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8 Stylish Lights for Your Home at London Design Festival

Light up your life and your living room with gorgeous lights from the London Design Festival.




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Finnish supermarkets use 'happy hour' to fight food waste

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




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This portable standing desk is lighter than your laptop

For people like me who work all over the place, portable standing desks can be pretty useful




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Ecotourism in the Philippines

The Philippine Department of Tourism's hat has been thrown into ecotourism game for awhile now. They've made it part of their plan for economic development. The country's ecotourism program strives to install processes and




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Genetically Modified Eggplant Field Trials Halted by Court in Philippines

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




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Worms in our furniture: Student-designed "Vermiculture Furniture" for home composting

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."




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Touring The Gutsy and Green PostGreen Homes In Philadelphia

Another model for the development industry: Smart young people using their own money




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Our urban problems aren't caused by restrictions on density, but by inequality

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.




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Ancient four-legged whale with webbed feet and toe hooves discovered in Peru

A skeleton of the bizarre land-walking whale provides answers about how whales first spread around the world.




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Make this non-toxic spray to keep ants out of your kitchen

A mixture of leftover citrus rinds and vinegar is an easy, food-safe way to cut ants off at the pass.




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Cute animal photos boost your mental focus

Need help paying attention? Cue up the cute baby animals.




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Taking the stairs keeps your brain younger

Yet another reason to skip the escalator/elevator and hoof it instead.




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"Staircase of Encounters" is designed to encourage employee interaction

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.




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HydroBee charges your gadgets with hydropower

Just float the device in a river or stream and soon enough you'll have enough juice to charge a smartphone, GPS or other device.




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Could toilet flushes help power our homes?

A new technology developed by Korean researchers could generate electricity from the the motion of water in our toilets as well as rivers and streams, even rain drops.




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Mini-sized hydropower plant charges your devices on the go

For backpackers wanting something other than solar power.




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Portable hydroelectric generator lets you take your power station with you

Take one Estream and add moving water for clean, quiet, offgrid energy.




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Power-generating insole lets you charge your gadgets with your steps

The removable insole that's now on Kickstarter can fit into almost any kind of shoe.




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Nanogenerator could charge your phone from the vibration of your moving car

Just keeping your phone in your car's console during a drive could charge the battery with this novel tiny generator.




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Make your own electricity-generating sneakers

We often write about technologies that harness energy from your steps. Here's how you can make your own piezoelectric sneakers at home.




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Teen inventor creates a coffee mug to power your gadgets

The same inventor who brought us the body heat-powered flashlight is at it again.




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Foot-powered washing machine lets you clean your clothes off grid

The small device is perfect for tiny homes or those wanting a convenient, yet electricity-free option.




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Not your typical lion encounter

A vagrant Cape Sea Lion that made a record trip to Kenya is rescued from a fisherman’s gillnet.




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Camera study confirms wildlife is flourishing at Chernobyl

Earlier research found evidence of a wildlife wonderland at the disaster site, now the first camera study validates an abundance of wolves, boars, foxes and more.




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On MNN: The maple syrup bubble, soundproofing your apartment, and the library of things

and lessons in management from Renaissance Florence




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On MNN: We are all Flint (NOT), ban disposables and your thermostat is spying on you

And dancing robots!




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Finless Foods is bringing lab-grown fish to your dinner plate

This young startup uses cellular agriculture to grow fish out of water -- delicious, nutritious, and cruelty-free.




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Seafood processing water is a surprising source of nutrients

Instead of tossing it, fisheries should capture the protein and fat left in water and use it to feed humans and animals a second time around.




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Monbiot on Theft of our Past, Kunstler on our Future

The American public is deathly afraid of the kind of changes we actually face -- such as, the end of consumer culture, the gross loss of value in suburban real estate (which




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It's time to free ourselves from our "thrall to the metal god"

George Monbiot on how electric vehicles are not the answer.




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Turn your car into your office with a Skype-equipped BMW

This truly is just what we needed.




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Your new indoor garden could be a tree -- a Living Farming Tree, that is

This aeroponic indoor gardening system from the Italian startup Hexagro is modular, scalable, and automated.




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Can you unplug for 24 hours? Join National Day of Unplugging 2018 at sundown tonight

In our hyperconnected and always-on culture, stepping away from our gadgets for one day can be a move in the right direction for slowing down and connecting with people, not screens.




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QSun wearable nags you about putting on your sunscreen

Sunshine is wonderful, but you can have too much of a good thing. This device measures it.




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Swedish Tourism Cold Comfort For Warming Globe

The Swedish travel industry is woefully under-prepared for a changing climate, says researcher Stephen Gössling. Tourism to and from Sweden contributes 10 percent of the country's total measured CO2 emissions,




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Would you send your child to daycare in the forest?

With daycare costs rising, perhaps ditching the building is not such a crazy idea.




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Norway wants tourists to slow down and travel more sustainably

Cruise ships and Disney's 'Frozen' have led to crowds of unprecedented size, about which Norwegians are not entirely happy.




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Finnish concept of 'sisu' is all about our magical hidden strength

The cultural construct describes the enigmatic inner power that pushes people to get through hardships.




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Scotland is subsidizing electric bikes to encourage sustainable and active travel

This is something North American governments should copy.




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Make little museums part of your next car trip

There are everywhere, they are fun, and there is so much to learn from them.




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The NestPod is a comfortable, four-bed tiny home on wheels

This versatile small dwelling can be customized as a mobile office, guesthouse or "living wagon."




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This solar briefcase will charge your phone, laptop, and a host of other gadgets

Another large-sized solar charger and battery system is about to hit the market, as an off-grid solar generator in a briefcase.




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This $35 inflatable waterproof solar lantern will also charge your phone

The inventors of the innovative LuminAID solar lantern are Kickstarting another version of their device, this time with the added feature of a charging port for portable electronics.




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E.LUMEN solar LED flashlight is a great addition to your glovebox & emergency kit (Review)

Renogy's rechargeable flashlight incorporates a host of useful features, including the ability to function as a backup battery for phones and other gadgets.




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The $149 SolSource Sport is a powerful portable solar cooker

The latest product from One Earth Designs weighs just 10 pounds and packs down into a small carrying bag, but still delivers high performance fuel-free cooking.




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What should you do with your eclipse glasses?

Do not mail them to the President.




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Make your own DIY biogas digester

Clean energy is sometimes touted as space-age technology. Some of the principles, however, can be pretty darned simple.




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Talk to your radiators with these Philippe Starck designed thermostatic valves

"Siri, turn down the temperature in my bedroom please"




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How much energy is used to heat, cool, and light our homes in different U.S. climate regions?

Michael Sivak shows us the numbers.




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Why Ground Source Heat Pumps should not be called Geothermal, Chapter CLXXI

When even so-called experts don't know the difference, you must admit we have a problem here.