Take a breathtaking 9-minute journey with wildlife photographer Vincent Munier through the beautifully bleak frozen North, you won’t be sorry.

Besides the usual hidden storage and mirrors to enlarge the space, this redesigned layout includes a slight rotation to improve circulation.

How do you make good design accessible to people with small spaces and small budgets?

Martín Azúa's latest rug design is made from esparto soles from the traditional spanish espadrilles. It will be used in Camper's shoe stores.

Interest in rocket stoves is growing, and with good reason, as they're fast, efficient, and cleaner-burning than most other options. Here's a small affordable model for camping or emergency preparedness.

Lets declare a day of non-action, of unoccupying the big box stores. Instead, let's support our local, green neighborhood shops that need our custom.

A look at the intersection of three ways to deal with this weekend about shopping.

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

This year, take a side in the war on the car, and support stores on your neighborhood bike lane or transit route.

It's not all stress and extra work. In some ways, kids can make a trip more interesting and interactive.

Despite Natura's seemingly excellent and forward-thinking business model, their list of ingredients is surprisingly awful and toxic, which calls into question the B Corp certification standards.

There are certain things I've hardly missed, and others I've missed more than I expected.

How small is too small?

This new loft adds extra space and an extra bedroom in an urban apartment in Brazil.

A clever redo of a small 376-square-foot apartment in São Paulo that uses lots of glass and reflective surfaces.

A hopeful report by Greenpeace envisions a future where supermarkets have gotten rid of superfluous waste.

Can digital fabrication and robotic construction techniques help reduce the carbon emissions of concrete?

A new plug-in diagnostic tool could mean better healthcare around the world.

The batteries could provide back-up power for small solar power systems.

No more shopping blindly. It's time to question your whole approach to holiday gifts.

Using a series of rotating LED lights, this work highlights the visually transformative powers of the Moon.

Gorgeous, soft and looking like a living UFO, this enormous work of textile art is brightening up one Paris institution.

Yes, but first we need to develop a collective conscience when it comes to travel.

Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.

They're using the Flashfood app to give customers steep discounts and divert food from landfill.

From blending beef with mushrooms, to boosting plant-based menu items, companies are doing a lot to cut back on meat.

Now, for the rest of the U.S. and Canada to get on board...

This stair does it all: it's a connector, a partition, a bench, a counter and a concealer of clutter.

XEROX/PARC Spiral Water Filtration Technology A typical water-treatment plant is very big and very expensive. XEROX's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has come up with a new technology that could make the whole process cheaper and simpler, potentially

By combining solar PV, solar thermal, and a heat exchanger, Desolenator has developed a low-cost portable water purifier and desalination device powered by renewable energy.

The iPod of thermostats gets updated with new energy saving features and increased functionality in its mobile apps.

The new technology would allow precise control over the transparency of windows and how much light is let in.

This might be one of the smartest ways to use a smart thermostat.

In cars, houses, furniture and electronics, The trend was toward increasing repairability and simplifying recycling. Apple goes its own way.

Or why the trend toward simplicity is not all it's cracked up to be.

It may well be all most people need as a computer, and it may well be what we have been waiting for.

It's impossible for a human to know all of the hundreds of thousands of species of flowers on our planet, so Microsoft has developed flower learning software.

Constructed as an "apartment-house" hybrid, this prototypical 753-square-foot house makes the most of a small lot.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a world leader in the study, appreciation, and conservation of birds. But the vast educational opportunities it offers aren’t reserved only for Ivy League students.

Cobalt is used to build lithium-ion batteries found in mobile technology. Much of it comes from Congo, where men, women, and children endure dangerous and unhealthy conditions to satisfy our hunger for new devices. It's time we paid attention.

Giving a kid a phone "feels a little like trying to teach your kid how to use cocaine, but in a balanced way."

Even when made using hydro-electricity, aluminum production had a big carbon footprint.

The technology could help keep buildings cooler in the warmer months.

Modern building codes and zoning regulations, while helping to set safety standards that can save lives, can also serve as big barriers to building small, sensible, and affordable dwellings with alternative materials and techniques.

This problem gets worse as cars get bigger and heavier, no matter what they are powered by.

With 58 straight days (and counting) of unhealthy air, officials are urging some to stay inside.

This clever replacement window expands out to create a private semi-outdoor space for people who don't have a balcony.

Perfect for small city apartments, this system allows you to use a variety of add-on components to build your own indoor garden.

At first this smart lock seemed like gimmicky over-engineering. Then I got thinking about the possibilities.

All 250 stores, production facilities, headquarter, and e-commerce in North America will be closed for a day.