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.

This Friday, Patagonia encourages us to celebrate the clothes we have and the stories they tell.

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

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

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.

Some of them are surprising and all of them will make a real difference.

It's actually pretty clever as it pumps out fresh water and electricity.

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.

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.

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly

This just pushes every TreeHugger button.

House on the Highlands wins the rural category in the UK Passivhaus Trust Awards.

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

Too much information?

... in the place where people understand the risks of living in an anti-globalist, post-fact era

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.

The Autonomous Hotel Room from Aprilli Design Studio raises some interesting questions.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Zika virus, borne by mosquitoes, has been linked to a surge in microcephaly in newborn babies.

These vibrant murals combine nature and realism with the chaos and tumult of the urban landscape.

Deforestation has revealed the large geometrical geoglyphs built over 2000 years ago – their discovery holds valuable lessons for today.

How small is too small?

A relentless sweet tooth, naïveté, and sneaky marketing are conspiring to create a health disaster in every corner of this country.

A lack of space becomes something more roomy with some simple design strategies.

A clever redo of a small 376-square-foot apartment in São Paulo that uses lots of glass and reflective surfaces.

Experts blame urban sprawl for the increased number of attacks.

Built as part of a community training project, this multifunctional structure acts as a place for visitors to stay, as well as an extra office or a place for the kids to play.

Chewy, salty, and impossible to stop eating, they're the next best thing to an actual trip to Brazil (especially when paired with a caipirinha).