As the temperature drops in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, locals bundle up and get excited. While most wait for the first snow to cover the ski runs, others hold out for those first cold nights to freeze the area's waterfalls.

The North American holiday actually has its roots in a newspaper strike in Toronto, a fight over toxic working conditions.

Most of the english speaking world has the day off today, in what started as a tradition of helping and sharing, and ended up at the mall.

A community group plans massive tree planting effort to reforest one of Europe's least wooded areas.

The Crisis of Civilization explores our modern cultural crises by sampling archive film footage from PSAs. Now the makers are asking budding film makers to have a go themselves.

Beyond the headline, a really great overview of how globalization may well be entirely reshaped by energy constraints, for the betterment of local economies in places where manufacturing has been outsourced for years.

Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins sets out what Resilience 2.0 might look like.

The Transition Movement - a community-centered response to peak oil and climate change - has been described as "the biggest urban brainwave of the century." Join us to chat with its founder.

A pioneer of peak oil community action sits down to talk with her mother about a previous crisis and how she survived it.

New research rewrites our understanding of why no new coal deposits develop -- but offers hope for post-coal energy solutions.

Futurist Guy Dauncey acknowledges that the stakes are high and the challenges are enormous. Yet defeatism is not an option.

The Oil Drum is a website published by the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future, a non-profit that conducts research and educates the public about energy issues and their impact on society.

This rapper nails it, imho.

We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.

It takes a lot of metal to make this stuff.

Zero Mass Water's SOURCE device is a rooftop solar device that produces water instead of just electricity.

The unicorn of cheap clean home energy will most likely be found in an affordable solar roof that doesn't look like a solar roof, and that can pay for itself quickly. This startup may have developed it.

The unique paint could provide clean power to homes at a low cost.

This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.

The project will also include molten salt energy storage for 24 hour solar power.

Tesla's tiny house integrates solar power and its Powerwall home battery into a seamless system, and can be towed by the Model X.

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.

And now, in the 'Give me a break' category, the folks behind this garbage can scanner assume you can't make a grocery list on your own.

Because of course you're thinking about water conservation in your yard in the middle of winter.

This home for a family of three and two cats has been built with efficiency, comfort and health in mind.

I knew that real-time data on our energy use would be interesting. But I wasn't sure how much it would actually save us.

A new study claims that energy efficiency is driving the Smart Home market, but in fact every bit of smart tech is a little vampire.

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.

It is both a parody of the real estate business and a shocking exposé of Hong Kong Housing

Hong Kong has been trying for a long time, through various 'clean air' measures, to deal with smog that is estimated to cause 3,000 premature deaths every single year.

Take a tour of two pioneering rooftop farms that could be the first signs of a growing and much needed movement in a rapidly urbanizing China.

This stunning temporary pavilion utilizes Hong Kong's time-honored bamboo construction methods in conjunction with cutting-edge computational design.

One design attempts to deal with the problem of plastic bottle caps -- which often get discarded rather than recycled.

It is estimated that around 100 elephants are being killed each day by poachers to meet the growing demand for ivory in Asia.

The CATable will keep the cat off the keyboard.

“Wild Concrete” reveals the unintentional greenery of urban environments through photography.

It would be a good way to further broaden the appeal of electric vehicles.

Featuring an interlocking system that's inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, this desk also has a swappable, modular system for organizing your stuff.

No high-tech bells and whistles here, but tried-and-true strategies are used in this renovation to make a small space feel much bigger.

This digitally fabricated project revives a traditional material with new building technologies.

A new proposal for Hong Kong tries to fit people into pipes.

An under-utilized element becomes a bench, a place to eat, nap and store things in this redesigned scheme.

It reveals what we already know but needs repeating – that more time in nature equals greater happiness in kids.

Toni Desrosiers, founder of Abeego beeswax wraps, wants people to start thinking about the natural life cycle of food.

The dead ones washing up on beaches are "just the tip of the iceberg."

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to take a look at creatures just as elusive as that pot of gold. The lush green landscapes of the Emerald Isle look calm and peaceful from far away -- but Ireland's species -- from a gorgeous barn owl to a toad

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to take a look at creatures just as elusive as that pot of gold.

I grew up in the West of England. I like hard cider. And as a failed beekeeper, I owe a deabt of gratitude (or guilt?) to our furry pollinating friends. So I was delighted to hear that one purveyor of hard cider is

We live in turbulent times, but this beautiful animation offers a systemic approach to facing up to change.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real estate market, and an uncertain currency future, make a house out of shredded-up money.