Lets declare a day of non-action, of unoccupying the big box stores. Instead, let's support our local, green neighborhood shops that need our custom.

Not up for camping at the Best Buy? We have three less costly and more comfortable options.

She claims it's not a problem, "It's just a food product, essentially."

The Dot Earth Blogger on The Ad Man Behind Occupy Wall Street, and ‘Buy Nothing Day"

It's one thing to drive to the mall, but one fifth of Canadian shoppers are driving to another country. That's crazy.

Celebrated outside of the United States, the holiday used to have a real meaning.

Bill Nye was the guy that said driving your car to the gym is literally insane - why not reclaim a piece of childhood through hooping?

We don't have a holiday Friday and Thanksgiving was weeks ago here. What's this all about?

Is shopping so important that people have to die or get pepper sprayed?

A surprise gathering organized over the Internet gathers to meditate in a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

The happiness you feel in a shopping spree may feel as good as the happiness from helping someone, but gene expression reveals a dangerous difference: could shopping cause disease?

Whether you opt for 'Buy Nothing Day' or 'Small Business Saturday,' the journey toward sustainability begins with a single step.

This Friday, Patagonia encourages us to celebrate the clothes we have and the stories they tell.

A look at the intersection of three ways to deal with this weekend about shopping.

Adopting a waste-conscious and anti-consumerist lifestyle is not something that happens overnight. Sometimes it's nice to hear about other people who are just starting out, like this young family from southwestern Ontario, Canada.

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

We have always been conflicted about this.

This year, take a side in the war on the car, and support stores on your neighborhood bike lane or transit route.

This year, it has a stronger environmental theme.

Some of them are surprising and all of them will make a real difference.

It's actually pretty clever as it pumps out fresh water and electricity.

This building alternately fries the public, blows them off their feet and cheats them out of promised public amenities. And did I mention it's bloated, top-heavy and just plain ugly.

They got this one right.

A condo in Manhattan and a mixed use 12 story building in Portland get a boost.

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."

The architect/ engineer says we have the tech now to live better electrically.

There was a big pile of beautiful lumber to choose from too.

If a vertical farm fantasy is the best unbuilt project in the UK, then sustainable design is in worse trouble than I thought.

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly

This just pushes every TreeHugger button.

House on the Highlands wins the rural category in the UK Passivhaus Trust Awards.

The judges got it right this time.

And why not? It sounds like fun, just hanging around, eating grass

The Templar Block in Hamilton Ontario pushes a lot of buttons.

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.

Too much information?

... in the place where people understand the risks of living in an anti-globalist, post-fact era

Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve.

Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes.

But is it "the last flourish of a high-resource approach to design and construction"?

The Autonomous Hotel Room from Aprilli Design Studio raises some interesting questions.

Big bucks go to the teams that come up with an air conditioner that's five times as good.

It helps to have such a stunning lakeside site.

If a building doesn't meet these basic and necessary criteria, it doesn't deserve an award.

The most prestigious prize in British architecture is given to the solidly green project rather than the flash in the pan.

RIBA has announced that all its prizes will now be sustainable. We are going to need a counterpoint.

They say these are about celebrating the best contemporary architecture. But what does that mean today?

It's nautical, since it overlooks the Thames River, it's architectural, and it's a winner.

While the greenest vacation is often a staycation, it's nice to know that when you do travel, whether it be for business or pleasure, a hotel can meet you half way.

Last year the ARC wildlife crossing competition got a lot of pixels; it was won by Michael Van Valkenburgh & Associates and there is talk of building it, although it was more of an ideas competition. But they are