Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. But lots of people do; last year I stayed in Laurence Grant's house near St. Thomas, ...

When you hear the words “compost toilet”, there’s a good chance you immediately begin imagining some sort of terrifying box with a hole in it you want nothing to do with. That’s certainly what I ...

We left our city lives behind to live off-grid at the top of a mountain in Spain. After two years of renovating an old stone ...

With water-conservation ideas generating so much buzz lately, it”s worth revisiting an old technology — the composting toilet — to see if it might offer new solutions. Composting toilets have been ...

After covering the wonderful Tiny Tack House, Commenter Marrena noted: A bucket and sawdust! That's pretty hillbilly for most people. I see that the other similar tiny home you feature here, Alek ...

One of Prospect Park’s oldest structures, the Wellhouse, has been restored and is now open to the public. Designed by Calvert Vaux in 1869 and located on the edge of the lake, the Wellhouse was once ...

One of the oldest structures in Prospect Park has been transformed into the city’s first composting restroom in a public park. The Wellhouse, which is the last surviving building at Prospect Park ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Tucked away at the busy intersection of Alvernon and Speedway is Watershed Management Group. The serene campus is covered with food-producing plants and trees that juxtapose the ...