Here is a great way to keep out the sun and plant a vertical garden

Take a look at this built prototype of a flood-resistant house, designed to float with the rising waters.

This long, deep house has a wonderful low tech vertical garden that anyone could maintain.

Designboom shows Trong Nghia's latest house, built out of towers with trees on top in the middle of a block.

Referencing traditional terraced agriculture, this modern house with terraces has an integrated rainwater collection and irrigation system that would allow it to grow greenery.

Built with a lighter impact in mind, this small mountain retreat is nestled among the trees in Vietnam.

Adventurous, and eco-friendly, travelers often seek out off-beat lodging options, staying in yurts or on organic farms, both to soak up more local color and to avoid the

What the Club Sandwich Generation looks like in Tokyo, where it is unusual to renovate instead of starting from scratch.

Deep overhang controls light, provides privacy for bedrooms upstairs.

Yo Shimada designs a house for a family that believes if you've got it, flaunt it.

No Japanese minimalism here.

Given how dreadful most new housing is these days, this is at least the minimum builders should build and customers should expect.

Selling energy efficiency is hard, but the UK Labour Party got it right.

She wouldn't sell to the developer around her, and now it is a prime example of "demolition by neglect."

These are interesting times for the Passive House movement in America, and this should be a very interesting conference.

And it is beautiful too.

I could write this post in my sleep, it is such a tired playbook that happens so often in real estate development.

It really could be the future of sustainable, green and healthy housing.

A state of emergency has been declared in Hungary where four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in

It's a good demonstration of how you don't need a lot of smart high tech to build a comfortable house.

These are some seriously innovative ways to hang-dry clothes.

But could it be the ugliest house we have ever shown on TreeHugger?

It has a solar powered smoke alarm, GPS and is standing on guard, ready to phone it in.

Using modular components pre-made in a factory, this modern home is airy, light and adaptable.

This modern houseboat can accommodate up to two people comfortably.

This is not easy to do.

Built on a gooseneck trailer, this modern tiny house is designed to accommodate up to three sleeping areas.

This super-insulated home is built to be earthquake-resistant too.

This modern home is chock full of clever space-maximizing ideas.

This is a trend that should catch on everywhere -- just building what you need.

Here's an interesting idea: a tiny house on wheels that can be separated from its wheels.

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

Plenty of space-saving ideas packed into a compact, comfortable and contemporary package.

It's a multifunctional space that hides everything behind its pared-down walls.

Massimiliano Locatelli is writing a new language of design that reflects the new technology.

This affordable tiny house was 3D printed using mud, rice husks and straw to create a "zero-kilometre" structure.

House of Representatives voted in favor of the XL Keystone pipeline project, in an attempt to bypass executive authority.

These are tiny homes with an activist bent, taking a stand against the incursion of a pipeline that could contaminate indigenous lands.

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

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.

Pioneering solar house was designed and engineered by women

This home for a family of three and two cats has been built with efficiency, comfort and health in mind.

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

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.

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.

We have been asking that question for a while and it keeps coming up.

It may lead to as many as 20,000 passive houses being built over the next five years.

A quantity surveyor deals with construction costs for a living, and shows how it's done.

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.

And in the meantime, the bodacious bovine has become a social media star and will receive a full pardon … as soon as they can get her out of the woods.