This small 118-square-foot apartment holds a few pleasant, space-saving surprises.

This small and versatile apartment in the heart of Paris uses innovative modern materials for its furniture and cabinetry.

Because people gotta move.

If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people

The move comes as a result of a petition from Greenpeace Southeast Asia, which asserts that GM crops can cause serious health issues.

It even has a giant 3D printed Jacuzzi tub

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half

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

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."

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

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.

Doug Ford, now leading in the polls, wants to open up more of it for development.

A lot of the permaculture design principles make just as much sense for buildings.

Pay attention, as this sort of thing could hit other mountainous areas that are dependent on glaciers for their water supply.

Hundreds of dolphins and pelicans have been found dead on beaches in Peru since February, prompting the government to issue a public health warning.

Find all your sunny-day basics made with fair-trade fabrics and natural dyes.

Designer Michelle Sheppard creates sustainable garments with a connection to cultural traditions.

Outfitted with GoPros and solar-powered GPS trackers, the crew of carrion-loving vigilantes is sniffing out illegal dumps in Lima.

And when you get to the top of this, you deserve a treat.

Michael Janzen comes up with an interesting and elegant design. But is it safe?

Decommissioned buses are getting a second useful life as mobile shelters for Honolulu's homeless.

Image credit: HowStuffWorks Environmentalism and Alternative Medicine - Oil and Water? George Monbiot is undoubtedly no stranger to controversy - my post about his climate change book, Heat, drew 81 comments, while his well publicized opposition to

No detailed guidelines, no legally binding requirements, and a misplaced focal point are a recipe for failure.

The Scandinavian master designed a gem of a building promoting Nordic cooperation.

This is not a new debate, and raises all kinds of questions.

This is where we started.

From child labor in the cocoa industry to human rights issues in the oil industry, we've often reported on the intersect between environmentalism and social justice—but all too often environmentalism and human rights

Shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Awards, this elegant building makes good use of wasted stone generated from a town's large stonecutting industry.

In tribute to the region's salt lake, the architects of this unique restaurant used salt as an eco-friendly building material.

This prototypical house acts as an active interface between its inhabitants and the outside.

Using an additive, powder-based 3D printing process, experiments with abundant and renewable salt have created this translucent and lightweight structure.

A custom-made addition to this small condo packs in extra features and functionality, creating more spaces in one.

A number of states are edging out insurance companies. This could be huge for the environment.

Motoi Yamamoto's salt labyrinths and intricate installations are as stunning as they are sustainable.

These vertical towers, made of artificially diverted glacial meltwater, are a brilliant idea and possible solution to alleviate water shortages brought on by the fast-melting Himalayan glaciers.

That's way sooner than almost anyone expected.

Welcome to my personal dairy dilemma and the weird, convoluted thoughts that keep me up at night.

Cargill Meat is recalling 132,600 pounds of beef products nationwide that may be contaminated with E. coli.

Report also provides a blueprint for how to overhaul the food system to improve wellbeing all around.

You want your kid to have a desk that fits her, to do homework, play and draw. You also want your kid to grow up, eventually. But you don't want to buy a new desk every few years as she outgrows the old one. So

This automated smart home system for small apartments takes the effort out of having to transform your all-in-one furniture unit by hand.

Inspired by theater set design, this versatile volume holds storage and other hidden furniture.

Mini-spots, reflectors and candelabra bulbs were supposed to become more efficient next year, saving 80 billion kWh.

With a few tips from Grandma thrown in.

What with social networking sites like Facebook all the rage right now and more attention than ever being focused on the issues of global warming and climate change, the moment certainly seems propitious for the unveiling of MakeMeSustainable, a

LEED v4 is here.

Many people swear by the value of periodically fasting for a day or a couple days at a time. Science backs them up

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee at The Guardian writes about the deeper human issue at risk in our ongoing environmental crises - a disconnection from the ecosystem.

As a keystone species, the importance of the sea otter on the health of coastal ecosystems can't be understated. A new study shows that they may even play a key role in helping coastlines cope with agricultural run-off.