Families should be able to have Thanksgiving Dinner instead of having to go to work. This stinks.

Lets declare a day of non-action, of unoccupying the big box stores. Instead, let's support our local, green neighborhood shops that need our custom.

Not up for camping at the Best Buy? We have three less costly and more comfortable options.

She claims it's not a problem, "It's just a food product, essentially."

The Dot Earth Blogger on The Ad Man Behind Occupy Wall Street, and ‘Buy Nothing Day"

It's one thing to drive to the mall, but one fifth of Canadian shoppers are driving to another country. That's crazy.

Celebrated outside of the United States, the holiday used to have a real meaning.

We don't have a holiday Friday and Thanksgiving was weeks ago here. What's this all about?

Is shopping so important that people have to die or get pepper sprayed?

A surprise gathering organized over the Internet gathers to meditate in a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

The happiness you feel in a shopping spree may feel as good as the happiness from helping someone, but gene expression reveals a dangerous difference: could shopping cause disease?

Whether you opt for 'Buy Nothing Day' or 'Small Business Saturday,' the journey toward sustainability begins with a single step.

A look at the intersection of three ways to deal with this weekend about shopping.

Adopting a waste-conscious and anti-consumerist lifestyle is not something that happens overnight. Sometimes it's nice to hear about other people who are just starting out, like this young family from southwestern Ontario, Canada.

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

We have always been conflicted about this.

This year, take a side in the war on the car, and support stores on your neighborhood bike lane or transit route.

This year, it has a stronger environmental theme.

This building alternately fries the public, blows them off their feet and cheats them out of promised public amenities. And did I mention it's bloated, top-heavy and just plain ugly.

They got this one right.

A condo in Manhattan and a mixed use 12 story building in Portland get a boost.

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."

The architect/ engineer says we have the tech now to live better electrically.

If a vertical farm fantasy is the best unbuilt project in the UK, then sustainable design is in worse trouble than I thought.

This just pushes every TreeHugger button.

And why not? It sounds like fun, just hanging around, eating grass

The Templar Block in Hamilton Ontario pushes a lot of buttons.

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.

Too much information?

Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve.

Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes.

But is it "the last flourish of a high-resource approach to design and construction"?

Big bucks go to the teams that come up with an air conditioner that's five times as good.

It helps to have such a stunning lakeside site.

If a building doesn't meet these basic and necessary criteria, it doesn't deserve an award.

The most prestigious prize in British architecture is given to the solidly green project rather than the flash in the pan.

RIBA has announced that all its prizes will now be sustainable. We are going to need a counterpoint.

They say these are about celebrating the best contemporary architecture. But what does that mean today?

Solar power has grown up, and it's ready to blow up.

Unless the desperately needed rain arrive, São Paulo residents are being warned to "prepare for a collapse like they've never seen before."

This coastal region, which specializes in sun, surf, and seafood, is well worth visiting if you're ever near Rio de Janeiro.

It's not all stress and extra work. In some ways, kids can make a trip more interesting and interactive.

Despite Natura's seemingly excellent and forward-thinking business model, their list of ingredients is surprisingly awful and toxic, which calls into question the B Corp certification standards.

Parks in North American cities could really take a lesson from this one in Recife, Brazil.

There are certain things I've hardly missed, and others I've missed more than I expected.

Less than half an inch in length, the brightly colored frogs are highly endemic and vulnerable to extinction.

This fascinating film reveals disturbing facts about malnutrition and infant mortality, and the role of insidious corporations in perpetuating these problems.

A new government initiative called "Childbirth is Normal!" addresses the epidemic of caesarean births plaguing the country.

Bravo to this Brazilian guy for showing how it's done.

Since 1984, Brazilian farmer Ernst Gotsch has been restoring 1,200 acres of deforested land into a working, regenerative farm. The results are amazing.