Our favorite cartoonist solves a major problem with tiny houses.

Cartoonist and inventor Steven M. Johnson has us climbing the walls.

It's a good time of year to look at the benefits of slowing down.

We've discussed Osprey packs in the past, particularly their Resource collection of packs with about 80% recycled content (see links below). Recently, we noted via SNEWS that they'd released their 2009 Sustainability Report, indicating

Last April, airport authorities became suspicious of a traveler arriving to LAX from Vietnam after noticing bird droppings on his socks and feathers peeking from the cuffs of his pants. A closer inspection of the man,

Here is a great way to keep out the sun and plant a vertical garden

It looks more like a temple than a bar.

This long, deep house has a wonderful low tech vertical garden that anyone could maintain.

Built with a lighter impact in mind, this small mountain retreat is nestled among the trees in Vietnam.

Made with strong and versatile bamboo, this structure has had multiple lives and can be easily and quickly assembled and disassembled over and over again.

There is a man dressed in a silver lamé suit jumping about with extraordinary energy in a wind blown field in West Wales. His name is Steve Edge and his motto in life is:

So far in our Do Lectures 2011 series we've talked about the fact that Things Are Not Just The Way They Are, we always need to ask difficult questions and challenge the

The Solar Training Network will work to build a diverse, qualified solar workforce to meet the needs of the solar revolution.

Basically, Pakistan's hydroelectric reservoirs are drying up. Several are reported to be at "dead level," which means the turbines can only use run-of-the-river flows, and have lower output as a result. Because natural gas supplies are also low,

People often write of climate associated flooding, loss of agricultural productivity, spread of tropical disease, and so on. The City of Lahore, Pakistan is experiencing

As if melting Himalayan glaciers weren't enough to radically (and perhaps catastrophically) reshape water supply in South Asia, a new report from researchers at Purdue University shows that summer monsoons could be

With all the recent brouhaha over inaccurate and since retracted statements in the 2007 IPCC climate change report about the speed with which Himalayan glaciers are melting, a recent series of posts over at China Dialogue is

From the "re-positioning of old news' file: as quoted in the New York Times story about a trillion dollar minerals discovery in Afganistan, U.S.

Back when 20% of Pakistan was underwater, I wrote about the influence of deforestation on the flooding--deforestation caused in no small part by illegal logging at the hands of the so-called timber mafia, a group with

After Pakistan's extensive hydroelectric power resources dried up in 2008, Australian coal was marketed to satisfy the growing power consumption

As salinization impacts agriculture around the world—another effect of climate change that will hit already-vulnerable places and people the hardest—farmers, small-scale farmers in particular, have to figure out how to

If you thought the flooding in the northeast in the wake of Hurricane Irene and subsequent storms dropping heavy rain, thank your lucky stars you're not in Pakistan. In a repeat of last summer, the nation is again in the grips of catastrophic flooding,

Climate-related disasters and other losses will cost Pakistan $14 billion each year, a former environment has said.

It's like that 1965 movie Crack in the World, where drilling for geothermal energy causes all kinds of problems. There are such high hopes for real geothermal power; there is a lot of heat down there that can vaporize water and run turbines.

When huge volcanoes erupt, sending ash miles into the atmosphere and shutting down air travel for entire continents, the world can't help but take notice. Yet everyday, around the planet, smaller displays of geothermal force take place. Sometimes, it's f

When huge volcanoes erupt, sending ash miles into the atmosphere and shutting down air travel for entire continents, the world can't help but take notice.

Demand for lithium is growing very rapidly thanks to portable electronics and electric vehicles. What if we could get a lot of lithium cheaply, without building new mines?

This new design might be the nail in the coffin of geothermal heat pump systems.

Post-war, Lyons Tea Shops could't redecorate, so they commissioned some great paintings instead.

Craving the perfect cup of tea on a chilly morning? Here are some companies with ethical business practices worth supporting.

Frank Lloyd Wright would probably have liked this little addition to his winter home.

These flowery sculptures seem to grow and flourish, out of repurposed dead animal skulls.

You will find your ikigai at the intersection of what you are good at and what you love doing.

The embrace of negative space is celebrated in everything from home décor and flower arranging to poetry and all aspects of Japanese daily life.

It's wood, it's small, it's resilient.

This chapel looks to nature and the generations-old tradition of Japanese wood joinery for inspiration.

This Japanese approach to managing household spending may be over 100 years old, but it's as relevant as ever.

Meet the 'Japan pig,' a newly discovered pygmy seahorse that is as tiny as it is beautiful.

When I asked whether vegans can eat carrots grown with manure, some commenters found the question despicable. But my intention was not to question anyone's commitment, nor to lessen the

The map above is the first illustration of worldwide imbalances in the use of phosphorus, a key component of fertilizers and an essential plant nutrient. "Typically, people either worry

It seems that GMOs are again steamrolling their way through our legal system. Back in December it seemed there may be a light at the end of the tunnel when a federal judge ordered that 258 acres of genetically modified sugar

The disaster at Fukushima may have faded from the news cycle, but the radioactive waste it left behind isn't going anywhere. At the Saitama sewage treatment plant, 169 miles from Fukushima, workers are dealing with tons of

It sounds ridiculous: how could an element on the periodic table be an endangered species? The scientist, James Elser of Arizona State University, who is asking if we need a 'Red List' for phosphorous uses the

A new tea set to become the world's most expensive is being fertilized with panda feces, and is touted as having cancer-preventing properties.

A government report has found that selenium contamination is connected to fish deformities, including two-headed trout.

Straight outta Humboldt, this app is a great intro to the "art and craft" of brewing your own compost tea for boosting microbial activity in the soil and improving yields.

Could human urine be used on a commercial scale to fertilize the food we eat?

In this case, the HORSE is a 'living' machine, not an animal, and has the potential to reinvent the food cycle.

In which I try to clear up some misconceptions.

Peter Rickaby says he has "never been more optimistic about the possibility of change," but it will require some radical action.