Mike Eliason, an American architect working in Germany, explains.

And the Oatmeal says " I'm ready for our army of Skynet Marshmallow Bumper Bots."

These may be limited to 25 MPH, but the era of autonomous cars is coming at us really fast.

They do this so well in Montreal.

Green roofs, living walls, vertical farms are all part of a new living architecture.

They are certainly more reflective, but that's not the only thing that matters.

Strange things happen when roofs touch the ground.

Jean-Philippe Pargade designs a school where the green roof IS the building, defining its whole look and feel

Argentine architect Carlos Levinton, who we've seen help Bolivian communities with PET, was asked by the UN White Helmets Comission to collaborate with ideas for the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.

Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,

Architects ignore it. "Heads of sustainability" ignore it. Critics have ignored it, but this may be changing.

It's also affecting everything from meat packing to crumpets.

Buckminster Fuller 's 1933 Dymaxion car was a marvel. Architect Norman Foster tells Jonathan Glancey of the Guardian: "The Dymaxion had the same engine and transmission as the Ford Sedan of the time," says Foster, who worked

New street view images suggest that one of the Google maps cars was in an accident

When the rare leucistic moose appeared before his camera, photographer Anders Tedeholm captured the magic.

In the latest installment of 'A Death by 1000 Cuts,' a New York TImes analysis lists the Earth-loving rules that Washington is seeking to reverse.

The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale

WIth the death of Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhinoceros, the species is one step closer to complete extinction.

More proof that some things never change.

Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed

I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current transportation

Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,

Architects are often late bloomers. Frank Gehry is in his prime at 79; Ralph Rapson died at his drafting board last year at 93.

The Freedomky is a nicely done modular design

We love transformers, those things that serve multiple functions. But I wonder about this one.

You may have heard that the iPhone 3G went on sale this morning. I saw a line outside of the AT&T; stores here in Manhattan, and I heard there was a line around the block this morning at the Union Street Apple store in San

As the Guardian notes in its headline, Wood you believe it?

Don't just sit there, do something.

Architects all over the world should be doing this too.

It's wonderful to see architects take small interventions for housing for the homeless so seriously.

Blank city walls are huge canvases for this artist transforming our perception of ordinary buildings.

The Toronto Star's list is useful but incomplete.

It's all about the amazing connections.

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.

What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD

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

The ones we have left should be preserved; they don't make them like they used to.

While the immense amount of rain and devastating floods that hit Colorado nearly two weeks ago were already tragic , they have also exposed a concern regarding the lax environmental regulations that allow the oil and gas industry to drill in flood zones.

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

With only two members of the species left, a successful egg harvest and fertilization could mean all is not lost.

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

People have complained about his building since they started pouring the concrete.

He was a pioneer of sustainable design.

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes

Forget about wood construction; cardboard could be the Next Big Thing.

This company creates modern, energy-efficient versions of the backyard 'granny flat'.

A study looks at the life cycle impact of the different types of sustainable roofs and finds a clear winner for colder regions.

Joao Filgueiras Lima, known as Lele, has a remarkable portfolio which has begun to raise attention. We take a look at his pedestrianization work in Salvador and his approach to futuristic health centers.