Other lives: Founder of one of the first city farms, in London’s docklands
October 2021
Isn’t it good, Swedish plywood: the miraculous eco-town with a 20-storey wooden skyscraper
Skellefteå has wooden schools, bridges, even car parks. And now it has one of the world’s tallest wooden buildings. We visit Sweden to see what a climate-conscious future looks like
August 2018
The upside
Paradise lost? What happened to Ireland's model eco-village
Harsh lessons have been learned since the financial crash but residents of the pioneering community remain upbeat
March 2017
Surreal estate
A Brittany eco-home with extra gîte and yurt – in pictures
A geobiologist has built this complex of buildings out of eco-friendly materials around a wooden main house, with scope for tourist rentals
September 2015
Hand-made village near Magna Carta memorial dismantled by bailiffs
Eco-activists, who call themselves Diggers, had lost a court battle to remain on land owned by property developers Orchid Runnymede
February 2015
The Utopia Experiment review – paradise lost
Dylan Evans’s salutary account of his doomed attempt to set up a self-sufficient community in Scotland
January 2014
How the Hungarian town flooded by red toxic sludge went green
Devecser, an environmental disaster zone in 2010, reinvents itself as a hub for sustainable energy
April 2013
Paolo Soleri obituary
Visionary architect who created the experimental Arizona eco-town Arcosanti
November 2012
Iskandar Malaysia - the green mega-city rising above Singapore
Planned eco-city for 3m people matches Luxembourg in size and showcases urban 21st-century smart living, say developers
October 2012
UK's first building to be made entirely from waste – video animation
Plan to build UK's first building entirely out of waste
March 2012
Tories' long and winding road to sensible planning
Simon Jenkins
Simon Jenkins: At last the government has reined in the cowboy lobbyists and allowed urban renewal to trump rural development
February 2012
Northstowe, the first ecotown: just a way to exploit planning laws
Owen Hatherley
Cambridgeshire ecotown plans resubmitted
November 2011
Slow sales in green village throw shadow over future of eco-homes
Black Forest goes green
October 2011
MPs sit in judgment in conservation versus construction planning battle
Campaigners to air their views on George Osborne-Eric Pickles proposals to relax regulations
April 2011
World's first zero-carbon city: Masdar in pictures
Masdar City, which is being constructed near Abu Dhabi, will rely entirely on solar energy and other renewable energy sources, and hopes to become the first zero-carbon, zero-waste city
September 2010
Forget ecotowns, we need smarter cities
Letters: The US may be the country that gave the world hyper-sprawl, 10-lane freeways and the inner-city problem, but it's now vigorously addressing these
August 2010
Green living blog
How to build sustainable homes without spending a penny
From Earthships to underground houses, The Moneyless Man says building low-impact housing for free is theoretically possible
