Most refugees live in refugee camps for an average of 12 years and most of that time it's in drafty, tattered tents. Now IKEA has a solar-powered camp house that is flatpack and quick to assemble.

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

Sleek and easy to assemble, this portable cabin offers a comfortable place to stay even in remote places.

The modern movement started as a way of dealing with tuberculosis. The same rules apply today.

Green and sustainable used to be buzzwords here. They don't appear to even exist anymore.

A new exhibition in Toronto looks at sustainable development.

Yesterday TreeHugger asked whether the Monobloc was the most famous plastic chair in the world. Now, sadly, the death has been announced of the creator of another very famous plastic chair.

Our friends over at the design blog Dezeen have launched a pop-up shop in the smartest part of town. Calling it Temporium, because it is only up for 10 days, it features the best of new British design.

Many of them seem to be about bikes and transportation though....

The point of having a booth at Greenbuild is to attract attention, and like with everything else, design matters. I immediately fell in love with the Kohler booth; In some ways it is so 2005 green, with its recycled materials

MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame.

The Shakers may be long gone but their simplicity of design still has an influence on American furniture.

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

Stories from TreeHugger's sister site about how streets are for people.

It is a cup as service, rather than cup as product.

Everybody should be doing this, planning for repairability from day one.

If you want to attract good people these days you have to give them a nice place to work.

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

From scooters to cargo bikes, a bunch of alternatives to driving that car.

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

The peripatetic international designer explains it all in Core77

It's not enough to not make things worse. Our buildings and our actions have to make things better.

This month's issue of Wallpaper* magazine is dominated by the 2007 Design Directory, their hand-picked favorite architects and designers from the past year. Always the epitome of cool, the mag's slick picks

A lot of websites are saying so, but there is no evidence that it ever happened.

A concept water bottle pulls water from the air like the Namib Desert Beetle.

A mix of modern and traditional design elements that are appropriate for the Northeast make these very interesting houses.

GO Logic have always designed beautiful homes. This was the next Go Logical step.

Humanity's innate love for nature is integrated into this design for a biologically attuned and meditative workspace in London.

This experiment may kickstart a new age of microorganism technology.

Lessons from the kitchens at Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation in Marseille.

You really don't need all those big appliances.

Artist/inventor Michael Jantzen's new concept for a Solar Winds Desert Power Plant envisions a large public gathering place, inspired by the shape of a flowering plant, to be located in a public park in a hot, dry climate.

A new collaborative space dedicated to sustainable fashion design is now open for production.

A sustainably-minded designer makes cards and paper coins that you can plant.

The Freedomky is a nicely done modular design

Last month, my partner gave me a Fjällräven Kanken rucksack for my 30th birthday, and I have to tell you about it, as this is a classic amongst the eco-designs nowadays. I first spotted these slightly odd-looking bags in London many years ago, and

It has become a trillion dollar industry where nobody wins.

An exhibition of their work is at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.

This modern work desk lets more than one person sit and stand -- at the same time.

It has challenged designers since the invention of the bar code: What to do about those stupid little labels?

But I am in the tank for the one that came in second

A design competition that shows that we can have our cake and eat it too.

There are 17 atriums that need to be filled with creative uses.

They really do live up to their billing this year.

Really, there is a lot to love about his work that applies to green building. Really.

Steve Webb thinks we should tax upfront carbon like cigarettes, and we should build in wood and stone.

Can products be better for people? Can buildings be better for the planet? Gradually, business is waking up to the fact that design can be beautiful and responsible.

This book full of small space design ideas is a handy tool for those wanting to get their own tiny house built.

One way to guarantee a view and to tread lightly is to build high in the sky.

How do you make good design accessible to people with small spaces and small budgets?