Chanie Kirschner's house looks like one of those plastic-wrapped gifts. (Well, on the inside windows, anyway.)

Katie's Krops is helping kids fight hunger one garden at a time.

Get ready to break out the tissues with this video featuring children from the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta.

People are using low-power FM radio stations (LPFMs) to inform, educate and spark change in their communities.

Learn how Aflac and other companies are using the power of their brands to speak out on major public policy issues and social missions.

Scientists have found a 'world-class' helium gas field in East Africa. That's a big deal, and not just because squeaky voices are funny.

High blood pressure is known as the silent killer — many people don't realize they have it until it’s too late.

The bandage uses a thickening agent known as kappa-carrageenan, obtained from seaweed, to create injectable hydrogels.

The rotavirus vaccine may also have the unexpected advantage of reducing rates of Type 1 diabetes.

To solve organ shortages, some places are making it the norm to have people opt out of organ donation.

Mercury, bloodletting, corpses, radioactive water and even heroin are just some of the treatments doctors used to prescribe patients.

The quirky Joshua tree may be nearly gone in 50 years if we don't battle climate change.

After nearly 100 years of burning coal to heat and cool Congress, the U.S. Capitol Power Plant will switch over to less harmful natural gas.

Lend your voice to calls for power plants to upgrade their water systems to prevent millions of fish from being chopped to bits.

London, Houston and Bangkok are among the cities most vulnerable to sea level identified in a new report by London-based charity Christian Aid.

Dubbed 'the smartest park ever built,' the Public Square and Gardens at Hudson Yards is now open for visitors.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's $10B climate resiliency plan would extend the Manhattan shoreline by as much as 500 feet into the East River.

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison find that city blocks with 40% or more tree coverage are naturally cooler than blocks with fewer trees.

Recession proof green jobs, $7 million in energy efficiency savings and more.

'Green Buildings for Great Communities' is the theme for World Green Building Week 2012.

Calgary will be getting yet another show-stopping skyscraper, this one a LEED Platinum-exceeding mixed-use development designed by Bjarke Ingels Group.

Researchers say the beautiful new flame, inspired by fire tornadoes, may provide an eco-friendly way to clean up oil spills.

The Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday that U.S. ethanol production was down about 1 percent.

Carbon offsets could work in Indonesia, "clean coal" is a fantasy, beer companies are going greener, and can car factories really be local?

Power Trip is a fascinating journey through our incredibly complex relationship with oil, energy and everything in between.

Matt Hickman unravels the mysteries behind offsetting CO2 and buying RECs. (Hint: One of them can fund tree-planting efforts.)

Studies show that drivers older than 85 get into fatal accidents almost 4 times as often as teens do, and intersections are a problem.

Helsinki is experimenting with a plan to match people with rides, making cars unnecessary.

When the weather outside is frightful, battery performance suffers.

Cars with 10 horsepower, fish tanks and Home Depot hardware are just part of the fun. Some even plug in.

Charge Across Town is cutting carbon emissions with mobile charging. Just respect the two-hour limit.

These plug-in supercars are big on sex appeal and horsepower — but you've never heard of the companies that make them.

As CES proves, the gadgets are more important than the color and the trim package.

Electric cars are really shooting off into the stratosphere, and it’s all Elon Musk can do to keep up.

Reebook partners with architecture firm Gensler for 'Get Pumped,' a conceptual scheme in which health-conscious drivers rule the roads.

Greeting people you pass on the street with a smile and "Hello" is good for you and them.

Air conditioners have made architects lazy, and we've forgotten how to design houses that might work without it.

With its edible veggie walls and lack of traditional HVAC systems, Carbon Positive House aims to "free us of modern day lifelines."

Sky City was supposed to be 220 stories and this building was supposed to be 97 stories; but there's more to building than just technical innovation.

In a once iffy stretch of East Oakland, Tassafaronga Village stands as a model of affordable green housing done right.

Co-owned by a quartet of couples, Llano Exit Strategy blends communal living and rural solitude.

Friggatto cleverly evades the exhausting, expensive process of securing a housing permit in Sweden.

Heatherwick Studio's mighty pretty design for Maggie's Centre Yorkshire resembles a cluster of massive potted plants.

At 208-square-feet, Kasita smart apartments are roughly the size of 6 garbage receptacles.

From the man who brought you the giant tetrahedron on 57th Street...

From Apple's Spaceship HQ to GE's Boston campus, these solar-integrated designs are raising the bar.

New high-rise called Tao Zhu Yin Yuan (“ The Retreat of Tao Zhu”) by Vincent Callebaut provides luxury housing and 'hope for a better tomorrow' in Taiwan.

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The rediscovery of this hibiscus relative in Hawaii illustrates the growing importance of drones in wildlife conservation.

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