The U.S. Pavilion is spotlighting grassroots efforts to make cities and neighborhoods greener, safer, and happier places to live.

Why do we always think other animals are so simple?

The mob mentality of social wasps can create a furious swarm when even just a single insect is aggravated, here’s the reason and why it matters.

Another interesting find from Buenos Aires design fair, Feria Puro Diseno (FPD), this is a modular system designed by local studio Disenaveral to build different kinds of shelving spaces that adapt to changing situations.

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

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

Just because garment workers are desperate doesn't mean we should exploit them.

The longer we wait, the more expensive (and dangerous) it gets.

Waste water and waste heat recovery together at last, perhaps the most interesting new thing at Greenbuild.

Witches are holding events to publically curse the guy.

StackitNOW is a great idea but also demonstrates how intractable the problem is.

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.

Torrey Trust, owner of Surf eCo, wanted to do more to protect the oceans and the environment so she opened up her own surf school that teaches kids young and old about the environment while helping them catch a few waves. Located in Encinitas, CA,

In a disturbing new trend, researchers find that heart attacks are on the rise for young women.

Fighting for her life after narrowly escaping a horrible house fire, doctors used sustainable fish skin grafts on the Rottweiler's burns to help save her life.

Whether you're in a plane, train, or car, it's important always to have good snacks.

Forty years ago, activists blocked plans to dam the Buffalo River, eventually getting Congress and President Nixon to designate the river as America's first National River. Now, a factory hog farm is putting one of Arkansas' most beautiful spots at risk.

When you try and go too fast it says, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.

Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the

When rob Hopkins watched "An Inconvenient Truth", he vowed never to fly again. When he watched "Chasing Ice", he decided to get back on a plane. Here's why.

Douglas Rushkoff explains that the real costs of a new phone are not measured in just money.

Where I was preoccupied with everything Herman Miller after a tour of their factories

When cars first began appearing in the late 19th century, some cities moved to ban them -- but there is still one place in the US that has yet to change its mind.

:: Make your soles sustainable with shoe shopping tips from Summer Rayne Oakes.

Pestival, is a weekend festival packed with art, music, talks and workshops, celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. It starts from the fact that eighty percent of creatures on earth are insects, the 'pests' without whom humans

When Brighton council advertised for volunteer shepherds they never imagined that they would get hundreds of applicants. It's not the greatest job description: no pay, lots of walking on quite steep, uneven slopes, duty

This is England, the parks and gardens and countryside are supposed to be filled with golden daffodils by now. This is why we live here. But where are they? With this year's never ending winter and the long cold spell just

Globally, religious groups own 5-10% of the world's forests and influence much more.

A Jordanian permaculture teacher is exploring the intersect between environmentalism and spirituality. Her work could take permaculture mainstream in the Middle East.

Want to know if you can go solar? Now there's a good chance you can easily find out.

It's up to you to decide if you want to take the shortest route, the cleanest one, or the quietest one.

British scientists do the math and find that we come up short for cobalt, lithium and copper.

The Open Sesame documentary examines the importance of open source seeds.

When reviewing the safety of glyphosate, the Environmental Protection Agency considered just five independent studies, and 27 industry-funded studies.

In an interview with Democracy Now!, Michael Pollan says taking back control of cooking may be the single most important step to help make our food system more sustainable.

The dog days of summer are right around the corner and homeowners are looking for ways to

The new rule is expected to save Americans $167 billion in energy costs.

Quickly get connected via video chat to a home & garden expert to get help with your projects through Fountain. We've got beta invites for you to check it out yourself.

I can't stop thinking about Natasha Pettigrew. She was 30 years old, a Green Party candidate for Senator in Maryland, and killed this month in the early morning hours by being struck from behind by a woman in an SUV. The driver did not stop, dragged

Not sure if you really want to live in a tiny house? This tiny home builder is making these cabins from salvaged materials, which visitors can test out at an eco-retreat in Maryland.

It was designed to stay cool without air conditioning, and the green roof was part of the strategy.

Irish architects Heneghan Peng win the competition to house world's largest canoe collection

Diverging from the Sprinter van conversion trend, this man revamped an old life-saving vehicle into his own tiny home.

Yes, slavery is still legal.

Yet another reason why deforestation is bad: So much of Haiti's mountainsides have been eroded away because of deforestation and hurricanes that it may have stressed Earth's crust, triggering the earthquake that

U.S. hospitals waste thousands of tons of medical supplies every day. DOC2DOCK collects and redistributes these supplies to match the specific needs of hospitals in the developing world.

Once one of the great mysteries of the natural world, the bluefin tuna's migration pattern has finally been elucidated by the workings of an international team of scientists as part of the global 10-year Census of Marine Life. To reach their

Megan McArdle at the Atlantic piles on the Infographic debate, " issuing a plea to bloggers to help stop this plague in its track."