It also pushes the limit of what we mean by historic preservation.

It looks a lot better than the usual kind, cleans the air and absorbs noise.

But really, they should be dealing with the source of the problem.

A vintage Airstream trailer gets a fresh and airy makeover with some eye-catching patterns.

Vibrant tones liven up this redesign of a 1920s apartment in Stockholm, Sweden.

Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.

It fosters connection and community, boosts happiness... and results in delicious baked goods.

Finally, people are beginning to take this issue seriously.

TreeHugger didn't show many of the proposals for housing in Haiti, like Andrés Duany's proposals for a flatpack design (here in Jetson Green); We have spent too much time with Cameron Sinclair, who says "Top down solutions will

Now you can get your morning coffee fix celebrity-style, thanks to an alliance between Leonardo DiCaprio and LaColumbe coffee -- plus, all proceeds support sustainable initiatives.

Three years after a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, health care workers are still finding it difficult to get medical supplies, but an aid group is putting 3D printing to work to make some of the needed items.

Number of storms predicted per year during the period 1854 -- 2006 versus numbers actually observed for the Atlantic (filled diamonds). The model predictions (grey curve) have been normalized to the data. A quadratic fit to the model is shown for

She may not have caused the most property damage, but the superstorm extraordinaire holds some impressive records.

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Managing a sugar bush is a win-win situation for all involved.

Barley is a key ingredient in beer and cannot withstand rising temperatures and longer droughts.

Metals from Cambodia's mines, left buried since its civil war, are recycled into elegant jewelry, made by locally trained and fairly paid artisans.

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?

It's Blame the Victim time as the car company tells pedestrians to brighten up.

The BMW i8 is now in production, and final i8 details have just been unveiled.

And there are plenty of humans who would agree.

Buying products from solar farms is just one more way to support clean energy.

Stanford scientists figure out a way to get hydrogen out of seawater. Does this matter?

The Buckminster Fuller Institute ran a competition to update the iconic map; here are some of the finalists

Combining computer-aided parametric design and the design principles of tensegrity (tensional integrity), this experimental pavilion tests the boundaries of building a stronger structure with less material.

The gaze between human and dog can share physiological properties similar to that of mother and infant, a new study finds.

It could also help us eradicate heritable diseases in dogs.

The mapping technology will eventually be used to get precise solar power potential information for any location around the world.

The wind has never been this beautiful...

The software gets a facelift, letting users virtually travel the world in even greater detail.

More carbon in the air means less brainpower.

Sugar maples rely on consistent snow cover to thrive, and climate change is threatening that.

Where have I seen this movie before?

A microbiologist and an Anglo Saxon scholar decided to test a recipe from an Old English medical compendium called Bald's Leechbook, what they found surprised everyone.

The monthly vegetarian gathering will also host policy makers to discuss various aspects of climate change.

Progress is being made. But the climate keeps unravelling.

Who says we have to choose between jobs and the environment? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is starting a sort of Public Works program for the Great Lakes --- prioritizing funding for restoration projects that put the

Bloody red shrimp are invasive, but yummy for some native Great Lakes fish. A first-time find by Canadian researchers.

Restaurants win; Great Lakes lose.

Two steps forward, one step back for Japan. The rest of the world has moved on from whaling, why couldn't they do too?

The 9-mile long archipelago has more Adélie penguins than the entire rest of the Antarctic peninsula combined.

I don't buy many plastic bottles, but the ones that I do will take some creative workarounds to avoid.

And you have never used a styrofoam plate or take-out box.

I tasked myself with buying no plastic bottles for the year; here's how it's going so far.

In two words: It's not.

Waitrose wants to see how serious shoppers are about bringing their own containers.

The company is ramping up pressure on suppliers to design less wasteful packaging.

Once upon a time I put together a guide on how to green your wedding, and I even blogged about my own DIY-flavored eco-wedding. But my darling wife and I have been upstaged by Julia Davis and Andy

Paper Age reports that "total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 6.4% in August compared to August 2010." Burrowing in, Fortress Specialty Cellulose echos the

Some legislators in Maine want the state's food to be labeled sooner.