We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.

We have lots of stuff, it's just unevenly distributed.

Peak oil used to be about running out of supply; now some think that we will run out of demand. The oil companies will ensure that we never run out of demand.

It takes a lot of metal to make this stuff.

Zero Mass Water's SOURCE device is a rooftop solar device that produces water instead of just electricity.

When printed in a precise pattern onto carbon nanotubes on paper, these photosynthetic bacteria can produce electricity from sunlight, which could power biodegradable environmental and medical sensors.

Is this totally silly and a waste of time and money, or is it a great leap forward? Or is it too soon to tell?

The teen has been building the DIY microwave, hoping to solve many cooking problems with one device.

This home for a family of three and two cats has been built with efficiency, comfort and health in mind.

The CATable will keep the cat off the keyboard.

This crowd-funded design features a special honeycomb structure that is strong enough to be transformed into a stool or table -- yet remains lightweight and flexible enough to stay incognito on your bookshelf.

A new proposal for Hong Kong tries to fit people into pipes.

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to take a look at creatures just as elusive as that pot of gold. The lush green landscapes of the Emerald Isle look calm and peaceful from far away -- but Ireland's species -- from a gorgeous barn owl to a toad

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to take a look at creatures just as elusive as that pot of gold.

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.

The horsemeat scandal in the UK and Europe could make more people turn to vegetarianism.

People are "risking their lives every winter by wearing dark clothing."

It may lead to as many as 20,000 passive houses being built over the next five years.

The head of a cooperative of honey harvesters, a park guide, and a doctor who uses a garden of medicinal plants to treat asthma and other ailments are

If you ask me, the real "Turkish delight" is served at breakfast time: A square of rich, thick kaymak (clotted cream), topped with fresh-off-the-comb honey (bal).

You'll be surprised at how many beauty treatments you can make with just honey and a few ingredients.

Go beyond your morning toast with these sweet all-natural beauty hacks featuring one of our favorite ingredients.

When it comes to the Galapagos, most people think: Islands; tropical; Equator; volcanoes; some variation on those general ideas probably pops to mind, unless you've been here. If you have been here, you probably know that a

Each of the islands in the Galapagos is incredibly different. From landscape to ecosystem to the endemic species that can only be found in that

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

Usually, air-dropping over 20 tons of poison from an helicopter on a fragile island ecosystem would be a very bad thing...

On a remote island in the Galapagos, hybrid turtles have been found that suggest a long-lost purebred companion for the late Lonesome George may survive.

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

Image: allaboutgeorge, Flickr, CC BY The Digital Migration Continues to Change the Face of Consumption A new study from the Ponyter Institute reveals that by the end of 2010, more people were reading their news online than in traditional newspapers. 34%

Amid all the upheaval in Egypt, one local newspaper is working to keep the fate of the country's natural resources from falling off the radar.

Why can't the Wall Street Journal call it what it is?

And in the meantime, the bodacious bovine has become a social media star and will receive a full pardon … as soon as they can get her out of the woods.

In the Netherlands it is actually a thing, to ride your bike as slowly as possible without falling over.

Inspired by her own spine-shattering accident, this sculpture shows the struggle and transformation of these remarkable insects.

We have lots of waste plastic and not much use for it, so why not use it instead of asphalt or concrete?

Founded by two sons of farmers, this company wants to grow farm-fresh food -- out of shipping containers.

A small, rundown garage and artist's studio becomes a new home to a family of three.

Instead of banning these technologies, we have to figure out how to manage them. Because they are inevitable.

Clever idea from Finnish designer combines portable storage with fixed dresser unit

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

It is about time that people acknowledged that it's not just cyclists that hit their heads. Helmets for everybody!

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

After 9 p.m., shoppers snatch up heavily discounted foods that are close to expiry.

The wheels on the desk go round and round.

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

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.

In this tog-eat-tog world, the future of fashion—let alone that of green fashion—lies entirely in the industry's chameleon-like ability to reinvent itself. Take Italian outerwear company Allegri, for example. Although better known

The art form of papercuts is taken to another level with these intricate works that draw attention to some of the world's threatened species.

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether