Made out of glass, these rentable cabins in New Zealand's wilderness are meant to reconnect guests with nature.

Equipped with two bedrooms and a secondary loft, there's plenty of space to grow in this small home.

When a New Zealand supermarket chain ditched plastic packaging, produce sales skyrocketed.

There are lessons to be learned from this model home built by Meritage, even if it is big and beige.

This is a very good idea that all of North America should consider.

This undersea memorial will honor all the US subs and their crews lost since 1900, while creating new habitat for marine life.

They are healthier, they last longer, and they look better, too.

This Fair Trade company has new cold-weather footwear for men and women.

Whether it's deciding where to buy clothes or taking good care of garments at home, there are many things that consumers can do to make a difference in the fashion world.

A special task force has been set up, but whether the talk and research turns into action is another matter.

A new study has found that the air pollution from Alberta's massive tar sands operations is putting the health of downwind residents at risk by releasing unsafe levels of carcinogenic and toxic chemicals into the air.

Most people think of them as environmentalists, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have other ideas.

Senator Barack Obama proposed on Monday a plan to decrease the United States' dependence on foreign oil―while fighting climate change―by creating an auction system that will require power companies and other polluting industries to pay for their

For the first time in my lifetime the environment is a top-tier issue in a presidential race, as was clearly in evidence in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. It was next to impossible for a candidate to have any sort of press event

How would you like to carve a Jack-o-lantern from one of these three record-breaking pumpkins from this weekend?

The Crisis of Civilization explores our modern cultural crises by sampling archive film footage from PSAs. Now the makers are asking budding film makers to have a go themselves.

George Monbiot claims that peak oil is no longer a major concern. Is he right?

Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.

We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.

The HELIOtube is a radical departure from conventional CSP technology, as it is based around tubes of inflatable plastic film.

Tesla's tiny house integrates solar power and its Powerwall home battery into a seamless system, and can be towed by the Model X.

While the world chases solar generating windows, we see how to do solar generating walls.

When printed in a precise pattern onto carbon nanotubes on paper, these photosynthetic bacteria can produce electricity from sunlight, which could power biodegradable environmental and medical sensors.

Who says you have to wait till New Year's to make a fresh start? No time's better than back-to-school season.

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.

It is both a parody of the real estate business and a shocking exposé of Hong Kong Housing

Featuring an interlocking system that's inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, this desk also has a swappable, modular system for organizing your stuff.

No high-tech bells and whistles here, but tried-and-true strategies are used in this renovation to make a small space feel much bigger.

Different zones are delineated with simple, sculptural structures in this minimalist apartment.

Built with the help of a village's last remaining bamboo weaver, this computer-designed pavilion was built by hand using local materials.

This small apartment doubles as a gallery for a collector of ceramic sculptures.

The dead ones washing up on beaches are "just the tip of the iceberg."

We've heard of transformer apartments, but what about a transformer garden. These movable green walls create flexible outdoor spaces.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real estate market, and an uncertain currency future, make a house out of shredded-up money.

That honey that lines the shelves of your local grocery store probably isn't honey at all.

Conservation efforts, especially in places as renowned as the Galapagos, have something of a reputation. It's developers vs. protesters, consumers vs. conservationists, people

Lonesome George is quite a character. He's a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago, he's the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he's gone, that's it -- his species will

If Lonesome George suffers from performance anxiety, it's hard to blame him. At the ripe old age of nearly 100, the last-of-his-kind Galapagos tortoise has been charged with preserving his species' genetic

They were thought extinct, but in light of new DNA findings, scientists are echoing a very tortoise-y mantra: 'not so fast'.

Image: allaboutgeorge, Flickr, CC BY The Digital Migration Continues to Change the Face of Consumption A new study from the Ponyter Institute reveals that by the end of 2010, more people were reading their news online than in traditional newspapers. 34%

In the Netherlands it is actually a thing, to ride your bike as slowly as possible without falling over.

125 US cities, 9 states, 902 businesses, and 183 schools so far have all signed a declaration promising to honor the Paris Climate Agreement.

Using some inventive interventions, an old parking garage is transformed into a two-bedroom apartment in Paris.

The Musical Mountaineers carry a violin and piano up trails to perform in secret wilderness locations.

There's finally momentum on the international stage. And this is one of the most ambitious announcements yet.

is looking down at your phone really like putting an aardvark on your head?

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

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.

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