The key to sustainable fashion lies in simplifying materials and design.

We need a new approach to making and buying clothes because the current system is unsustainable.

Better yet, Citizenne Style's tips don't require you to make any new online purchases.

The index, published by Fashion Revolution, assesses how brands disclose information about business practices, not their ethics or sustainability.

A short video measures fashion waste against famous landmarks to give some perspective.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation introduces a prize that rivals architecture's Pritzker or Stirling.

Henning Larsen's design for Fælledby is "a model for sustainable living."

A new report describes this trend, happening in suburbs and small towns near successful big cities.

They will also likely offer a new definition of 'sustainable design'.

Apparently, policy is more important than place.

Supple and glowing is preferable to chapped and flaky.

Both offer a 'dream version' of yourself, but one is far trendier than the other.

This is serious surgery with long-term implications. We need to stop treating it so lightly.

New research reveals that the active ingredient in whitening products can damage the layer beneath the tooth's enamel.

Women share their tried-and-true fixes for this incredibly common yet rarely discussed problem.

It comes in dry tab form. Just bite and brush!

Just because something is BPA-free doesn't mean it's safe.

But this doesn't mean we should give up on fair trade certification.

This is precisely the kind of healthy, sustainable agriculture we should be trying to expand globally.

A new survey finds that young people expect bugs to be a normal part of our diets within a decade.

The idea is that it will reduce animal suffering, but it's more complicated than that.

After evidence that China violated the treaty intended to protect the earth's ozone layer, the country has leapt into action.

Is the idyllic, organic farm worse for our balance with nature?

William Nordhaus und Paul Romer

I finally stumbled upon wabi-sabi. But somehow I have always known it.

George's species fell victim to cannibal snails introduced to combat African snails, one of Earth's worst invasive species

Sustainability matters, but so does hypocrisy.

The upfront carbon emissions from replacing existing buildings now are as big as operating emissions. We have to stop this now.

A minimalist and discreet addition to some exuberant older houses.

73% of chocolate comes from Africa, and much of it is worked by children, virtually in a state of slavery

When you're biting the head off a chocolate bunny this weekend, the last thing you want to be thinking about is whether your sweet treat was the product of child slave labor. Don't let that happen to you. Buy good chocolate, people!

You don't want to ruin the romance with a gift contaminated by child labour and slavery.

I've eaten a lot of fabulous fair trade chocolate, and this is undoubtedly the yummiest I've ever had!

Whether it's fair trade, organic, handmade, tree-to-bar, or direct trade that you're looking for, these companies have something delectable for everyone.

This woman-owned business is making some of the best chocolates on the planet, using Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa to craft a line of luxurious truffles and bars.

Bun in the oven? Have a bonbon!

This version contains no added sugar or oil, and yet it tastes fantastic.

After decades of promising reforms, chocolate companies have failed to deliver.

Unless we change the way we buy chocolate, we could lose it forever.

The creation of a summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery is an annual tradition; and this year it's weird.

What could be lovelier than a butterfly; even when it is made out of a can of beer.

That's a switch: a product from the field of medicine has won a design prize.

Bees, ivory poaching, and war are amongst the themes portrayed in this year's shortlist.

Usually the Serpentine commissions one architect to create a building: this year it's five.

You've heard of starchitects, well here's a super-star engineer: welcome to Ove Arup's world.

That's 0.0082677165 inches for Americans, and really thin in either unit.

Apple just bought its first load of greener aluminum. But you cannot call it carbon-free.

Industrial designer Mark Sanders shows us all how.

It's a duffel bag with various inserts that will keep you organized whenever you leave the house.

It's an ingenious design that means you'll never have to choose between the two again.