Irish architects Heneghan Peng win the competition to house world's largest canoe collection

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

Really, this trend should be nipped in the bud.

It looks a lot better than the usual kind, cleans the air and absorbs noise.

This reconstruction scheme in China encourages resilience and self-sufficiency.

A tropical skyscraper by WOHA and Patricia Urquiola is wrapped in a vine-covered sunscreen.

But really, they should be dealing with the source of the problem.

There is not much that can go wrong in such a simple concept. That's really smart.

From the green roof down to the electric boat, there are so many interesting aspects of sustainable design.

This modern, Scandinavian take on the hostel includes private rooms and a jacuzzi in the old vault.

A traditional dwelling has been preserved by renovating it to include a new office, library, kitchen and guest room.

Diverging from the Sprinter van conversion trend, this man revamped an old life-saving vehicle into his own tiny home.

A vintage Airstream trailer gets a fresh and airy makeover with some eye-catching patterns.

A fading fairytale village will become Switzerland's first 'scattered hotel' thanks to a foundation committed to saving it.

Blouin Tardif Architectes do a beautiful adaptive reuse and addition in Montreal.

This family with four kids is traveling full-time in a beautifully redone vintage Airstream trailer.

This delightful apartment renovation in Spain hides a huge bathtub and other mysteries.

Vibrant tones liven up this redesign of a 1920s apartment in Stockholm, Sweden.

This former pigeon roost is transformed into a light-filled family home.

Temperatures in January dropped to -24°F and an air source heat pump kept it comfy and cozy.

We used to say this stuff should be banned because it was always installed badly. Has anything changed?

Finally, people are beginning to take this issue seriously.

A new organic winery for Pizzolato, designed by MADE, is built almost entirely out of local, sustainably harvested wood.

But some people are beginning to take the issue seriously. Anthony Pak writes a good article about it for Canadian Architect.

A representative of the industry says I shouldn't be picking on fiber glass. He's right.

While global warming naysayers seem content to continue flouting the overwhelming scientific consensus in favor of this anthropogenic phenomenon, they seem to have gotten one point largely right: hurricanes didn't suddenly begin massing over the past

Once one of the great mysteries of the natural world, the bluefin tuna's migration pattern has finally been elucidated by the workings of an international team of scientists as part of the global 10-year Census of Marine Life. To reach their

In a belated attempt to (finally) stem the growing tide of aggressive overfishing, the U.S. is calling on the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) to enact a 3-5 year ban on bluefin tuna

We want to extend National Talk Like A Pirate Day just a few more days, especially since it is helping to spread the word about clean sailing and boating. The Sierra Club has put together a fun set of questions to not only get you in the

A 20 pound lobster going by the name of George was saved this past Saturday, as PETA brought him out to the Atlantic and set him free. George had been living at City Crab Restaurant in

Bluefin tuna is on the verge of total collapse. Maybe. It depends on who you ask. We may have been talking about

Number of storms predicted per year during the period 1854 -- 2006 versus numbers actually observed for the Atlantic (filled diamonds). The model predictions (grey curve) have been normalized to the data. A quadratic fit to the model is shown for

On land, slugs are far from nature's most beautiful creatures--but underwater, the family of shell-less creatures known as nudibranchs come in bright neons, glowing pastels, and vibrant primary colors. The 3,000 different kinds of nudibranchs get their

Slugs as we know them aren't the most colorful land-based creatures, but the shell-less mollusk known as nudibranchs (meaning "naked gills"), or sea slugs, are the complete opposite: The more than 3,000 different members

Megan McArdle at the Atlantic piles on the Infographic debate, " issuing a plea to bloggers to help stop this plague in its track."

She may not have caused the most property damage, but the superstorm extraordinaire holds some impressive records.

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.

You can see the opposition to the big pipe from the tar sands on every house and every stop sign.

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The palm oil situation is bad, but some people argue that it would be worse if replaced by other vegetable oils.

Another summer site that is now open is the Duncan House, a Usonian design by Frank Lloyd Wright that was moved from Chicago to Polymath Park, a resort near Pittsburgh. Usonian houses were "ypically small, single story dwellings without a garage or

When the press coverage is completely off the mark. There's an article in the Pittsburgh-based Post-Gazette about an attempt to organise a green prom at the City Charter High School. At first glance it appears that all the students took the bus to the

There are so many missing teeth, so many vacant lots in so much of rust belt North America. We showed how Superkül took back a sketchy main street store in Toronto for their live/work space; Now Azure Magazine shows us how

The reports are in from last week's "Good Jobs, Green Jobs" conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., and attendees are saying it was a great success. More than 1,100 people attended the Blue Green Alliance conference. People networked, listened to speakers and

You a runner? Or an exercise-oholic? And you want your workouts to reflect your green lifestyle? Well, the race is ON or at least for me and a few friends to find the best performing green running equipment.

PNC Financial Services Group, based in Pittsburgh PA, has built a plant-covered exterior wall, "to make its headquarters building more energy-efficient." Looking like one of those huge billboards seen along an

There are 446 Bridges, Most with Pedestrian Sidewalks! This great video by our friend Clarence over at StreetFilms gives an excellent overview of Pittsburgh's bike culture and infrastructure. Having never been, and because Pittsburgh isn't as well

Ambitious thieves spend a month torching apart a Pennsylvania bridge

How can a city destroy an edible garden on private property without legal permission? We also have the viral party-gone-wrong prank on Shell, the 12 most toxic fruits and vegetables, and more.

The queen led her minions to the engine of a Delta airplane, delaying the flight until the protected bees could be professionally removed