Lets declare a day of non-action, of unoccupying the big box stores. Instead, let's support our local, green neighborhood shops that need our custom.

A surprise gathering organized over the Internet gathers to meditate in a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Whether you opt for 'Buy Nothing Day' or 'Small Business Saturday,' the journey toward sustainability begins with a single step.

A look at the intersection of three ways to deal with this weekend about shopping.

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

This year, take a side in the war on the car, and support stores on your neighborhood bike lane or transit route.

This building alternately fries the public, blows them off their feet and cheats them out of promised public amenities. And did I mention it's bloated, top-heavy and just plain ugly.

A condo in Manhattan and a mixed use 12 story building in Portland get a boost.

The architect/ engineer says we have the tech now to live better electrically.

If a vertical farm fantasy is the best unbuilt project in the UK, then sustainable design is in worse trouble than I thought.

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly

Big bucks go to the teams that come up with an air conditioner that's five times as good.

The most prestigious prize in British architecture is given to the solidly green project rather than the flash in the pan.

You may think it sounds like an oxymoron, but travelling to faraway places with little ones in tow can actually be quite fun. Here are some ways to make it a lot easier.

It's not all stress and extra work. In some ways, kids can make a trip more interesting and interactive.

Parks in North American cities could really take a lesson from this one in Recife, Brazil.

There are certain things I've hardly missed, and others I've missed more than I expected.

In honor of World Wetlands Day, we’re turning our gaze towards the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands—and one that’s seriously threatened.

How small is too small?

This new loft adds extra space and an extra bedroom in an urban apartment in Brazil.

In photographer Yao Lu's "View of Waterfall with Rocks and Pines," two men stand underneath the spreading branches of a gnarled pine tree, aiming their cameras off in the distance, where

What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD

While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.

A super minimalist mobile ice fishing hut consists of a wooden frame, some chicken wire and walls of ice, made on the spot.

TreeHugger visits one of Denmark's oldest Eco villages, which includes 74 sustainably-designed highly unique houses and apartment buildings that range from hobbit-style straw to high design.

Building and living in a tiny house can be a big step toward living more sustainably, but using repurposed salvaged building materials to build one might be the Holy Grail of green living.

Want to build your own tiny house? Clueless about where to start? Check out this Instructables tutorial.

Hurry, before the tomatoes set sail for the season, indulge in a big, beautiful Horiatiki salad.

New research finds that a two-pronged approach is necessary to fight things like sea-level rise and ocean acidification.

It's part of a statewide effort to crack down on plastic waste.

Everybody is hopping on the hydrogen train, but it's being driven by natural gas.

The city of New Orleans had given up on glass recycling. Enterprising students from Tulane University decided to step up to the challenge and bring back free glass recycling citywide in spring 2020.

The Story of Stuff's latest film underscores the importance of putting deposits on all cans and bottles.

Greta Thunberg, Margaret Atwood, Michael Mann, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, Bill McKibben, George Monbiot and more make the case.

Evidently natural gas has a clean image that is being threatened by reality.

Some question if it is even possible.

With a carbon credit card, it doesn't have to be hard.

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

The ones we have left should be preserved; they don't make them like they used to.

Sand mining is described as "the global environmental crisis you’ve probably never heard of." Another good reason to use wood instead of concrete.

Is this the future of construction?

It's a celebration of a technology that covers longer spans with less concrete and looks good, too. Here are some I have feasted on.

Researchers are looking to fungi to help provide a fix for crumbling infrastructure, with promising results.

So much for my New Year's resolution to stop writing about concrete planters in the sky.

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.

Did we say we hate concrete? Just the new stuff. This kind of concrete should be buffed, polished and treasured.

But nobody is buying greener cement because it costs more.

We do a little destructive testing and have a good breakfast.