One of the worst things you can do for the environment is to buy a humongous flat-screen TV.  Ever larger and larger televisions are fast becoming one of the biggest energy consumers in homes.
The IEA estimates that our ever larger TVs are now consuming as much as 15% of household power.
Along with being huge energy hogs, they are clogging landfills too. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 70% of heavy metals in landfill come from discarded electronics. With flat screen TVs getting bigger and …

In face of the Global environmental challenges, more than ever before has consumerism become a moral issue. In the realm of furniture, environmentally conscious designers and consumers usually stress the materials with which the furniture is built and its sustainability (how long the piece will be in use). To be sure, these are important considerations, but another aspect that is as equally important is the sustainability of the design. There are some designers that have achieved timeless designs that transcend the cycles of fashion.  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s …

When artist Vera Scekic and her computer-programmer husband Robert Osborne built their transparent light-filled solar-powered home, they shocked the neighbors by building a house you can see through, right through to Lake Michigan.
But their aesthetic was influenced by her playful paintings that evoke biotic forms. She wanted a white house that is sensitive to the somewhat offbeat palette of her paintings: oranges, yellows, olives…and white. Lots of it.

“We wanted a house with some levity,” she told the New York Times.
The Architectural firm Johnsen Schmaling Architects was …

With the collapse of the housing market, you may be considering how tiny of a space you could live in, instead.
Rather than shoulder that giant mortgage, why not try something completely different. A tiny house that you could pay for and be done with.

Could you squeeze into a shed? I think I could. I’d rather enjoy living in this beautifully made cottage from Susanne, Sven and Frederick Asa of add-a-room.

Well, maybe that is a bit tiny! But the whole idea of the add-a-room is that …

To create this sustainable housing for downtown Cambridge, Homeowner’s Rehab Inc hired Mostue & Associates Architects and held multiple “green meetings” to develop a Sustainability Charter for Trolley Square.

The 40 affordable residential units and 2,800 square feet of commercial and community space, an underground garage, and 14,000 square feet of open space are designed to bring an infusion of energy and foot traffic for the many locally-owned businesses along this stretch of Massachusetts Avenue.

Originally the roof was not designed for solar, because funding came late. It had …