Public transportation, while maybe not as enjoyable as commuting in your own personal vehicle, does ease congestion, reduce emissions. Need more convincing? Here's more info about public transportation.

Created around 1900 in France for the World Exhibition in Paris, these predictions for the future didn’t actually turn out as expected.

Home automation, LED lighting, ceiling fans, insulation, energy monitoring and other tricks will save energy without sacrificing the experience in our holiday rental apartments.

A compact apartment in a traditional building near Barcelona's waterfront is transformed into an airy, modern home.

Making do with limited ingredients has taken on new urgency in pandemic times.

When it comes to housecleaning, here's how to tackle the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Because of COVID-19, we are suddenly a people who can not clean our homes enough; here's how to do it effectively but safely.

Learn which kind of flour to use for each purpose, and how to substitute one for another.

Of course you won't want to eat your beloved decorative houseplants, but there are plenty of edible plants that can be grown indoors.

As your indoor plants reawaken from winter dormancy, here’s how to prepare them for their glory days ahead.

After years of tiny house bloat, it is nice to see a minimalist design that gets back to the essentials.

It's not a trailer, it's a portable private space.

Two undergrads hatched an innovative plan to build this super eco-friendly cabin in the woods of Finland; Mother Nature approves..

With this tiny home on wheels, living with less doesn't mean abandoning pampering.

The 248-square-foot vacation cabin in Iceland lets you sleep under the stars ... while inside.

A table for 12 in a tiny home? No problem with this smart and lovely design with loads of hidden storage.

The Kitchoo packs it all into one unit only four feet wide, perfect for your quarantine suite.

Laneway housing is a terrific option to deal with aging boomers and their children.

In this age of consumerism, particularly around the holiday season, sometimes its easy to forget that the things we've used the longest often have the most value to us -- but the virtues of reuse just seem come naturally to some

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Compact but comfortable, this small home features clever small space design ideas and uses coffee grounds as fuel.

£1 million in grants will be divided among groups wanting to improve recycling facilities. But why should people have to compete for help in dealing with Starbucks' own trash?

Teamwork pushes bold initiatives through.

It took a while, but there will soon be solar panels on the White House.

The 6.3kW solar array might not produce enough energy to power the White House, but its symbolism is important.

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Analysts say people are chasing affordability.

Now I'm obsessed with paring it down to the absolute minimum.

A new study shows it's even higher for black women and frequent hair-dyers.

Everybody promised to destroy HFC-23 but apparently they didn't.

We need a precautionary principle approach or a lot more of these studies, and soon, in order to protect our children.

It's got everything: “Design, construction, love, betrayal, and eventually murder. Just a typical architectural project.”

Olafur Eliasson is back with another environmental project on a giant scale.

But hey, what’s wrong with formaldehyde? It’s in our breath, our apples and our trees.

There is more to a house than just walls. Danish company COBOD tells the truth about it.

My flame for the small-business and artisan supporting marketplace was re-kindled surfing the 263 items -- from mat bags, to hand-knit yoga socks, calming wall art and more -- made locally in Brooklyn alone.

New research shows that a Western-style diet can permanently kill off sperm-producing cells by age 18.

Google Reader is gone on July 1, but our RSS feed isn't going anywhere.

On Wednesday, a bull scheduled for slaughter in a halal butcher's shop in Queens, New York decided that it wasn't on board with its fate. So it broke out and didn't look back, sprinting down Liberty Avenue (how appropriate!),

It's more than just an easy way to get a daily dose of TreeHugger.

To gain more space, this tiny has its toilet in a bump-out built over the trailer tongue.

They do a terrific job of taking bacteria from your hands and spreading it all over the walls and floors.

Through trial and error, these are the indoor plants that have taken well to living in my bathroom.

Triclosan may have been banned in soap, but antimicrobials are still allowed in more than 2,000 other products, which is a big problem.

Researchers 'astonished' to find potentially deadly bacteria, including E.coli and Staphylococci, in 9 out of 10 products they tested.

Not by a long shot, but the answer is still interesting.

For people who walk or bike, getting there is half the fun.

A lot of people are buying e-bikes instead of taking transit.

An amazing circular kindergarten in Tokyo is built around a tree. We also have transparent TVs, the gnarliest waves ever surfed, a wild proposed pier for Florida, and more.

The “Design Smart, Live Beautifully” Home Tour coincides with the launch of the 2014 model of Blu’s award-winning Breezehouse, which is packed with luxurious features and an even more spacious floor plan