It is fitting that Slow Food has a prominent place at the World’s fair, which this year is hosted in Italy and promises to explore the topic of feeding the growing global population.

Fewer people are walking and more people are voting with their gas pedal.

Because no one likes to pop a squat surrounded by piles of soggy toilet paper.

There is a lot of buzz about it, but what you really want is a window.

While preservation of the planet's dwindling biodiversity itself has rightly grabbed the headlines at the ongoing Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan, Science Insider points out an important geoengineering

Late last week at the Convention on Biodiversity a resolution was adopted which places a moratorium on geoengineering unless it can be proven that the method in question can be shown to not have an adverse effect on

Wealthy individuals funding geoengineering feasibility studies because no one else will.

"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises."

Some new research looks at the unintended consequences of injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to block solar radiation and cool the planet, finding that doing so could turn skies everywhere into a brighter, whiter, hazier, ugly mess.

The quest to find a last-ditch techno-fix for climate change is more intense and globe-spanning than you possibly could have imagined. See for yourself.

The first field test of injecting sulfate particles into the atmosphere is proposed for New Mexico; ocean iron fertilization experiment shows more promise than previous ones.

It may have also been done under falsely obtained consent...

Because the iron dumped in the ocean off British Columbia wasn't dumped as waste, it didn't violate international law.

Inspired by geoengineering techniques, an artist creates a personal cloud-forming machine to make a point.

Geoengineering can be more than doing stuff to the environment. We could try leaving it alone.

Max Fordham's house is "simple and practical" and mostly all natural.

Toy innovation has stagnated in recent years and kids are bored. Who's at fault?

The versatile, two-dimensional medium of paper is reconstructed into art that pops off the page.

Annie Leonard is having an incredible run with her short documentary The Story of Stuff. The film still gets 10,000 views per day and has already reached 7.3 million people over the 22 months since it was released. The film

Retro Report revisits the Flavr Savr, the first genetically engineered food to hit American grocery stores.

Researchers in the UK are using genetic engineering to fight the bird flu epidemic.

Sushi is everywhere these days, and robots will soon be everywhere making it.

The scariest thing about these chemicals is that they are almost certainly in your bloodstream and we don't know how bad that might be.

But could it be the ugliest house we have ever shown on TreeHugger?

Optional add-ons like desks, drawers, cabinets, trundle beds and even bike racks make this single bed a place to work, play, rest and relax.

A new report called 'Follow the Thread' assesses the willingness of 72 companies to publish important supply chain information.

It turns out beauty is more than skin deep, but make sure you're taking good care of that beauty because chemicals are all over the skin care industry

You may be spending money on practical needs that are comprised of superfluous wants.

Is that a cheap standing desk, or an expensive cardboard box? Hard to tell.

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.

One was recently installed at an Ohio university. Is this the message one wants to give to students there?

Nations met in Peru this month to discuss solutions to climate change

Want to get quickly into the tree canopy? This modular set of stairs can be quickly and easily wrapped around any tree, without doing damage to the trunk.

When the harvest has been poor, rates of adulteration rise.

When you're trying to protect an entire planet, it seems pretty silly to leave half of its human

Nuclear power is so controversial; an engineer working on the Bruce Nuclear plant gives his point of view.

The recent UN biodiversity report states that overfishing is a bigger threat to the world's ocean than plastic or acidification.

George Monbiot, everyone's favourite controversial climate commentator, launched the Be The Change conference with a bang here in London yesterday. He leaped off the starting blocks with the statement that not only is it imperative that we reduce Co2

For three days this summer, a local host could show you why their country consistently ranks among the happiest in the world.

What a joy to stumble upon this 2009 gem by Cullinan Studio.

Instead of turning sunlight into electricity, and then using that to power indoor lighting, Lucy redirects the daylight into rooms for effective natural illumination.

Despite the fact that representitives from Iran and the U.S. agree on virtually nothing else in the world, representatives from both countries at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Bali are among those pointing out the need for increased

This flexible line of furniture is made for people who are on the move a lot, and need furniture that's easy to assemble and customize.

Why would an engineer at Apple quit his job to design a product to help gardeners propagate plants?

It's a nice idea, as long as it isn't sending the wrong message.

When the evening is carefully planned, the morning goes smoothly.

They want to build beacons into bikes. Will implants in pedestrians be next?

The UK organization wants schools to incorporate that time into their daily curriculum.

This could be why so many people ignore global warming.

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