Here are three Japanese companies with solutions that they hope will help their country cut its food waste in half by 2030, perhaps saving a bit of the planet along the way.

Guests Can Completely Unplug From The Outside World

Japanese studio Akihisa Hirata has designed the ‘Tree-Ness House’, a multi-story complex that replicates the structure of a tree

Home to several small-scale food businesses, The Plant Chicago is a net-zero, closed-loop urban farm

The Nature Conservancy forges surprising partnerships to further its mission

A fantastic deconstructed geodesic dome built with recycled wood

This serene property in Glassell Park seems a world away from Los Angeles

With climate change threatening coastal communities, floating buildings move from science fiction to reality

'Data furnaces' tap heat-generating computer servers to warm houses