As part of their larger Campus Sustainability Initiative, Emory University (GA) students are being asked to commit to each doing three green things in their personal life and on campus. While the program is voluntary, the university

I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current transportation

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,

A Czech church was 3-D mapped and made into a one of a kind musical instrument, controlled by visitors' laser pointers.

The architects call it a "Conceptual Object" but it is pretty and real.

While no longer breaking news, the endeavours of students and staff at two different Australian schools still merits attention. One school went bottled water free, whilst

It could of been a great prototype for affordable efficient housing across Britain.

With 100 percent recycled content, it's an impressive standard for technical gear.

Excessive screen time is known to be harmful, and tough times don't justify letting those concerns slip.

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

Dr. Peter Gleick uncovers the complex truth to the bottled water industry, and makes a strong case for being realistic about our addiction.

Author Peter Gleick joins TreeHugger for a live chat about the story behind bottled water and what it means for our culture and environment.

A couple weeks ago, Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26-year-old conservationist, was kidnapped by sea turtle poachers in Costa Rica. He was bound, beaten, and shot in the head. His body was found on the beach the next day.

This container home in Costa Rica is almost a monster home, but has some interesting features.

He is pushing incandescents, but your eyes change as you age, and older people need brighter, bluer and lots more light.

A Brooklyn-based design studio turns to digital animation to generate the patterns for these striking rugs made out of recycled carpet pieces.

These unique, handcrafted rugs are made to emulate the look and feel of moss, grass, snow and sand, for enjoyment at home.

The Polluted Water Popsicles project is meant to shock viewers into realizing how serious water contamination is in Taiwan.

New York City water doesn't need to be filtered and citizens have already paid for it, that's what.

Distracted driving isn't just caused by cellphones.

Small changes in weather can have big consequences for many animals, including the beautiful Magellanic penguin found at the tip of South-America.

It's that seventies show all over again as a Trudeau gets blamed but it's not his fault; it's simple economics.

FOROBA YELEN is the name given by villagers in Mali to the lighting prototype following an anthropologic study. A shared technology to improve work, education and rituals.

Here's a building that saves up to 50% CO2 by controlling the sunlight with screens on its facade.

There is a new use for your smashed iPhone: a clock.

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly

Take nearly 8,000 old plastic bottles, add some construction waste and mud, and voila: a sturdy and sustainable home.

Here is a way to squeeze six stories of building in the space of five.

Power the World has already brought solar lights to Haiti, now it's working to bring solar powered healthcare kits to Uganda + get a million signatures so that policymakers know we care about ending energy poverty.

Many areas of the world have scarce access to electricity. This new solar lantern will provide light and charging power for cell phones.

In a victory for Berta Cáceres' campaign against a major hydroelectric project, two European development banks have withdrawn support following her and a colleague's recent murders.

A major brand is putting out the first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from recycled beach plastic

By making simple, versatile swaps, you can stay hydrated this summer and all year long without ever touching a disposable water bottle again.

'Coral Garden' is a handcrafted installation that's inspired by the world's threatened coral reefs, and made with upcycled materials.

Using various vintage fabrics, many with a story behind them, this artist portrays ordinary people and historical figures with an artful eye.

While the immense amount of rain and devastating floods that hit Colorado nearly two weeks ago were already tragic , they have also exposed a concern regarding the lax environmental regulations that allow the oil and gas industry to drill in flood zones.

Why make exceptions like this?

Sony, McKinsey & Company, Royal Bank of Scotland and WeWork are all committing to going all-out for clean energy.

The hotel company plans to recycle old soap into 1 million new bars for Global Handwashing Day.

The Convenience Industrial Complex figured out how sell us something that we don't need at a price that's too high.

The Amazon rainforest doesn't need prayers, it needs protectors.

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

When the earthworms are in trouble, we all are.

Using reclaimed wood and steel from old pig fences, this Dutch company makes exquisite tables, while recycling all byproducts into other useful goods -- cat litter, compost and alcohol..

With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged

Yes, but we still have a problem, says Carl A. Zimrig in a new book "Aluminum Upcycled: sustainable design in historical perspective." Because we are using too much of the stuff.

Remember how aluminum cans are "100 percent recyclable into pure aluminum"? They lied.

Environmental and animal protection groups have sued the administration over the Trump-Bernhardt 'extinction plan.'

Our photo of the day comes from Merced, California.

Constructed as an "apartment-house" hybrid, this prototypical 753-square-foot house makes the most of a small lot.