From authoritative volumes on the passive house movement to do-it-yourself shed building guides, there's no shortage of green home-centric books to spend a little QT with this summer.
This Memorial Day weekend: Model homes have a moment (thanks, Netflix!), Portland maintains its status as the nation's largest fluoride-free city and the future of multifamily prefab looks promising.
Celebrating 10 years in business, MIO breaks out a fresh slew of 'green desire'-sparking products including customizable stools and lampshades that can be arranged in over 36 configurations.
To gas or not to gas? The Home Depot tackles everything you always wanted to know about the different types of energy-saving water heaters (but were afraid to ask).
Why the dearth of private homes with storm shelters and basements in and around tornado-prone Oklahoma City? Blame cruddy soil conditions, high costs and prevailing attitudes about mandated building codes.
Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, Newark-based Combo Colab returns to the Designboom Mart at ICFF with a clever, milk crate-based stackable storage stool dubbed XTOOL.
With particulars of a long-term reconstruction plan to soon be released, Architecture for Humanity launches a campaign to aid post-tornado rebuilding efforts in the devastated city of Moore, Okla.
Because you haven't truly experienced life until you've hauled a four-person hot tub behind you while riding a bike, Weltevree returns to ICFF with a mobile, wood-fired human soup bowl dubbed the Dutchtub.
Because it wouldn't make any sense otherwise, the world's first Mason jar-based French press coffee maker is proudly designed and assembled in Portland, Ore.
On the prowl for the perfect paternal prezzie? Check out these 12 Father's Day gift picks that pops will surely find useful in the bar, the workshop and at the grill. (Plus, the requisite pair of socks.)