The growing disparity between wealthy and poor is reflected in this shocking photo report on the tiny island city's critical lack of affordable housing.

This is how you pack'em and stack'em.

Go beyond your morning toast with these sweet all-natural beauty hacks featuring one of our favorite ingredients.

Looking to tiny houses for design inspiration, these new student housing units have been constructed in a former Rotterdam office.

They are building "five great houses that are comfortable to live in and will have happy occupants."

Like a gadget from a superhero's gizmo-kit, two engineering students have invented a device to battle blazes with noise – water and toxic chemicals not required.

It is about time that people acknowledged that it's not just cyclists that hit their heads. Helmets for everybody!

Just standing isn't enough; you gotta move.

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.

It's not quite as dramatic as it sounds. It's simply a good demonstration of the power of regenerative braking!

Architect John Kinsley puts together a little project that addresses so many of the problems we face in our cities.

Most refugees live in refugee camps for an average of 12 years and most of that time it's in drafty, tattered tents. Now IKEA has a solar-powered camp house that is flatpack and quick to assemble.

Indwell and Invizij Architects are doing incredible work, raising the bar for housing people in need.

A landmark constitutional climate change lawsuit, filed by a group of kids against the US government, gets the go-ahead.

We visited Canada's first tiny house festival to find out more about this newly declared eco-residential development in Quebec for homes under 1,000 square feet in size.

Image via: Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation Los Vecinos, the first LEED-Certified Platinum, 100% solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego, offer 42-units of state of the art in green housing. The $17.6 million USD project opened its doors

Seedo, creators of automated consumer grow labs, will shortly plant a seed in the U.S. medical marijuana market.

It creates as much CO2 as a million transatlantic flights. Why isn't this a bigger deal?

Copper Lane, a cohousing project in London, shows how design by committee doesn't have to look like a camel.

We have seen many ups and downs in the prefab world, but they may be getting it right this time.

Architype demonstrates that simple forms and careful window choices are the way to build efficient, affordable homes.

They do this so well in Montreal.

The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought

This reconstruction scheme in China encourages resilience and self-sufficiency.

"No justification can be possible for this nonsense."

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.

The incomparable Swedish medical doctor and statistician Hans Rosling tackles a very perverse and tenacious myth about overpopulation.

The Bay Area needs affordable housing. And it needs clean energy. A new campaign supports both.

This year's Stress in America survey by the American Psychological Association might make you feel not so all alone.

Instead of heavy metals, petroleum products, and toxic solvents, this printing ink is made with algae grown by Living Ink.

New York Times article asks a lot of questions, and doesn't deliver a lot of answers.

Yes, in theory. Doing it in practice is a whole other story. This is another example of how the hydrogen economy is a fantasy.

Some moth species have evolved noise-cancelling abilities that are more efficient than today's sound engineering technology.

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko from The Associated Press have a blockbuster piece of reporting on the dozens of ways Monsanto's chemical fertilizers and pesticides are poisoning the people of Argentina.

The most prestigious prize in British architecture is given to the solidly green project rather than the flash in the pan.

An experienced Chicago builder is making a big investment in it.

There are huge upfront carbon emissions from building new housing; a better approach is to be smarter about what we have.

So much for my New Year's resolution to stop writing about concrete planters in the sky.

When it comes to communicating an alignment with personal values, it doesn’t get more personal than social media.

Using various vintage fabrics, many with a story behind them, this artist portrays ordinary people and historical figures with an artful eye.

Using shipping containers for housing near a Danish rock music museum makes sense, sort of.

Droughts and possible water rationing have been in the news recently in California, Israel, Mexico, and Australia. As much of the water used is these regions is for watering gardens and lawns

You have heard of "fast fashion." Get ready for fast architecture in container-sized modules.

The promise of prefab was healthy, cost-effective, energy efficient homes designed by talented architects. Is it finally here?

Recycling aluminum uses about 95% less energy than making new one from bauxite ore, which compares very favorably with other types of recycling.

Yes, but we still have a problem, says Carl A. Zimrig in a new book "Aluminum Upcycled: sustainable design in historical perspective." Because we are using too much of the stuff.

Made in Australia out of a solar-powered workshop, this gorgeous little home incorporates a great layout and clever features.

Merging energy-intensive Bitcoin mining with aquaculture, this project is experimenting with how technology might be used to develop better food systems.

EcoDomum is turning an environmental problem into a housing solution.

You've seen the photos of homes made from old bottles, but did you ever think you could make your own? You can, and here's how.