With a few tips from Grandma thrown in.

Plus two ways to go green as we upgrade our popular series.

Not to mention getting buried in dirt or building with it.

Plus lots of green things.

With a visit to a festival and a brown lawn.

And a few looks back at themes of the last ten years.

Also, much ado about nothing.

Here are the favorites in our favorite category

A Guardian article inspires a silly roundup

Many of them seem to be about bikes and transportation though....

You picked them! We hug'em!

August is the best month for tiny houses and here are the best tiny houses of August.

From tiny houses to busy bees

And they are not alone...

I am a huge fan of BuildingGreen, but have not given a lot of coverage of their Green Product of the Year Awards. They are, to put it bluntly, not sexy, like watching Eoncote Ceramic paint dry. But I have been doing our readers a disservice, as I

It's the Oscars of green building products chosen by the experts, in the runup to Greenbuild.

It's a ritual; they pick the ten top products and I complain that they are not sexy. This year is different.

It's like watching paint dry.

What do we really want from a building certification system?

Here is one woman's version of simple living on the river, in a boat that is equipped to see the tough northern winters through.

If a country is a body, rivers are its arteries through which vital blood flows. We must revive our waterways before more damage is done.

Solar power is a wonderful thing but the benefits are not evenly distributed.

Talk about slashing food miles; 'fresh from the roof' is as local as it gets.

The #1 most-used herbicide in the world is in you, me, and our pee. Should we do something?

Batteries recycled from old LEAFs run the refrigeration equipment in this all-electric truck.

I can't stop thinking about Natasha Pettigrew. She was 30 years old, a Green Party candidate for Senator in Maryland, and killed this month in the early morning hours by being struck from behind by a woman in an SUV. The driver did not stop, dragged

Residents in southern Maryland have long felt like they live in an 'energy sacrifice zone.' They already have a nuclear power plant and now are trying to stop a liquid natural gas port.

New York's skyline is getting greener and a whole lot more productive too.

Designboom shows another example of how green roofs are changing architecture.

This reconstruction scheme in China encourages resilience and self-sufficiency.

TreeHugger didn't show many of the proposals for housing in Haiti, like Andrés Duany's proposals for a flatpack design (here in Jetson Green); We have spent too much time with Cameron Sinclair, who says "Top down solutions will

In a funny twist, one of the stars of an extremely popular car show (Top Gear) whose script smeared Tesla is now going electric. James May is getting a BMW i3.

Yet another example of the uncanny intelligence of our 8-armed overlords.

This is beyond climate denial, it's science denial

It's either billions of dollars in polar engineering, a rapid cut in emissions now, or an all-of-the-above strategy.

Great Lakes residents would be paying this off for 47 years ... but reaping the benefits for just as long.

Load up the Krug and the caviar and go for a spin.

Some things were never meant to go in the blue bin.

Filters on buses and smog-eating towers are not the answer.

London Fashion Week was disrupted by protesters who want the industry to declare a climate emergency.

When you think Mexico, think biofuels (not just tequila). That's the message of OriginOil, a Los Angeles, California, company that's been contracted by the Mexican government to produce 1 percent of the

EnerGaia, a Thai startup, is using the rooftop of a Bangkok hotel to harvest spirulina. Is this the new edible rockstar of urban farming?

"Most people are already operating ‘off grid’ in different ways to varying degrees, but the vast majority don’t feel the need to make a big lifestyle song and dance about it."

Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,

It's been a couple of years since the still-planned and so-called Great Green Wall of Africa graced the pages of TreeHugger, so here's a quick update and overview: As the BBC reports, African leaders are meeting in Chad to further push the

From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a new dramatized documentary

We take a tour of a sustainable factory that turns discarded glass into durable building materials.

Kids deserve a better example than that.

The film director believes that ocean exploration could help us to prepare better for climate catastrophes.

Metsä Wood design competition produces very interesting entries, like this one from Sigurd Larsen.