A British critic calls two green icons, rammed earth and Passivhaus, "architectural trickery at its most cynical."

It's time for a rethink about what's really important in a home.

Design for deconstruction out of low-carbon materials is the way of the future.

Built for a sculptor and his new family on the site of an old gold mine and sawmill, this house uses reclaimed concrete blocks weighing a ton each.

But for everyone else it is a big nothingburger.

Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house.

Twice a year we look at yummy waffle slabs, a really efficient way to do more with less.

Created by Zaha Hadid Architects, this innovative project demonstrates the possibilities of using KnitCrete technology for creating curved concrete shells efficiently.

Concrete Week at the Guardian produces some hard truths.

We need a new system to determine which nations ought to be forced to cut emissions, not the 20-year old outdated one we've got now.

A new UN report says that a 1% tax levies on the world's 1,225 billionaires would more than make up for the shortfall in development aid from governments.

Good for the Westons, owners of both, for doing the right thing by admitting their use of the factory and their willingness to help out.

Many areas of the world have scarce access to electricity. This new solar lantern will provide light and charging power for cell phones.

Discarded laptop batteries could power LED lights in regions with scarce electricity.

The large solar-powered box will help farmers get more food to the market for selling.

A new plug-in diagnostic tool could mean better healthcare around the world.

Access to safe, reliable and affordable sanitary napkins is a big barrier to equal opportunity for many girls in developing countries. This inexpensive and clever set allows girls and women to clean, dry and carry their pads discreetly.

The technology could save countless lives.

In a victory for Berta Cáceres' campaign against a major hydroelectric project, two European development banks have withdrawn support following her and a colleague's recent murders.

For the last two decades, Nargis Latif and her organization have been researching how to divert waste from landfills and reusing it as quick and cheap construction materials.

Why so much focus on packaging when product waste is equally important to consider?

Whether they are growing to be thousands of years old, making life-long friendships or confounding us with their resilience, trees provide to us invaluable material resources.

The good people of Denmark phoned in enough kroner to plant nearly a million trees.

On the heels of their success pushing sales of electric cars, Norway want to spur the move to electric airplanes

Who needs flying cars when you can have flying trains?

What do you do when there's no more carry-on room?

These delicate works of art are made out of current and vintage newspaper broadsheets, and prompt us to look beyond the daily news cycle.

Forget trying to broaden your horizons. Focus on deepening them instead.

Photographed in various natural settings, these life-sized, child-like works of art invoke a sense of wonder and delight.

Using a series of rotating LED lights, this work highlights the visually transformative powers of the Moon.

Influenced by realism and mythology, these impressive works impart a sense of wonder about the natural world.

Gorgeous, soft and looking like a living UFO, this enormous work of textile art is brightening up one Paris institution.

Combining realism with an otherworldly aesthetic, these artworks remind us of the interconnectedness of all life.

“If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.”

We have standing room in landbuses, so why not airbuses?

A secret deal lets the homebuilders dominate the committees that write the building codes for housing.

I was disappointed to see that Subaru, beloved of TreeHugger types, is on the wrong side of this issue.

They say it reduces CO2 emissions by 80 percent. Does it really?

Part of a series where I try to calculate the carbon footprint of my life.

But I have it easy compared to most North Americans, and perhaps am fooling myself.

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, almost everybody is living a low carbon lifestyle.

In California, many people are saying that all the wiring should be underground because of fire risk. It won't happen.

More than 20,000 barrels of crude oil spilled, but thankfully because of a 40 foot thick layer of clay beneath the field, the oil has been relatively contained and is not believed to have reached a water source.

The largest oil spill in the U.S. happened 25 years ago today.

The biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history killed tens of thousands immediately, but the effects on climate continued for years.

Gulf Coast states and the federal government agree to the highest fine for an environmental disaster in U.S. history.

Alex Steffen comes up with a term that really defines so much of what is happening (or not happening)

In our dystopian future we might all be buying power by the watt-hour from a cart in the market.

Good affordable bikes, safe places to ride, and secure places to park.

Lloyd's of London joins the ranks of big insurers who no longer see coal as a viable investment.