Images unless noted: Findhorn Foundation While following the development of small green prefabs, It has become increasingly clear that you cannot separate the home from the context, and that what we really need is a sort of green trailer park, where... 

Image Credit: Nucho via Flickr Bamboo gets used in a lot of ways, from underwear to flooring to windmills . But this summer, the roof of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to a forest of bamboo that is an aesthetic end in itself. Since... 

Images from abandonedchairsblogspot.com : Queen West There is something so forlorn and sad about a chair abandoned on the roadside. Innocent and sometimes beautiful, it is hard to resist taking them home and giving them a reason to live again. Some artists... 

photo via RAN Rainforest Action Network’s new Executive Director, Rebecca Tarbotton, has big plans for the Bay Area-based advocacy group. RAN , which was founded in 1985, takes on big banks that are funding the coal industry, like JP Morgan and... 

After debuting the world’s first hybrid tugboat in 2009 , the Port of Long Beach is partnering again with Foss Maritime Company to retrofit an existing tugboat with hybrid technology. The ship called the Campbell Foss is a conventional dolphin... 

All images from Push House In much of the world, hemp is thought of as a useful building material; Warren recently showed us an interesting house from Australia and it is common in the UK. But in America, it is still the butt of hippie jokes; Matt Hickman... 

Photo via KhE O2 , a communications company in the United Kingdom, has just launched the country’s first green cell phone ranking system — something of which Apple did not want the iPhone to be part . But G… Read the full story on TreeHugger... 

Designing a space to serve multiple functions can be a challenge. British Columbia design studio Public had to learn about a whole new range of uses for Xthum, at Kwantlen Polytechnic University , where the Kwantlen, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen and Katzie... 

Images: Artecnica Spun out of synthetic, high-density polyethylene fibers that give it its characteristic durability and lovable crinkly texture, Tyvek is a surprisingly polyvalent material, though it’s typically thought of as house wrap. But there’s... 

Image courtesy of Walmart This guest post was written by Shannon Frederick, director of global association communications for Walmart. What does sustainability mean to you ? Before you answer, shift your thinking from a business point-of-view to your...