A new UK study measures and compares the dietary greenhouse gas emissions of meat- and fish-eaters, vegetarians, and vegans.

Given how dreadful most new housing is these days, this is at least the minimum builders should build and customers should expect.

This week is all about climate change and its myriad ripple effects. Melting Arctic ice has opened up an international controversy over deep-sea land rights, and Russia will now make a bold move by planting its flag 14,000 feet below the surface. New

According to the Spanish newspaper El País last week, Spain will be the first big buyer of CO2 emission rights from Eastern Europe, in order to fulfil the Kyoto Protocol. In 2007, Spain's emissions had

These designer shoes embody traditional craftsmanship and a Slow Fashion aesthetic.

These sliver towers are incredibly inefficient and even have fake mechanical spaces to make them even taller. We all pay the price in carbon.

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario

A UK offset company launches a world-first partnership to finance Life-Straw water purifiers in Africa.

George Monbiot, everyone's favourite controversial climate commentator, launched the Be The Change conference with a bang here in London yesterday. He leaped off the starting blocks with the statement that not only is it imperative that we reduce Co2

Blogging like it's 1999 might make sense for a lot of people.

By 2030, 70% of the country's electricity could come from renewables.

This Valentine's Day, shop local.

It's a disappointing conclusion, but surely there are other reasons why Earth-friendly food production is a good idea.

Architects are finally taking it seriously. It's about time.

The longer we wait, the more expensive (and dangerous) it gets.

It's got all three: low transportation energy, low embodied carbon, low operating energy.

More on why the 626 environmental groups demanding action on climate change shouldn't be doctrinaire.

Lloyd Alter would be so proud.

Not waiting for national legislation to set a price on carbon and kickstart the journey to a low-carbon future, Montgomery County, Maryland has enacted one the country's first carbon taxes. Passed by a vote of 8-to-1 the tax

Finally, people are beginning to take this issue seriously.

But some people are beginning to take the issue seriously. Anthony Pak writes a good article about it for Canadian Architect.

A growing number of cities are getting serious about tackling the climate emergency.

Carbon sequestration, the technology taking carbon dioxide out of fossil fuel emissions, just got a boost

When made from the right materials, buildings can be a solution, not a problem.

It also can put people back to work and save our forests.

George Monbiot says you don't set targets in an emergency, you act.

In addition to metrics like ecological footprint, each of us (and each of the products and services we use and consume every day) has a carbon footprint; it's a way to measure the relative impact of our actions -- as individuals, as businesses,

End goals for CO2 emissions are just one part of the picture. How fast we start moving toward them is just as important.

Up until now, only solid materials have offered the ability to capture materials using the filtering power of pores

Minimizing your footprint is nice. Maximising your impact is better.

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."

Every company should have to do this– more useful information that consumers need.

Progress is being made. But the climate keeps unravelling.

A conference on sustainable construction in the Can of Ham is in denial about upfront carbon emissions

Is this company getting closer to the dream of making truly sustainable carbon-negative fuel?

"It's an emergency," say council members. "So let's act like it."

At least $40 million worth of carbon credits have been stolen in recent weeks from various registries across Europe, in what some are calling a growing black market for carbon credits.The Wall Street Journal explains that there are

Mongstad industrial area at night. Photo Tøssekaien via flickr. The Norwegians have been big supporters of carbon capture and storage, and the government helped get the public to go along with building of a gas-fired plant near an existing oil refinery

While no longer breaking news, the endeavours of students and staff at two different Australian schools still merits attention. One school went bottled water free, whilst

This past Thursday, at the business conference Opportunity Green, one panel entitled Next Generation Carbon Mapping: Radical Transparency and Truth in Advertising captured the attention of the standing room only audience at

In 2007 BC's Premier shocked North America when he announced his government's bold Climate Action Plan. Is it working?

Carbon offsets have traditionally gone to technological improvements or reforestation. One group is teaching a different way of cooking. And it's using offset funds for the training.

Barcelona wants to build an indoor carbon-neutral ski dome, taking waste energy from the gas industry to cool the hall and using renewable energy to power the rest... fact or fiction? Eco-friendly or greenwashing?

Are carbon offsets still relevant in turbulent economic times, and how has the concept evolved? Join us for a live chat with the Carbon Neutral Company to find out.

Using alternative fuels, carbon offsets, and strict on-board rules, the Atlantic Cup aims to be the first carbon-neutral race in the U.S.

The makers of the EcoDataCenter prefer the term "climate-positive."

By setting both a date and an ambitious target, Sweden is sending a signal that should reverberate well beyond its borders.

Simmer like a crock pot and bake like an oven, using the clean energy of sunlight.