When it comes to chairs, this one's a corker.

Two of our favorite materials, cork and porcelain, are together at last in this clever travel mug.

If you'd like to get the junk out of your back pocket or purse, consider downsizing into a wallet such as this one, which holds just the essentials.

Elevated above a flood-prone salt marsh on the Essex coast, this small beach house looks like a bird perched among the grasses.

A quick one to keep an eye on and get your best booing voice reader for: New York Times is highlighting a bill passing through Connecticut's legislature that would slash in half the state's current renewable energy goal of

Unconventional sushi made out of Japanese knotweed, Asian carp and lionfish are the draw here.

Yet more ways that cars and trucks are killing us and ruining cities.

This electrically powered prototype will be great for getting you to the market, and carting stuff back home.

Perfect for small city apartments, this system allows you to use a variety of add-on components to build your own indoor garden.

A before and after photo of Lexington Avenue tells the story.

For consumers, biodegradable and compostable products have mostly been a bust. Still, it is good news that the swiss company Freitag has succeeded making jeans that will break down on commercial compost piles.

Patagonia's Worn Wear events, held in collaboration with sharing start up Yerdle, offer a different, more sustainable vision of Black Friday.

It helps you determine what it will cost to heat, and what you should do to seal it up.

An advertising gimmick that gives a whole new meaning to the words "training shoes."

“The dangerous conditions behind the Kingston disaster were not isolated."

A roundup of our Blankenship coverage over the years, and what led up to this tragedy and this indictment.

But this is probably not the last we will hear from him.

The award-winning DropBucket is a recycled cardboard trash can that can be reused and/or recycled.

Done with that pencil? Sink it in the soil for a second life.

Do you know how much of the so-called green or cool architecture is often for expensive hotels, government or office buildings? Well, in this case, it's the complete opposite.

Colombian tropical town Villanueva's popular library is an example of non pretentious architecture gone right. Projected by Alejandro Piñol, Germán Ramírez, Miguel Torres and Carlos Meza, it was built with local materials and

Medellin, Colombia: This city's name used to strike fear in peoples' hearts. In the 80s and early 90s, it was known as the drug capital of the world and the most violent city on the planet.But Medellin has come a tremendous distance in less than a decad

Medellin, Colombia: This city's name used to strike fear in peoples' hearts. In the 80s and early 90s, it was known as the drug capital of the world and the most violent city on the planet.

In a pretty self-explanatory piece, Bogota-based Unodot studio executes a simple useful idea for small spaces.

Medellín has a great sustainable transportation vision for the future, and so far they seem to be executing it extremely well.

How did honey go from being the world's most important food to an undervalued afterthought?

Big fuzzy bumblebees do plants a favor, while smaller bee species steal pollen from plants with little in return

This NGO is doing wonderful work to bring sustainable tourism into the mainstream. It's time to start planning your next vacation!

A new initiative from the fast food giant aims to rethink the global meat industry. But is that even possible?

But assuming that lower-income citizens are content to eat cheeseburgers definitely is.

Blending ground beef with mushrooms cuts both calories and carbon emissions. Oh, and lots of folks say it tastes better too.

We covered this subject before but I got it wrong. Peter Flax of Bicycling Magazine got it right.

Conventional cotton is the most pesticide-intensive crop out there, so slip into these sustainable options instead.

A baby lying face-down will be able to breathe freely on this mattress.

Homestead is a California-based company that sells high-end ethical bedding at reasonable prices.

Scientists find that wind power farms don't harm this at-risk species, a bit of surprise because other studies have shown that oil and gas development does affect prairie chickens.

While large wind turbines remain the dominant force in wind power, wider adoption may lie with small-scale turbines fit for urban and low wind conditions.

Fairbanks, Alaska, will be home to the demonstration project of the next generation Buoyant Airborne Turbine, which will fly 1000 feet off the ground.

Who says you can't take it with you? This micro wind turbine folds into a foot-long cylinder for a portable solution to charging gadgets with clean renewable energy.

The WindPax wind generator fits neatly into a backpack for hiking or can be used in the backyard too.

At the risk of getting slammed with comments claiming that small wind turbines aren't viable, here's a look at another bladeless wind generator hoping to disrupt the wind energy industry.

The SolarMill, a 1.2 kW combination wind and solar energy system, will be sold in the U.S. for about $3000.

Scientists are working to harness the secret of owls' silent flights to build quieter wind power technology.

Four sizes of micro-turbines, designed to be portable personal wind energy stations, are in the works from Janulus.

That's two and a half times longer than any existing wind turbine blade and that's not all that makes it unique.

Lightweight, collapsible, and quick to deploy, this little wind generator might be a viable off-grid portable power source in places where solar isn't appropriate.

The resin reduces the energy needed to manufacture turbine blades and allows them to be recycled.

Sierra magazine released its 2012 Cool Schools list, and UC Davis took #1 - let's learn more about them.

Recycled aluminum and silver get another shot at becoming beautiful with this handmade collection, created with Japanese origami papers.

A toilet is just the working end of a much larger system that can have a huge impact on society.