This tiny house project is developing a multidisciplinary curriculum and tutorial series for schools and for individuals, as well as giving away a "Dream Tiny House."

Are you looking for a DIY construction technique for building an affordable earthquake-, flood-, and bullet-resistant home? Look no further.

If you like craftsmanship, woodworking, and traditional hand tools, or you just enjoy watching somebody else do all the work, you'll love this short film.

Thyssenkrupp's TWIN elevators have a very unique feature that could save buildings energy and space.

When you want to really pursue your dreams, instead of simply dreaming them, you might need to think outside the box. Outside the housing box, that is.

Hold on to your wallets, because this little dwelling isn't for sale yet, but it is a promising development in the tiny house movement.

Thanks to careful scrounging and salvaging, a Danish design student was able to cheaply build a "self-sufficient" dome for use as a greenhouse.

Get the creative juices flowing with a maple sugaring or chalkboard paint kit, a cheese cookbook, a knitting set, the best multi-purpose scissors, and more.

You've seen the photos of homes made from old bottles, but did you ever think you could make your own? You can, and here's how.

The project is one of the winners of a Performance Architecture contest to celebrate Guimarães as European Capital of Culture.

The latest urban intervention to celebrate the city's status as European Capital of Culture is an unusual film venue for pedestrians.

Image Credit: Ivo Canelas Cork has fascinated me for a long time; it's fully renewable and you don't even have to cut the whole tree, it's biodegradable and has curious characteristic such as insulating and shock absorbance. I came across many ugly

It is the perfect local renewable material, and a great insulator too.

It's all natural, renewable, healthy and has zero embodied carbon. What's not to love?

It didn't win the Stirling Prize, but cleans up on all the sustainability awards.

Images courtesy of the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk That's '9' followed by 20 zeroes The probability of a lobster being born with a blue shell is about 1 in a million. For a calico or pumpkin-orange colored lobster, the odds are in the excess of 1 in 30

"The labeling provision was eliminated from the bill due to fears that it opened the state up to a lawsuit. The attorneys for the leadership & Governor's office felt the Constitutional rights of Monsanto gave them the power to successfully sue the state."

A rustic tiny house built with plenty of love and on a small budget.

Perfect for small city apartments, this system allows you to use a variety of add-on components to build your own indoor garden.

Five tons of ivory was crushed earlier this year in Manila at the wildlife bureau compound, in an effort to change it's image as one of the world's hotspots for illegal ivory trading.

A hilarious remix of a classic image demonstrates that the new high-tech alternatives are not solving every problem.

It could move goods, transport hydrogen, reduce CO2 and water the lawn all at once.

A building that once housed a Jewish girls' school, shut down by the Nazis, is now home to a fashionable restaurant.

Shipping Containers are used as giant blocks to build a giant steel party room

And they figure out where to put it, because "future architecture means city-hacking."

Just pick a scooter, drive it, then park it. Someone else takes care of the charging.

Filipino activists had been charged with trespassing in December 2009 to document toxic coal ash.

Despite some efforts by Chiquita to clean up its act in recent years, its long history of human rights abuses is coming back to haunt the company. Chiquita is being sued by the families of more than 4,000 Colombians murdered

In this open source design project, Dos Uno shares cool, easy to make designs for chairs, tables and shelves using cheap readily available materials.

Chiquita Bananas becomes the latest major brand to avoid tar sands fuel. But will it really help?

The city's new mayor has announced an ambitious project to build a park aimed at providing new public spaces and controlling sprawl.

This vertical garden on a residential high-rise in Bogotá reuses greywater from its residents and helps to clean the air.

Boring old bee hives get exciting with these curly shaped structures, built by bees that don't sting.

ZGF builds interesting hives on the roof of a fascinating building.

What's the best approach for dealing with this?

Recommendations to eat less meat for environmental reasons won’t be included in the final 2015 dietary guidelines.

Buell motorcycles are fast, beautiful and expensive. How does Erik Buell's e-bike compare?

Listen to scientists, not industry lobbyists, and just keep cleaning.

Graham Phakos did, with an interesting design that does everything the expensive Italian jobs do.

If you're interested in learning how to build your own renewable energy devices, this DIY vertical axis wind turbine is a great place to start.

Scientists are working to harness the secret of owls' silent flights to build quieter wind power technology.

The powerful 12-MW turbine is being developed and tested now.

In a compelling new documentary, The Flood, Angela Bassett narrates the story of the life in one of the world's last great wildernesses.

A young Toronto-based woman is working to build a school in the Kenyan village near where she grew up.

Do you have a grad about to turn that tassel around, or leaving high school behind for the big wide world? Toast this accomplishment with one of the 10 earth-conscious gifts in this guide -- from major purchases, like cars and jewelry, to simpler mement

Do you have a grad about to turn that tassel around, or leaving high school behind for the big wide world?

Whether you're sending your oldest child off to his first day as a freshman or helping your youngest prepare for the beginning of her senior year, making sure your kids have the green gear they need for a successful year at college is no small task. This

Whether you're sending your oldest child off to his first day as a freshman or helping your youngest prepare for the beginning of her senior year, making sure your kids have the green gear they need for a successful year at college is

Toast your grad's entry into the big wide world with durable, chic, and useful goods like a practical tote bag, an electric scooter, and a life-changing journey to save lions.

Andrew Michler figures it out in his own home in Colorado.