The map-makers are calling this the biggest change that they had to make since the breakup of the U.S.S.R.!

This week, delegates are meeting to determine the fate of a proposal to protect part of the Arctic. This pianist's moving performance urges people to show their support.

They call it a "one-off" but it is the shape of things to come.

How to choose things for your home that have had, or can have, second lives.

Here's a lovely renovation using the healthiest materials, and as few of them as possible.

Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section.

This could mean we're drinking our plastic waste.

The latest video from The Story of Stuff dives into the world of privatized water systems and why this impinges on a basic human right.

He wants data? We've got data. And if it saves just one life.....

Not only that, they are "argumentative, stubborn, disagreeable and unempathetic." And all men.

A blog confuses corrugated metal with containers on a project that could have been interesting for its own sake.

Two misfortunate advertising campaigns from Argentina use polar bears and tackiness to promote air conditioning.

Concrete containers are placed in a metallic structure, forming a green wall to the eye and a walk in space to interact with the plants.

You don't get an experience like this online.

There are a lot of good ideas in this truck; will they catch on?

The building is handsome and sexy, just like Bjarke. But this is Calgary, and you need a warm jacket in winter.

This is a truly seismic change, and may mean some big changes in the oil sands and pipeline debates.

It's that seventies show all over again as a Trudeau gets blamed but it's not his fault; it's simple economics.

Heavy Eco sells bags, t-shirts and accessories, all made with recycled or organic materials and designed and produced by inmates in Estonian prisons.

Stockholm and London are famous for congestion charging to keep cars out of central districts. Now Milan's heading that direction, with impressive results

Here's a building that saves up to 50% CO2 by controlling the sunlight with screens on its facade.

Image: Google Maps. We think this is the Widows Creek power plant where the spill happened, but if anyone from Alabama could confirm, please do so in the comments. Coal Waste Spill at At Alabama Coal Plant It wasn't so long ago that we were writing

A little salamander that is found in only a

50% of Americans had reduced their electronics and apparel expenditures in the past 12 months, according to a survey conducted by management consulting firm, Booz & Company. They sum up their findings saying that "the impact

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

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.

What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD

Image credit: Bernd Sieker, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Does installing commercial rooftop solar PV (with the dark-colored PV cells) negate the effect of painting that same roof white to alleviate the "heat island" effect in

Mount Manresa was a community space owned by Jesuits, but has now been sold to developers.

Andrew Scheer is a climate arsonist.

Everybody is hopping on the hydrogen train, but it's being driven by natural gas.

With a carbon credit card, it doesn't have to be hard.

More on why our personal consumption habits matter in the climate emergency.

Can digital fabrication and robotic construction techniques help reduce the carbon emissions of concrete?

Built for a sculptor and his new family on the site of an old gold mine and sawmill, this house uses reclaimed concrete blocks weighing a ton each.

The carbon footprint of concrete can be a whole lot better, if you make it out of carbon dioxide.

The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) sends out a press release touting their recent political victory in Washington State, and their new promotional campaign, “Build with Strength.” Hilarity ensues.

A Chinese study says concrete actually sucks up CO2. This is not news, it's chemistry.

Sand mining is described as "the global environmental crisis you’ve probably never heard of." Another good reason to use wood instead of concrete.

Is this the future of construction?

New research sheds new light on why Roman concrete is so strong and water resistant, but let's not get carried away here.

Researchers are looking to fungi to help provide a fix for crumbling infrastructure, with promising results.

Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house.

Making cement puts out a lot of CO2. Making concrete needs a lot of sand. Both are big problems.

Created by Zaha Hadid Architects, this innovative project demonstrates the possibilities of using KnitCrete technology for creating curved concrete shells efficiently.

Contractors are having trouble meeting the new safety standard.

Concrete Week at the Guardian produces some hard truths.

It is as counterintuitive as it is true: Around the world, communities who have resided on the land the longest often have the most tenuous rights to that land.

There's plenty of "recognizing," "acknowledging," and "noting" going on in the final draft of the Rio+20 text. Lot's of UN-ese. And that's about it.

A fail-safe filter that delivers water easily with a sip or a squeeze could save lives in places where water-borne illnesses thrive, but look for it first as a trendy gym accessory.