Chewy, salty, and impossible to stop eating, they're the next best thing to an actual trip to Brazil (especially when paired with a caipirinha).

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.

When the team at nature-minded Spanish architecture firm Urbanarbolismo decided to build a tree house, they set some high standards. Working with a centuries old oak tree, they wanted to create a place for

What's the cutest tiny shed or building, best single family house, or best new furniture design? Vote on these and more.

Mount Manresa was a community space owned by Jesuits, but has now been sold to developers.

An international team of researchers has created a new type of cement that uses these discarded items that is just as strong, but produces far less emissions.

We have to use less of the stuff in our cars, our buildings, and our infrastructure.

Hurry, before the tomatoes set sail for the season, indulge in a big, beautiful Horiatiki salad.

Take your creamy vegetable soups from dull to delectable with these tips.

Confused by all the yam and sweet potato options? Learn what to expect in terms of flavor, textures, and best uses here.

This may be the perfect way to serve sweet potatoes; it's easy, delicious, and beautiful to behold.

While the federal government may be turning its back on the environment, these American cities are stepping up.

Making things more efficient is not enough; we have to ask ourselves what we really need.

The results of our annual survey are often surprising.

The city of New Orleans had given up on glass recycling. Enterprising students from Tulane University decided to step up to the challenge and bring back free glass recycling citywide in spring 2020.

Even a full day later, a one-hour shift in the clock is hard to adjust to.

A Tesla won't get a camel through the eye of a needle.

Some question if it is even possible.

A lotta lentils.

The origins of Joseph Pilates' regimented workout program began when he was sequestered in an internment camp in England during WWI.

The tech pioneer turned investor talks meat, batteries, and cement.

So much for my New Year's resolution to stop writing about concrete planters in the sky.

Did we say we hate concrete? Just the new stuff. This kind of concrete should be buffed, polished and treasured.

We need a new system to determine which nations ought to be forced to cut emissions, not the 20-year old outdated one we've got now.

The student invention just won the James Dyson Award for its intelligent design.

The large solar-powered box will help farmers get more food to the market for selling.

The toilets could be used to power lighting in refugee camps.

How would you reduce one pound of waste per week from your lifestyle?

Whether they are growing to be thousands of years old, making life-long friendships or confounding us with their resilience, trees provide to us invaluable material resources.

An item as ubiquitous as coffee has varying degrees of sustainability. Being aware of these can help us make better choices.

How will you promote actions that divert more waste from disposal and conserve natural resources?

Consumers are connected to the things they care about, providing access to ventures that have the potential to make real impacts.

To do their part toward tackling the climate crisis, the Emerald Isle is undertaking a massive reforestation project.

The good people of Denmark phoned in enough kroner to plant nearly a million trees.

The carbon footprint of air freight is ten times that of truck freight; perhaps it's time for "slow shopping."

CEO John Holland-Kaye expects to be taken up on this offer within the next 12 years.

These delicate works of art are made out of current and vintage newspaper broadsheets, and prompt us to look beyond the daily news cycle.

Concerned about the threats facing coral reefs, this artist is creating bright, tactile reminders of what healthy corals look like.

These fascinating works explore how folding might push the frontiers of flexible photovoltaics, self-assembling materials and nano-forms.

Atmospheric glazes of color and hand-shaped clay leaves and tree trunks adorn these beautiful ceramic pieces.

Sometimes you just need a bit of solitude and nature to get a project done.

Just take them with big photos, nobody will ever know.

We have standing room in landbuses, so why not airbuses?

Greener aviation is about to get a boost.

I'm a fan of any policy that discourages people from schlepping loads of unnecessary stuff around the planet.

The plane carries no single-use plastics – but aren't we ignoring a much bigger environmental issue?

Do we have the political will to do what has to be done? Simon Kuper doesn't think so. I do.

Part of a series where I try to calculate the carbon footprint of my life.

Instead of flaring off gas, they are burning it to run computers that mine bitcoins. Is this any better?

But I have it easy compared to most North Americans, and perhaps am fooling myself.