The unicorn of cheap clean home energy will most likely be found in an affordable solar roof that doesn't look like a solar roof, and that can pay for itself quickly. This startup may have developed it.

The blocks could be part of the architecture of a building, generating more power than just rooftop panels.

The solar cell can be stretched, bent and compressed without substantially affecting performance.

The HELIOtube is a radical departure from conventional CSP technology, as it is based around tubes of inflatable plastic film.

Not only will this save home owners money, but it will also allow utilities to manage demand during peak times.

Because of course you're thinking about water conservation in your yard in the middle of winter.

It also comes with its own beer dispenser, built-in right in the couch.

It learns your usage patterns but can do a lot more.

In which I try out a smart lighting system in my dumb home.

What is that man smoking?

Alea Labs is introducing the "smart vent 2.0", which again raises the questions we had about Smart Vent 1.0.

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.

The fashion event's EcoChic Design Awards inspire Asia’s emerging fashion talent to create with minimal textile waste.

It would be a good way to further broaden the appeal of electric vehicles.

This digitally fabricated project revives a traditional material with new building technologies.

An under-utilized element becomes a bench, a place to eat, nap and store things in this redesigned scheme.

It reveals what we already know but needs repeating – that more time in nature equals greater happiness in kids.

Our photo of the day comes from the waters off Sydney, Australia.

I may have once mused on the environmental impact of my backyard chickens, but I have no doubt that, overall, keeping them has been both a wonderful experience and a significant contribution to improving our family's

We live in turbulent times, but this beautiful animation offers a systemic approach to facing up to change.

The horsemeat scandal in the UK and Europe could make more people turn to vegetarianism.

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long-vanished lake.

Insulation in a tent makes as much sense as it does in a house, if you can get it right.

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

Another country joins the ranks of the Powering Past Coal Alliance.

These delightful mementos of the Irish countryside remind us of nature's beauty, but are also responsibly sourced and packaged.

Supporters of protecting the Teghut Forest in northern Armenia from a company's plans to build an open-pit copper mine there have an uphill battle to fight against the perception that mining

Environmentalists marched in Istanbul to demand solutions to climate change (L) while members of Greenpeace (R) face jail time for protesting plans to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant. Photos: 350.org (L), Greenpeace Akdeniz

If you ask me, the real "Turkish delight" is served at breakfast time: A square of rich, thick kaymak (clotted cream), topped with fresh-off-the-comb honey (bal).

Was he a role model or a victim?

Though I delved into Toyota's reasons for annually executing their singular teaching program in the Galapagos, I amazingly failed to touch on the

The Galapagos Islands are the model of biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to surmise the theory of evolution, but scientists have made arrangements to ensure that the latest round of animal deaths

News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral.

Since its eruption in late August, the Solyndra scandal has been a lightning rod for political and ideological debates over everything from the role of government in business to the debate on global

This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have

What does it take to get improved environmental coverage in the media?

The classic daily newspaper box gets updated by a New York artist.

Why can't the Wall Street Journal call it what it is?

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.

In the Netherlands it is actually a thing, to ride your bike as slowly as possible without falling over.

"If knowledge has become a secular religion, public libraries are its parishes, mosques and synagogues."

Let's hope cows don't get seasick.

Here's how people work together to build their own homes cooperatively.

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

Apparently kids are meant to be seen and not heard.

It changed my life but I can also recommend some changes

It gives another meaning to 'eating off the floor.'

Founded by two sons of farmers, this company wants to grow farm-fresh food -- out of shipping containers.

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

Switching from fossil fuel powered cars could save 45,000 lives per year and on its own almost solve climate change