The iPod of thermostats gets updated with new energy saving features and increased functionality in its mobile apps.

What if the Google Street View car took thermal energy scans of all the country's buildings and then built a database of building energy efficiency information? That's the concept behind startup company Essess's approach to home energy audits.

An ice cream cart uses solar panels to power its refrigeration unit.

A unique solar panel has been designed at Stanford that cools buildings by reflecting sunlight and radiating thermal energy out into space.

Using an age-old method to cool the air, this terracotta "cold pot" could be an energy-efficient and low-maintenance alternative to conventional air conditioners.

The thermostat add-on lets consumers set a limit to what they want to spend on cooling and heating and then it controls the temperature to keep energy use in check.

The smart thermostat will help people save even more money and help utilities curb peak demand loads.

This ancient method is simple and cheap.

The Center for Food Safety's recently launched network is a bid to preserve global plant biodiversity and work toward food security around the globe.

From brilliant pink lady katydids to devil-faced orchids, this year's list of new-to-science wonders proves Mother Nature is full of surprises.

Whether for parental sanity or oceanic health, this is a powerful step toward a much better world.

Britain's Conservative government is expected to announce wide-ranging measures to tackle ocean plastic pollution.

Until now, no species has had such a profound effect on shaping the Earth's biosphere as the humble broiler chicken.

Are we really going to let this happen on our watch?

Entice butterflies to stay, eat, mate and lay eggs in your garden with these plants and tips.

"Naked wine," "raw wine," "biodynamic wine" have reached a feverish peak among trend-setting oenophiles. But what do all these labels mean, and are they actually better for the environment?

It's an industrial design approach, a product that is refined almost to perfection.

The company explains why all-electric homes are healthier, safer, and more sustainable.

The promise of prefab was healthy, cost-effective, energy efficient homes designed by talented architects. Is it finally here?

They're designed as temporary living for Malibu fire victims, but nice enough that they might never leave.

With aging baby boomers and young people who can't afford housing, there's going to be a huge market for these.

These flat-packed rest-and-recovery units could take the load off hospitals in a hurry.

But does building it out of refurbished shipping containers make any sense?

Synthetic fertilizer is likely to become significantly more costly for US farmers. This trend will make manure a valuable commodity once again (as it was prior to the 1950s). There are two main reasons for the

Using reclaimed wood and steel from old pig fences, this Dutch company makes exquisite tables, while recycling all byproducts into other useful goods -- cat litter, compost and alcohol..

Buying green furniture can be tricky, so we've lined up some tips to help you furnish your house.

It is all about the progression through the spaces.

People have complained about his building since they started pouring the concrete.

This is turning into a really big bandwagon.

He was a pioneer of sustainable design.

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes

Or why the trend toward simplicity is not all it's cracked up to be.

BloomingTables are a lovely solution for saving space ... and keeping indoor plants away from kids and pets.

Strategically clustering indoor plants in a group is a great idea, here's why and how to do it.

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.

There are some significant advantages to an affordable kit like this.

Why aren't people lining up for this enclosed solar powered e-cargo tricycle? It pushed every button.

Thanks to the folks at Daily Candy for this awesome tip! With the holidays coming up, and that inevitable office party or family gathering, maybe it's time to freshen up your kitchen

With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged

Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the

It may sound like an oxymoron, bringing sustainable practices to mining operations, but unless we all stop consuming resources immediately, mining is also not going anywhere. So this is good news: since 2007, Alcoa's Jamalco

You can't call an aluminum guest house dropped by helicopter green, but you sure can call it cute.

Another reason that we have to use less of the stuff.

But hey, it's all in the interest of national security; Americans have to be ready to defend themselves from Canada.

There is an alumina crisis right now. Making it is dirty and polluting, and it's back in the USA.

A new book, Allowed to Grow Old, reveals beautiful portraits of something we don't get to see very often: Elderly farm animals.

Environmental and animal protection groups have sued the administration over the Trump-Bernhardt 'extinction plan.'

Jellywatch.org has tapped into the power of citizen scientists to collect data on jellyfish populations and you can help.

Smaller, faster, cheaper! Single board computer (SBC) innovations are jumpstarting a whole new wave of DIY devices.

Now you can handwrite letters on your computer.