Charles Rennie Mackintosh didn't do a lot of buildings, and this was his biggest and best.

This is not a new debate, and raises all kinds of questions.

This mobile solar power station offers a lightweight high-capacity lithium-ion battery with all the bells and whistles.

The GoSun Fusion probably won’t save the world, but the design thinking behind it might.

Kent Peterson does it with off-the-self stuff, but it should be easier than this.

The outdoor gear retailer plans to certify 30 percent of its clothes as fair-trade by the end of 2017.

Save time and effort spent shopping with this online database of companies committed to social and environmental causes.

Recycled fabric, down insulation, and fair-trade sewing make this a top pick if you're in the market for a new coat.

Every bag they make is different, which creates a real marketing and display problem.

Due to security issues, the date has not been released yet, but we are happy to announce that Middle East environmentalists are putting political pet peeves aside to focus on one goal: preserving the environment.

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

These designs from Leckie Studio and the Backcountry Hut Company are lovely to look at, but what are they really?

Activists get one firm to agree to stop clearing Indonesian forests for paper plantations.

Over the past three months, over a million people from all around the globe have contacted LEGO to ask them to drop their oil partnership.

You just have to look at the parking ratios to know they are environmental disaster areas.

Pick up your Marbles and go home

Another tool that makes life easier to live without a car.

A design for a rolling, folding, flatpack everything-in-one-place portable kitchen.

A new Human Rights Watch report shows the horrific conditions, both environmental and social, that 90% of Bangladesh's leather is produced in—and exported from, to the US, China, Italy and elsewhere.

From palm oil invaders to adorable Sumatran rhinos, this story about a recent environmental victory will inspire you.

Klein, author of 'This Changes Everything,' launched the Leap Manifesto at the Toronto International Film Festival. Read and sign it here to join the call for a more sustainable and equitable future.

It's an unlikely match between a 47-year-old Peruvian subsistence farmer and a giant American mining corporation, and yet the former is winning the battle.

A landmark constitutional climate change lawsuit, filed by a group of kids against the US government, gets the go-ahead.

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

When the evening is carefully planned, the morning goes smoothly.

These impressive feats of architecture and engineering are one of India's traditional methods of water conservation. Now threatened by disuse and a growing water crisis, one photojournalist is documenting them before they are forgotten.

If this plan even halfway succeeds, oil companies will be in serious trouble.

The unexpectedly fast progress of other countries may even "cancel out" American rollbacks.

It became too difficult for students and teachers to reconcile eating meat with caring for abandoned animals.

Fall isn't just known for the end of summer, finally-I-can-turn-off-the-air-conditioning temperatures, afternoon football games, and a return to your favorite soups and stews: It's also famous for its bounty of rich, saturated

Also we've got electric motorcycles and hot rocks.

They are light and efficient and easy to tow.

With the social networking site Facebook recently opening up their platform to external applications, many organizations and companies are taking advantage of the social connection that Facebook thrives on. We previously covered attempts to use

With high energy prices and a whole lot of mosques, Jordan has every incentive to support solar-powered worship.

The Muslim American Society of Charlotte isn't just putting solar on its mosque. 40 of its congregants are going solar too.

This may, possibly, be the oldest building in the world to go solar.

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

Image source: Sun Strides Sun Strides is merging two things that southern Californian's love - the sun and athletic activities - to raise funds for solar projects in Africa. 5, 10, 15K, whatever your passion or punishment, there is a spot for you at the

Watching the world around us and the changes big and small that occur all the time, sometimes you just have to do something to reflect what you are experiencing. It is this need to create that brings

Image via: Flickr Stingaree Nightclub in San Diego is hosting weekly events titled "The Green Side of Sting" each friday in March. Each week a new, local, green group will host a green event at the club, bringing green fashion, sustainable energy and

If You're in San Diego this Weekend... You love bikes? You really love bikes and you're near San Diego? Well then, you've got to check out the 2009 San Diego Custom Bicycle Show! It takes place this weekend on April 3rd, 4th and 5th. Of course, best not

If you live in San Diego and find the prospect of banding together with your neighbors to get better rates on installing your own solar panels interesting, then this one is for you: 1BOG (that's One Block Off the Grid ...) has announced that they will

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

While San Diego was not considered a very green city just a few years ago, this sunny patch of paradise is quietly coming into its own by leaps and bounds. Enough businesses are seeing the light, and new green ones are opening

Now that the summer surfing season has come to a close, (is there ever really an end to surfing season?), it's time to give your board a little TLC, upgrade any thrashed gear and prepare for the big waves of the

In partnership with CleanTECH San Diego, the University of California, San Diego plans to develop and construct a smart grid system for the San Diego region. In total, over 25 local national and global organizations will

Inspired by a centuries-old text on traditional Chinese medicine, a young researcher has found that seeds from the gingko tree could prove helpful for acne, psoriasis, dermatitis and eczema.

And it reduces food waste!

Something like this could be on the roads by 2022.

Photo: World Economic Forum, Flickr, CC BY-SA Corn ethanol has turned out to be a bad idea -- there's little disagreement about that, especially in environmental circles. For starters, it's an inefficient fuel source, consuming tons of water to produce