Growing rapidly in diverse climates, bamboo proves to be an ideal sustainable low-cost building material for these 13 structures, from restaurants to schools.

Spiraling into the sky, this green residential tower designed for Denver is built atop a volume of retail, restaurants, parks, recreation space and gardens.

In the grey center of Madrid, tiny bits of cheery green appeared recently under the protective arms of miniature greenhouses.

It seems baseball bats are breaking more than ever but thanks to some imaginative recycling, all that splintered Ash and Maple wood isn't going to waste.

Some brave homeowners are fighting back against the rising Mississippi flood waters with homemade dams and levees made of dirt mounds.

A forthcoming project aims to turn an old diesel truck into a mobile greenhouse and education center that will bring gardening to the whole country.

These 14 incredible structures, from simple greenhouses to stunning schools, are built almost entirely out of a pervasive waste material: plastic bottles.

Make your garden lush and green and protect it from harmful pests like aphids and slugs with these 12 easy DIY homemade insecticide sprays and fertilizers.

A group of strangers gathers in a public place to call attention to a growing problem: the ambivalence that most people display toward the environment.

With a little imagination, the pallet sitting by the curb behind your local home improvement store could be your new bed platform, coffee table or accent wall.

Flat-pack furniture is eco-friendlier than pre-assembled pieces, but one designer takes that idea even further with a single piece of transforming plywood.

The 'Collect the Rain' skyscraper has a concave roof, an exterior sheath of curving gutters and a funnel-shaped core to collect as much rainwater as possible.

A spectacular garden does not require a flower bed or even a yard. These four unusual gardens utilize normally-overlooked spaces to grow a bit of sunshine.

Some cost millions and others are cobbled together from reclaimed buses, planes and trains, proving that living in a houseboat can be done on any budget.

The designer of this Mexican eco-building used some wonderfully inventive building techniques to preserve and amplify the natural beauty of its surroundings.