The covering-yourself-with-blankets movement isn't nearly as cuddly as it seems.

It fosters connection and community, boosts happiness... and results in delicious baked goods.

We used to say this stuff should be banned because it was always installed badly. Has anything changed?

Finally, people are beginning to take this issue seriously.

But some people are beginning to take the issue seriously. Anthony Pak writes a good article about it for Canadian Architect.

A representative of the industry says I shouldn't be picking on fiber glass. He's right.

Biochar, the "co product" of burning wood or agricultural waste in a pyrolitic (oxygen free) environment, has

Argentine architect Carlos Levinton, who we've seen help Bolivian communities with PET, was asked by the UN White Helmets Comission to collaborate with ideas for the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.

TreeHugger didn't show many of the proposals for housing in Haiti, like Andrés Duany's proposals for a flatpack design (here in Jetson Green); We have spent too much time with Cameron Sinclair, who says "Top down solutions will

Growing up in California, I was never really scared of earthquakes -- they happened frequently and most caused little, if any,

photo: J. Novak Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on

Yet another reason why deforestation is bad: So much of Haiti's mountainsides have been eroded away because of deforestation and hurricanes that it may have stressed Earth's crust, triggering the earthquake that

Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,

Haitian schools connect to the internet for the first time, powered by the sun.

The Toronto designer has created an unprecedented collaboration, weaving together elements of craft production, community development and modern design.

Now you can get your morning coffee fix celebrity-style, thanks to an alliance between Leonardo DiCaprio and LaColumbe coffee -- plus, all proceeds support sustainable initiatives.

Breadfruit trees planted by Trees That Feed Foundation are creating food systems and jobs in Jamaica.

How one crowdfunded organization is using earth building techniques to build impressive and durable structures for Haiti.

Small-scale solar panels promise many off-grid applications for renewable energy, and the SolarPuff is a particularly elegant example.

Megan McArdle at the Atlantic piles on the Infographic debate, " issuing a plea to bloggers to help stop this plague in its track."

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.

There are so many missing teeth, so many vacant lots in so much of rust belt North America. We showed how Superkül took back a sketchy main street store in Toronto for their live/work space; Now Azure Magazine shows us how

PNC Financial Services Group, based in Pittsburgh PA, has built a plant-covered exterior wall, "to make its headquarters building more energy-efficient." Looking like one of those huge billboards seen along an

How can a city destroy an edible garden on private property without legal permission? We also have the viral party-gone-wrong prank on Shell, the 12 most toxic fruits and vegetables, and more.

The queen led her minions to the engine of a Delta airplane, delaying the flight until the protected bees could be professionally removed

We have to decarbonize, not just because of carbon dioxide and climate change in the longer term, but because it is killing us directly right now.

Don't give up; Collective and individual actions can change the world.

Technological advancements, combined with an escalating climate crisis, suggest its time to revisit some once fanciful ideas.

A growing number of cities are getting serious about tackling the climate emergency.

It's a number that's been thrown around a lot recently. There's a danger it will be misunderstood.

Two weeks of climate action are starting on April 15.

Managing a sugar bush is a win-win situation for all involved.

A study has found that kids exposed to climate change science at school use it to convince their parents of the issue's urgency.

Carbon sequestration, the technology taking carbon dioxide out of fossil fuel emissions, just got a boost

If one geoengineering plan doesn't work, maybe two or three combined will

The show gets a lot right about climate change, Al Gore and Manbearpig, but it misses something major about human nature.

Governments aren't paying attention to scientific research, but maybe crime will get people's attention.

We love products that support or revive traditional crafts. Check out, for ex ample, the work of Kallari, fair trade suppliers of traditional Amazonian baskets, which we reported on here. Now we've come across another cool basket supplier, this time

Karaoke video explaining not to drink water from wells painted red as they contain high levels of arsenic (YouTube via RDI-Cambodia) For this writer, karaoke has long been thought as an activity to be endured rather than enjoyed (and I am sure I am not

What could ravers and other all-night clubbers of the world possibly have to do with the increasingly rare Mreah Prew Phnom trees (Cinnamomum parathenoxylon), found in

There are only an estimated 116 wild Asian elephants in Cambodia's Seima Protection Area, and until now most of the photographic evidence of them has be taken by camera traps. New footage released by the Wildlife Conservation Society changes that. The

Australian researchers used LIDAR, the aerial laser technology, to rediscover the city of Mahendraparvata in Cambodia.

A community effort in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains offers hope for this unique mammal.

They may sound progressively eco-friendly, but a new Greenpeace report explains why they're not.

It's happening all over, and wood construction can make it even easier and faster.

Architects ignore it. "Heads of sustainability" ignore it. Critics have ignored it, but this may be changing.

Dan Rockhill and his students keep pushing the building envelope.

When made from the right materials, buildings can be a solution, not a problem.

It also can put people back to work and save our forests.

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?