This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.

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

While the world chases solar generating windows, we see how to do solar generating walls.

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.

The technology makes for better energy generation and a better window.

The fashion event's EcoChic Design Awards inspire Asia’s emerging fashion talent to create with minimal textile waste.

Tens of millions of sharks are mutilated and left to die slowly each year so that some affluent people in Asia can each soup. This has to stop.

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

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

This small apartment doubles as a gallery for a collector of ceramic sculptures.

It reveals what we already know but needs repeating – that more time in nature equals greater happiness in kids.

I may have once mused on the environmental impact of my backyard chickens, but I have no doubt that, overall, keeping them has been both a wonderful experience and a significant contribution to improving our family's

In honor of World Environment Day, organizers of the World’s fair highlighted the greenest exhibit designs.

"If knowledge has become a secular religion, public libraries are its parishes, mosques and synagogues."

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

Using some inventive interventions, an old parking garage is transformed into a two-bedroom apartment in Paris.

This revamp of an 1830s apartment mixes modern materials to create a modern space.

Formidable Vegetable Sound System strikes again, this time with their 'ecological electroswing' celebration of soil.

Using a combination of LED lights, sunlight and environmental data, a disused oil silo has been transformed into Helsinki's newest art installation and urban destination.

Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it? Well, WWF has just released a new report that ranks 11 of them

The move comes as a result of a petition from Greenpeace Southeast Asia, which asserts that GM crops can cause serious health issues.

A modern but retro-flavored makeover for the endearing bicycle rickshaw by Filipino designer Kenneth Cobonpue.

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.

It even has a giant 3D printed Jacuzzi tub

Weak regulations mean an extra dose of toxic wastewater for some states, like Ohio.

10 coal plants in Chicago, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey will be shut down sooner than expected.

It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."

Pay attention, as this sort of thing could hit other mountainous areas that are dependent on glaciers for their water supply.

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.

And the top 15 that are least toxic.

Emissions from tropical hydropower dams in Brazil are up to four times higher than often assumed, new research shows.

When one tiny home isn't quite enough, how about adding another?

Move over, indoor birthing tub. This woman wants to deliver in the Pacific Ocean with dolphins as midwives.

Help Treehugger founder Graham Hill design his compact, off grid, energy positive compound in Maui.

It took three years, but Hōkūle’a made the impressive journey using only ancient Polynesian navigational methods.

More pedestrians are getting killed in the roads. Are their phones really the reason?

Since before he started TreeHugger, Graham Hill has delivered the same message: sustainability can be beautiful and fun.

There are huge gains to be made by boosting efficiency. Even if we can never get to 100% because of the laws of physics, we could get much closer than we are now.

Tangled in fishing line with things looking grim, the story of Frito's rescue is inspiring all around.

The gruesome deaths raise serious questions about the practices of fishing trawlers.

I am sorry, they are a dumb idea, and the data prove it.

The device is so thin it could be woven into fabric without changing the feel of it.

Grow some of your own greens, veggies, and herbs indoors with one of these automated hydroponic growing systems.

Another instance of creative adaptive reuse, where a decommissioned Sea King is transformed into a deluxe mini-hotel.

On some days, wind generated as much as 234% of demand.

Smog-choked, traffic-clogged Tehran may seem an unlikely candidate for an environmental honor, but the Iranian capital's aggressive recent moves to improve its public-transit

Shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Awards, this elegant building makes good use of wasted stone generated from a town's large stonecutting industry.

In tribute to the region's salt lake, the architects of this unique restaurant used salt as an eco-friendly building material.

Norwegian architect Marianne Borge is designing a series of them in different sizes.