The unique paint could provide clean power to homes at a low cost.

This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.

The project will also include molten salt energy storage for 24 hour solar power.

And now, in the 'Give me a break' category, the folks behind this garbage can scanner assume you can't make a grocery list on your own.

Not only will this save home owners money, but it will also allow utilities to manage demand during peak times.

This WiFi- and Bluetooth-enabled smart bulb features plug-and-play functionality, doesn't require a central smart home hub, and is designed to last for "up to 50,000 hours."

In which I try out a smart lighting system in my dumb home.

Who says you have to wait till New Year's to make a fresh start? No time's better than back-to-school season.

I knew that real-time data on our energy use would be interesting. But I wasn't sure how much it would actually save us.

Take a tour of two pioneering rooftop farms that could be the first signs of a growing and much needed movement in a rapidly urbanizing China.

This stunning temporary pavilion utilizes Hong Kong's time-honored bamboo construction methods in conjunction with cutting-edge computational design.

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

Built with the help of a village's last remaining bamboo weaver, this computer-designed pavilion was built by hand using local materials.

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to take a look at creatures just as elusive as that pot of gold.

We live in turbulent times, but this beautiful animation offers a systemic approach to facing up to change.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real estate market, and an uncertain currency future, make a house out of shredded-up money.

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.

Anti-littering ad reminds Dublin residents to put trash in its rightful place--or else!

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long-vanished lake.

In honor of World Environment Day, organizers of the World’s fair highlighted the greenest exhibit designs.

People are "risking their lives every winter by wearing dark clothing."

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

The humble avocado pit has been rescued from the compost bin of obscurity and remade into these magical little sculptures.

In which snail mail provides a lesson in the loveliness of slow living.

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

Darwin made a smart choice when he picked Galapagos as the place to develop his theory of natural selection: This group of islands has some of the most incredible species in the world. Earlier this month, a star-studded group of adventurers with the Missi

A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many

Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List, concluding:

Environmental education is playing a bigger role around the globe as we all learn more about our environmental surroundings. As

The ballooning rates of people coming to the Galapagos, as residents or tourists, over the past few years has created a variety of environmental concerns for the islands. Not least of these is waste management, as the

The Galapagos Islands are the model of biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to surmise the theory of evolution, but scientists have made arrangements to ensure that the latest round of animal deaths

Usually, air-dropping over 20 tons of poison from an helicopter on a fragile island ecosystem would be a very bad thing...

The stunning new marine preserve surrounding the Galápagos will be off-limits for fishing in a bid to conserve its unique habitat.

This discovery could change how we think our planet works

News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral.

Image: allaboutgeorge, Flickr, CC BY The Digital Migration Continues to Change the Face of Consumption A new study from the Ponyter Institute reveals that by the end of 2010, more people were reading their news online than in traditional newspapers. 34%

Is keeping up with TreeHugger too much work? Let us help with our newsletters. We have a daily, edited by me, and a weekly, edited by Warren McLaren. Today I muse about how Amazon is Now Selling More Digital Kindle Books Than Print Books. Have a look

Earlier today, I wrote about a New York Times article that described Chicago's ongoing efforts to prepare for and adapt to a warming climate. I'd like to revisit that article for a second, as it just so

The scandal du jour is unquestionably the phone-hacking debacle surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid -- which, until it was canned due to allegations of myriad criminal deeds, was England's top-selling

Amid all the upheaval in Egypt, one local newspaper is working to keep the fate of the country's natural resources from falling off the radar.

The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.

It appears that this act of God had a little help from man, and was an accident waiting to happen.

"Cities have been burying garbage for thousands of years"- so lets keep doing it!

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

"If knowledge has become a secular religion, public libraries are its parishes, mosques and synagogues."

Glow-in-the-dark wonders are "techno-poetry".

Here's how people work together to build their own homes cooperatively.

After thousands of euros' worth of damage, the tourism board is begging young people to be more respectful.

It even has moving sidewalks for bikes. This is how you get people out of cars.