Holst Architecture's Bud Clark Commons project joins an eclectic assortment of notable green buildings on the 2014 AIA COTE annual top 10 list.

The palatial Beaux-Arts beauty completed in 1915 is named the oldest LEED Platinum building.

New plastic PDK can be broken down at a molecular level and come back just as strong to be reused again and again.

The Danes are helping kick-start Colorado's green energy economy.

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Helsinki is experimenting with a plan to match people with rides, making cars unnecessary.

When a man and his dog are evicted, people in the community rally to try to keep them together.

With its edible veggie walls and lack of traditional HVAC systems, Carbon Positive House aims to "free us of modern day lifelines."

There are many different types of staircases that can make your home a more efficient, safer and even a more attractive place.

It's just like camping ... but with free WiFi and Malin + Goetz shampoo.

Berlin startup Cabin Spacey has a clever idea for the city's unused rooftops.

New high-rise called Tao Zhu Yin Yuan (“ The Retreat of Tao Zhu”) by Vincent Callebaut provides luxury housing and 'hope for a better tomorrow' in Taiwan.

Nonprofit, which monitors the health and safety of animals in the entertainment industry, calls the expose a distortion of the truth.

In 1911, the Society for the Prevention Useless Giving (SPUG) began a movement against useless Christmas gifts. It's time for a comeback.

When you buy these presents, stocking stuffers and hostess gifts, you're also giving to charity.

Ford revealed the new, more fuel-efficient 2013 Ford Escape at the L.A. Auto Show.

Get your remotes ready. Some strong programming is coming up in advance of Earth Day.

Ah, the contradictions of corporations trying to look presentable at the green party. Here are 5 to consider.

Lexus-sponsored 'debate' between climate denier Phelim McAleer and green girl Simran Sethi yields important lessons for an ailing climate movement... especially

Climate change now emerging a core issue in the fight to end poverty.

Mustang, Escape, Focus now come in more colors, with more renewable parts, than ever before.

Find out how this small Maine liberal arts school achieved its goal of being 100% carbon-neutral ahead of a 2015 deadline.

Kevin Judd enjoys programming elaborate holiday light shows at his Riverside, Calif. home. But after a video of last Halloween's 'Party Rock Anthem' display wen

Sorry to see 100-watt bulbs disappear from stores because they were energy hogs? LED bulbs will roughly match the 100-watters for size and brightness, but their

Pop song-driven LED holiday light shows are the hottest thing to hit subdivisions since the traffic circle. Sure, they're fun and non-Griswoldian in their energ

Danielle Trofe returns to WantedDesign with a duo of LED lamp-hourglass hybrids that stay illuminated via the kinetic energy produced by falling sand.

The variability in clothing sizes is frustrating, wasteful and erodes consumer confidence.

"Buy less, choose well, make it last," says the iconic designer.

A new study suggests that people who dress differently appear more successful than their coworkers.

They're stylish, they're strong, and they support design-based recovery in disaster-stricken areas. What more could you ask for in a pair of specs?

Find out how one mom merges eco-consciousness with frugality.

Martyn Poliakoff, a professor of chemistry at the University of Nottingham, may first appear like a mad scientist in his popular series of YouTube videos in whi

Interview with drug policy reform activist Tom Angell, founder of Marijuana Majority.

Study estimates $1 million in annual savings, but light pollution and LED's inability to give off heat are issues.

A small town in Illinois has become the world's third International Dark Sky Community, a place that aims to protect the quality of its dark, star-filled sky by

'The City Dark,' the latest from Brooklyn-based filmmaker Ian Cheney, explores the effect of light pollution on the natural environment and on human health. It

Thierry Cohen's artwork reveals the cosmic wonders hidden beneath the light pollution that masks the world's biggest cities.

Chengdu's wild plan involves a reflective satellite or "moon" that would beam down a "dusk-like glow" within city limits.

Transit use is going up as people prefer using their smartphones to driving.

When we heard about Food52's Holiday Recipes and Party Planning Guide ($3.99 for iPad and iPhone), we thought this app from New York Times writers Amanda Hesser

John Brown, founder of the Slow Home movement, discusses the fundamentals of building and living in a greener house.

The city of New York is making its streets more bike-friendly by creating new bike lanes and introducing a massive, new bike-sharing program.

Half the world now lives in cities, and by midcentury 75 percent of us will be urbanites. To make our cities sustainable, look to the 2012 TED Prize and a fasci

One San Francisco-based tech company is offering a $10K option to those who move away from the city.

Working mothers can't win. New research finds society judges us negatively whether we take maternity leave or not.

Richard Turere's solar-powered invention safely scares lions away from his family's cattle.

Parents need help keeping a child with food allergies away from life-threatening foods. Temporary tattoos with vital information can lend a hand.

Now all Republican Senate candidates this November are on the record denying global warming.

Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was one of the few mentions of energy policy during the latest Alaska U.S. Senate Debate.

New Mexico senator's plan to retire creates questions for Democrats and environmentalists in 2012.