A lot of our history is being lost so that people can get that popular look.

This is, whether we like it or not, the future of furniture design.

It's a nice idea, but it needs a bit more rigor.

Here's a lovely renovation using the healthiest materials, and as few of them as possible.

The LightCycle follows our circadian rhythms via your phone and GPS.

Every year we go look for the latest in sustainable design. Every year the post gets shorter.

These pink and blue-tinted photographs suggest that our biology has a big influence on the way we perceive reality.

Made with beads, yarns and other fibers, these hybrid sculptures seem to transform before your eyes.

"Come touch the Greenland ice sheet and be touched by it."

The idea of putting felt rugs, table runners and wallcoverings around your home might bring back images of arts and crafts projects from elementary school. But the designs coming out of Selina Rose are anything but elementary.

I love it when a retail giant highlights eco-friendly products, so when I picked up Pottery Barn's Christmas 2008 catalogue, I was excited to see

Let's just say up front that nobody claims the Inauguration will be deep green - events like this, by their very nature, require a huge amount of car and plane travel, entailing a corresponding belch

This little boy looks like he might be blogging over spilled milk, in fact he's concerned about the future of his environment. The Global Warming Rug by Mexican design cooperative NEL, featuring Emiliano Godoy, has created quite a

Amid the over-upholstered and garishly gilded furniture at the Istanbul Decoration and Design Fair hid some ingenious gems -- designers working with recycled and alternative materials and creating multi-purpose furniture for small spaces.

Thinking about making a move into a home, but really, really want a green space? We stumbled across the perfect (little) eco-home.

Apple remains our culture's most lauded example of great design. But could it be that the company considered to have reached the pinnacle of design is, in fact, an impostor? The definition of good design is changing. It used

We all walk on it every day, but don't often think of it. It's underfoot, and, for many of us, out of mind. But just because you trod on it doesn't mean you shouldn't pay close attention to the materials that make

Here is an interesting idea for a rug made of pieces of felt. We stumbled upon Julika Welge's Growing Carpet at this year's Designersblock at the London Design Festival, where the bright colours and the rich texture first

This week The Man with A Spear in His Chest, founder of Interface Ray Anderson, held a press conference to mark a milestone in his company's journey up "Mount Sustainability". They are making excellent progress towards their target of zero

Not much point in having a healthy house if you spend all day in an unhealthy office.

Martín Azúa's latest rug design is made from esparto soles from the traditional spanish espadrilles. It will be used in Camper's shoe stores.

A Brooklyn-based design studio turns to digital animation to generate the patterns for these striking rugs made out of recycled carpet pieces.

Forget about wood furniture, we are all tied up in knots about rope.

Can new colors refresh an old rug? These Dutch designers think so -- and they prefer red, to emphasize the problem of waste.

These unique, handcrafted rugs are made to emulate the look and feel of moss, grass, snow and sand, for enjoyment at home.

These textile works of art are bursting with soft corals, algae and more.

We were at the Cottage Life Show in Toronto this weekend, but soon there might be a whole spinoff, "Compost Toilet Life Show" , there were so many new products in the alternative toilet world. One that surprised us was the Finnish Biolan- we are used to

As John Laumer noted earlier, there is a lot of useful stuff in pee, but we dilute it with gallons of water, send it down big pipes mixed with everything else, and suddenly we have monstrous networks of waste piping, sewage treatment plants and water

He must have seen my TreeHugger media badge, because the salesman from Element Square called out and said "No trees were harmed in the production of these chairs!" I replied that a lot of fossil fuels were burned and a lot of CO2 released, and he said

Our mothers taught us (well, some of us) to send thank-you notes and to bring a gift when staying at someone's house or cottage as a guest. But what to bring? You don't know their taste, or you don't like their taste or you know that they don't need

An airbag on the hood of the car to protect pedestrians? We also have a video of Paris flooded by rising seas, a sliding library creates an extra room, and more.

Thanks to the internet, housesitters can now travel the world, living in different places for a few days or a few months for free, in exchange for taking care of an absent homeowner's property, pets or errands.

The International Joint Commission has developed a strategy for how U.S. and Canadian governments can address this toxic problem.

Lake Michigan alone receives the equivalent of 100 Olympic-sized pools full of plastic bottles each year.

And it's not just lefty TreeHuggers who are outraged; Everybody is in on this war of words

The Polluted Water Popsicles project is meant to shock viewers into realizing how serious water contamination is in Taiwan.

New York City water doesn't need to be filtered and citizens have already paid for it, that's what.

Last week news broke that microplastics are found in 93% of bottled water and the highest levels ever were found in an English river. Can we ever clean this up?

Scientists say levels are dangerously high, affecting wildlife and ecosystems.

The aquatic moss clears 80 percent of arsenic from a container of water in less than an hour.

The agency tried to suppress a major toxicology report on perfluoroalkyl chemicals, but now it's been quietly released online -- with alarming conclusions.

Plastic is often thought of as an ocean contaminant, but it's in our freshwater lakes, too.

Is your child's school flushing water pipes to reduce lead exposures? Do you flush at home? Then you should read this to learn a better solution to lead exposure risks.

But others consider it a good opportunity to reevaluate agricultural practices.

The idyllic waterway meandering through the Flemish countryside has been called the most polluted stream in Europe.

Despite their endless commuting, ants don't have traffic jams, regardless of the width of their path.

Meanwhile, cars and trucks keep getting bigger and higher. It's time to do something.

Was it the Uber car, the safety driver, the victim, or the traffic engineers who designed that road?

So much of the economy changes if cars last five times as long and hardly need service.

But what is the best criterion?