The California Academy of Sciences is currently migrating 20 million specimens and 38,000 living animals to its new location in Golden Gate Park. The $484 million, 410,000 sq. ft. building designed by Renzo Piano boasts some absolutely stunning eco-friendly features and is expected to acquire LEED status.
Genuinely sustainable, the facility will be naturally lit, [...]

Will energy harvested from the movement of pedestrians in high foot-traffic locales be the next big trend in renewable energy? Karl Sundholm, of the Swedish state-held property administration company Jernhuset, seems to think so.
He plans on using the body heat generated from the approximate 250,000 people that pass through Stockholm Central Station (the largest train [...]

Living in the downtown core of a city is great for convenience; however, the cluster, congestion and busyness can leave even the most enthused urbanites craving a little nature. As a result, architects, city planners and designers from around the world are reinterpreting the way that new housing developments incorporate Mother Nature. Case in point: [...]

Like other metropolitan cities, Green architecture is taking Montréal by storm. In fact, by 2010 the city will be home to Canada’s greenest building: the Maison du développement durable (Sustainable Development House).
Designed to serve as headquarters for local environmental organizations, the structure will be one of the most sustainable buildings on the planet. The 28.5 [...]

Brothers Ryan and Bryson Robertson and their good friend Hugh Patterson set out on a three-year circumnavigation of the globe. The purpose of their trip: to document and record marine pollution and its effect on isolated and deserted islands and beaches. In order to make their discoveries available to print and broadcast media, educational institutions [...]

Back in September, we posted Bike dispensers, an article about convenient and easy to use bike rental services. Citywide bike rental services promote eco-friendly initiatives while providing practical and cost effective transportation to citizens. Bicing is another company we found located in Barcelona that allows residents to access bikes for inner city transportation from over [...]

Although not conceptually new, vertical farming has been receiving a lot of attention recently. Understandably so, as countries like China surpass one billion in population and pack themselves into urban centers like sardines. The way we produce and distribute food around the globe is in need of re-evaluation since burning fossil fuels and relying on [...]

Ben Missler from Mass Tram America envisions this large-scale elevated monorail as the future of public transportation. The tramcars are fabricated from salvaged airplane fuselages, and once attached to the rail system are propelled by motorized wheels that draw their power from solar panels or wind turbines attached to support towers.
Does this seem unrealistic? Missler [...]

The PUYO is Honda’s latest environmentally friendly concept car. Groundbreaking in efficiency and powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology, this aesthetically unique vehicle will officially debut this month at the Tokyo Motor Show.