Sustainability for York National Railway Museum Central Hall
London-based architecture practice Feilden Fowles has won an international design competition to create...
Northern China’s largest bamboo pavilion covers nearly half an acre
After years of building bamboo houses across rural China, Italian architect Mauricio Cardenas Laverde completed...
PAU unveils carbon-neutral Sunnyside Yard masterplan in NYC
Global architecture firm Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) has revealed a masterplan for transforming...
Rooftop farm grows on award-winning Denizen Bushwick building
After five years of design and construction, ODA New York has completed Denizen Bushwick, a 1.2-million-square-foot...
LEED Platinum-targeted Santa Monica apartments are powered by solar energy
Los Angeles-based design practice KFA Architecture has recently completed Pico Eleven, a new multi-unit residential...
New tiny home for glamping on Governors Island offers guests the best views of NYC
Finding a little serenity in NYC is never an easy feat and often requires New Yorkers to head outside of the city...
Children hurt after Delta jet dumps fuel on schools
On January 14, a Delta jet malfunctioned and dumped jet fuel over Los Angeles-area schools. The incident injured...
Your eco-friendly travel guide for New York City
It’s easy to get caught up in New York’s frenetic energy. If you’re there as a tourist, the checklist of...
Save the Duck introduces new winter line of outerwear
When you’re wearing clothing made from fur or leather, it’s hard to ignore the fact that it comes from an animal,...
Disney’s American parks will now offer hundreds of vegan menu items
The “Happiest Place” on Earth will begin adding hundreds of plant-based dishes. The rollout will begin this...
Central Park to undergo $150M LEED Gold-targeted redesign
To cap the Central Park Conservancy’s 40-year renewal of Central Park, the nonprofit has unveiled designs to...
Tribute in Light endangers migrating birds
New York City’s annual September 11 Tribute in Light seeks to console a still-damaged city and commemorate those...
7 sustainable travel experiences to have this summer as an ecotourist
Planning an international trip can be pretty overwhelming as it is, but it can be even harder for eco-friendly...
New York Botanical Garden's new artist residencies connect people with plants
Despite its irrefutable success — founded in 1891 and now receiving one million visitors a year — the New York...
Green roofs to take over NYC skyline — by law
Moments before Earth Day, New York City passed a major Climate Mobilization Act with new regulations for reducing...
New York City passes landmark bill to cut carbon emissions of big buildings by 80%
New York City just passed a landmark bill to cut carbon emissions. City council members overwhelming voted in favor...
China closes Mount Everest base camp after overwhelming trash problem reports
China is taking steps to clean up Mount Everest amid growing concerns about trash accumulation. The base camp at...
In China, a billion cockroaches are leading the fight against food waste
Warning: This story could make your skin crawl. As China’s cities continue to grow at a rapid pace, problems...
China plans to launch the world's first 'artificial moon'
A private aerospace institute in China has announced its ambitious plan to launch an "artificial moon" into stationary...
British Fashion Council commits to a fur-free London Fashion Week
London Fashion Week (LFW) will be the first event of its kind to go fur free. The British Fashion Council just...
The Kind Lab creates greener toothpaste that doesn't come in a tube
A tube of toothpaste is not the easiest thing to recycle. But what if you didn’t have to worry about recycling...
Shanxi combats air pollution in China with smog curbs to 2020
Shanxi province is China's primary coal mining hub and a major industrial manufacturing region. The province is...
UN Environment and Yale present a sustainable tiny home in NYC
U.N. Environment and Yale University’s School of Architecture has unveiled an innovative tiny home that explores...
Go glamping with views of the Statue of Liberty on NYC’s Governors Island
A new glamping destination has popped up in an unlikely location — a 172-acre island just across the river from...
The LEED Gold-seeking Edible Academy teaches urban farming in NYC
New York-based architecture firm Cooper Robertson and Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects (MNLA) recently completed...
New resilient waterfront park helps protect NYC from storm surges
Waterfront parks have been springing up all over New York City, including in Long Island City, where Hunter’s...
Mystery of banned CFCs resurgence may be solved
The world recently learned that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), an ozone-damaging industrial gas banned under the 1997...
Scientists discover new gibbon species inside tomb of Chinese emperor's grandmother
In a new study published in the journal Science, scientists detail the identification of a new species of gibbon,...
A Michigan farmhouse is reborn as a beautiful modern vacation retreat
A city-dwelling family in need of rural respite reached out to Von Weise Associates to make their country escape...
First paper straw factory in decades to open as UK bans plastic
As the United Kingdom moves forward with its planned ban on single-use plastic products, the first paper straw...