Kayak not included, but everything else a dorm room needs is.

These pre-assembled pieces of furniture can fold completely flat, and when needed, are opened up into three-dimensional functionality.

IKEA had a choice to make it shallow and cheap or heavy and deep.

Researchers look into whether the 'lunar effect' is based on superstition or empirical data.

You just have to look at the parking ratios to know they are environmental disaster areas.

This looks like a long-needed solution to one of the key barriers to electric vehicle adoption, and I can hardly contain my excitement.

A custom-made addition to this small condo packs in extra features and functionality, creating more spaces in one.

It's time to take back the streets from all the cars and make room for alternative modes of transportation.

From chard on a chair to tat soi in a suitcase, artist Jenna Spevack is cultivating a tasty variety of organic microgreens in her furniture farms -- and visitors to her upcoming gallery show will be able to reap the harvest.

Unsuspecting visitors to the small fishing village of Cheng Long might feel the need to blink and rub their eyes. Is there really a giant bowl and chopsticks sinking into the wetlands? What are those brightly colored things growing all over that house?

Over the past three days, one of Helsinki's tram lines has been carrying some unusual cargo -- living plants donated by passengers for inclusion in a roller-coaster-themed urban garden.

Klein, author of 'This Changes Everything,' launched the Leap Manifesto at the Toronto International Film Festival. Read and sign it here to join the call for a more sustainable and equitable future.

Our photo of the day is in praise of the pollinators!

Our photo of the day comes from a pretty spot in Florida.

Those crazy radicals at 475 demand High Performance Building across the Dominion.

India's streetlights are about to have a serious upgrade. The energy savings alone will be huge.

That's way sooner than almost anyone expected.

But what will the handrail police say?

Using traditional techniques and materials, this design adapts the age-old idea of evaporative cooling to create a low-energy, alternative air conditioner.

With an increase in salmonella cases this year, health officials are pointing the finger at hobby farmers, which isn't entirely fair.

Cargill Meat is recalling 132,600 pounds of beef products nationwide that may be contaminated with E. coli.

Fall isn't just known for the end of summer, finally-I-can-turn-off-the-air-conditioning temperatures, afternoon football games, and a return to your favorite soups and stews: It's also famous for its bounty of rich, saturated

Using mushrooms to challenge our unhealthy obsession with "body preservation," artist Jae Rhim Lee fabricates a suit that will remediate environmental toxins from dead bodies.

Passive house designer creates a very active play house.

It's one answer to the complaint that tiny houses are too small: build it with an electrically operated, expandable slide-out.

These transforming shoes can go from flat to a stylish stiletto within seconds.

They are cheaper and better than ever, and doing it can cut energy consumption for lighting by up to 90 percent.

Our always-on devices turn out to consume a lot of power. Do I really need to connect my garage door to the Internet?

If all Americans adopted this (almost) waterless method of cooking pasta, we'd save billions of gallons of water.

Yet another sign that the oil industry is facing significant headwinds.

Put your money directly into the hands that made the gift you're buying.

We all know that America and the world are getting fatter, but I didn't know that they are even now making special toilets to deal with the problem. In fact it is, um, an expanding market; The Zurn Bariatric wall hung flush

The world's rarest duck - the Madagascar pochard - needs a new environment if it's going to survive

Although some may wish it so, a world without spiders would be a miserable place.

It's déjà vu all over again as the industry pushes "chemical recycling".

The plyscraper era has begun as Cross Laminated Timber towers start popping up everywhere.

I predicted trouble in winter, but they appear to still open even when buried in snow.

In a Canadian province where a winter heating with electricity might cost a few hundred dollars per month minimum, this man manages to cut his heating bill by using free solar energy.

An existing storage shed in the forest is transformed into a small modern home with a striking form.

A lovely cottage by Yiacouvakis Hamelin Architectes breaks all the rules about roofs.

This is a beautiful house, but it raises a lot of questions about what "respect for the environment" means.

Starting next week, shoppers at Metro stores in Quebec can go zero waste more easily than ever.

UC San Diego is using one of its free gifts - some of the best solar exposure in the country - to further power and shade the campus. Several solar trees (solar panels installed on a vertical racking system that supports

Image via: Aaron Chang Gallery Aaron Chang, popular recycled fashion swimwear designer and professional photographer, not to mention surfing legend, is opening a green art gallery in San Diego, February 28, 2009. Each of the pieces are printed with

Forget friends and family! Without the traditional meal, it feels like any old dinner party.

Self-driving cars will likely be big autonomous mobile home theaters.

If there's a holy grail of liquid renewable fuels it might look something like this: High yield per acre, doesn't negatively impact water supplies, doesn't compete with food crops, and is cost-competitive with fossil

Photo from Eco-Rally USA Eco-Rally USA, a grassroots transportation group, is launching a trip across the United States aimed at helping to accelerate clean energy vehicles to become the standard for automobiles rather than the exception. The tour start

Jewish leaders met at the beginning of this month in San Francisco for the first conference dedicated to

French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo