Like Kremlinology in the cold war, you take what you can get.

Somehow, beauty and hope for the future are found amid the wreckage of war.

Cats at several prisons world wide have been used to smuggle drugs and other banned items.

Because why shouldn't cats get a beautiful sofa of their own?

A derelict garage is transformed into a compact, minimalist living space.

This impressive home features a lot of great multifunctional ideas, plus a custom-built cat run for two felines in the back.

Paying homage to Denmark's historical relationship with wind, these public art sculptures would generate music and power from wind.

A designer's take on the car of the future. Hint: it's a bike

Modern building codes and zoning regulations, while helping to set safety standards that can save lives, can also serve as big barriers to building small, sensible, and affordable dwellings with alternative materials and techniques.

EcoDomum is turning an environmental problem into a housing solution.

The Federal Government no longer wants these obsolete lighthouses in the Florida Keys – so they're giving them away.

The largest city in America, home to the worst traffic jam in history and the highest number of helicopters in the world, is trying to start a bike revolution in elementary schools.

Spanish collective Basurama arrived in Niamey, Niger, to assist locals in the construction of new leisure spaces with local, low cost materials.

How to provide housing for the masses getting out of poverty and out of slums in the developing world, without creating sprawl? Argentine architects propose attaching new homes to existing structures.

Actually, the student designs steal the show every year at ICFF, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair held annually in New York. This year was not quite up to Pratt's spectacular exhibit from last year, but was close. Parsons I think Parsons the

At TreeHugger we like cork, that warm material that can be harvested without chopping down trees, is fully renewable and biodegradable and can be shaped into many funky objects apart from stoppers to keep the wine in the bottles. The designers at

Though conventional 'deathcare' is hardly green, thanks to the use of embalming chemicals, concrete vaults and non-biodegradable caskets, burials are getting greener each year with various eco-friendly options and smarter

Chairs are us and there are lots of them on display at the Clerkenwell Design Week.

So you think you're doing everything you can to improve your home's energy efficiency. And if you haven't done everything you can do personally, both TreeHugger and Planet Green have plenty of tips on how you can get up to

DNA testing of cougar crap left along a 1,055-mile trail has established that a young male Puma walked all the way from South Dakota to New England in search of a mate. The poor cat's

In the north, a lot of people burn wood all year round, but even a single fire is worse than smoking cigarettes.

Using a non-chemical process based on traditional techniques, these furniture pieces are created with fish skins that would have otherwise gone to waste.

Using a customized printer, these designers combined new technology with low sounds to create this modern collection of ceramics.

Coppiced wood and fungi become one in this collection of conceptual furniture.

Have the leaves started to change yet where you are? Autumn is just around the corner, and the annual burst of color is about to begin!

The things nature does to sand and rock are amazing. You may think this is an alien planet with bizarre stone houses for extraterrestrials, but no, this is New Mexico in all its mind-blowing glory.

A female northern elephant seal protects her newborn pup as she warns away a young male with amorous intentions for her.

Could sharing more be central to achieving the Right's biggest dream?

That's an alternate name for Halloween, but let's not forget the rest of the year.

A building that once housed a Jewish girls' school, shut down by the Nazis, is now home to a fashionable restaurant.

Perfect for small spaces and aiming at the less-is-more approach, Rubix is a transformer-furniture set that can be both a living room lounge and a dinning room set up. Designed by Colombian firm DosUno Design, the set

World-renowned for their work in Medellin, especially for the Orchid House at the Botanical Garden, Colombian firm Plan B Architects is busy and keeps coming up with great projects.

In this open source design project, Dos Uno shares cool, easy to make designs for chairs, tables and shelves using cheap readily available materials.

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

In defense of biomimicry and of scientific research with no foreseeable applications

Hornets, yellow jackets, tarantula hawks oh my. Wasps might be scary, but a world without them would be a disaster.

But regardless of what green initiatives they implement, tourists must be willing to change, too.

As part of an ongoing series about the Maya Ka'an community-based tourism initiative, this was my first official day in the Mayan region, and it was certainly full of adventure.

Snakes, spiders, and bats in a tight space may sound like the stuff of nightmares, but Kantemó, Mexico, is actually an incredible place to visit.

Beef Products Inc took its best shot at making up for its silence during weeks of public lashing over what has been dubbed “pink slime,” an additive in ground beef made through a high-tech process that BPI invented.

Recommendations to eat less meat for environmental reasons won’t be included in the final 2015 dietary guidelines.

And then they yell at cyclists for not following the rules.

This city used to be a model for the future of biking in North America. Now it is just a deadly mess.

It's got something for everybody in a compact and clever e-bike that can carry a big load.

Bigger wheels mean more stability and regular-bike feel, but it comes at a price.

Keeping your bike in tip-top shape means regular maintenance, preventative measures, and the occasional on-the-road quick fix.

Athanasia Leivaditou designs the perfect desk for all-nighters, described as 1.6 Square Meter of Life

Graham Phakos did, with an interesting design that does everything the expensive Italian jobs do.

Mira Schröder lives and works in a shop where she can make her bed disappear.

UK brewer Seven Brothers has partnered with Kellogg's to use some of its less-than-perfect cereals.