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Drones help to predict volcanic eruptions

Drones can continually monitor active volcanoes to help with advanced warnings of eruptions.




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Growth in World Contraceptive Use Stalling; 215 Million Women’s Needs Still Unmet

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.




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Do we have a population crisis or a consumption crisis?

Population growth is in fact slowing down but everyone is using more of everything.




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Learn the footprint of your meat consumption with the Omni Calculator

Some useful tools for working on a 1.5 degree lifestyle.




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'The Game Changers' documentary challenges assumptions about meat, protein and strength

It turns out you can still be a high-performing athlete on a plant-based diet.




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Arabian 'Unicorn' Back from the Brink in Middle East Thanks to Captive Breeding Program Success

A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until




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Product Service Systems are back with Fernish subscription furniture

This might be a model for how to live lightly in a circular economy.




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New York Subway Train Filled With Apples Is Emptied Onto Platform, Illustrates Food Waste (Video)

Every day, New York City residents waste 270,000 pounds of food. Want to know what that looks like? Here's an unforgettable way to imagine it - fill up a subway train with the equivalent amount of apples, and release it onto the




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'Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way' (book review)

Tanja Hester, who retired at 38, can help you create a financial roadmap that makes your life your own.




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Paw Pods offer a dignified biodegradable burial option for pets

Our pets become like family to us during their lives, so why not treat them with the dignity that a family member deserves when they die?




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Costa Rica announces plans to close its zoos and release animals from captivity

"We don't want animals in captivity or enclosed in any way," says Costa Rica's Environmental Minister.




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Happy Birthday, Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term "conspicuous consumption"

We live in his world of conspicuous waste.




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Sustainable consumption versus waste

How well do we utilize a variety of things that we buy? Michael Sivak looks at the data for everything from our cars to our clothes.




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Irregular Neon Fence Lights Up Parking Lot in Buenos Aires, Changes Fencing Perception

Parking lots will never be green, period. But design can make them less of an eye sore. And who knew a fence could look cool?




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Three Options For Black Friday

Not up for camping at the Best Buy? We have three less costly and more comfortable options.




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DIY dome homes built from AirCrete are an affordable & ecofriendly option

First there was foamcrete, then there was papercrete and hempcrete, and now we've got AirCrete, a foamy mixture of air bubbles and cement.




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How we got "locked in" to fossil fuel consumption

More on why our personal consumption habits matter in the climate emergency.




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Changing the paradigm of consumption

Companies are in position to shift away from a linear towards a circular product economy that is at once regenerative and restorative.




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Cue the Q4 holiday overconsumption

The most wonderful time of the year is often the most wasteful




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Circular logic: Round runways could save a lot of land, reduce fuel consumption and cut noise

This is not a joke. It is also a teaching moment about blogging.




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School Joins Frontlines of Energy Efficiency with Absorption Chiller

It's not every day the more industrial inner workings of a school district are featured on the front page of TreeHugger, but if you’re looking for a school that’s on the cutting edge of energy conservation and making smart use of taxpayer dollars look




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In Photos: What zoo captivity looks like around the world

Photographer Gaston Lacombe's beautiful and heartrending series of photographs of captive animals at zoos across five continents.




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How Collaborative Consumption Could Help Shrink Government

Could sharing more be central to achieving the Right's biggest dream?




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Is Collaborative Consumption a Movement or a Business Model?

The sharing economy is built more on convenience and the desire to save money than a mission to save the world. But does that matter?




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Do personal consumption habits really matter in the climate emergency?

In a word, yes. We don't have to buy what they're selling.




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New option to retrofit your bike into an e-pedelec, and more at VELO Berlin

Innovation and local products featured prominently at the bike show




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Rising Meat Consumption Takes Big Bite out of Grain Harvest

World consumption of animal protein is everywhere on the rise. Wherever incomes rise, so does meat consumption.




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How to reduce your energy consumption: Buy a glass monster home and fill it with green gizmos

Sometimes it is hard to know what these companies are really telling us.




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Cutting U.S. meat consumption by half would reduce dietary emissions by 35% within decade

The gains are even bigger when beef is targeted specifically.




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If cities are going to curb their carbon emissions, they have to consider consumption

It's not just about how we build and how we get around; it's also what we eat and wear and buy.




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Deli counter deception: 'No nitrates added' claim is incorrect

Consumer Reports explains why the curing source for processed meats doesn't matter. It's all bad for you.




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"Vertical Farming" from Option-G (TreeHugger Art)

Click here to see the full-size images in the slideshow This is the latest piece in the TreeHugger/Option-G print series; check out the full picture below and the full collection at Option-G where they're available for




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Airbus proposes blended wing body planes that reduce fuel consumption by 20 percent

But would you want to sit in a plane with no windows?




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YouTube Beauty Stylist Andrea Brooks Reveals Holiday Party Beauty Tips in Latest Colgate® Optic White® Smile Show™ Episode ¿¿ - Video Sneak-Peek

Exclusive sneak-peek of how Andrea gets her #BrilliantSmile holiday ready in Episode 7 of The Smile Show.






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Eyeglass World Launches First Retail Collection of Prescription Lenses for Smart Glass Devices - Future of Eyewear

Eyeglass World launches first retail collection of smart glass technologies in the U.S., including specially designed prescription lens options and hardware for Recon, Vuzix and Epson wearable devices.






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Invuity® Launches Hidden Scar Program For Breast Cancer Surgery At American College Of Surgeons (ACS) Annual Clinical Congress 2015 - Top Breast Cancer Surgeons Discuss Advanced Surgical Options

Top Breast Cancer Surgeons Discuss Advanced Surgical Options




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YouTube Beauty Stylist Andrea Brooks Reveals Holiday Party Beauty Tips in Latest Colgate® Optic White® Smile Show™ Episode ¿¿ - Video Sneak-Peek

Exclusive sneak-peek of how Andrea gets her #BrilliantSmile holiday ready in Episode 7 of The Smile Show.





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Coronavirus could be the tipping point for movie theaters, gyms and other industries already suffering from disruption

Movie theaters, fitness centers, commercial real estate and pay TV could be among the industries that are vulnerable in prolonged quarantines.




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Spain reports uptick in daily coronavirus deaths; Australia plans reopening in 3 stages

Spain saw 229 new deaths related to Covid-19, up from 213 the day before.




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Feds clear General Motors in UAW union corruption probe

Federal prosecutors this week informed GM that it is not currently a target in a yearslong investigation into corruption of the United Auto Workers union.




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USAA chief: Coronavirus 'cabin fever' may be behind car crash uptick after initial steep decline

"The last couple of weeks we've seen a slight uptick in those rates, certainly not because stores are reopening," USAA CEO Wayne Peacock told CNBC.




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This wartime law gives Trump exceptional power over US economy

President Trump has invoked a Korean War-era law to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The Defense Production Act gives the president extraordinary powers over the U.S. economy, which supporters of the move say is necessary to contain the disease.




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Horsburgh: Markets could still have a setback, while still maintaining a relatively optimistic outlook

Tim Horsburgh of Invesco discusses why there seems to be such a disconnect between the weak economic data and the market's positive moves.




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Wall Street is too optimistic as economies start reopening, Stephen Roach warns

One of the world's leading authorities on Asia is worried Wall Street is miscalculating China's efforts to reopen its economy.




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Tesla's biggest bull says Wall Street skepticism is 'a wonderful wall of worry'

Ark Invest's Cathie Wood said on "Squawk Box" that demand in China and falling battery costs will continue to boost Tesla's stock.