de

Elevator bed & folding porch grace this tiny house builder's home (Video)

This tiny house builder and architect just built himself and his wife a bigger (but still tiny) home, equipped with a space-saving elevator bed.




de

The Hideout tiny house has both fold-down master bed & loft

This contemporary small dwelling has both a main-floor bedroom and a secondary sleeping loft.




de

This was the decade of the bicycle. What's next?

Probably, the decade of e-mobility




de

Make room for the e-bikes, the top-selling electric vehicles for the next decade

A new study from Deloitte predicts what we have said before: e-bikes will eat cars.




de

Stop The Five Gallon Flush: A 40 Year Old Guide To Alternative Toilets

Bill Gates take note: It's all in here and It is surprising how little has changed




de

4 Composting Outhouses That Provide a Room With a View

Pooping in a hole in the ground isn't everyone's cup of tea. But with views like these, relieving yourself the old fashioned way can feel positively luxurious.




de

Blue Diversion develops a toilet that's a lot more than flush and forget

A toilet is just the working end of a much larger system that can have a huge impact on society.




de

Urine-separating toilets are not quite as wonderful as we keep saying they are

Was it design, or was it our resistance to change? What made the NoMix a NoGo?




de

New composting toilet design launched in Ecuador, which really needs it

Here's the drill on the Earth Drill toilet.




de

New toilet design doesn't need water or power

I really don't want to crap all over this new toilet design, but it is too complex, too expensive and no, it won't charge your phone.




de

The hot poop on the Cinderella incinerating toilet

Got some clean electricity? Then you can cremate your crap.




de

Man builds $1,500 tiny house, forages & grows his own food (Video)

Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food.




de

Chinese Fruit Bats Demonstrate Unusual Sexual Behavior Never Before Seen in Adult Animals

New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior. While the behavior has




de

European Bats Resistant to Deadly Fungus

Since 2006, bat populations in the northeastern United States have been decimated by a mysterious condition known as "white-nose syndrome." Caused by a fungus,




de

Going Steady: 10 Animals More Monogamous Than Us (Slideshow)

Ah love. Woody Allen has some nice thoughts on this tricky thing that perhaps gets more thought around Valentine's Day. The recent swan divorce shocked us to the core, so we decided to ponder the happy




de

Whatever, Tigers and Pandas: Lesser-Known Endangered Species Need Help Too (Slideshow)

With thousands of species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- and some 110,000




de

Cool High-Rise Bat Habitat Draws Nature's Pest-Fighters to New York Sculpture Park (Video)

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy "Bat Tower" being built to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area.




de

Deadly White Nose Syndrome Keeps Spreading Among New York's Bat Population

New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been




de

Scientists Estimate Up to 6.7 Million Bats Dead From Disease

White nose syndrome has decimated bat populations on the East Coast. Now scientists believe the disease, which is spreading, may have been worse than previously imagined.




de

Why Bats Need a 'Happy Hour' and Swedes Try to Comply

Wind power is not just a Danish success story - Swedish wind is growing leaps and bounds. But the bats may suffer, so the Swedes are trying to impose 'bat happy hour'




de

The Week in Animal News: Powerful Sea Cucumber Poo, Giant Pythons Invade Florida and More

Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.




de

Holy Bat Cloud: Designer's Eco-Sculpture Boosts Bat Biodiversity

One architect creates a series of intriguing artificial habitats for threatened bat populations.




de

Become a bat detective with this plug-in device for your smartphone

The Echo Meter can detect, record and identify the sounds of bats nearby.




de

Episode 2: Don't malign the millenials; The kids are alright.

Once again, one has to parse the data to get the real story.




de

Do fossil fuel industries understand how unpopular they are?

As alternatives to Big Oil and Big Coal emerge, it would be a mistake for executives to rely on loyalty or love from the public.




de

Public charging station powers mobile devices with footsteps and solar panels

The ENGO charging station uses kinetic tiles and solar panels to charge up to 14 smartphones at a time, and provides free WiFi access and an emergency phone.




de

Almost everyone is underestimating renewables

Most reports suggest a gradual increase in renewable energy. But don't believe the anti-hype.




de

These biodegradable bio-photovoltaics use moss to generate electricity (Video)

Using digital fabrication, moss and clay, this designer's "moss voltaics" would use these hardy plants to transform sunlight into electricity.




de

Developing countries outspent developed ones on renewable energy last year

For the first time, developing countries outpaced wealthier nations in green energy development.




de

New imaging technique sees inside lithium batteries

A new way to see inside batteries in real time as they go through charging cycles could help prevent battery fires and increase battery lifespans




de

Canada declares climate emergency, then approves pipeline expansion

Trudeau doesn't seem to understand what 'climate emergency' means.




de

Drone made of mushrooms not green, but not greenwashing either

iGEM team encourages 'materials activists' to build their own biodegradable drones with downloadable do-it-yourself plans.




de

Prototypical incubator transforms plastic waste into edible mushroom cuisine (Video)

Is this the future of food -- eating mushrooms that have been fed with plastic waste?




de

Modernist Kuskoa Bi is 'world's first 100% bioplastics chair'

Molded out of plant-based bioplastics and sitting on a wooden base, this curvaceous piece combines traditional craftsmanship and new industrial design.




de

It's a drinking straw, made from straw. Introducing Straw Straws

From the 'I wish I had thought of that' department, these all-natural straws are grown, not made from plastic, and could be a greener way to slurp your smoothie.




de

Biodegradable disposable plates are made from food waste

Here's a new take on disposable tableware: these are made from discarded food.




de

Biodegradable semiconductors could help us curb our e-waste problem

The thin, skin-like electronics may usher in a future of earth-friendly gadgets.




de

Take-out delivery giant trials sauce sachets made from seaweed

Perhaps more importantly, it's also giving customers the option of refusing such sachets in the first place.




de

Corc Yoga mats are green and gorgeous, made from trees

Crafted from sustainably harvested cork in Portugal, these stunning mats will take your yoga practice to new eco-friendly heights.




de

Your next shirt could be made from fruit and vegetable scraps

Circular Systems' innovative technology promises to transform food waste fibers into wearable fabric.




de

Edible, plastic-free packaging is created with fermentation, like kombucha (Video)

Using the same fermentation and bacterial and yeast culture that creates kombucha, this packaging is edible and compostable.




de

Veja's new vegan sneaker is plant-based and biodegradable

No more pleather: The Parisian shoe brand proves that vegan style can be sustainable, not just ethical.




de

This company is turning avocado pits into biodegradable cutlery (Video)

Here's an intriguing alternative to single-use plastics -- sourced from avocado!




de

Shellworks creates sustainable packaging with seafood shells (Video)

This alternative to single-use plastics uses a range of custom-designed machines to create a recyclable and compostable bioplastic, sourced from discarded crustacean shells.




de

Scandi design + Portuguese cork: Buy your next phone case from 15:21

It's so much nicer to feel a warm natural material in your pocket than cold slippery plastic.




de

Actor Luke Perry was buried in this biodegradable mushroom suit

The biomix-infused suit helps break down a body, while neutralizing toxins and boosting plant growth.




de

Paris opens first cemetery dedicated to green burials

No chemicals, synthetics, or gravestones – the goal is to return to the Earth as quickly and subtly as possible.




de

The Month in Design, From Micro-Apartments to GlennBeckistan

Also tanks in your backyard and killer stairs




de

Sustainable Development could be outlawed in Kansas

A bill is introduced that would make it illegal to "to promote, support, mandate, require, order, incentivize, advocate, plan for, participate in or implement sustainable development."




de

Quote of the day ties Agenda 21 to everything from Benghazi to Paula Deen

We learn that Agenda 21 is part of a much larger Mainstream Media plot to hide the UN takeover of the American government.