Green is the new green

mom working at home

Is independence the American family’s greatest inefficiency?

The single-family home may be an outdated Victorian ideal gone wild.

Ilana Strauss

By Ilana Strauss in Green Home September 24, 2018

These 4D printed aquatic plants create an immersive organic experience (Video)

Kimberley Mok

By Kimberley Mok September 24, 2018

Bjarke Ingels designs an elegant, restrained new Noma

Green Architecture

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 24, 2018

Are household cleaners making your kid fat?

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko September 24, 2018

Kids can't play in these parks

Ilana Strauss

By Ilana Strauss September 24, 2018

Straw bans won't fix the plastic problem, but something else can

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko September 24, 2018

Why all is lost: increasing demand for jet fuel will be bigger than savings from electric cars

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 24, 2018

Whales and dolphins playing is the perfect escape (video)

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer September 24, 2018

Photo: Green bees in a frenzy of pollen

Reader's Photos

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer September 24, 2018

Architecture 2030 goes after embodied carbon and this is a very big deal

Green Architecture

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 21, 2018

Vegetarians save so much water

Ilana Strauss

By Ilana Strauss September 21, 2018

Ingenious micro-apartment renovation includes a 'disappearing kitchen' (Video)

Interior Design

Kimberley Mok

By Kimberley Mok September 21, 2018

Taking back the streets: How Park(ing) Day became Park(ing) Year

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 21, 2018

How to survive falling into cold water

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko September 21, 2018

What are public lands?

Environmental Policy

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer September 21, 2018

A look back at the original chainsaw retrofit of 1982

Green Architecture

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 21, 2018

Home-cooked food can now be sold legally in California

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko September 21, 2018

NASA wants to build a civilization out of moon dust

Natural Sciences

Ilana Strauss

By Ilana Strauss September 21, 2018

IKEA plans 100% electric home delivery in key cities by 2020

By Sami Grover September 21, 2018

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fast food dinner

Straw bans won't fix the plastic problem, but something else can

mom working at home

Is independence the American family’s greatest inefficiency?

dolphins whales

Whales and dolphins playing is the perfect escape (video)

airport with stop sign

Why all is lost: increasing demand for jet fuel will be bigger than savings from electric cars

noma entrance

Bjarke Ingels designs an elegant, restrained new Noma

daily news

luggage bag

'Swedish death cleaning' is the new decluttering trend

Minimalism chair

Minimalism may be trendy, but it certainly isn’t new

Life At Home in the 21st Century

Our house design problem isn't too many rooms, it's too much stuff

Fumio Sasaki

Minimalists in Japan take simple living to new extremes

man cooking

20 habits of frugal people

chicken

Why I no longer have backyard chickens

Jade plant

5 houseplants for removing indoor air pollution

stemware

Young people don't want their parents' stuff

creamy pasta bake

6 strategies for reducing meat in your diet

veggie burger

How to be a reducetarian

beef cattle

Cutting out meat and dairy is the best thing you can do for the planet

Vegan nurses

7 things that happened to these nurses after going vegan for 21 days