncertain currency future, make a house out of shredded-up money.

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.

We have been asking that question for a while and it keeps coming up.

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

A quantity surveyor deals with construction costs for a living, and shows how it's done.

You'll be surprised at how many beauty treatments you can make with just honey and a few ingredients.

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.

And in the meantime, the bodacious bovine has become a social media star and will receive a full pardon … as soon as they can get her out of the woods.

This contemporary tiny house from the Netherlands incorporates lots of great layout and storage ideas.

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

This small and versatile apartment in the heart of Paris uses innovative modern materials for its furniture and cabinetry.

Helsinki's old abattoir has become the heart of the city's culinary revival, a movement blending innovation and tradition that integrates local foods, pop-up eateries, and urban gardens.

This specially designed Finnish axe requires less force to split wood as it acts both as a wedge and as a lever.

Or, for that matter, park both a house and a car like Bill Dunster's ZEDpod.

After 9 p.m., shoppers snatch up heavily discounted foods that are close to expiry.

Mayon is the largest of the Philippines' 22 active volcanoes, at 8,070 feet. The plumes of smoke and flows of lava make it seem like it is already erupting, yet scientists say the big fireworks could be still to come, and more than 40,000 people have

After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended.

Two days after the earthquake caused by a nearby fracking well the mayor said, "I called my insurance man and got earthquake insurance.”

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

I thought we were being edgy when we gave Interface Studio Architects the Best Residential Architect Award as part of Best of Green this year, but I could not help but love the 100K house. Evidently neither could the US Green

Going for LEED Platinum in an affordable townhouse with clean modern design

They are as gutsy and gritty as ever.

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.

This is the future of building, and it works. Get used to it.

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

Architect Jonathan Kearns shows that you can have it all.

A lot of the permaculture design principles make just as much sense for buildings.

Canadian birch hauled out of Canada's Ottawa River adds resonance and tone.

A health insurer practices what it preaches.

It feels much bigger than it actually is, and does not feel weird at all.

160 tons of steel and 10 tons of copper never looked so good

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

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.

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

Decommissioned buses are getting a second useful life as mobile shelters for Honolulu's homeless.

There are worse places to be stuck than in Hawaii... I'm starting to think they did it on purpose!

There are huge gains to be made by boosting efficiency. Even if we can never get to 100% because of the laws of physics, we could get much closer than we are now.

From mislabelling to plastic contamination, eating fish isn't as safe or healthy as most diners would like to believe.

George Monbiot is at it again, causing controversy by saying "Environmentalism may be emotional but it should always be based on science, not like the wishful thinking behind natural remedies."-Environmentalism must be fact based and there is no room

I get the design part, but is it really sustainable?