They're designed as temporary living for Malibu fire victims, but nice enough that they might never leave.

With aging baby boomers and young people who can't afford housing, there's going to be a huge market for these.

But does building it out of refurbished shipping containers make any sense?

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Adam Werbach about coral bleaching and youth-powered activism in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green.

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann interviews Barry Hooper from SFEnvironment about government policy for new and existing buildings in San Francisco in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Barry Hooper collaborates with design

Synthetic fertilizer is likely to become significantly more costly for US farmers. This trend will make manure a valuable commodity once again (as it was prior to the 1950s). There are two main reasons for the

Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the

Image Source: Preserve Dear Pablo: Does recycling your toothbrush really make a difference? Doesn't mailing it back do more damage than the recycling avoids? It is true that mailing anything has an impact, but is it more than the recycling itself? To

TreeHugger was founded as a sustainable design blog. From Alan Chochinov's 10 steps for sustainable design, through Yves Behar's predictions for sustainable design in 2011, to the

Even if the label of "maven" is painfully over-applied, there are people who still deserve it. Zem Joaquin, the stylish polymath behind Ecofabulous.com, is one of those few. Zem has been on the editorial side of mags like House and Garden, Domino, and

A biodegradable show for (almost) all occasions. A cradle to cradle design inspired by ancient Amazon inhabitants. Lightweight, compact and multi-use- it's up to you what you do with it as long as you make sure you compost it at the end of its life.

These days when your coffe machine breaks, it is usually cheaper and less hassle to just buy a new one. I was therefore pleasantly surprised about the repairability of my Presso coffee maker, which still keeps serving me off the grid!

An affordable, long-lasting and attractive chair made from 100% recycled and recyclable plastic, designed in Barcelona by Estudio Mariscal. Need it far away? Then just buy the seat and get local legs!

In cars, houses, furniture and electronics, The trend was toward increasing repairability and simplifying recycling. Apple goes its own way.

C2C products were featured in the Unity Home seen at Greenbuild.

Meet Dopper, a Cradle to Cradle water bottle company that’s bringing clean water to Nepal.

It is hard to imagine a greener product than natural tree bark.

It is all about the progression through the spaces.

People have complained about his building since they started pouring the concrete.

This is turning into a really big bandwagon.

He was a pioneer of sustainable design.

Nobody cared much about this a few years ago. They do now.

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes

From improving sleep and indoor air quality to reducing anxiety and fatigue ... houseplants are powerful allies.

It's a powerful organizational tool that pulls a household together.

A great big list of things you don't need or that you can make instead of buying.

Some plants help each other enormously, while others hinder their neighbors – use this cheat sheet to ensure harmony in the vegetable plot.

BloomingTables are a lovely solution for saving space ... and keeping indoor plants away from kids and pets.

A medical practice in Manchester, England is giving patients indoor plants to help boost wellness.

Strategically clustering indoor plants in a group is a great idea, here's why and how to do it.

From sleep aids to pain relievers, here's how to grow your own natural remedies.

You don't have to have an entire garden room to make a statement with your indoor plants.

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.

There are some significant advantages to an affordable kit like this.

Why aren't people lining up for this enclosed solar powered e-cargo tricycle? It pushed every button.

Roll over everything and get on and off easily on this powerful fatbike.

Bill Murray looks like he is enjoying the ride. Others might go a bit faster.

With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged

We have been fans of Seattle's Graypants for a while; Seth, Jonathan and Jon "strive to come up with designs and ideas that are thoughtful and have an impact, whether it be furniture, lighting, architecture or graphics." Most of the work we have shown

The flood of toxic red sludge, which burst forth from a containment pond in Ajka, Hungary and covered several villages earlier in the week, reached a branch of the River Danube today. According to the head of the

Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the

It may sound like an oxymoron, bringing sustainable practices to mining operations, but unless we all stop consuming resources immediately, mining is also not going anywhere. So this is good news: since 2007, Alcoa's Jamalco

Santa & Cole takes its environmental policy one step further by obtaining the Cradle to Cradle Certification (C2C) for its 100% Aluminum NeoRomántico Liviano Bench

You can't call an aluminum guest house dropped by helicopter green, but you sure can call it cute.

Made from virgin materials that require resource-intensive manufacturing processes, reusable water bottles aren't the perfect solution that you may think.

Yes, but we still have a problem, says Carl A. Zimrig in a new book "Aluminum Upcycled: sustainable design in historical perspective." Because we are using too much of the stuff.

Another reason that we have to use less of the stuff.

But hey, it's all in the interest of national security; Americans have to be ready to defend themselves from Canada.

Recycling isn't enough when demand for aluminum is soaring. We have to use less of the stuff and eliminate single-use packaging.

There is an alumina crisis right now. Making it is dirty and polluting, and it's back in the USA.