A small, rundown garage and artist's studio becomes a new home to a family of three.

Using some inventive interventions, an old parking garage is transformed into a two-bedroom apartment in Paris.

This specially designed Finnish axe requires less force to split wood as it acts both as a wedge and as a lever.

It is about time that people acknowledged that it's not just cyclists that hit their heads. Helmets for everybody!

New research suggested benefits for giving students the option to stand during class.

Companies will do anything to protect their brand – maybe even redesign packaging.

A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.

"I was shocked when I saw the tree. It was cut down, the head was lopped off, it was so upsetting," said one Cleveland business-owner.

Quoting directly from the Philadelphia Eagles presser: "The Eagles have contracted with Orlando FL-based SolarBlue, a

A new football stadium in Philadelphia is in the running for the unofficial title of "Greenest Stadium in America."

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.

The Conga mine, which is majority owned by Newmont Mining Corp, would produce gold as well as copper and silver. Protesters are concerned the mine will contaminate their water and affect a major aquifer.

Nicolas Laisné's vast project is a very different kind of office development.

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

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.

160 tons of steel and 10 tons of copper never looked so good

This is a big problem in old buildings: providing universal access without ruining the look of the building.

Our blue-green Earth might have actually been a different color, thanks to this molecule.

While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).

Innovative model brings fresh produce and jobs to areas and people in Chicago that need it most

Fresh Cargo's new fair-trade Maasai Treads line combines locally sourced and recycled materials with indigenous sandal-making skills to create footwear that make a stylish, sustainable statement.

No more plastic bags means a return to old-fashioned ways of packaging and carrying goods -- not necessarily a bad thing!

On the first of this month, Hawaii became the first state in the U.S. to put a plastic bag ban into effect.

There are worse places to be stuck than in Hawaii... I'm starting to think they did it on purpose!

This short film, while focused on the island of Kauai, highlights the challenges and crises we will all have to face on our island planet.

Also a look at smart phones for boomers and for refugees, and making the Raspberry Pi higher.

A review of posts about aging baby boomers on the Mother Nature Network.

The 2007 Be The Change Conference is fast approaching and has an amazing line up of speakers to inspire you with the theme "The Sky's the Limit". For the fourth year in a row the BTC conference brings together world leaders in sustainability and social

Since the Viet Nam war, Canadians (and some Americans) have been sewing Canadian flag patches on their backpacks when they travel to distinguish themselves from their neighbours. But they will be ripping them off soon, as the country becomes an

It is the battle of the M&Ms; vs the L&Ls; the Munk debate in Toronto about the statement "Climate change is mankind's defining crisis, and demands a commensurate international response" with Bjorn Lomberg and Nigel Lawson duking it out

The Guardian's George Monbiot talks about climate deniers, junk science, and the need for nuclear.

Actually, we have been down this road before...

Mandatory solar panels are not the biggest deal here.

Blogging like it's 1999 might make sense for a lot of people.

Sunshine is wonderful, but you can have too much of a good thing. This device measures it.

Our photo of the day visits the wacky world of nudibranch sea slugs.

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As a result of half a century of planning, Copenhagen has achieved a fabulous cycling goal - during the morning rush hour more bikes and mopeds pound the inner city streets than personal cars and buses. Just a bit more than a third of inhabitants get

There's always clung to the Tetra Pak a bit of uncertainty regarding its environmental credibility: is it or isn't it green? Tetra Pak recycling rates are lousy, but in at least one life cycle analysis it came out ahead of glass and PET plastic in energy

Can't we all stop fencing for political position and start talking about using the overwhelming amount of data to solve problems?

The cultural construct describes the enigmatic inner power that pushes people to get through hardships.

This is something North American governments should copy.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh didn't do a lot of buildings, and this was his biggest and best.

This is where we started.

The SolPad Mobile device offers a scaled-up solar charging and battery solution for both home and off-grid applications.

The outdoor gear retailer plans to certify 30 percent of its clothes as fair-trade by the end of 2017.

The UK grocery chain has long been a Fairtrade champion, but recently announced it would invent its own 'fairly traded' certification scheme.

It's a win-win all around as K-cup users on both sides of the political divide find reasons to smash their Keurigs.

Recycled fabric, down insulation, and fair-trade sewing make this a top pick if you're in the market for a new coat.

Every bag they make is different, which creates a real marketing and display problem.