The best ideas aren't always the most expensive ones.

It even has a giant 3D printed Jacuzzi tub

A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

Campbell Soup Company will soon be sourcing about 15 percent of the energy used at its factory in Napoleon, Ohio (the company's largest) from solar power generated by a just-announced power purchase agreement (PPA) and land lease

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended.

Two days after the earthquake caused by a nearby fracking well the mayor said, "I called my insurance man and got earthquake insurance.”

Weak regulations mean an extra dose of toxic wastewater for some states, like Ohio.

A 18-foot-wide helix turbine specially designed for urban spaces has been installed on the roof of Progressive Field, ready to begin churning out energy on opening day.

"I was shocked when I saw the tree. It was cut down, the head was lopped off, it was so upsetting," said one Cleveland business-owner.

The wood and plastics industry prefers Green Globes and is designing laws around it. Paging Jerry Yudelson.

The basketball star has a soft spot for bikes, which he says gave him important freedom as a kid.

One was recently installed at an Ohio university. Is this the message one wants to give to students there?

If this video of the 3rd annual Brompton World Championships got US folding bike enthusiasts excited, then they'll be delighted that for the first time ever, a national US Brompton championship is to be held in March

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

Philadelphia architects Interface Studio are known to TreeHugger for their work with PostGreen and on the 100K house. They have also just completed a modular student residence at Temple University that really does demonstrate

Paris has the Promenade plantée and New York has The High Line, parks created on top of once-abandoned railway tracks. Now plans are afoot in Philadelphia to transform the Reading Viaduct into what its designers are

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.

A new public space in Philadelphia helps make the city more human-scale and increase quality of life for people who work or pass through the area.

Going for LEED Platinum in an affordable townhouse with clean modern design

If you own an electric car but don't own a garage, what do you do?

Partnering with a forest conservation non-profit to plant a tree for every watch purchased, Analog Watch Co. creates chic timepieces out of recycled wood.

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.

Philly has more than 2X the number of bike commuters per capita of NYC.

On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia, eating Philly Greens.

It's almost like there is a concerted campaign to turn distracted walking into a serious problem.

Turns out he was doing 46 miles per hour in a 25 mile-per-hour zone. But let's all blame the girl for distracted walking!

The Timber Towers Project seeks to demonstrate the viability of a mass timber high-rise.

A great demonstration of how to develop tiny lots.

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.

These sliver towers are incredibly inefficient and even have fake mechanical spaces to make them even taller. We all pay the price in carbon.

There are all kinds of distracted and compromised people in our roads. Some of them cannot help it. So why are phones a problem?

If you could see "aural litter" you would be shocked at how much of it there is.

This is the future of building, and it works. Get used to it.

Smart cities are not a panacea, and the New York Times is on it.

In Toronto and New York, Vision Zero is just talk. It's time for action.

But Passive House is so expensive! How can you build housing for the homeless and low income families this way?

It makes a lot of sense in a country with no workers and five other permanent stadia.

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.

Made with a tight budget and schedule, this structure was up and running within a matter of weeks.

I mean, shipping containers are hot. But does this kind of shipping container architecture make sense?

This kind of shipping container architecture makes sense.

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense

It is an eye-catching Kengo Kuma design, but it ain't sustainable.

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.

An electrifying story from Germany, where they are wiring the autobahn.