Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it? Well, WWF has just released a new report that ranks 11 of them

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

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."

Nic Darling is part of Postgreen Homes, builder of the 100K house and others that I have raved about; Postgreen is a different kind of developer, working in gritty urban parts of Philadelphia, doing smaller, more affordable

Going for LEED Platinum in an affordable townhouse with clean modern design

Another model for the development industry: Smart young people using their own money

One Passive House architect gives his clients what they want.

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

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense

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

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

From mites to cockroaches, our house dust is literally crawling with things.

Hydroelectric power is an easy choice to make if you have access to a stream or river, but this concept takes advantage of the streams running through our walls: our plumbing.

A man named Manfred Mornhinweg found the modern world too "noisy and hectic", so he decided to build himself a house on a quiet 40 hectare piece of land in Chile.

A new technology developed by Korean researchers could generate electricity from the the motion of water in our toilets as well as rivers and streams, even rain drops.

Lost in the woods near a stream, with some empty water bottles, wire, plastic plates, and a stepper motor, *and* you need to charge your smartphone? Try this.

When one tiny home isn't quite enough, how about adding another?

Spark is a musical instrument that harvests kinetic energy when it's shaken, storing it in a battery for powering LED lights.

Could this be even more encouraging than a FitBit to get up and walk around?

Building her first tiny home meant enough financial freedom for this tiny house builder -- enough to build another off-grid tiny vacation home in Hawaii.

Decommissioned buses are getting a second useful life as mobile shelters for Honolulu's homeless.

I slice and dice some recent posts on technology

And a really nice solar decathlon winner.

But is this really a good idea? Maybe it is better to get up and flick a light switch instead of asking Alexa.

Has anything really changed since 1939?

This versatile small dwelling can be customized as a mobile office, guesthouse or "living wagon."

The bin-sized device would turn household waste into fuel for heating hot water.

Michael Sivak shows us the numbers.

There is a whole new line of furniture that you can build, just like the toy.

Made right in downtown Los Angeles, this prefab unit is made with an innovative recyclable and recycled panel system.

For the past 119 Sundays, volunteers have toiled in the sludge to remove 12,000 tonnes of plastic from Versova Beach -- and they're still going strong.

Photo credit: William Hook via Flickr/Creative Commons

What if we declared climate change a crisis and put some serious resources to this type of initiative?

It's going for every label from LEED to Living Building Challenge

It's the right thing to do in so many ways, as LivingHome, Make it Right, Cradle to Cradle and Hanley Wood build a comfy new home for the Lower Ninth

The world's rarest duck - the Madagascar pochard - needs a new environment if it's going to survive

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

If you live in San Diego and find the prospect of banding together with your neighbors to get better rates on installing your own solar panels interesting, then this one is for you: 1BOG (that's One Block Off the Grid ...) has announced that they will

A Colorado family that had long ago given up on finding their cat got some incredible news this week, when Willow was found in New York City -- five years later and 1,800 miles from home.

In exchange for cultivating someone else's backyard for a year, this activist is experimenting with an increasingly simpler lifestyle, documented step-by-step online.

Here is the secret for the most delicious, cheapest, and least wasteful lasagna you can make.

This recipe is creamy, sweet, and wonderfully refreshing.

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

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

A round home is British Columbia's first home to be Energy Star qualified, a topic of contention on TreeHugger.

It's not rocket science, it's building science, and it's all here.

Quickly get connected via video chat to a home & garden expert to get help with your projects through Fountain. We've got beta invites for you to check it out yourself.

For most people, living along southern Chesapeake Bay with a scenic view over the waterfront might sound idyllic, but for nearly 100 residents who do, it's turned into a nightmare. Slowly, the

Not sure if you really want to live in a tiny house? This tiny home builder is making these cabins from salvaged materials, which visitors can test out at an eco-retreat in Maryland.

Located in Rotterdam, this Concept House features a huge rooftop garden, and uses natural heating and cooling techniques to keep maintenance costs down.