It's not enough to not make things worse. Our buildings and our actions have to make things better.

We have never actually explained this in one post on TreeHugger. I am going to try.

Dan Rockhill and his students keep pushing the building envelope.

It also can put people back to work and save our forests.

"This is our last chance to avert a climate disaster. We must act now."

How my thinking has evolved in the last decade

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?

Unless, of course, TINA gets in the way.

If 10 percent of Americans adopted these 7 changes, we could cut total domestic emissions by 8 percent in 6 years.

"No justification can be possible for this nonsense."

What happens when you give a futuristic cloth-like material designed for BMW coupes with a bevy of design students and funding from one of the world's leading

One more example of how words can become completely meaningless and even contradictory.

It appears that drivers of fancy cars are more likely to go through pedestrian crosswalks

A prototype SUV from BMW reportedly gets 62 MPGe, far more than a Toyota Prius. It also comes with some sweet features

No "do the bright thing" for cars; instead, the BMW X6 designed to "look particularly menacing."

Pollution from power plants, cars, and other transportation is a well-known contributor to outdoor air pollution, but our indoor air quality is often worse; it can be up to 10 times worse for you than the air outside. Microbial pollutants like mold,

End goals for CO2 emissions are just one part of the picture. How fast we start moving toward them is just as important.

Up until now, only solid materials have offered the ability to capture materials using the filtering power of pores

Evonik and Siemens announce two-year project to demonstrate feasibility of "technical photosynthesis" using eco-electricity to convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals

The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.

How to slow it? Access to voluntary family planning for all women. It more than pays for itself, reducing unwanted pregnancies, abortions, unplanned births... And helps reduce humanity's environmental impact.

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.

Women are more affected by climate disruption worldwide, so their voices must be heard.

The incomparable Swedish medical doctor and statistician Hans Rosling tackles a very perverse and tenacious myth about overpopulation.

This large format photo book features hundreds of stunning images highlighting the effects that our global population of 7 billion (and growing) has on the Earth.

The Bay Area needs affordable housing. And it needs clean energy. A new campaign supports both.

In a double breakthrough, scientists find a material four times more efficient at making hydrogen by photocatalysis and demonstrate how to make it at low temperature

One of the UK's "Big Six" energy companies has gone a dark shade of green.

Home owners are going solar, without having to put anything on their roof.

Keep your plants in fighting shape, even after the first frost sets, with a geodesic-dome greenhouse of your very own. And raise a homegrown cantaloupe to Buckminster Fuller while you're at it.

It was, in 1958, the worlds largest clear span. The Union Tank Car Building was 384 feet in diameter, 128 feet high. "It was just big and magnificent," Fuller biographer Jay Baldwin said to Kansas City Star reporter Mike Hendricks. "It was a

It can; but until Americans are willing to trade quantity for quality, nobody will bother doing it.

The styrofoam substitute that they grow into packaging and insulation is the next big thing in building.

A dozen units survive, according to Alastair Gordon in the New York Times

Of course, Bucky answered, "Why not?" On Pi Day, we look at the Dymaxion and other round houses."

The biggest one is that no matter how clever the design, it is the land that matters, not the house, and that nothing has changed in 70 years.

Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects figure out how to square the circle.

The rarely seen canids were found to be surprisingly widespread across the country.

Who would have thought our canine companions could have allergies to a carnivorous diet?

Dogs have been trained to sniff out a devastating avocado tree disease before it becomes fatal – and they are really, really good at it.

The movement of air around the planet is fascinating, and has never been more clear thanks to this map. The modeling system used to make it can simulate worldwide weather at remarkable detail.

The overhaul now includes the Voyager feature for deep exploration, not just satellite views.

Making sure the water you're about to drink is free from pathogens is a snap with this portable UV Purifier.

A concept water bottle pulls water from the air like the Namib Desert Beetle.

Providing clean water in areas with minimal local resources may be as simple as implementing this ingenious DIY water treatment system.

A new cheap, lightweight sponge-like gel can quickly and efficiently disinfect drinking water for disaster victims.

This little solar powered device can take the guesswork out of SODIS water treatment, showing when the resulting water is safe to drink.