Here's a frequent question asked by people wanting to create positive sustainable changes in the world: Is it more effective to work as a change agent from inside the current system or is it better to

This simple, innovative solar still purifies water without electricity or filters.

These low-impact, solar-powered desalination units could be a potential boon to water-scarce coastal communities, disaster-prone areas, as well as local marine life.

Using solar stills to purify water isn't a new idea, but it's an effective one. And now new efforts are underway to use this old technology to help green the desert.

A new desalination technology company is looking to help clean up and recover some of the trillion gallons of salty wastewater from the oil and gas industry.

A new water treatment system could save billions of gallons of water each year by recovering almost all of the waste water at bottling plants and water treatment facilities.

This novel wave energy technology can deliver large volumes of high pressure water ashore for desalination or power production (or both).

By combining solar PV, solar thermal, and a heat exchanger, Desolenator has developed a low-cost portable water purifier and desalination device powered by renewable energy.

This system could produce 3,500 gallons of clean water per day, at half the cost of current desalination methods, using just the motion of the waves to power the Reverse Osmosis process.

The latest episode of Fully Charged appears to come to us from the future. Or, maybe just Australia...

Google's St. Ghislain, Belgium data center is its most efficient thanks in part to letting the server areas run at temperatures up to 95 degrees.

As the mercury rises, staying cool becomes a real challenge. Try making this gorgeous desk fan to keep your energy costs down.

A unique solar panel has been designed at Stanford that cools buildings by reflecting sunlight and radiating thermal energy out into space.

Using an age-old method to cool the air, this terracotta "cold pot" could be an energy-efficient and low-maintenance alternative to conventional air conditioners.

From making homemade pasta and bread crumbs to cauliflower rice and so much more, the humble box grater is a genius, multi-talented workhorse.

Whether for parental sanity or oceanic health, this is a powerful step toward a much better world.

Entice butterflies to stay, eat, mate and lay eggs in your garden with these plants and tips.

Sometimes shipping container architecture makes perfect sense.

The company explains why all-electric homes are healthier, safer, and more sustainable.

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Adam Werbach about coral bleaching and youth-powered activism in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green.

Eco-architect Michelle Kaufmann talks to Eric Corey Freed about his book Green Building for Dummies, disco balls and the death of Pergo floors in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Eric is the principal architect at organicARCHITECT, and

Eco-architect Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Prudence Ferreira about the three criteria for Passivhaus certification. Prudence is the founder of Integral Impact Inc, a green building firm with a strong focus on zero energy buildings. As the president of

Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Michael M. Wheeler about government messaging in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Michael is currently the Energy Adviser to California Commissioner Dian Grueneich, he has also worked for the EPA and the DOE

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann interviews Barry Hooper from SFEnvironment about government policy for new and existing buildings in San Francisco in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Barry Hooper collaborates with design

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Peter Yost from BuildingGreen about working with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs on energy efficient window treatments in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Peter Yost has been

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Hunter Lovins from Natural Capitalism Solutions in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Hunter is a professor, speaker and author on changing the conversation around business to

Architect and author of Cradle to Cradle talks about green products, his new buildings, and what happened in China.

In cars, houses, furniture and electronics, The trend was toward increasing repairability and simplifying recycling. Apple goes its own way.

Meet Dopper, a Cradle to Cradle water bottle company that’s bringing clean water to Nepal.

He was a pioneer of sustainable design.

Watering problems are the leading cause of poor health for houseplants; here’s how to give them what they need.

Carved pumpkins are susceptible to rot, but there are ways to stave it off.

BloomingTables are a lovely solution for saving space ... and keeping indoor plants away from kids and pets.

Colder weather provides some unique challenges for indoor plants; here's how to how to help them get through it.

From watering needs to ideal temperatures, here's what to know to help your indoor plants survive the cooler months.

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.

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It may sound like an oxymoron, bringing sustainable practices to mining operations, but unless we all stop consuming resources immediately, mining is also not going anywhere. So this is good news: since 2007, Alcoa's Jamalco

You can't call an aluminum guest house dropped by helicopter green, but you sure can call it cute.

Made from virgin materials that require resource-intensive manufacturing processes, reusable water bottles aren't the perfect solution that you may think.

The animals get distracted and distressed. Oh, and you could get your head bitten off.

Smaller, faster, cheaper! Single board computer (SBC) innovations are jumpstarting a whole new wave of DIY devices.

Spoiler: your city will be much warmer year round.

The underwater data center is an innovative attempt by the company to create more sustainable, energy efficient data centers.

The new program can learn and classify leaves so well that it could reveal the "tree of life" of ancient plants.

Designer Ludwig Rensch thinks it is, and so do a lot of other people.

Now you can handwrite letters on your computer.

The machine with a mission exceeds everyone's wildest dreams

Using satellite and Google maps images, the program can count and identify the city's trees.

The findings could help us deal with environmental changes happening now and in the future.