A judge rules against smart meter opponents in Naperville, Illinois who wanted to hold a vote on whether the devices should be installed in their city.

Yuusuke Karasawa designs a house in Tokyo with 5 levels, a dozen stairs and almost no walls inside or out.

Another report on another geoengineering method that is likely too risky to try and utterly not cost-effective: Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to slow warming (which would do absolutely nothing about ocean acidification, by the way).

Researchers are working on "reprogramming" cells to create customized organisms that can be used for everything from new medicines to environmental clean-up crews.

Shigeru Ban mixes it up next to Arthur Erickson’s Evergreen Building on Vancouver's Coal Harbour

Worried about wood? Brock Commons Tallwood House is probably one of the safest buildings anywhere.

16 years ago, Horrace Burges had a divine vision, a calling from heaven. And, like the ark-crafting Noah before him, Horrace picked up a hammer and built a large wooden structure of his own--the world's largest tree house. At 10

Thousands of pairs of unwanted eyewear are collected and transformed into a unique, twinkling facade for an Istanbul museum.

Kaden + Lager architects are building SKAIO, ten storeys of hybrid timber construction.

The magazine rallies against GMO-labeling and denounces opponents of genetically modified crops as "unscientific."

Over at the Sietch Blog, an environmental site that I respect a lot, a roofer named Leo defends PVC roofing as one of the greenest roofs. He isn't wrong; it comes in white, and white roofs are all the rage, it lasts a long time and is a

Sumitomo Forestry has a lot of wood to use up.

This Bilbao tower is like nothing the Passivhaus world has seen.

"Forest to frame" is the new "farm to table."

The discovery of one of the oldest penguin fossils in the world reveals higher diversity of early penguins than previously assumed.

There are lessons to be learned from this model home built by Meritage, even if it is big and beige.

The HELIOtube is a radical departure from conventional CSP technology, as it is based around tubes of inflatable plastic film.

Featuring an interlocking system that's inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, this desk also has a swappable, modular system for organizing your stuff.

Built with the help of a village's last remaining bamboo weaver, this computer-designed pavilion was built by hand using local materials.

If you own an electric car but don't own a garage, what do you do?

The city council has begun installing solar-powered lights around the streets of downtown Nairobi.

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IKEA had a choice to make it shallow and cheap or heavy and deep.

This looks like a long-needed solution to one of the key barriers to electric vehicle adoption, and I can hardly contain my excitement.

Unsuspecting visitors to the small fishing village of Cheng Long might feel the need to blink and rub their eyes. Is there really a giant bowl and chopsticks sinking into the wetlands? What are those brightly colored things growing all over that house?

Our photo of the day is in praise of the pollinators!

The plyscraper era has begun as Cross Laminated Timber towers start popping up everywhere.

UC San Diego is using one of its free gifts - some of the best solar exposure in the country - to further power and shade the campus. Several solar trees (solar panels installed on a vertical racking system that supports

UC Berkeley’s new robot is the most vertically agile robot ever built – why is it so unnerving?

Western Michigan University is installing solar-powered electric car charging. But it has to chop down nine trees to do it.

The university brings the outdoors in to help students relax and focus on studying.

Baltimore residents, get ready to get in on the smart grid party. Baltimore Gas & Electric has just announced that it has filed paper with the Maryland Public Service

It may be the most expensive and useless green roof ever built

But really, they should be dealing with the source of the problem.

From the green roof down to the electric boat, there are so many interesting aspects of sustainable design.

A representative of the industry says I shouldn't be picking on fiber glass. He's right.

It's a moving target and, like TreeHugger hero Chris Magwood, we are all learning on the job.

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?

Despite the fact that Venice, CA seems to be the epicenter of SoCal's green lifestyle movement, the 24th annual Abbott Kinney Festival that took over the city's main drag on Sunday, September 28th was far from eco-friendly. After claiming last year

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.

These skyscraping superstars are the stalwart examples of their species.

Instead of heavy metals, petroleum products, and toxic solvents, this printing ink is made with algae grown by Living Ink.

Discovered in a cave, the surprising find reveals a fast and giant bird that weighed almost as much as a polar bear.

It's the usual fight between the contractor who wants to be paid for cost overruns and the developer who claims it's all a fixed price contract.

The Brooklyn Journalist covered this project like a blanket, and looks at some of the detailed claims.

It is a modern plug-in city that is organic in more ways than one.

There are 17 atriums that need to be filled with creative uses.

Moriyama & Teshima Architects + Acton Ostry Architects win design competition.

A condo in Manhattan and a mixed use 12 story building in Portland get a boost.

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