Load up the Krug and the caviar and go for a spin.

Perhaps yes, if our food system stays the way it is, but maybe that's what we should be challenging.

The company is ramping up pressure on suppliers to design less wasteful packaging.

A mix of modern and traditional design elements that are appropriate for the Northeast make these very interesting houses.

In an effort to support local food production and defend customers' rights to buy and eat whatever local farm products they want, 16 towns in Maine have created their own local food ordinances.

Even when accounting for other factors, the right amount of sleep has been shown to have a big impact on heart attack risk.

This modular design can adapt to any situation, meaning more usable space can be freed up.

This one of a kind structure combines architecture, technology, algae farming and real-time data, and will dynamically respond to environmental factors like weather and movements of people.

Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America: In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than

A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until

We take a tour of a sustainable factory that turns discarded glass into durable building materials.

Great coworking spaces aren't just about "sharing desks" -- just like other intentional communities where people share resources, they need a common vision and more.

This woodland cabin in the Bohemia region of the Czech Repbulic keeps it simple but clever, with one end perched on a large rock.

Instead of combining the two poles of work and leisure, this simple and functional design separates them into distinct volumes.

School is a testing ground for the way we perform later in life. It can mold us into fine upstanding members of society, or not. While environmental responsibility isn't something we have to learn early in life, it certainly makes

Designed to capture and maximize the flows of sunlight, water and air, this prefabricated home feels modern, light and spacious.

It's about so much more than getting daily exercise.

The schoolyard should be an exploratory classroom of sorts, not a holding pen for bored children.

The next two months represent the highest rate of consumption during the year, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Supporters think the Arctic Apple will be a game changer - the first GMO to be marketed directly to consumers as convenience food.

The aquarium and wildlife rescue center uses a unique heat pump system to cover 98% of its heating needs.

A must-read book for business leaders. Naked value is the ultimate value a product delivers to customers, or the benefits that remain when a product is stripped of most of the energy and material resources required to manufacture and deliver it.

This book explains how "one of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare."

The heroic lab saved 12 lives and recovered 41 bodies during her career as a search and rescue dog.

"We don't want animals in captivity or enclosed in any way," says Costa Rica's Environmental Minister.

This is, whether we like it or not, the future of furniture design.

The LightCycle follows our circadian rhythms via your phone and GPS.

So much for the "sharing economy". North Americans don't like sharing cars or parking spaces.

The only things that ever seems to affect SUV and pickup sales are the economy and the price of gas.

There are a lot of good ideas in this truck; will they catch on?

We've covered Jendarling's organic garment bags before. But with the holiday/travel season in full swing, their new chic Chelsea Girl collection, comprised of non-plastic garment and travel bags, is right on cue. For Jendarling,

Cotton is ubiquitous in modern life but the long trail between the fields in which the crop grows and the store at which a finished item is purchased is seldom considered.

However the referendum in South Sudan turns out, one thing will not go away quickly: the lack of water in the region. The International Committee of the Red Cross, however, is at work on a project that will mitigate that

In the "sleepy neighborhood" of Baldwin Hills in Los Angeles, a modern Proto Home sits among a mix of single-family dwellings from over the last few

Why a water crisis in Atlanta now? The cause is not climate alone, as Lloyd's post of today points out. Runaway growth - Georgia is the fastest growing US state east of the Rocky Mountains - and a seeming refusal to plan for the future seem to have

In York, Alabama they now have public space where before they had a collapsing house.

Celebrated outside of the United States, the holiday used to have a real meaning.

Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes.

Unless the desperately needed rain arrive, São Paulo residents are being warned to "prepare for a collapse like they've never seen before."

What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD

Design for deconstruction out of low-carbon materials is the way of the future.

Many areas of the world have scarce access to electricity. This new solar lantern will provide light and charging power for cell phones.

It really isn't necessary but it sure is a lot of fun and you learn a lot. I am conflicted.

It's all about the culture.

Computers and technology let designers do things that were unimaginable just a decade ago.

It's much easier to keep clean.

The divide between environmentalists and stockmen can sometimes be pretty wide, but they may find common ground in a new wireless fence technology for cattle.

Knowing how to make a few sauces by heart is a skill we all can use.

The UAE's clean tech giant plans to have a commerical-scale plant by 2020.

This novel wave energy technology can deliver large volumes of high pressure water ashore for desalination or power production (or both).