What can you do with 1.285 bright green used uniforms? This was the brief the design students at Elisava school in Barcelona received by Urbaser, a local waste collection and urban

Photo credit: William Hook via Flickr/Creative Commons

This automated smart home system for small apartments takes the effort out of having to transform your all-in-one furniture unit by hand.

These transforming shoes can go from flat to a stylish stiletto within seconds.

Inspired by theater set design, this versatile volume holds storage and other hidden furniture.

Finally, Net Zero done right.

It is hard keeping up with the latest ideas in green building, but things are changing fast.

If we're going to push lifestyle change as a strategy, how we manage our money is one of the most important topics of all.

If you cannot be live in Munich for eCarTec, check out the photo updates on their facebook page

When Copenhagen failed in 2010, he denounced the failure.

Will NEOM be "an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization" or "a totalitarian surveillance state"?

The New York Times has a stunning feature showing images of Earth and the immense damage caused by man to the land and atmosphere.

As a keystone species, the importance of the sea otter on the health of coastal ecosystems can't be understated. A new study shows that they may even play a key role in helping coastlines cope with agricultural run-off.

Although some may wish it so, a world without spiders would be a miserable place.

The ecosystem had thrived for thousands of years but collapsed less than two centuries ago.

Experts have predicted a "high risk" of rupture on this aging oil pipeline that has recently been approved to bring Alberta tar sands crude to Eastern Canada.

Lots of luxurious details in this solar-powered, off-grid tiny house.

Image via: Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation Los Vecinos, the first LEED-Certified Platinum, 100% solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego, offer 42-units of state of the art in green housing. The $17.6 million USD project opened its doors

Image via: Project Kasei on Flickr Project Kaisei, the mission to research and figure out just what the heck we're going to do about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, made it to the Gyre just a few days ago. Their results: yep, there's a lot of plastic

The UK newspaper dates the movement back to the publishing of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; I contribute with a guest post on architecture and design

With one in 3 cases of dementia preventable, a sweeping new report identifies modifiable factors in early, mid- and late life that make a difference

From helping with dementia to prehypertension and chronic pain, these lifestyle changes could help you hop off the medication merry-go-round.

They are going to be autonomous taxis. Is this a good idea?

Researchers at Georgia Tech warn that there is a risk that self-driving cars might be hacked and cause gridlock.

If there's a holy grail of liquid renewable fuels it might look something like this: High yield per acre, doesn't negatively impact water supplies, doesn't compete with food crops, and is cost-competitive with fossil

With limited hours in the day, many U.S. schools are prioritizing lesson time over lunch time, leaving kids hungry and miserable.

The UK organization wants schools to incorporate that time into their daily curriculum.

So you want to save the world, do you? Let's get one thing straight.

This is not your usual trading site; it is much more of a community.

Mike Eliason, an American architect working in Germany, explains.

"If you don't visit quiet, the quiet will disappear."

Our well-coiffed photo of the day comes from the rain forest of Ecuador.

Aiming to raise awareness about e-waste recycling, this photographer used 4,100 pounds of e-waste in these futuristic scenes.

It is designed to dry beeswax wraps more easily, but its usefulness goes beyond that.

Cut the grass will you?...Are you done edging?....Time to water the

Could TreeHuggers soon find themselves hugging a fake tree or idly philosophizing in meadows of artificial grass? More than 225 million square feet of Astroturf have been manufactured since the plastic carpeting made

Watching this video on Sacred Economics may be the best 12 minutes and 18 seconds you spend today.

Like the word 'sustainability', 'environmentalism' has become a hollow word, a word divorced from meaning, a word lacking in soul, separated from its essence.

Could it be that green living is making a comeback?

Solar power is a wonderful thing but the benefits are not evenly distributed.

SMUD demonstrate that all-electric living is actually cheaper than gas.

Could it be that more efficient lighting means less coal being dug to power it?

And why not?

Starting in 1936 they wired the entire country, the houses, the tools and the farms, changing America. It is time to think big and do it again.

Microsoft decided that a good way to advertise its cloud-based Office 365 software would be to actually put a T-Mobile wifi router with 15 days of free wifi inside a magazine advert.

Take a virtual tour of these amazing spots.

We're all friends here, right? So I can talk honestly?

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is experimenting with a new energy storage technology.

The proposal for redeveloping Toronto's waterfront into a green, sustainable, urban tech hub is controversial.

One of the biggest challenges of making cities more bike friendly is that most of the road space is already "used up." Adding bike lanes means removing something. That's when a bit of perspective comes in handy.