Showing other cities around the world how it's done.

For at least six weeks, thousands of barrels of tar sands oil have been bubbling up into the forest in Cold Lake, Alberta and neither the oil company or government scientists know how to stop the flow.

Shoe lovers have more and more choice when it comes to buying eco-friendly shoes: Simple Shoes, Worn Again or TOMS are just a few of my favourites and I just found a new brand from France. FYE (for your earth) is a relatively young company that started

Image credit: Karen, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Say an average fancy t-shirt holds carbon footprint of 6kg but is never sold and sits in the warehouse of a textile/clothing production company. I take that same t-shirt and use it to

In the "sleepy neighborhood" of Baldwin Hills in Los Angeles, a modern Proto Home sits among a mix of single-family dwellings from over the last few

I wrote last year about the Boulder-based Unreasonable Institute's search for people who have great ideas, who think big, who want to change the world, and who seem like they can. Last year's fellowship was a great

FOROBA YELEN is the name given by villagers in Mali to the lighting prototype following an anthropologic study. A shared technology to improve work, education and rituals.

Decommisioned parachutes are being transformed into lightweight rain harvesting systems to provide drinking water in semi-arid regions.

While advances in energy technology and smart home apps and devices have given us additional tools for living more sustainably, low-tech and simple solutions can make a difference too.

Kris De Decker questions some of our most cherished assumptions.

Huge wind turbines, solar, wave power, battery storage and a lot of electric cars—these remote Scottish islands may provide a glimpse of the future.

I'm a big fan of scenario thinking. Although no one can predict "the future," several plausible scenarios can be constructed, informing decisions made difficult by many unknowns. A good decision works in

A beautiful film celebrates doing things, like starting a fire entirely by hand, that are no longer necessary. There are lessons for us all.

In York, Alabama they now have public space where before they had a collapsing house.

A seasoned dumpster diver who lived without cash for a year, Mark Boyle—aka the Moneyless Man—knows more than most about getting by without money. Having explored how to travel without cash, he's

Families should be able to have Thanksgiving Dinner instead of having to go to work. This stinks.

Lets declare a day of non-action, of unoccupying the big box stores. Instead, let's support our local, green neighborhood shops that need our custom.

Not up for camping at the Best Buy? We have three less costly and more comfortable options.

She claims it's not a problem, "It's just a food product, essentially."

It's one thing to drive to the mall, but one fifth of Canadian shoppers are driving to another country. That's crazy.

We don't have a holiday Friday and Thanksgiving was weeks ago here. What's this all about?

Is shopping so important that people have to die or get pepper sprayed?

A surprise gathering organized over the Internet gathers to meditate in a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Whether you opt for 'Buy Nothing Day' or 'Small Business Saturday,' the journey toward sustainability begins with a single step.

A look at the intersection of three ways to deal with this weekend about shopping.

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

This year, take a side in the war on the car, and support stores on your neighborhood bike lane or transit route.

This year, it has a stronger environmental theme.

They got this one right.

Too much information?

But is it "the last flourish of a high-resource approach to design and construction"?

It helps to have such a stunning lakeside site.

RIBA has announced that all its prizes will now be sustainable. We are going to need a counterpoint.

How small is too small?

Brazil is often in Treehugger because of illegal logging and deforestation. Not this time.

In photographer Yao Lu's "View of Waterfall with Rocks and Pines," two men stand underneath the spreading branches of a gnarled pine tree, aiming their cameras off in the distance, where

Image credit: Bernd Sieker, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Does installing commercial rooftop solar PV (with the dark-colored PV cells) negate the effect of painting that same roof white to alleviate the "heat island" effect in

First there was foamcrete, then there was papercrete and hempcrete, and now we've got AirCrete, a foamy mixture of air bubbles and cement.

We have to use less of the stuff in our cars, our buildings, and our infrastructure.

Hurry, before the tomatoes set sail for the season, indulge in a big, beautiful Horiatiki salad.

From cherries and cauliflower to grapes and pumpkins, wonderful things happen when you cook these foods whole.

Learn how to elevate a basic DIY pumpkin pie spice blend with these simple tweaks.

You'll get a perfectly crispy, golden exterior.

Here's a simple trick for elevating already delicious roasted vegetables.

New research finds that a two-pronged approach is necessary to fight things like sea-level rise and ocean acidification.

Andrew Scheer is a climate arsonist.

It's a mix of speculative fiction and informed prediction. Which do you think is most plausible?

Unless they're specially branded Keep Cups that reduce the likelihood of catering staff getting burned.

A British critic calls two green icons, rammed earth and Passivhaus, "architectural trickery at its most cynical."

Built for a sculptor and his new family on the site of an old gold mine and sawmill, this house uses reclaimed concrete blocks weighing a ton each.