A few years ago organic cotton and other eco-friendly textiles were getting all the headlines, but not so much now. Why is that? Scott Mackinlay Hahn answers.

However the referendum in South Sudan turns out, one thing will not go away quickly: the lack of water in the region. The International Committee of the Red Cross, however, is at work on a project that will mitigate that

Last week I posted a stunning wooden bicycle, and the beautiful heritage of wooden ceilings in Andalusia from a series of wood design from Spain that Confeadera put together. Other works include the Fab Lab House, some

The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other!

The American Institute of Architects just announced its 2007 Housing Awards; among the winners were our beloved Loblolly House and in the Special Housing Category, the Designhabitat2 house, from The DESIGNhabitat 2 Studio School of Architecture,

That's the simple premise behind this campaign. Cameron Sinclair, "lumberjack sized Brit", author of Design Like You Give a Damn, and co-founder of Architecture for Humanity tells the story of meeting Natalie "Alabama" Chanin at a conference

A Federal judge has ruled that seven Virginia homeowners made legitimate damage claims regarding corrosion of metal items in the home and personal inconvenience caused by use of

They got this one right.

It helps to have such a stunning lakeside site.

Built as part of a community training project, this multifunctional structure acts as a place for visitors to stay, as well as an extra office or a place for the kids to play.

In 2009, architects Franck Deboute and Karine Montagnon decided to build their dream home and office. The site: the Pointe du Raz, hanging out over the Atlantic Ocean, in Brittany, France. The

When the team at nature-minded Spanish architecture firm Urbanarbolismo decided to build a tree house, they set some high standards. Working with a centuries old oak tree, they wanted to create a place for

Take nearly 8,000 old plastic bottles, add some construction waste and mud, and voila: a sturdy and sustainable home.

TreeHugger visits one of Denmark's oldest Eco villages, which includes 74 sustainably-designed highly unique houses and apartment buildings that range from hobbit-style straw to high design.

Building and living in a tiny house can be a big step toward living more sustainably, but using repurposed salvaged building materials to build one might be the Holy Grail of green living.

Want to build your own tiny house? Clueless about where to start? Check out this Instructables tutorial.

Provincial regulation would make stores' waste-reduction efforts easier to manage.

For many parents, working from home is the biggest professional challenge they've faced to date. Here are some coping strategies.

Built for a sculptor and his new family on the site of an old gold mine and sawmill, this house uses reclaimed concrete blocks weighing a ton each.

Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house.

Created by Zaha Hadid Architects, this innovative project demonstrates the possibilities of using KnitCrete technology for creating curved concrete shells efficiently.

Using ceramics and metal nanoparticles, a non-profit organization from University of Virginia is making these simple but effective purifiers that can eliminate up to 99.9% of waterborne pathogens.

For the last two decades, Nargis Latif and her organization have been researching how to divert waste from landfills and reusing it as quick and cheap construction materials.

Who needs flying cars when you can have flying trains?

Cat lover? New plant parent? Fortune seeker? Traveler? We've got the perfect plant for all.

A secret deal lets the homebuilders dominate the committees that write the building codes for housing.

The consumer products giant says it will "fundamentally rethink its approach to packaging."

According to experts in the failure of oil and gas pipelines, there are a handful of factors that can contribute to a pipeline rupture, like the one in Mayflower, Arkansas. A new report finds all were in play on the Pegasus pipeline.

More than six months since tar sands oil spilled into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood, two homes have just been leveled by Exxon in order to clean up oil that was found under their foundations.

If you're going to go for it, you may as well REALLY go for it.

All 2,800 stores will go paper or reusable bag only... eventually.

This won't solve the climate crisis, but it could help direct air capture of CO2 to scale up.

The hotel company plans to recycle old soap into 1 million new bars for Global Handwashing Day.

'Instead of putting the money back into our business, we’re responding by putting $10 million back into the planet. Our home planet needs it more than we do.'

Even though it took 6 months to find an alternative, Coop refused to stock microwave popcorn because of the health risks to customers.

It's the Danish word for happiness, which these days seems in short supply.

Computers and technology let designers do things that were unimaginable just a decade ago.

Researchers at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology have developed a zebra-smelling cattle collar which will be tested on Masai herds subject to the biting tsetse fly,

Dozens of sheep and goats broke out of a slaughterhouse in upstate New York on Tuesday night, and gave police quite the runaround.

There is a real footprint to all those baby pictures and Netflix binges.

Here are some tips on reducing the quantity of meat used in recipes.

That is, if you ever have any...

New research finds that on just two remote islands alone, nearly 600,000 crabs are killed every year by plastic debris.

The latest episode of Fully Charged appears to come to us from the future. Or, maybe just Australia...

The smart thermostat will help people save even more money and help utilities curb peak demand loads.

From making homemade pasta and bread crumbs to cauliflower rice and so much more, the humble box grater is a genius, multi-talented workhorse.

The dual source heat pump uses either the ground or the air as a heat source.

Britain's Conservative government is expected to announce wide-ranging measures to tackle ocean plastic pollution.

Caveat emptor.

C2C products were featured in the Unity Home seen at Greenbuild.