OK, maybe the Finns know something we don't - they are trying to pair smart phones, Big Data, and public and shared tranport to break free of private car-dependent cities.

Just think what the waste fat from 46 million Thanksgiving turkeys could fuel.

Forget about 3D printing houses; digital fabrication using sustainable materials is a much bigger deal.

Veganism must be making serious inroads into society if McDonald's, king of industrial meat, is jumping into soy patties.

Or, for that matter, park both a house and a car like Bill Dunster's ZEDpod.

It is about time that people acknowledged that it's not just cyclists that hit their heads. Helmets for everybody!

Urban dwellers can get a taste of camping out in nature with this temporary island cabin just outside of Helsinki.

This Finnish design doesn’t look quite finished but it is ingenious.

After 9 p.m., shoppers snatch up heavily discounted foods that are close to expiry.

Look out for these things if you want to save money and consume less.

You may be spending money on practical needs that are comprised of superfluous wants.

The wheels on the desk go round and round.

Because standing desks cannot stand alone.

New research suggested benefits for giving students the option to stand during class.

In this installment of Town & Country, Margaret and Katherine share how they work from home.

But there is a real question of how much one should pay for an artisanal shelf bracket.

Just throw yourself wherever you want to work; your office is where you are.

And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.

Switching to a standing desk doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing endeavor.

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.

This standing desk is packed with clever organization features, and can be customized for left or right-handed people.

It's really all you need in this era of notebook computers.

It actually seems to say that you can give someone an adjustable desk but you can't make them stand. That's a very different thing.

After 52,696 steps, a review of a LifeSpan treadmill desk.

Because people gotta move.

A Worcester’s Buttonquail was caught on camera for the first time by a French documentary team who were filming native bird trappers at work in the Philippines. No one realized how rare the bird was until it was identified as a Worcester’s Buttonquail

In this tog-eat-tog world, the future of fashion—let alone that of green fashion—lies entirely in the industry's chameleon-like ability to reinvent itself. Take Italian outerwear company Allegri, for example. Although better known

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

This tiny verdant island, called Vulcan Point or sometimes Vulcan Island, lies at the center of a strange-but-entirely-true natural wonder. It's known for being the world's largest volcanic island that's on a lake, on a

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people

Grassroots activist honored for 10-year protest against a proposed nickel mine on Mindoro Island

"The mining companies were telling us that it's safe... We did our research and discovered they were lying through their teeth."

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

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.

Many feared the worst, and it seems like that's what we got.

The best ideas aren't always the most expensive ones.

It even has a giant 3D printed Jacuzzi tub

The art form of papercuts is taken to another level with these intricate works that draw attention to some of the world's threatened species.

Companies will do anything to protect their brand – maybe even redesign packaging.

A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.

Remember the story of Ohio's Bay Shore coal-fired power plant, the one that (perfectly legally) kills at least 46 million fish a year? Well that's still happening, but not without some legal challenges. A coalition of

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

Campbell Soup Company will soon be sourcing about 15 percent of the energy used at its factory in Napoleon, Ohio (the company's largest) from solar power generated by a just-announced power purchase agreement (PPA) and land lease

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

Authorities in Ohio are warning residents to remain inside their houses after dozens of exotic animals had apparently broken free of an area wildlife farm and taken to the streets and highways. Police haven't said exactly

For more than twelve tense hours, heavily armed police officers near Zanesville, Ohio scoured the region for big cats, bears, and other exotic animals set loose from a local wildlife farm -- ultimately killing nearly 50 of the 56

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.

After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended.

Two days after the earthquake caused by a nearby fracking well the mayor said, "I called my insurance man and got earthquake insurance.”