This micro-home is a customized, winter-proofed dwelling for two.

Image via: Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation Los Vecinos, the first LEED-Certified Platinum, 100% solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego, offer 42-units of state of the art in green housing. The $17.6 million USD project opened its doors

When I wonder what words should replace Emma Lazarus's obsolete phrase on the Statue of Liberty - "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free" I think of Frank Luntz's dictum learned from Joe Romm: "There is a simple rule,

When I stumbled across some of da Vinci's favorite vegetarian recipes, I knew I had to try them. Here's how it went...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, and while some great progress has been made, there are still many rivers which are endangered, including one flowing through our nation's capital.

Modifications to the $3.5bn project have been made to address environmental concerns, but it may not deflect criticism.

A beautiful video by photographer Pete McBride shows how this epic and ancient river is now the most endangered in the country.

If a country is a body, rivers are its arteries through which vital blood flows. We must revive our waterways before more damage is done.

Data is not just for the internet giants; using remote laser-sensing technology, it can generate lovely maps of a river's long-past history too.

Removal of the 118-foot-high dam in France will free the Sélune River, bringing wildlife back to the waterway and the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.

The car changed the design of our houses; the AV will change our houses and the way we live.

New Environmental Protection Agency requirements for its Renewable Fuel Standards program have been released which raise an issue which has sat dormant for a little while: How to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of a

The UK organization wants schools to incorporate that time into their daily curriculum.

Climate crisis? What climate crisis?

There is a day for everything, and today we celebrate ride sharing.

There is sharing, there is abuse, and there is theft. Susie Cagle takes a tough look at the subject.

Architype demonstrates that simple forms and careful window choices are the way to build efficient, affordable homes.

A new lightweight thermoelectric generator has been developed at NC State, which may be able to power small health sensors or other small wearable devices.

It runs the full width of the car. What could possibly be the problem?

Tokyo 2020's organizing committee will transform old smartphones, laptops, and digital cameras into a true treasure.

This is England, the parks and gardens and countryside are supposed to be filled with golden daffodils by now. This is why we live here. But where are they? With this year's never ending winter and the long cold spell just

"A Jewish ecology is 'not

In previous posts in this series we've focused on

Natural light is free and plentiful and the day is long.

It's an interesting art installation that brings some attention to an electrifying man.

By reclaiming precious metals from its 'urban mine' of obsolete electronics, Japan may be able to produce the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics from recycled materials.

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.

Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have joined together to support Obama's Clean Power Plan as it faces legal opposition.

Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a ground source heat pump company.

The prime minister also mentioned holding companies responsible for the packaging waste they create.

It was a while coming, but this could be a pretty big deal for your average buyer.

Now how about some incentives to get people out of cars?

All the foodies are outraged by the New York Times Expose on the marketing of cheese. The front page story While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales by Michael Moss describes how Dairy Management helps

With guests Kathy Freston and Michael Pollan, Oprah dedicated her full show yesterday to veganism and meat production. She and her staffers went vegan for a week, some of them have decided to continue the diet (or go "veganish") even

The USGBC, and their insanely popular rating system LEED, have been on the frontlines of the green building movement for quite a while. Everyone has taken a shot at them at least once. There’s all the talk about how the credits are

"For the US in 2006, online data centres accounted for 1.5 percent of the entire country's electricity use - equating to more than the entire state of Massachusetts. " View the chart up close...Really interesting facts/stats! Image via GDS Digital via

The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought

The new rule is expected to save Americans $167 billion in energy costs.

We’ve all ripped a pair of jeans, but we’re not all tailors. Nudie Jeans has a great solution.

We can do lists too; here are some of the simple things you can do that do not involve spending money and buying stuff.

By now you've probably heard that adopting a vegetarian diet, or at least cutting way down on you meat consumption, is a great way to reduce your ecological footprint and get some great health benefits at the same time. Now

For most people, living along southern Chesapeake Bay with a scenic view over the waterfront might sound idyllic, but for nearly 100 residents who do, it's turned into a nightmare. Slowly, the

Chances are that you've never heard of Gene DeSantis, but his story seems one destined for legend. In fact, he's already being likened to a modern-day Johnny Appleseed. For almost three decades, DeSantis has made it his mission

Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.

In a matter of seconds, thousands of lives and dreams were destroyed in Haiti last month.

The update to the "Red List" illustrates the worldwide crises facing many species around the globe in the face of habitat loss and degradation.

We want to extend National Talk Like A Pirate Day just a few more days, especially since it is helping to spread the word about clean sailing and boating. The Sierra Club has put together a fun set of questions to not only get you in the

Number of storms predicted per year during the period 1854 -- 2006 versus numbers actually observed for the Atlantic (filled diamonds). The model predictions (grey curve) have been normalized to the data. A quadratic fit to the model is shown for

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.

You can see the opposition to the big pipe from the tar sands on every house and every stop sign.