Google becomes retroactively carbon-neutral
Google announced that it has now invested in enough high-quality carbon offsets to essentially erase its carbon...
Palau is pioneering a new model of sustainable tourism
In partnership with Sustainable Travel International and Slow Food, the Palau Bureau of Tourism has launched a...
Introducing Klima: the app on a mission to reduce carbon footprints
Released this month, Klima allows its users to take direct action against climate change with a simple and beautiful...
Luxury apartments feature underground rec club and a massive green roof
The Excellenseaa 126 apartment complex is designed to create its own sustainable microclimate with a green roof...
#degrowth art series exposes greenwashing in the food industry
While reaching for products with an “eco-friendly” label may seem like the better choice in any situation,...
World’s tallest hybrid timber building proposed for Sydney
Australian software company Atlassian has tapped New York-based architecture firm SHoP Architects and Australian...
MIT moves toward greener, more sustainable artificial intelligence
While current artificial intelligence (AI) technology holds strategic and transformative potential, it...
Sustainable arctic sauna frames views of the midnight sun
In the home of the Northern Lights, Helsinki-based firm Toni Yli-Suvanto Architects has completed the Arctic...
Sustainability for York National Railway Museum Central Hall
London-based architecture practice Feilden Fowles has won an international design competition to create...
Nature-inspired home uses passive design to stay cool in Taiwan
Just outside Kaohsiung’s city center, Taiwanese architecture firm Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design...
Canada’s first net-zero carbon, mass-timber college building to rise in Toronto
The Centennial College in Toronto will soon make history with the addition of Canada’s first net-zero carbon,...
Sweden’s tallest timber building could save 550 tons of CO2
Scandinavian-based architecture firm C.F. Møller Architects has raised the bar for sustainable architecture with...
Recycled shipping container cafe utilizes passive cooling in India
Southeast of New Delhi, in Greater Noida City, Rahul Jain Design Lab (RJDL) has transformed recycled shipping containers...
Check out Glasir, the tree-shaped urban farming solution
In a bid to revolutionize agriculture, New York City and Bergen-based innovation studio Framlab has proposed...
Tackling sustainability in sporting events
At the recent Super Bowl, the NFL focused on sustainability more than in past years with its Ocean to Everglades...
myfood’s smart greenhouses can grow nearly 900 pounds of produce a year
At CES 2020, French startup myfood presented a smart greenhouse that it says can grow up to 400 kilograms (880...
Stunning House on the Rocks uses geothermal power
On Finland’s windswept Turku archipelago, Helsinki-based design practice and log house kit purveyor Pluspuu has...
Henning Larsen unveils plans for Copenhagen’s first all-timber community
A sustainable, nature-filled neighborhood unlike any other in Denmark could soon take root just beyond Copenhagen’s...
Rolls-Royce unveils prototype for world’s fastest electric plane
Innovation is the name of the game for luxury industry leaders like Rolls-Royce, so it’s no surprise they have...
Quorn introduces carbon footprint labeling
In a trailblazing move, Quorn, the meatless food manufacturer headquartered in the U.K., is now leveraging carbon...
Timber “Woody” office in France embraces Paris’ largest park
In a bid to reduce the carbon footprint of construction, French architecture firm Atelier du Pont has created an...
Norwegian Air introduces SkyBreathe app to help reduce annual CO2 emissions
True to its fame as Norway’s most sustainable airline and as the two-time International Council on Clean Transportation...
Will iconic red beer pong cups be replaced by aluminum?
Used for decades at family picnics, beach parties and beer pong games, the familiar red plastic SOLO cup might...
U.S. loses 24 million acres of natural land
Mother Nature might be ticked, because the United States is losing land fast. If you’ve ever visited the glorious...
Holiday Inn hotels will phase out mini shampoo bottles
The owner of Holiday Inn, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), has pledged to do away with the convenient but wasteful...
Zero-carbon masterplan on the water aims to revitalize Bergen’s urban growth
In a bid to revitalize the Norwegian city of Bergen, London-based architectural practice Waugh Thistleton Architects...
Should you stop watching Netflix because it is bad for the environment?
The world’s digital obsession doesn’t come without a carbon footprint. By 2022, 60 percent of the world’s...
The pros and cons of online versus in-store shopping
In as little as a few clicks and confirmations your online purchase can be at your doorstep in a matter of hours....
UK-based company is making home delivery as green as possible with e-cargo bikes
Electric Assisted Vehicles Limited unveiled its new e-cargo bike designed to reduce the carbon footprint of urban...
Stay home from work to save the planet, study says
Need an excuse to stay home from work? How about new research findings that a shorter work week is essential to...