Great gift ideas from DesignMarketo, a platform diffusing up-and-coming designers’ small and limited productions. Our favourite: "Save Fish, Eat Chips" t-shirts!

With demand for natural textiles spiking, sustainable companies need to look beyond pesticide- and water-intensive cotton

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

This is where your next pair of underwear needs to come from.

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

Solar Sister showcased just some of the efforts taking place around the world. Here, the Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Mauritania install solar panels in their villages. They received training in Rajasthan, India. Image: Barefoot Photographers of

An amazing wooden bicycle, hand-made in Spain by two brothers for professional cyclists. The wooden frame is lightweight, resistant and beautiful!

The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other!

Scientists find signs that the germ causing strep throat and flesh-eating disease may be moving closer to resistance to penicillin and other related antibiotics.

Telling people to be grateful for what they have doesn't help alleviate symptoms of depression or anxiety, according to new research.

Social distancing doesn't mean you can't go for a solitary hike in the wilderness.

What could possibly go wrong?

War correspondent Gwynne Dyer says they should worry more about carbon and climate change.

"People are visible Wednesday, June 6, 2007, on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., where a section of the $4 million protective sand berm was washed away by higher-than-usual tides over the weekend. An intact section of the berm can be seen in the

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

A seasoned dumpster diver who lived without cash for a year, Mark Boyle—aka the Moneyless Man—knows more than most about getting by without money. Having explored how to travel without cash, he's

50% of Americans had reduced their electronics and apparel expenditures in the past 12 months, according to a survey conducted by management consulting firm, Booz & Company. They sum up their findings saying that "the impact

Lisa Gansky sees a new emerging business model emerging. One she has dubbed, The Mesh. "... one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide those choices." A model

It's one thing to drive to the mall, but one fifth of Canadian shoppers are driving to another country. That's crazy.

A surprise gathering organized over the Internet gathers to meditate in a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

A look at the intersection of three ways to deal with this weekend about shopping.

Adopting a waste-conscious and anti-consumerist lifestyle is not something that happens overnight. Sometimes it's nice to hear about other people who are just starting out, like this young family from southwestern Ontario, Canada.

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.

Some of them are surprising and all of them will make a real difference.

The architect/ engineer says we have the tech now to live better electrically.

This just pushes every TreeHugger button.

House on the Highlands wins the rural category in the UK Passivhaus Trust Awards.

The judges got it right this time.

Too much information?

Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes.

The most prestigious prize in British architecture is given to the solidly green project rather than the flash in the pan.

RIBA has announced that all its prizes will now be sustainable. We are going to need a counterpoint.

They say these are about celebrating the best contemporary architecture. But what does that mean today?

Solar power has grown up, and it's ready to blow up.

This coastal region, which specializes in sun, surf, and seafood, is well worth visiting if you're ever near Rio de Janeiro.

This fascinating film reveals disturbing facts about malnutrition and infant mortality, and the role of insidious corporations in perpetuating these problems.

A relentless sweet tooth, naïveté, and sneaky marketing are conspiring to create a health disaster in every corner of this country.

A lack of space becomes something more roomy with some simple design strategies.

When the team at nature-minded Spanish architecture firm Urbanarbolismo decided to build a tree house, they set some high standards. Working with a centuries old oak tree, they wanted to create a place for

What's the cutest tiny shed or building, best single family house, or best new furniture design? Vote on these and more.

Here is a way to squeeze six stories of building in the space of five.

Mount Manresa was a community space owned by Jesuits, but has now been sold to developers.

An experienced Chicago builder is making a big investment in it.

We have to use less of the stuff in our cars, our buildings, and our infrastructure.

This tender, buttery, flaky crust is one of the easiest I've ever made, and also the most delicious.

New research finds that a two-pronged approach is necessary to fight things like sea-level rise and ocean acidification.

Andrew Scheer is a climate arsonist.

Provincial regulation would make stores' waste-reduction efforts easier to manage.