Nobody cared much about this a few years ago. They do now.

Some plants help each other enormously, while others hinder their neighbors – use this cheat sheet to ensure harmony in the vegetable plot.

Strategically clustering indoor plants in a group is a great idea, here's why and how to do it.

How about using the light from already existing street lamps to spark off the festive season? Here are some off-the-grid parasite lamps so to speak, that look good by day!

It may well be all most people need as a computer, and it may well be what we have been waiting for.

The computing facility will help researchers with NASA missions while reducing its environmental impact.

Aircraft will have to fly new routes to avoid major bumps.

It's a bird ... it's a plane ... it's a weedy seadragon!

Our photo of the day is a lesson in efficiency.

A diverse team of women from the forest product sector got together for a green cause.

Your focus should be on local growers, rather than those overseas.

We should be able to fix the things we own, not be limited by manufacturers' unwillingness to provide access.

Dengue isn't fun, that's why Brazil has been using genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce the populations of mosquitoes that spread it. But not everyone is happy about this method.

The cute-yet-cool Japanese cartoon promotes sustainable food at the Hello Kitty Go Green Organic Farm in Hong Kong.

Turn your anger into action by supporting lion-loving charities that are doing great things for big cats.

This tasteful van home features a comfortable interior, and includes a removable bed to allow for transporting larger cargo.

This spacious tiny home is great for entertaining and cooking up a storm.

This impressive home features a lot of great multifunctional ideas, plus a custom-built cat run for two felines in the back.

In an effort to improve kids' opinions about Brussels sprouts, a team of engineers and scientists decided to give them a cooler edge by making them power up the lights on a Christmas tree.

Dubbed "Freedom Cove," this remarkable home is a decades-long labor of love built in an inlet in British Columbia.

Designed by an innovative 19-year-old, the Sun Saluter relies on a basic water clock to rotate solar panels.

Merging energy-intensive Bitcoin mining with aquaculture, this project is experimenting with how technology might be used to develop better food systems.

This little shelter, which can be built in less than two days, is designed to be suspended between two trees, without leaving a trace on them.

Lightweight shelters might be an affordable and quick option for emergency housing, but they are also susceptible to damage from high winds. This prototype could be a better solution.

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.

It might be pretty, but it's just another toxic microplastic.

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

The campaign will promote locally-based alternatives to the global consumer culture, hoping to turn the stories into tools for action in other cities.

Two of our favorite materials, cork and porcelain, are together at last in this clever travel mug.

An eye-opening report reveals how low-grade plastics are burned as fuel, poisoning the surrounding soil and air.

Woodzee founder opens a factory in his own hometown, to make wooden sunglasses from recycled materials.

Handmade from discarded items, this collection of young designers' chic jewelry shows that 'waste' is merely a mentality, not a fact.

Did your fear of stains stop you from going to school or work? Probably not. But this company is aiming to bring menstrual cups to African schoolgirls who miss school because they have their period and cannot afford disposables.

The EPA pledged new regulations after the TVA coal ash spill, but has been sitting on two proposals for two years now, and the problems that led to TVA are still rampant nationwide.

There's an "epidemic" of unused vacation days in the United States. This startup wants participating companies' employees to trade them in for plan contributions, or booking flights and hotel accommodations.

In every society where incomes have risen, the appetite for meat, milk, eggs, and seafood has generated an enormous growth in animal protein consumption. Today some 3 billion people are moving up the food chain.

Despite the fact that livestock production contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transport sector, there is an appalling unwillingness to change eating habits in order to make a difference.

Bigger wheels mean more stability and regular-bike feel, but it comes at a price.

It's an interesting alternative to a Murphy bed, and gets it out of the way fast.

This elegantly designed small space presents yet another solution for the bed: lifting it up to the ceiling and out of the way.

A recycling center’s turbine could pave the way for industrial-scale wind power in New York City.

Four sizes of micro-turbines, designed to be portable personal wind energy stations, are in the works from Janulus.

At 100 meters in diameter, wind turbines really are getting monstrously large. So what do they look like close up?

Even in the wild world of offbeat wind energy machines, Tyer Wind's design stands out.

It's a mutually beneficial arrangement. Lush gets luxurious fair-trade cocoa butter, while farmers earn income in a low-risk way, not threatened by violence.

Never ever underestimate the intelligence of Mother Nature.

Emily Atkin blames the President, but everybody who digs coal is going bankrupt. It's bigger and deeper.

Ever wondered what it's like to live in a renovated van? Here is one company that rents DIY van conversions out.

Corporations have rights ... why not rivers?

If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a