11 Years Living Off-Grid In An Earthship Style House…

Hélène Dubé and her partner Alain Neveu have lived off-grid in Quebec, Canada for 11 years in a self-built earthship style home made of recycled tires filled with earth

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Guy Builds A Water-Powered Hammer Using Primitive Technology…

This is a water powered hammer called a “Monjolo”. It’s used for pulverizing materials into powder. I realize it’s under powered but built it as a proof of

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Professor Invents Way To Trigger Artificial Photosynthesis To Clean Air & Produce Energy…

A chemistry professor has just found a way to trigger the process of photosynthesis in a synthetic material, turning greenhouse gases into clean air and producing energy all

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Ten Things We Wish We’d Known Before We Went Off Grid…

This one is lighthearted and encouraging, but it’s also true. Nick Fouch and Esther Emery, moved off the grid in 2013 and since then their family of five lives

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Off-Grid Yurt Tour: A Tiny House Alternative…

If you’re interested in creating a tiny home, then a yurt might be an alternative you would like to consider. A traditional yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger

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A Simpler Way: Global Crisis As An Opportunity To Live More Simply…

Over the course of 2015 Jordan from Happen Films lived in a community in Gippsland, Australia where 9 people came together to take part in this documentary to

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Amazingly Beautiful Houses Made Out Of Bamboo…

You’ve never seen buildings like this. The stunning bamboo homes built by Elora Hardy and her team in Bali twist, curve and surprise at every turn. They defy

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A Company Just 3D-Printed A House In 24 Hours For Only $10,134…

Apis Cor has claimed to be the first company to have developed a 3D printer than can print whole buildings on-site… While 3D-printing may have been faded away

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First Urban ‘Agrihood’ In America Feeds 2,000 Households For Free…

The agrihood is located in Detroit, Michigan, and feeds thousands of families in the area. Children and adults can learn about sustainable agriculture when they take part in

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Young Woman Builds Beautiful Recycled Tiny House For US$19,000…

For many, the idea of building a Tiny House on wheels is a wonderful pipe dream, however young kiwi furniture maker Annelies Zwaan has turned that dream into reality

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Rocket Mass Heaters: A Better Burning Wood Stove…

The rocket stove takes our fascination with fire and bends it 90 degrees. It’s a hyper efficient wood stove that uses far less wood to get a far more

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Idaho Modern Oldtimer Builds An Underground & Solar House For $50…

Mike Oehler lived for over 30 years in an underground home that he built for $50 (and expanded for $500) on his land in Northern Idaho near the

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Check Out This Magical Hobbit-Like Eco Cave House…

Underhill is an incredible hobbit-home like, eco-cave house built into the hillside of a Waikato (New Zealand) farm. The house is cleverly constructed to resemble a cave. With

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Student’s Faucet Design Saves Water By Swirling It Into Beautiful Patterns…

Award winning designer, Simin Qiu, has developed a faucet that produces a spiralling stream of water and conserves 15% more water than yesterday’s faucet. Two turbines inside the

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Bees Prove They Are Highly Intelligent To Amazed Scientists…

Bee videos ave been making waves on social media as people begin to realize that the tiny insects are actually much more intelligent than anyone has ever given

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Revolutionary 3-D Printer Can Build 10 Houses In 24 Hours, And For Only $5,000 Each…

To remedy the housing crisis, as well as the increasing demand for economical and sustainably-produced living spaces, many architects are experimenting with 3D printing. One such designer is

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Free Open Source DIY Plans For A Sustainable “Indoor Garden” For Urban Living…

The design for The Growroom, an urban farm pavilion that looks into how cities can feed themselves through food producing architecture, is now open source and available for

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Escaping The Rent Trap – Simple Living In A Lotus Belle Tent…

If you’ve ever dreamed of living in a luxury tent in the forest, then this may just be the set-up for you! Over the last couple of months

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This Couple Buys Old Farmland & Turns It Into Wildlife Sanctuaries…

Activists, Anil and Pamela Malhotra, met and married during the 1960’s but moved to India in 1986 after the death of Anil’s father.  They were introduced to a

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Swedish Supermarkets Replace Sticky Labels With Laser Marking…

The humble fruit sticker may seem an unlikely cause for environmental concern but removing it from produce could create huge savings in plastic, energy and CO2 emissions. In

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