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

A quantity surveyor deals with construction costs for a living, and shows how it's done.

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

Another country joins the ranks of the Powering Past Coal Alliance.

Earlier in the week, the New York Times reported that bees in Brooklyn had started turning red, and their honey was looking like bright red goo. It turned out that

If you like a little sugar in your morning (and late morning, and afternoon) coffee, but don't like the calories, there's a good chance you use one of the many artificial sweeteners on the market. But there's plenty of evidence

That honey that lines the shelves of your local grocery store probably isn't honey at all.

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

You'll be surprised at how many beauty treatments you can make with just honey and a few ingredients.

Though I delved into Toyota's reasons for annually executing their singular teaching program in the Galapagos, I amazingly failed to touch on the

TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from

Lonesome George is quite a character. He's a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago, he's the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he's gone, that's it -- his species will

Each of the islands in the Galapagos is incredibly different. From landscape to ecosystem to the endemic species that can only be found in that

If Lonesome George suffers from performance anxiety, it's hard to blame him. At the ripe old age of nearly 100, the last-of-his-kind Galapagos tortoise has been charged with preserving his species' genetic

They were thought extinct, but in light of new DNA findings, scientists are echoing a very tortoise-y mantra: 'not so fast'.

Tortoise sauve! The randy 100-year-old Galapagos tortoise has sired over 800 babies.

Remember the Yellow Pages Association? They represent the folks who print phone books. They've fought some efforts by cities to ban phone book distribution, and

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

Jeff Bezos' purchase is just another step in the long march away from newsprint.

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.

And in the meantime, the bodacious bovine has become a social media star and will receive a full pardon … as soon as they can get her out of the woods.

This contemporary tiny house from the Netherlands incorporates lots of great layout and storage ideas.

Looking to tiny houses for design inspiration, these new student housing units have been constructed in a former Rotterdam office.

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

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

Cepezed Architects design a shelter that is elegant and self-sufficient.

Apparently kids are meant to be seen and not heard.

This small and versatile apartment in the heart of Paris uses innovative modern materials for its furniture and cabinetry.

A NYC-based artist and programmer makes music out of pollution; listen to it here.

While the sun may be stealing the show, the solar eclipse would be nothing without Earth's own heavenly satellite.

Helsinki's old abattoir has become the heart of the city's culinary revival, a movement blending innovation and tradition that integrates local foods, pop-up eateries, and urban gardens.

This specially designed Finnish axe requires less force to split wood as it acts both as a wedge and as a lever.

Just think what the waste fat from 46 million Thanksgiving turkeys could fuel.

Or, for that matter, park both a house and a car like Bill Dunster's ZEDpod.

After 9 p.m., shoppers snatch up heavily discounted foods that are close to expiry.

Just throw yourself wherever you want to work; your office is where you are.

And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.

It sorta defeats the purpose in about twelve different ways.

It tells you when to get up and to sit down, and checks up on you too.

In this tog-eat-tog world, the future of fashion—let alone that of green fashion—lies entirely in the industry's chameleon-like ability to reinvent itself. Take Italian outerwear company Allegri, for example. Although better known

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

Mayon is the largest of the Philippines' 22 active volcanoes, at 8,070 feet. The plumes of smoke and flows of lava make it seem like it is already erupting, yet scientists say the big fireworks could be still to come, and more than 40,000 people have

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.

The art form of papercuts is taken to another level with these intricate works that draw attention to some of the world's threatened species.

For more than twelve tense hours, heavily armed police officers near Zanesville, Ohio scoured the region for big cats, bears, and other exotic animals set loose from a local wildlife farm -- ultimately killing nearly 50 of the 56

After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended.

Two days after the earthquake caused by a nearby fracking well the mayor said, "I called my insurance man and got earthquake insurance.”