It's one answer to the complaint that tiny houses are too small: build it with an electrically operated, expandable slide-out.

But what about the future we need?

If we're going to push lifestyle change as a strategy, how we manage our money is one of the most important topics of all.

This new Canadian startup offers fabulous winter parkas and bombers that are entirely ethical and vegan.

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

Facebook makes reconnecting with your past almost scandalous. One friend leads you to 10 more in an exponential manner -- from college, your travels, high school, pre-school

What can one say about a show that attracts 23,000 green building professionals across the border to Toronto? It could only beGreenbuild, the grand spectacle put on by theU.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). This was its tenth

Religious communities may be wide open to fighting climate change, new evidence reveals.

Scientists have named a new marine ecological community, the Plastisphere, comprised of, you guessed it, plastic -- and all the organisms that now call ocean plastic home.

The New York Times has a stunning feature showing images of Earth and the immense damage caused by man to the land and atmosphere.

Honeybees survey vast tracts of land during their communal foraging. They share their best finds in a waggle dance, which new research has turned into a powerful tool for assessing ecosystem health.

The ecosystem had thrived for thousands of years but collapsed less than two centuries ago.

Archeologists unearthed some eerie graffiti in history's most famous graveyard.

This 10-minute video was shot by a man who was supposed to be at the MusiCafé bar that was engulfed by flames on july 6.

In a country covered in wood, by a lake far from construction workers, it makes so much sense.

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.

Lots of luxurious details in this solar-powered, off-grid tiny house.

A lovely cottage by Yiacouvakis Hamelin Architectes breaks all the rules about roofs.

This is a beautiful house, but it raises a lot of questions about what "respect for the environment" means.

This winter-proofed van is now home to two engineers who love the outdoors.

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

Ordinary humans can see about 1 million colors, but thanks to a genetic mutation, this artist can see an estimated 100 million colors.

This coming Sunday would've been Silent Spring author and environmental hero Rachel Carson's 100th birthday. In recognition of Carson's contributions to the creation of the modern environmental movement, Sen. Benjanmin L. Cardin (D-MD) has announced his

Forget friends and family! Without the traditional meal, it feels like any old dinner party.

This fake fight has a good cause.

The car changed the design of our houses; the AV will change our houses and the way we live.

Perhaps AVs should have their own lower speed limits until they figure this all out.

On National Walking Day, a look at how putting cars first kills people who walk and drive.

A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now.

Something like this could be on the roads by 2022.

They are going to be a lot more than just cars that drive themselves.

Researchers at Georgia Tech warn that there is a risk that self-driving cars might be hacked and cause gridlock.

A new article published in the online journal PLoS ONE takes on the issue of energy sprawl -- namely how much land is required to produce energy from different sources -- under different potential US energy and climate policies in 2030.

It's been a while since a good poo-power story has come down the pipe, but here's an interesting one: Massachusetts-based biofuels company Qteros and wastewater recyclers Applied Clean Tech have announced that they

Photo: World Economic Forum, Flickr, CC BY-SA Corn ethanol has turned out to be a bad idea -- there's little disagreement about that, especially in environmental circles. For starters, it's an inefficient fuel source, consuming tons of water to produce

An ethanol production mandate could be in conflict with efforts to reduce the Gulf Coast dead zone.

There's no mystery why gas mileage is not as good in the winter, but there are some things you can do to make it better.

The unprecedented move means that these schools will have greater access to funding and registrations.

A new study found men think society expects them to conform to stereotypes ... but how right are they?

We often ask the question "Why buy when you can rent?" but we never thought of this.

For years we've been talking about renting or borrowing rather than owning. There are so many things that people own but rarely use...

While AirBnB allows people to rent out lodging, from the smallest room to the biggest Irish castle, AirPnP has a smaller, though not less useful, ambition.

Sharing resources and renting just what you need is green, but not much of a business model.

Our photo of the day reveals a butterfly of most beautiful contradictions.

Here's one room in the house that might benefit from a bit more tech.

Bitcoin mining uses so much power that it may well turn into an environmental disaster.

A big publisher says the former; an author says the latter. What do you think?

Pull out the ionization detectors and go photoelectric.

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

Don't Blink or You'll Miss It! Google has created a series of video ads called "Search Stories". They're basically short vignettes showing some cool projects that were made possible by people finding the right information (using Google, of course). The