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Fixing and making feels good, and everyone's doing it, so don't be shy. Experience the Joy of Fix.

With Oxford Dictionary’s addition of the verb 'MacGyver' to the official lexicon, we pay homage to the almighty hack.

Knitted woollens should never get tossed until you've tried to repair them. Thanks to online tutorials, it's not as hard as it seems.

The state of Maryland has already shown a proclivity towards environmental programs—it has embraced wind power via positive legislation, for one. Now, it's going to clean up its wetlands. The Maryland chapter of the

Image credit: UMBI Center of Marine Biotechnology Fully Contained, Indoor Fish Farming Update: Karin has reported on this initiative before under Fish Farming Moves to the Condos, and Lloyd also covered it under the Future of Food. Great to see it still

Baltimore residents, get ready to get in on the smart grid party. Baltimore Gas & Electric has just announced that it has filed paper with the Maryland Public Service

By now you've probably heard that adopting a vegetarian diet, or at least cutting way down on you meat consumption, is a great way to reduce your ecological footprint and get some great health benefits at the same time. Now

For most people, living along southern Chesapeake Bay with a scenic view over the waterfront might sound idyllic, but for nearly 100 residents who do, it's turned into a nightmare. Slowly, the

Name calling is so much fun. Maryland State Senator Richard Colburn, R-Cambridge, thought he was having some at our expense when he characterized

Not waiting for national legislation to set a price on carbon and kickstart the journey to a low-carbon future, Montgomery County, Maryland has enacted one the country's first carbon taxes. Passed by a vote of 8-to-1 the tax

To many people, Jim Hart and Khalil Abusakran are heroes. When the two men from Maryland saw a deer stranded in the icy waters of the Patapsco River, they did what few others would dare. With an

Researchers found that a 10 percent increase in trees roughly matched a 12 percent decrease in crime in Baltimore.

Millions of Americans are applauding President Obama for naming five new National Monuments.

Not sure if you really want to live in a tiny house? This tiny home builder is making these cabins from salvaged materials, which visitors can test out at an eco-retreat in Maryland.

They are certainly more reflective, but that's not the only thing that matters.

"Less is more" is so over; These days the mantra is "too much is never enough."

Located in Rotterdam, this Concept House features a huge rooftop garden, and uses natural heating and cooling techniques to keep maintenance costs down.

There is not much that can go wrong in such a simple concept. That's really smart.

Diverging from the Sprinter van conversion trend, this man revamped an old life-saving vehicle into his own tiny home.

Blouin Tardif Architectes do a beautiful adaptive reuse and addition in Montreal.

This family with four kids is traveling full-time in a beautifully redone vintage Airstream trailer.

This delightful apartment renovation in Spain hides a huge bathtub and other mysteries.

Vibrant tones liven up this redesign of a 1920s apartment in Stockholm, Sweden.

This former pigeon roost is transformed into a light-filled family home.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation shows how thinking circular could change the way we live for the better.

Turns out, environmental issues are not about awareness. People get it.

Great cities know the future is renewable.

And we thought it was all about symbolism...

Pioneers are already making inroads into the market. But once economies of scale kick in...

We used to say this stuff should be banned because it was always installed badly. Has anything changed?

lamar5292 has an idea for getting Haitians green housing: So how do you provide quick permanent safe housing that is also green in a situation like that? My suggestion is to take all the countries excess shipping containers to Haiti to be converted

photo: J. Novak Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on

How one crowdfunded organization is using earth building techniques to build impressive and durable structures for Haiti.

Three years after a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, health care workers are still finding it difficult to get medical supplies, but an aid group is putting 3D printing to work to make some of the needed items.

While global warming naysayers seem content to continue flouting the overwhelming scientific consensus in favor of this anthropogenic phenomenon, they seem to have gotten one point largely right: hurricanes didn't suddenly begin massing over the past

We want to extend National Talk Like A Pirate Day just a few more days, especially since it is helping to spread the word about clean sailing and boating. The Sierra Club has put together a fun set of questions to not only get you in the

Number of storms predicted per year during the period 1854 -- 2006 versus numbers actually observed for the Atlantic (filled diamonds). The model predictions (grey curve) have been normalized to the data. A quadratic fit to the model is shown for

Another summer site that is now open is the Duncan House, a Usonian design by Frank Lloyd Wright that was moved from Chicago to Polymath Park, a resort near Pittsburgh. Usonian houses were "ypically small, single story dwellings without a garage or

We have to decarbonize, not just because of carbon dioxide and climate change in the longer term, but because it is killing us directly right now.

The case is actually moving forward.

It's a number that's been thrown around a lot recently. There's a danger it will be misunderstood.

He's not exactly treating it like a crisis. But at least he's doing something...

Managing a sugar bush is a win-win situation for all involved.

"Being the Change" is proof that weaning oneself off fossil fuels is not only possible, but also joyful and fun for a young suburban family.

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The health of young people is disproportionately harmed by climate change, and the government has failed to keep them safe.

Previously unknown species in a relatively undisturbed bioregion of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia have been uncovered by a recent study — 24 in total, including a so-called "corpse