The fashion event's EcoChic Design Awards inspire Asia’s emerging fashion talent to create with minimal textile waste.

One design attempts to deal with the problem of plastic bottle caps -- which often get discarded rather than recycled.

Featuring an interlocking system that's inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, this desk also has a swappable, modular system for organizing your stuff.

No high-tech bells and whistles here, but tried-and-true strategies are used in this renovation to make a small space feel much bigger.

This small apartment doubles as a gallery for a collector of ceramic sculptures.

It reveals what we already know but needs repeating – that more time in nature equals greater happiness in kids.

Toni Desrosiers, founder of Abeego beeswax wraps, wants people to start thinking about the natural life cycle of food.

The dead ones washing up on beaches are "just the tip of the iceberg."

Designer Orla Reynolds Designs a Bookcase Like a Stage Set for Small Spaces

We have been asking that question for a while and it keeps coming up.

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

A quantity surveyor deals with construction costs for a living, and shows how it's done.

Passivhaus or Passive House does not mean they are just houses.

Another country joins the ranks of the Powering Past Coal Alliance.

An innovative eco-tourism project in northeast Turkey will take travelers along ancient nomadic routes to taste artisanal organic honey, meet local beekeepers, and enjoy spectacular scenery along the way.

The largest honey packer in the US faces criminal charges over fraudulent trade in Chinese honey.

Now that the Toyota International Teacher Program has ended, I've decided to turn the spotlight on a few of the teachers involved. First came the middle school teachers. Next up, a couple of the high school-teaching

Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize for her presentation on oceans, and this year got her Mission Blue project up and rolling to create marine preserves. Earle's wish was that we all use all the means at our disposal to tell the story of oceans in

TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from

Lonesome George, the world's last remaining Pinta Island tortoise, has died at age 100 -- marking the final end of a species millennia in the making, and inching that 'loneliest' mantle one notch closer to us.

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.

We've reported before on Andy Revkin's assertion that "climate change is not the story of our time," as well as his sometimes provocative thoughts on geoengineering and other subjects (Rush Limbaugh once suggested the journalist kill himself to save the

Who says the New York Times is ignoring climate and the environment? David Leonhardt writes about the importance of doing something about climate, in a political climate that makes it tough.

Jeff Bezos' purchase is just another step in the long march away from newsprint.

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.

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

This contemporary tiny house from the Netherlands incorporates lots of great layout and storage ideas.

They are building "five great houses that are comfortable to live in and will have happy occupants."

Plastic waste has been diverted from the city's shoreline to create a cost-effective, green space alternative.

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

Cepezed Architects design a shelter that is elegant and self-sufficient.

The city hopes to combat overtourism by getting visitors off the beaten track and doing more useful things.

This is Paris' largest mural, made with hand-folded origami paper birds and a bit of spraypaint.

Music is a comforting thing, especially for these rescued elephants living in an animal sanctuary.

Contrary to what many people believe, they're not going to charity – just straight to landfill.

This classic design is 80 years young and some famous designers pay hommage.

Just think what the waste fat from 46 million Thanksgiving turkeys could fuel.

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

This standing desk is packed with clever organization features, and can be customized for left or right-handed people.

It tells you when to get up and to sit down, and checks up on you too.

Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it? Well, WWF has just released a new report that ranks 11 of them

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.

Companies will do anything to protect their brand – maybe even redesign packaging.

A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.

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

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half

For more than twelve tense hours, heavily armed police officers near Zanesville, Ohio scoured the region for big cats, bears, and other exotic animals set loose from a local wildlife farm -- ultimately killing nearly 50 of the 56

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.