It actually won't take that much to reduce oil demand enough to cause serious trouble.

This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.

The fully automated aquaponics system grows lettuces, herbs and small fruits right in your kitchen.

The teen has been building the DIY microwave, hoping to solve many cooking problems with one device.

This crowd-funded design features a special honeycomb structure that is strong enough to be transformed into a stool or table -- yet remains lightweight and flexible enough to stay incognito on your bookshelf.

Our photo of the day comes from Sydney Harbour's Clifton Gardens.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real estate market, and an uncertain currency future, make a house out of shredded-up money.

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long-vanished lake.

Raid other rooms for items that can help you cook more efficiently.

But there is a real question of how much one should pay for an artisanal shelf bracket.

And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.

Because people gotta move.

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.

A really interesting housing project and a look back at Canadian Thanksgiving

The device is so thin it could be woven into fabric without changing the feel of it.

This aeroponic indoor gardening system from the Italian startup Hexagro is modular, scalable, and automated.

From cookies and cake mix to hair care and toothpaste, here's where to look for sneaky, eco-catastrophic palm oil.

For those of us who actually live in rustic homes in cold climates, the household items that define the 'hygge' decorating trend are a matter of survival.

Instead of turning sunlight into electricity, and then using that to power indoor lighting, Lucy redirects the daylight into rooms for effective natural illumination.

They really didn't have a choice, and they insulated their bodies, not their houses.

It simply doesn't recognize that some e-bikes are just bikes with a boost, and is unfair to older or disabled riders, or long distance commuters.

It's a smart thermostat for hydronic heating systems and is not such a dumb idea.

Dutch designer Benjamin Vermeulen solves the problem of the missing nut or screw.

This prototypical house acts as an active interface between its inhabitants and the outside.

With the winter solstice association with death and rebirth – these historic events of December 21st take on new resonance.

A new investigation by Greenpeace delves into the ongoing environmental devastation caused by our recycling habits.

The Wall Street Journal calls them "homeless" but they look "landless" to me.

One smartphone user makes a case for using old-fashioned items like alarm clocks and newspapers.

E-bikers use their bikes more, go longer distances, and often substitute it for driving or transit.

Tata kills the world’s cheapest car that nobody wanted.

With an increase in salmonella cases this year, health officials are pointing the finger at hobby farmers, which isn't entirely fair.

Perfect idea for spaces with poor air quality: a multi-functional hanging lamp that grows air-purifying plants.

Just because garment workers are desperate doesn't mean we should exploit them.

This glass makes your window treatments obsolete.

StackitNOW is a great idea but also demonstrates how intractable the problem is.

It's déjà vu all over again as the industry pushes "chemical recycling".

More and more, urban biking has become one of the best ways to see a lot of a city in a short span of time, so it's a no-brainer that more hotels are offering free bikes along with the price of the room. In

A new study shows that children bear 88 percent of the burden of diseases linked to climate change.

Getting enough nutrients from food reduces risk of death, not the same could be said for nutrients in pill form. And in fact, some supplements were linked to increased risk of death.

Your phone makes it easier and safer.

The fact that it is supposed to last longer is a bigger deal.

The Gene-Z app works with Apple and Android and can detect plant diseases in 10-30 minutes.

It's an interesting art installation that brings some attention to an electrifying man.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't still be trying to electrify everything.

A Canadian scientist wants us to rethink our approach to plastic and challenge the colonial system that produces it.

Michael Pollan's first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or "highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from

If every home in the U.S. switched just one inefficient light for an Energy Star one, that would be equivalent to taking 800,000 vehicles off the road in term of greenhouse gas emissions

Fixing and making feels good, and everyone's doing it, so don't be shy. Experience the Joy of Fix.

I'm going to let Josh Tulkin speak mostly for himself on this one, but here's the thumbnail sketch of the situation: Tulkin received a latter from the Maryland State Police informing him that from March 2005 to May 2006 Tulkin was under