The ring of giant Project Loon balloons will bring data service to people living below.

While you may not have heard of the Good Food Awards, there is a good chance you've enjoyed food from some of their winners. The not-for-profit organization celebrates not only the kind of food we should be eating but the kind we want to eat.

The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought

Drying clothes uses an incredible amount of energy, it's clearly a low-hanging fruit for conservation and energy efficiency efforts.

Many users replace their smartphones every couple of years, even though they have years of life left in them. Here's how to keep your smartphone for longer while keeping up its performance.

There is not much that can go wrong in such a simple concept. That's really smart.

Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,

We have to decarbonize, not just because of carbon dioxide and climate change in the longer term, but because it is killing us directly right now.

A growing number of cities are getting serious about tackling the climate emergency.

It's a number that's been thrown around a lot recently. There's a danger it will be misunderstood.

Actually, a bit more than 100%.

Test out your green car awareness by seeing if you can name the 2014 World Green Car of the Year. Note: it has to be a new model.

My word of the year is a little geeky this time around, but it crosses over -- and unites -- fields.

Resolve to make these simple changes month by month as a graceful way to ease into a more sustainable lifestyle.

Today is Earth Overshoot Day, but it's not exactly something we should be celebrating. It's actually a wakeup call for humanity.

Demographers are complaining, but Americans have many good reasons for not wanting so many kids.

It's not revising up its official targets, but the government is hinting that it may now achieve 225 GW by 2022.

Primary energy consumption was down, too.

For those who say it's too difficult...

It's an important inflection point. But a lot of work still remains.

A last-minute menu change has switched out fish for mushrooms.

Help fund solutions to the global water crisis by purchasing a t-shirt from a company that donates to Thirst Relief for each shirt sold - enough money per shirt to give one person access to clean, drinkable water for 25 years!

California has been going through a drought for about 3 years now, with 2013 being the driest year on record.

This ambitious goal is all the more remarkable because NIPSCO is currently 65% coal dependent.

Times they are a changin'

A new study suggests we look to the past for guidance on how to cope going forward.

An investor network managing $4 trillion in assets has warned investors that they should prepare for the inevitable -- a climate-driven "sin" tax on meat.

The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale

It led to a series of other agreements that protected and cleaned up the Great Lakes environment

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.

Dictionary.com picks the perfect word for our dystopian future!

By analyzing a 364-meter ice core, researchers have been able to go back in time and track the freezing and melting cycles of Antarctica's peninsula.

A gigatonne of ice here, a gigatonne of ice there... Soon enough we're talking about a meaningful quantity!

After ten years of work, the Antarctic Heritage Trust has done an amazing job of restoring and preserving.

Lessons from Amundsen: travel fast and light with a small footprint.

These 'living fossils' have survived mass extinctions over the course of their eons of existence, but it just might be two youngsters that save them from the human threats they face today.

American organic farmer Eliot Coleman explains how his innovative winter gardening methods work, allowing growers to harvest veggies year-round.

Acorns are piling up around the U.S., threatening to cover some cities in nuts. Not really, but there have been an "exceptionally large number of acorns" dropped by oak trees around the country this year, Chicago-area experts say. This

When you watch the video do you see a triumph of nature or the beady eyes of a predator?

37 species under national protection have been observed in the Ziwuling area, thanks to massive reforestation efforts.

One of the '25 most wanted' lost species, the silver-backed chevrotain is a snaggle-toothed, deer-like species that is the size of a rabbit and walk on its tippy toes.

Cherry-picking has become a family bonding experience – and a practical zero-waste food storage tactic.

Proof that buildings from the 70s and 80s can be fixed well instead of demolished: Perkins + WIll gets the highest LEED score in America.

Here is another reason to hate the Hudson Yards in New York City.

Personal finance writer Michelle McGagh weighs in on how to save money effectively.

Whether it's for emotional or financial reasons, more people are rejecting consumerism by refusing to shop unnecessarily.

It's only the second time that the treehugger types get the big prize

It's all a facade, as architects compete to see who can design the ugliest exterior.

We have a look at the eco-sheds

This being TreeHugger, we look at the eco-sheds first.