Plastic waste has been diverted from the city's shoreline to create a cost-effective, green space alternative.

The city hopes to combat overtourism by getting visitors off the beaten track and doing more useful things.

Apparently kids are meant to be seen and not heard.

Founded by two sons of farmers, this company wants to grow farm-fresh food -- out of shipping containers.

Looking like a "great ship," this solar-powered music venue is a new gateway into the city.

The second generation of Paris' bike-sharing fleet will see 20,000 bikes hit the streets next year, and 30% of those will feature an electric drivetrain.

...or does this augur the final breakdown of civilization?

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.

Light up your life and your living room with gorgeous lights from the London Design Festival.

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

After 9 p.m., shoppers snatch up heavily discounted foods that are close to expiry.

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

It sorta defeats the purpose in about twelve different ways.

This tiny verdant island, called Vulcan Point or sometimes Vulcan Island, lies at the center of a strange-but-entirely-true natural wonder. It's known for being the world's largest volcanic island that's on a lake, on a

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people

A modern but retro-flavored makeover for the endearing bicycle rickshaw by Filipino designer Kenneth Cobonpue.

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.

The best ideas aren't always the most expensive ones.

Companies will do anything to protect their brand – maybe even redesign packaging.

A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.

Remember the story of Ohio's Bay Shore coal-fired power plant, the one that (perfectly legally) kills at least 46 million fish a year? Well that's still happening, but not without some legal challenges. A coalition of

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.

10 coal plants in Chicago, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey will be shut down sooner than expected.

Analysis bridges differences between various climate change models to predict North American climate change with high certainty. Will skeptics finally be convinced?

If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).

If you own an electric car but don't own a garage, what do you do?

Are solar-powered trash cans a fuel-saving, money-saving way to keep the streets clean? Or are they worse than regular trash cans?

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.

One Passive House architect gives his clients what they want.

Because shipping containers are designed to move and these ones might have to.

It makes a lot of sense in a country with no workers and five other permanent stadia.

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.

Made with a tight budget and schedule, this structure was up and running within a matter of weeks.

I mean, shipping containers are hot. But does this kind of shipping container architecture make sense?

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.

Of all the places to take action on marine litter, this one makes the most sense.

This cozy and compact dwelling out of Oregon packs one bed, one bathroom, a kitchen and porch.

Another look at a controversial housing project.

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.

The new find may change anthropologist's conception of early Peruvian prehistory.

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.

Designer Michelle Sheppard creates sustainable garments with a connection to cultural traditions.

Our food chain can so easily be disrupted, as this example of eggs contaminated with a pesticide not approved to be anywhere near a chicken proves