Planet Home

Discover the unique and ecologically responsible luxury suspended huts in Harads, Sweden. A Tree Hotel that allows visitors to live in the forest with as minimal an impact on the environment as possible.

Welcome to the 18th arrondissement of Paris, where the Halle Pajol, a former rail freight station, has undergone a thorough ecological facelift. This once abandoned building has undergone exemplary renovations. It has also brought the surrounding neighbourhood back to life.

In Wilhelmsburg, a district in Hamburg, 70 international teams of architects and manufacturers have responded to public tenders on the ecological habitat of the 21st century. These habitat specialists have thus conceived 180 new apartments in 17 buildings on a 30-hectare construction area. Rising water levels and potential floods are one of the main ecological issues.

Just outside Vancouver in Canada we met the families who decided to liv in green and accessible buildings surrounded by rivers and forests, exemplary schools both in terms of building and curriculum. This is UniverCity's promise: building a city in the heart of nature.

In the province of Québec, industry leaders in eco-construction demonstrate that an ecologically friendly home is not just for the elite, but within the reach of the common homeowner. The ultimate goal is to build communities of affordable, liveable, net-zero energy homes built from sustainable materials.

In northern France, right in the heart of a mining region, Loos-en-Gohelle is a true oddity. This small town of 7,000 inhabitants proudly started a green revolution to become a model of sustainable development. The green mayor, Jean-François Caron has been carrying this ambitious project for nearly 20 years, and is convinced that he is laying the foundations of a new model.