This affordable tiny house was 3D printed using mud, rice husks and straw to create a "zero-kilometre" structure.

Design like you give a damn with the second edition of Monadnock Paper Mills' how-to guide for creating more-sustainable print materials. A Field Guide: Eco-Friendly, Efficient and Effective Print, accompanied by luscious illustrations by the

When printed in a precise pattern onto carbon nanotubes on paper, these photosynthetic bacteria can produce electricity from sunlight, which could power biodegradable environmental and medical sensors.

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

Combining elements of natural beekeeping, citizen science, open source hardware, and networked smart devices, these DIY beehives could be a powerful tool in the fight against Colony Collapse Disorder.

They are building "five great houses that are comfortable to live in and will have happy occupants."

It even has a giant 3D printed Jacuzzi tub

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.

And put away your phone if you are on vacation.

Using an additive, powder-based 3D printing process, experiments with abundant and renewable salt have created this translucent and lightweight structure.

A new investigative report from Viva! reveals that conditions for laying hens are as hellish and squalid as ever, even if they're labelled free-range.

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

Scientists have created a mobile bioprinter that when filled with a patient's cells, prints skin directly into a wound.

The printer makes designs from soil, seeds and water that sprout and grow into lovely living artwork.

Kodjo Afate Gnikou is a 33 years old inventor from Togo, in West Africa. Using mostly e-waste that he found in a scrap yard, he built a functioning 3D printer that he calls W.AFATE.

Three years after a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, health care workers are still finding it difficult to get medical supplies, but an aid group is putting 3D printing to work to make some of the needed items.

Ecological footprint: what is it? An analysis that gauges our impact on the planet's biological systems, the ecological footprint measures human consumption of natural resources in comparison to Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate them.

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,

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

Some useful tools for working on a 1.5 degree lifestyle.

Paper Age reports that "total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 6.4% in August compared to August 2010." Burrowing in, Fortress Specialty Cellulose echos the

The British city of Bristol hopes to promote local business with their own high-security scrip featuring local designs

Archigram’s Plug-in City meets 3D Printing

That's what Kris de Decker did with Low-Tech magazine and it makes a lot of sense.

Despite being a professional writer, it would be an invitation for unnecessary clutter and cost.

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.

When the oft-predicted water wars start, we're going to want this technology on our side. Let's hope it survives the budget wars.

Kris De Decker questions some of our most cherished assumptions.

Or are they just fooling themselves and being selfish?

Groups working in developing regions could use solar-powered 3D printers to make tools, lab supplies and more on the go.

Because a single day of #OptOutside isn't enough for real action.

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

Designer Ludwig Rensch thinks it is, and so do a lot of other people.

Using a customized printer, these designers combined new technology with low sounds to create this modern collection of ceramics.

This is probably the most interesting 3D printed house concept we have seen yet.

We usually just talk about the plane, but it is a lot bigger than that.

Russian artist, Xenia Bystrova has created a charming series of posters of some of Europe's great cities.

There are lots of good reasons to buy local, but don't worry about the impact of shipping.

Dig out those old da Vinci drawings of winged flying machines, as he was really on to something!

What to do about all that CO2 emitted when you make cement? Inject it back into the stuff and turn it back into limestone.

Because not all vacations are created equal.

The Hymer VisionVenture is small space living that moves.

NACTO lays out a vision for how autonomous vehicles, and technology more broadly, can work in service of safe, sustainable, equitable, vibrant cities.

Transportation has a much bigger impact on urban design than we think.

Teams operating in remote sites on military or humanitarian missions can be stalled by broken equipment. They could soon be turning their own wastes into raw materials for 3D printing parts needed to get their job done.

Digital photography has made us lose the wretched chemicals and excess paper of the Polaroid era. So if you want to save a summer memory, you can do it in organic chocolate.

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

It all adds up to a huge amount of electricity consumption and carbon emitted, both embodied and operating.

This amazingly detailed cowhide rug is digitally printed. Get the rustic look for to tie a room together without the guilt.

The new machine from 3D Systems has a larger printing platform, and a whole lot of new bells and whistles for 3D printing enthusiasts.