Industrial hemp farming could play a big role in providing economic stability in impoverished areas, creating jobs and businesses for veterans, and growing a sustainable and regenerative agriculture movement.

High-end materials meets smart home automation in this country-styled tiny home.

Because cyclists should pay their fair share, right?

Creating romantic, shabby chic dresses to elegant, layered European-inspired pieces, designer Jacquie Tsang transforms boring thrift store clothing into something unique and stylish.

This couple swapped a ladder for a climbing wall up to their loft.

Compared to conventional shipping container homes, the Pod-Tainer has a relatively spacious interior, thanks to pop-outs on both sides.

This industrial designer's 3D/4D printed, life-like forms ask the question of whether we can design and engineer "intelligent" plants that can adapt to environmental changes.

While traveling, journalist Jan Wong opted for host families, not cooking school, when it came to learning about local food.

It's a multifunctional space that hides everything behind its pared-down walls.

The climate movement must be about more than Keystone XL, write four climate activists.

The breakthrough also scored 18-year-old Hayley Todesco a Google Science Fair Award.

House of Representatives voted in favor of the XL Keystone pipeline project, in an attempt to bypass executive authority.

After the House of Representatives approved legislation pushing the Keystone XL forward, the Senate has rejected it.

A new twist in the plot for the controversial pipeline, as TransCanada asks for a suspension of its application.

Big risks evidently still promise big rewards.

Most of the english speaking world has the day off today, in what started as a tradition of helping and sharing, and ended up at the mall.

The Crisis of Civilization explores our modern cultural crises by sampling archive film footage from PSAs. Now the makers are asking budding film makers to have a go themselves.

The problem is not too little oil, says a new IEA report, it's too much oil. And it illustrates why activists should not presume to know the future.

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

Tesla's tiny house integrates solar power and its Powerwall home battery into a seamless system, and can be towed by the Model X.

Because of course you're thinking about water conservation in your yard in the middle of winter.

No high-tech bells and whistles here, but tried-and-true strategies are used in this renovation to make a small space feel much bigger.

This digitally fabricated project revives a traditional material with new building technologies.

We live in turbulent times, but this beautiful animation offers a systemic approach to facing up to change.

In honor of World Environment Day, organizers of the World’s fair highlighted the greenest exhibit designs.

The Irish beer giant has stopped using fish bladders for filtration of its keg beer; cans and bottles to follow suit by the end of the year.

As part of their "I Have a Green Job" series, Grist talks to Michael Thompson, a professional bee keeper and co-founder of Chicago Honey Co-op, an agricultural cooperative that's dedicated to chemical-free beekeeping.When

Supporters of protecting the Teghut Forest in northern Armenia from a company's plans to build an open-pit copper mine there have an uphill battle to fight against the perception that mining

The largest honey packer in the US faces criminal charges over fraudulent trade in Chinese honey.

In China, it's shark fin soup, in Japan it's blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S. it's our love of nice thick fish fillets and billions of fish sticks consumed annually - these cultural habits are

TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from

They were thought extinct, but in light of new DNA findings, scientists are echoing a very tortoise-y mantra: 'not so fast'.

The current wind power installation has replaced millions of liters of diesel fuel and helped protect the islands' endangered animals.

Tortoise sauve! The randy 100-year-old Galapagos tortoise has sired over 800 babies.

We've reported before on Andy Revkin's assertion that "climate change is not the story of our time," as well as his sometimes provocative thoughts on geoengineering and other subjects (Rush Limbaugh once suggested the journalist kill himself to save the

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It's like Uber for 'flying' water cars, with an über-cute name: SeaBubbles.

This small space spread over two levels in Paris gets a minimalist and functional makeover.

Switching from fossil fuel powered cars could save 45,000 lives per year and on its own almost solve climate change

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.

This specially designed Finnish axe requires less force to split wood as it acts both as a wedge and as a lever.

Urban dwellers can get a taste of camping out in nature with this temporary island cabin just outside of Helsinki.

is looking down at your phone really like putting an aardvark on your head?

This standing desk is packed with clever organization features, and can be customized for left or right-handed people.

After 52,696 steps, a review of a LifeSpan treadmill desk.

It tells you when to get up and to sit down, and checks up on you too.

They're good for some things, but researchers say they're not the magic bullet solution for health that many would like them to be.

Every developer worth his or her weight in white beach sand is vying to be able to proclaim his or her resort the first or best or truest eco-resort.

A Worcester’s Buttonquail was caught on camera for the first time by a French documentary team who were filming native bird trappers at work in the Philippines. No one realized how rare the bird was until it was identified as a Worcester’s Buttonquail

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