This spacious tiny home is great for entertaining and cooking up a storm.

Made with numerous layers of paper, these laser-cut pieces are inspired by patterns from nature.

This family's self-built tiny house is part of a small off-grid homestead out in Maui.

Visitors to this regional park can rent this minimalist cabin in the woods.

Situated in a nature reserve along the Dutch coast, this unique structure not only serves as an observation post, it also provides extra bird habitats.

This couple applied precious life lessons -- learned from years of bicycle touring -- into designing their modern tiny house on foundations.

Access to affordable capital is one of the biggest challenges for expanding a young industry. For solar in Africa, crowdfunding is helping to change that

In an effort to improve kids' opinions about Brussels sprouts, a team of engineers and scientists decided to give them a cooler edge by making them power up the lights on a Christmas tree.

A new process for seeing how electricity flows at the surface of electrodes will give a boost to efforts to improve rechargeable batteries

Fiercely opposed to big government, and a huge advocate for distributed clean energy, Roscoe Bartlett now practices what he preaches.

Dubbed "Freedom Cove," this remarkable home is a decades-long labor of love built in an inlet in British Columbia.

The Bright ’N Green building is an experimental effort to combine sustainable technologies.

Lightweight shelters might be an affordable and quick option for emergency housing, but they are also susceptible to damage from high winds. This prototype could be a better solution.

The Earthship movement is more than just a bunch of dirty hippies living in a Mad Max-esque compound in the high desert of the American Southwest, as this short film illustrates.

If you like craftsmanship, woodworking, and traditional hand tools, or you just enjoy watching somebody else do all the work, you'll love this short film.

The Big World Homes project aims to be a new model of affordable housing, and its modular mobile design could make it a good fit for 'pop-up' communities on unused land.

It turns out, there are a lot of chemicals that have to be dealt with before fabrics can be reused.

Designer Salva Nadal learned how to turn canes into blinds from his uncle and is now designing a collection of products to save this Spanish craftsmanship from dying out. The results are beautiful eco-friendly lamps and a table for now.

Select zoos are enticing green families with healthier treats and recycled crafts this Halloween

Just in time for Halloween, welcome to the exquisite and eerie world of Karly Perez' art dolls.

Traditional marbling techniques are re-adapted to highlight the natural details of this lovely, hand-colored wood flooring.

Getting outside will clear your head and, at least for artist Sara Breakfield, inspires and incredible wealth of creativity and artistic spirit thanks to items found along trails.

Combining the latest in digital design tools with time-honored rush-weaving techniques, this sculptural chair marries modernity with tradition.

Why buy new gift bows when the best ones can be made easily with things you have on hand?

It might be pretty, but it's just another toxic microplastic.

Because plastic-based glitter and confetti take 1000 years to break down.

The mockery of the official meeting overshadows everything around it. Can we start thinking about what are we paying our 'representatives' for?

The commitments made by countries and the intention to set Sustainable Development Goals are good achievements, just not enough to justify a summit like this. Is it time to re-design the UN environmental meetings to work for us?

Wrapping up our coverage of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, we look at who came, who bailed out, what happened, and what didn't.

A local regulation forces all food to go through a terminal controlled by big business, but a group of small producers found a way to bypass the rule.

The London Olympics are only beginning, but the next ones are already underway with Rio's ambitious urbanization plan. Its latest inauguration: the city's third largest green area.

Fan(c)Fan is a creation by Marco Gallegos which challenges this product's typical scale and materials.

Designer Maria Antonia Godigna spent two years studying the spinning techniques of the Warao and created a line of furniture with Moriche, the palm fiber produced by them.

A look at this year's Casa FOA, an exhibition which combines charity and patrimony conservation showcasing the best architecture and design from the Argentine capital.

Spanish collective Basurama built a movable cinema mounted on a bike and used it to expose empty spots which could be turned into public spaces temporarily.

The campaign will promote locally-based alternatives to the global consumer culture, hoping to turn the stories into tools for action in other cities.

Of all of Niemeyer's impressive works, the 1960s Copan building in Sao Paulo is the one speaking directly to contemporary urban trends.

more images below Matteria, good design+smart materials online store, suggest a spicy Christmas this year, without forgetting the environment. Apart from the gorgeous cork advent candle holder, the cosy Finnish red felt slippers, and giftbags to spoil

Nobody likes being beaten about the head with the eco-stick. As many of us have experienced, railing against friends and family about the state of the planet rarely produces favourable results, or in fact any result at all. That's why TreeHugger is a

Last year at ICCF the material du jour was felt; while its presence is still being, well, felt, this year the stuff that dreams are made of is cork. And not just thin sheets of cork but big honking blocks of the stuff. It is post-industrial recycled

At TreeHugger we like cork, that warm material that can be harvested without chopping down trees, is fully renewable and biodegradable and can be shaped into many funky objects apart from stoppers to keep the wine in the bottles. The designers at

Stylish and innovative lighting is everywhere at the Design Festival this year.

If you'd like to get the junk out of your back pocket or purse, consider downsizing into a wallet such as this one, which holds just the essentials.

It's one of the few areas where people buying a home have a lot of choices. Here's a Pecha Kucha look at how to make the right one.

These beautiful and affordable handcrafted timepieces, made from natural and renewable materials, could also serve as a catalyst for conversations about sustainable goods.

It's all natural, renewable, healthy and has zero embodied carbon. What's not to love?

It didn't win the Stirling Prize, but cleans up on all the sustainability awards.

We should think differently about our material and finish choices.

With kids across America suffering from a severe case of nature deficit disorder as technology creeps in and takes over their room for creative play it may come as a surprise that a group of kids putting together their very own field of dreams on which

So you think you're doing everything you can to improve your home's energy efficiency. And if you haven't done everything you can do personally, both TreeHugger and Planet Green have plenty of tips on how you can get up to