Tiny houses don't have to be overly cute and rustic, as this little modern home shows.

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

A lovely cottage by Yiacouvakis Hamelin Architectes breaks all the rules about roofs.

The Burger Lounge, which opened in 2006, now has 3 locations across San Diego offering organic and healthy burger alternatives for one of the healthiest, if not greenest, of cities. Created by Dean Loring and Mike Gilligan,

Solar grid parity will vary from city to city. A new interactive map helps show how it will spread.

The FDA has announced new (and stronger) warning requirements for certain prescription insomnia medications. Here's why.

If you follow the seasons with your diet you will love this.

Whether you're in a plane, train, or car, it's important always to have good snacks.

This fake fight has a good cause.

Lazy New Yorkers who want to stay on the island and sunbathe will get this floating artificial beach on the Hudson River if this scheme gets crowdfunded and approved.

Rivers are people too, you know.

Removal of the 118-foot-high dam in France will free the Sélune River, bringing wildlife back to the waterway and the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.

People are being killed every day and the problem is the design of our streets as much as the cars and drivers.

Self-driving cars will likely be big autonomous mobile home theaters.

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.

They are going to be a lot more than just cars that drive themselves.

We are wasting too much time, energy and money on autonomous vehicles. We know what to do and it's not AVs.

French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo

This year, French tire giant Michelin (yes, the Michelin that made the tires on your car) held its 10th Challenge Bibendum event, this time in Rio de Janeiro. If you've never heard of this thing, don't kick yourself,

The first large-scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013. The New

Is the conventional wisdom that we need not worry about tailpipe emissions in biofuel-powered vehicles, because the plants had been absorbing carbon while growing, grossly misguided?

It's so much more than books.

So you want to save the world, do you? Let's get one thing straight.

There are reasonable limits on what people can do on their properties. But this goes too far.

That was the advice of Shakespeare's Polonius, but then there is the sharing economy. Which is it?

It's got all three: low transportation energy, low embodied carbon, low operating energy.

At Woodrise 2019, Katerra CEO Michael Marks wows the wood world.

These cool kicks are a fascinating blend of waste materials, put to good use.

A new lightweight thermoelectric generator has been developed at NC State, which may be able to power small health sensors or other small wearable devices.

Douglas Rushkoff explains that the real costs of a new phone are not measured in just money.

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

Tokyo 2020's organizing committee will transform old smartphones, laptops, and digital cameras into a true treasure.

Beekeeper, and World War II veteran, is at risk of losing his beehives he's had since the 1950s.

When cars first began appearing in the late 19th century, some cities moved to ban them -- but there is still one place in the US that has yet to change its mind.

Does the state of Michigan need a wolf hunt? Voters will get the chance to weigh in.

LEGO is cleaning and repackaging pre-loved bricks and sending them to charities for kids.

It is designed to dry beeswax wraps more easily, but its usefulness goes beyond that.

Ideal Bite: Are you getting very, very sleepy? by Heather Stephenson "You will be if you follow this tip. Conventional anti-insomnia pills work, but if you don't wanna lose sleep over side effects and potentially addictive ingredients, induce

Do posh bees make better honey? These bees, living in the heart of Mayfair, only forage in the best places such as St. James Park and Buckingham Palace.

Hinduism is the oldest

After reviewing the major religions of the world's stances on the environment, it seems pretty clear to me that there are more commonalities than differences. In the realm of metaphysics there are genuine and significant

An interesting step towards eco-friendly spiritual travel: The Alliance of Regions and Conservation, working with WWF, is about to launch the Green Pilgrimage Network. The program, to formally kick off at an event in

It's an interesting art installation that brings some attention to an electrifying man.

A new report card from the Electronics TakeBack Coaltion shows how each retailer stacks up when it comes to recycling the merchandise they sell us.

Critics have been quick to say that Phonebloks isn't realistic with the current market. What they are missing is that this is the entire point of the project. Phonebloks aims to alter the present, but re-imagining the future.

The disks are coated with zinc oxide nanorods that break apart organic molecules in sewage.

By reclaiming precious metals from its 'urban mine' of obsolete electronics, Japan may be able to produce the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics from recycled materials.

From 50 million tons of e-waste generated annually to 350,000 cell phones thrown away every day, the numbers behind our digital addiction are staggering.

Picture this: In 2016 the world generated enough e-waste to fill a line of 18-wheelers from New York to Bangkok and back.

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.