A friend of mine -- let's call her Heidi -- has become insomniacal over the increasing amounts of waste deluging our planet. There is no distracting Heidi from her never-ending trash thought-loop. She has good reason to freak out over how much trash we generate.

Did you know that the t-shirt and jeans you are wearing cost the Earth 2,200 gallons of water, enough to fill a small tanker truck?

From Mother Nature Network's Matt Hickman: Let’s say you made it out of the Big Easy in one piece after helping les bons temps to rouler -- hopef...

I created a documentary to delve deeper into the process of creating a chic little cottage out of reclaimed materials and tenacity.

As solar moves from the fringe to the mainstream, insiders and watchdog groups are beginning to talk about producer responsibility and recycling in an attempt to sidestep the pitfalls of electronic waste.

American Apparel has launched "Creative Reuse", an accessories and intimates collection made entirely from repurposed and excess fabrics...

The people over at ThreadBanger have a clever way of reusing plastic bags to make laptop cases, with your own personal touch. All you'll need is some ...

Conservation must not be viewed as a dressed-up version of deprivation. Instead, it should be regarded as an affirmation of the truism that less can be more.

The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion is almost done and here are the pictures to show its current status. We were really impressed last year when we learne...

We at HuffPost Green love finding a creative use for recycled materials, as we highlighted in our junk art and turning trash into crafts slideshows. N...

We searched high and low to find these 15 stylish accents for the home, each handmade by the artisans of Etsy....

Here at Inhabitat we love seeing innovative applications for recycled books, so we were excited to see that Manhattan's McNally Jackson Books has inco...

Junk can be a beautiful thing, if you have the eyes to see it. From litter off the streets to odds and ends in the house, these artists from around th...