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LEED-Bashing: USA Today Series Says It's Too Easy To Be Green (and a Whole Lot More)

The rating system is attacked in 2012 for its 2002 standard and the timing couldn't be worse.




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Rick Fedrizzi Defends LEED, Attacks The Naysayers and Delivers Barn-Burner Defense of Green Building

The CEO of the USGBC brings it on and fights back against the Plastic People their poodles in Congress




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New LEED standards mean healthier, greener buildings on the way

LEED v4 is here.




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Amazing glass that tints on demand is now solar powered

This glass makes your window treatments obsolete.




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Pedia-Pod aims to "make kids feel like they're not in a hospital"

This pediatric care unit showcases how sustainable and kid-friendly design can come together.




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Is LEED tough enough to stop climate change? Is it even the right question?

What do we really want from a building certification system?




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We Are Sacred As The Earth: An Interview With Earth Activist Starhawk

"I believe that the earth is calling to us and that we are here to serve the planet as a whole by our ability to appreciate, to give gratitude and praise, to become ecstatic with wonder for the earth."




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Pope Benedict quits; Was advocate of a cleaner, greener lifestyle

When Copenhagen failed in 2010, he denounced the failure.




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1,000 year old cathedral goes solar

This may, possibly, be the oldest building in the world to go solar.




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Saudi Prince building solar powered city with robots, glowing sand and an artificial moon

Will NEOM be "an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization" or "a totalitarian surveillance state"?




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What if all the spiders disappeared?

Although some may wish it so, a world without spiders would be a miserable place.




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Scientists just discovered billions of organisms underneath the land and sea

Not in the ocean. Below it.




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Recycling is hard. That's why we have to eliminate single use packaging and not get distracted.

StackitNOW is a great idea but also demonstrates how intractable the problem is.




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I almost missed America Recycles Day!

My favorite day of the year is a shadow of its former self.




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What's happening to all the "recycled" waste now that it's not shipped to China?

It's déjà vu all over again as the industry pushes "chemical recycling".




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Midcentury church in Quebec is converted to a library

Dan Hanganu mixes the modern with the even more modern, totally respectful of the original.




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Summer cottage is prefabbed out of cross-laminated timber

In a country covered in wood, by a lake far from construction workers, it makes so much sense.




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Canada's first tiny house festival debuts as part of planned tiny housing development

We visited Canada's first tiny house festival to find out more about this newly declared eco-residential development in Quebec for homes under 1,000 square feet in size.




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Winterproofed houseboat with a rooftop deck is a tiny hotel on the river (Video)

Here is one woman's version of simple living on the river, in a boat that is equipped to see the tough northern winters through.




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Forest cabin enlarged into small birdhouse-like wilderness retreat

An existing storage shed in the forest is transformed into a small modern home with a striking form.




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Well-crafted 28' tiny house is a beautiful modern home

Lots of luxurious details in this solar-powered, off-grid tiny house.




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All about eaves, Quebec edition

A lovely cottage by Yiacouvakis Hamelin Architectes breaks all the rules about roofs.




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Aquaculture Industry Looks to Sustainable Feeds

Experts agree that as wild fish stocks decline and the world's population grows we will increasingly rely on aquaculture to feed the hungry planet. But many conservationists are concerned about the




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Event: Recycled Swimwear Designer Aaron Chang Opens Green Art Gallery

Image via: Aaron Chang Gallery Aaron Chang, popular recycled fashion swimwear designer and professional photographer, not to mention surfing legend, is opening a green art gallery in San Diego, February 28, 2009. Each of the pieces are printed with




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Los Vecinos: First Platinum LEED-Certified, 100% Solar Powered, Affordable Housing in San Diego

Image via: Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation Los Vecinos, the first LEED-Certified Platinum, 100% solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego, offer 42-units of state of the art in green housing. The $17.6 million USD project opened its doors




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Wired Interviews Paul Hawken

Wired News chats with environmental economist Paul Hawken about his latest book, how PBS is turning another into a 17-part TV series, and how he is organizing the environmental movement through a collection of wikis. We've excerpted some choice




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Tiny solar cells placed under the skin could power pacemakers and other implants

A typical pacemaker could be powered by solar cells as small as 3.6 square centimeters, which could be implanted under the skin, thereby avoiding the need for periodic battery replacements.




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Cough syrup doesn’t work; these remedies do

We spend billions of dollars on over-the-counter cough medicine, but numerous studies find it’s not effective. Try these tips instead.




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Toronto nurse turns medical waste into a stunning mural

After 28 years of collecting lids, tabs, and connectors, Tilda Shalof was ready to turn them into a work of art.




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10 conditions where lifestyle changes could prevent medication

From helping with dementia to prehypertension and chronic pain, these lifestyle changes could help you hop off the medication merry-go-round.




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Why people shouldn’t take fish medicine

As an alternative to expensive antibiotics, people have taken to taking amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, penicillin and other drugs meant for fish. Here’s why it’s a bad idea.




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Pediatricians warn that climate change is harming children's health

A new study shows that children bear 88 percent of the burden of diseases linked to climate change.




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This high-tech, grow-it-yourself medical cannabis kit is as easy as using an app

Seedo, creators of automated consumer grow labs, will shortly plant a seed in the U.S. medical marijuana market.




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The simplest trick cured my chronic insomnia

After decades of increasingly complicated insomnia fixes, this one little thing changed everything.




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16th-century text shows ginkgo seeds can fight skin infections

Inspired by a centuries-old text on traditional Chinese medicine, a young researcher has found that seeds from the gingko tree could prove helpful for acne, psoriasis, dermatitis and eczema.




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How vets used fish skin to help save sweet Stella after a fire

Fighting for her life after narrowly escaping a horrible house fire, doctors used sustainable fish skin grafts on the Rottweiler's burns to help save her life.




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I tried eating like Leonardo da Vinci

When I stumbled across some of da Vinci's favorite vegetarian recipes, I knew I had to try them. Here's how it went...




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My love affair with herby, veggie-packed omelets

Forget smoothies. Omelets are the best way to sneak piles of greens into the morning meal.




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Potomac River Named as America’s Most Endangered River of 2012

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, and while some great progress has been made, there are still many rivers which are endangered, including one flowing through our nation's capital.




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The Colorado River named most endangered river in America [Video]

A beautiful video by photographer Pete McBride shows how this epic and ancient river is now the most endangered in the country.




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Save the Buffalo River! America's first national river threatened by Cargill factory hog farm

Forty years ago, activists blocked plans to dam the Buffalo River, eventually getting Congress and President Nixon to designate the river as America's first National River. Now, a factory hog farm is putting one of Arkansas' most beautiful spots at risk.




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See what environmental problem Robert Redford and Will Ferrell are fighting about

This fake fight has a good cause.




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America's top 10 most endangered rivers in 2014

If a country is a body, rivers are its arteries through which vital blood flows. We must revive our waterways before more damage is done.




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Proposed floating NYC beach would sit on reclaimed barge

Lazy New Yorkers who want to stay on the island and sunbathe will get this floating artificial beach on the Hudson River if this scheme gets crowdfunded and approved.




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Expedition floats length of Mississippi River on raft made from trash

Recycled Mississippi is traveling the length of one of America's iconic rivers, which also happens to be one of the most polluted, and filming a documentary along the way.




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Self-powered fish tag tracks fish for as long as they swim

Long-living fish can now be tracked for their whole lives with a single tag.




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River Ethiope could be first waterway in Africa recognized as a living entity

Rivers are people too, you know.




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European cars may soon have "Intelligent Speed Assistance." Should every car have this? (Survey)

When you try and go too fast it says, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."




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First pedestrian death caused by speeding autonomous car

Perhaps AVs should have their own lower speed limits until they figure this all out.




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Bike industry bigwig says bikes will need to communicate with self-driving cars

They want to build beacons into bikes. Will implants in pedestrians be next?