Inspired by theater set design, this versatile volume holds storage and other hidden furniture.

For thousands of years, people have wondered how these monuments in Egypt were made.

Architects are finally taking it seriously. It's about time.

Also we've got electric motorcycles and hot rocks.

With a few tips from Grandma thrown in.

Plus two ways to go green as we upgrade our popular series.

Not to mention getting buried in dirt or building with it.

Plus lots of green things.

With a visit to a festival and a brown lawn.

And a few looks back at themes of the last ten years.

Also, much ado about nothing.

Digest our newsletter with your breakfast.

In today's weekly newsletter, we go on about why cold showers are good for you (not the reasons you think); show off some very fancy LED lights in a very old fixture design and whine about the designs of tiny houses.

Here are the favorites in our favorite category

We love little boxes!

A Guardian article inspires a silly roundup

We're not called TreeHugger for nothing.

Many of them seem to be about bikes and transportation though....

You picked them! We hug'em!

August is the best month for tiny houses and here are the best tiny houses of August.

From tiny houses to busy bees

Can't keep up? Here's the best of the week in TreeHugger in digestible little bits.

But what about the future we need?

Because we are not called TreeHugger for nothing.

There is a shipping container building revolution coming, but it won't look like a bunch of silly boxes.

Your favorite clothing item just got even better. These new leggings from Girlfriend Collective tick all the boxes when it comes to eco-friendly and ethical production.

The longer we wait, the more expensive (and dangerous) it gets.

What with social networking sites like Facebook all the rage right now and more attention than ever being focused on the issues of global warming and climate change, the moment certainly seems propitious for the unveiling of MakeMeSustainable, a

Tweet tweet. Collect enough virtual birds and you could make it to the Galapagos.

Why did Facebook pay $1 billion for Instagram and what can the environmental movement learn from this? It's all about emotion.

Writing in Bloomberg, Marc Champion has a thought-provoking, but controversial take on horse meat, noting that the ban of horse slaughterhouses in the US has increased suffering for the animals. Is that a case for killing them here?

If you cannot be live in Munich for eCarTec, check out the photo updates on their facebook page

The company would use the Solara solar-powered drone, which can remain in flight for five years at a time!

It is a fascinating product, glazing that darkens at the flip of a switch, eliminating the

We all know that America and the world are getting fatter, but I didn't know that they are even now making special toilets to deal with the problem. In fact it is, um, an expanding market; The Zurn Bariatric wall hung flush

What can one say about a show that attracts 23,000 green building professionals across the border to Toronto? It could only beGreenbuild, the grand spectacle put on by theU.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). This was its tenth

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

It's the Oscars of green building products chosen by the experts, in the runup to Greenbuild.

LEED v4 is here.

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

Waste water and waste heat recovery together at last, perhaps the most interesting new thing at Greenbuild.

It's the right thing to do in so many ways, as LivingHome, Make it Right, Cradle to Cradle and Hanley Wood build a comfy new home for the Lower Ninth

It's a ritual; they pick the ten top products and I complain that they are not sexy. This year is different.

This Australian design takes the work out of parking bikes.

There were inspiring people and some neat new things at Greenbuild, and my biggest ever Best of Show.

It's like watching paint dry.

What do we really want from a building certification system?

Religious communities may be wide open to fighting climate change, new evidence reveals.

The Shakers may be long gone but their simplicity of design still has an influence on American furniture.

"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."