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Blank city walls are huge canvases for this artist transforming our perception of ordinary buildings.

Made with beads, yarns and other fibers, these hybrid sculptures seem to transform before your eyes.

I wasn't sure if we’d covered Earth Weave’s wool and hemp carpets, but I was wrong. Years ago, Kara had mentioned them in a nice little primer on Finding Solutions to Toxic Carpeting. What makes Earth Weave noteworthy is that they claim their Bio-Floor

Photo by squarehippies If you've ever tried to figure out how to support important projects like green schools while combating climate change AND meet a movie star all while shopping online, wonder no more. eBay and Global Green USA is holding an

Martín Azúa's latest rug design is made from esparto soles from the traditional spanish espadrilles. It will be used in Camper's shoe stores.

These textile works of art are bursting with soft corals, algae and more.

This ubiquitous liquid, water, continues to amaze us with its just plain weirdness

Was it the Uber car, the safety driver, the victim, or the traffic engineers who designed that road?

So much for the "sharing economy". North Americans don't like sharing cars or parking spaces.

Average temperatures in the city have rose 1.8˚C, minimal temperatures went up 2.7˚C, and rainfall has increased 20% in the past 50 years.

A train that reportedly left a workshop yesterday failed to brake when entering a major station and crashed against the end-of-the-line barrier

In this beautiful renovation of a 1927 apartment, the architects created a moving structure that holds the owners large book collection while temporary dividing the living space.

You don't get an experience like this online.

There are a lot of good ideas in this truck; will they catch on?

Nobody can say for certain. But that doesn't mean that the Conservative politicians have to deny it.

For at least six weeks, thousands of barrels of tar sands oil have been bubbling up into the forest in Cold Lake, Alberta and neither the oil company or government scientists know how to stop the flow.

Government officials have no idea how to clean up these spills from a process that oil companies claim is more "environmentally friendly."

This is a truly seismic change, and may mean some big changes in the oil sands and pipeline debates.

Canada's Texas appears to be going green. And environmentalists and oil companies alike are celebrating.

The province hopes to reinforce child and family wellbeing by providing basic supplies up front, as well as long term mentoring.

It's controversial and probably cost the party leader his job, but there is much to like in it.

This stunning park isn't as famous as Banff and Jasper, but it has every reason to be.

Cars kept running into a big rock in a Calgary parking lot, perhaps because it didn't make eye contact.

This green and purple mystery finally gets its own name and some attention from aurora enthusiasts and researchers alike.

Ethics and environmental consciousness drove this project by DIALOG at the University of Calgary.

Canadian National Railways figures out a crazy new way to mix oil and plastic – to what end?

She gets around, little Miss Hermione Granger from Harry Potter. First she was the face of super trendy and super expensive Burberry. Then she launched her own line for People Tree.

Image credit: Karen, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Say an average fancy t-shirt holds carbon footprint of 6kg but is never sold and sits in the warehouse of a textile/clothing production company. I take that same t-shirt and use it to

Photo: Flickr, CC Bye-Bye Cotton, Hello Cellulose Fibers Cotton is a great fiber to make clothes with, but unfortunately, growing it causes huge environmental problems. It's a crop that uses a lot of water, and most large cotton monocultures are doused

A few years ago organic cotton and other eco-friendly textiles were getting all the headlines, but not so much now. Why is that? Scott Mackinlay Hahn answers.

When you buy a Boerum top, you'll know everything about where and how that item was produced.

It's only happening in half the world. The rest of us can keep using plastic sticks. (Don't they know about ocean currents?)

A new study explores the social and environmental costs of cotton production, and how Fairtrade certification can mitigate these.

It's great that you're buying Fairtrade coffee and chocolate, but now it's time to apply that standard to your wardrobe.

British journalist Stacey Dooley reveals what our fast fashion addiction is doing to the planet.

Once again Milan Design Week is here, and like most years, it is the small independent events that grab our attention. Like the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, that

After the beautiful Xylophone of the Forest I shared with you last month, I came across a selection of amazing wooden designs from Spain, both century-old and brand new ones. Confemadera put together an impressive selection

Last week I posted a stunning wooden bicycle, and the beautiful heritage of wooden ceilings in Andalusia from a series of wood design from Spain that Confeadera put together. Other works include the Fab Lab House, some

FOROBA YELEN is the name given by villagers in Mali to the lighting prototype following an anthropologic study. A shared technology to improve work, education and rituals.

Here's a building that saves up to 50% CO2 by controlling the sunlight with screens on its facade.

Decommisioned parachutes are being transformed into lightweight rain harvesting systems to provide drinking water in semi-arid regions.

The big light bulb manufacturers get what they want out of the DOE and the President. We should all stop buying anything from them.

That's the simple premise behind this campaign. Cameron Sinclair, "lumberjack sized Brit", author of Design Like You Give a Damn, and co-founder of Architecture for Humanity tells the story of meeting Natalie "Alabama" Chanin at a conference

US Department of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has reported on a compromise between three Southern US Governors who had been struggling over diminished access to shared surface waters. The language used to report this progress indicates a small

Last weekend, January 22nd - 23rd , over 500 volunteers from Alabama and across the country came together in Mobile Bay to lay the beginnings of oyster reefs. The volunteers strapped on boots

Families should be able to have Thanksgiving Dinner instead of having to go to work. This stinks.

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

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

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