The Energy Issue: Bright Ideas to Power Your Home

Law professor Carole Goldberg and sociology professor Duane Champagne both teach at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Flying high in the air with the greatest of ease or low over a table to accent your meal, a pendant illuminates the room like no other kind of fixture.

In the land of large mountain lodge wannabes, two California natives tuck Utah’s first LEED for Homes–rated house onto the side of Emigration Canyon.

Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has done it all, from spoons to umbrellas to lights, but he’s best known for his data-driven chairs.

With a host of sustainable features, including solar power and a community garden, the row house–like homes of Auburn 7 provide new models for the ever-expanding metropolis.

Typography guru Erik Spiekermann and his wife, designer Susanna Dulkinys, hate clutter.

Beating out a host of competitors, one Danish family left their home behind (it’s just down the road, really) to camp out for a year in an Active House, a green-home prototype...

Energy-monitoring and smart technologies have set up shop in the home, transforming machines for living into veritable living things—with all the bells, whistles, frills, and...