It gives another meaning to 'eating off the floor.'

This small 118-square-foot apartment holds a few pleasant, space-saving surprises.

A small, rundown garage and artist's studio becomes a new home to a family of three.

Using some inventive interventions, an old parking garage is transformed into a two-bedroom apartment in Paris.

This revamp of an 1830s apartment mixes modern materials to create a modern space.

Everyone says we should do something, but nobody ever wants to pay the price.

I thought the appliance would save me time, but mostly it gives me peace of mind.

Made with simple materials, this extraordinary instrument creates experimental acoustic sounds that sound eerie yet beautiful.

Like a gadget from a superhero's gizmo-kit, two engineering students have invented a device to battle blazes with noise – water and toxic chemicals not required.

Spoiler alert: The writer turned out to be a YouTube star.

Light up your life and your living room with gorgeous lights from the London Design Festival.

Perhaps we should have included one in our perfect bathroom.

It is about time that people acknowledged that it's not just cyclists that hit their heads. Helmets for everybody!

In this installment of Town & Country, Margaret and Katherine share how they work from home.

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

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

Grassroots activist honored for 10-year protest against a proposed nickel mine on Mindoro Island

The 2019 solstice falls on June 21 ... celebrate with a crash course in curiosities about the longest day of the year.

Analysis bridges differences between various climate change models to predict North American climate change with high certainty. Will skeptics finally be convinced?

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.

No half-done couch here; there's a big place to sit and socialize.

The basketball star has a soft spot for bikes, which he says gave him important freedom as a kid.

If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March

Nic Darling is part of Postgreen Homes, builder of the 100K house and others that I have raved about; Postgreen is a different kind of developer, working in gritty urban parts of Philadelphia, doing smaller, more affordable

Going for LEED Platinum in an affordable townhouse with clean modern design

Another model for the development industry: Smart young people using their own money

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.

Turns out he was doing 46 miles per hour in a 25 mile-per-hour zone. But let's all blame the girl for distracted walking!

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.

These sliver towers are incredibly inefficient and even have fake mechanical spaces to make them even taller. We all pay the price in carbon.

If you could see "aural litter" you would be shocked at how much of it there is.

In Toronto and New York, Vision Zero is just talk. It's time for action.

One Passive House architect gives his clients what they want.

But Passive House is so expensive! How can you build housing for the homeless and low income families this way?

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.

Made with a tight budget and schedule, this structure was up and running within a matter of weeks.

I mean, shipping containers are hot. But does this kind of shipping container architecture make sense?

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.

This cozy and compact dwelling out of Oregon packs one bed, one bathroom, a kitchen and porch.

Another look at a controversial housing project.

Called 'First Light,' this now-famous event at Ontario's first European-built settlement is a special experience for the whole family.

How many crushings or deaths will it take for a school to realize that large moving vehicles and small kids on foot are not meant to mingle in the same confined space?

One newspaper says there is no difference between organic and conventional milk; another says the test pool is far too small to make that conclusion.

Who needs trees when you can have beer in corner stores?

220 years ago a lot of people wanted to move to Canada. Here is how they were welcomed.

One side effect of gold prices continuing to rise (now at a new record of $1500/ounce): Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon have increased up to 600% since 2003.

Pay attention, as this sort of thing could hit other mountainous areas that are dependent on glaciers for their water supply.

Three new private preserves have opened in Peru to buffer existing national parks. Is this the sign of a new trend?