Many have pointed out the connection between electric cars and sustainable, smart homes as one of the features of a new kind of lifestyle. If our vehicles should be much friendlier to the environment ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Question: I want to build a large (2,500-square-foot), energy-efficient house. Are the contemporary circular house kits very efficient? I want to help build it to lower the cost. Answer: Circular ...

Dear Jim: I want to build an efficient home to withstand the severe weather we are having everywhere. A circular home makes sense, but I do not want to go as radical as a dome. What other circular ...

If you buy an Ektorp sofa or Poäng chair in Europe, some of the components may have once been inside an old mattress. These surprisingly gorgeous tiny homes are giving aging wind turbines new purpose ...