A new study shows that there is some seriously low-hanging fruit here that would deliver more bang for the buck.

It's a mix of good design, a tough standard and sophisticated engineering.

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

Adriano Studio shows the future of induction cooking with Ordine

Forever is a very long time.

The Substitution Support Portal SUBSPORT launched this week, intending to give business improved tools for substituting hazardous chemicals with safer substitutes.

Beer cans are lined with the stuff, but hey, thats the price you pay for convenience.

French scientist has invented a light powered by algae that absorbs CO2 from the air--1 ton per year! The microalgae streetlamp has the potential to provide significantly cleaner air in urban areas and revolutionize the cityscape.

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

They are sized between the tiny Manhattan "design studio" and their standard big boxes.

Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore.

This project learns from spiders by envisioning a series of interconnected webs that would allow scientists to study the rainforest without harming it.

This month, BookHugger presents Ideas That Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs edited by Max Allen with an introduction by Mary Rowe. Readers can order a discounted copy today and join in a discussion with distinguished urban

Jacob's unpublished writings, essays and speeches from half a century ago seem just as vital and current as the day they were written.

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.

That's what Kris de Decker did with Low-Tech magazine and it makes a lot of sense.

Anthropologist David Graeber thinks we could do without half our jobs.

Now if only he can keep his job in the fall election.

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

Canadian National Railways figures out a crazy new way to mix oil and plastic – to what end?

The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other!

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

They save concrete and look great after all these years.

It's a celebration of a technology that covers longer spans with less concrete and looks good, too. Here are some I have feasted on.

Corporate commitments to clean energy mean renewables are harder than ever to derail.

But no, we're not going to compare to that other tower.

New research finds that on just two remote islands alone, nearly 600,000 crabs are killed every year by plastic debris.

Mixing conservation with death care, a new start-up offers permanently protected memorial trees that solve a slew of problems.

Images from Prix Pictet World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 every year, is an initiative of the United Nations that recognises that water is a basic requirement for all life. This year's theme: "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities" and "Whether

Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the

And a look at Amazon's office morale.

Jellywatch.org has tapped into the power of citizen scientists to collect data on jellyfish populations and you can help.

Fight Apple’s annual seduction dance by buying a perfectly restored iPhone from a company rallying against thoughtless consumerism and e-waste.

Situated in a nature reserve along the Dutch coast, this unique structure not only serves as an observation post, it also provides extra bird habitats.

How to provide housing for the masses getting out of poverty and out of slums in the developing world, without creating sprawl? Argentine architects propose attaching new homes to existing structures.

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

Having grown up in Connecticut’s ‘burbs, I know just how difficult it can be trying to live green there when the nearest grocery market can be a 25 minute drive away. My observations of one of the state’s wealthiest parts (Fairfield County) have felt

Images courtesy of the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk That's '9' followed by 20 zeroes The probability of a lobster being born with a blue shell is about 1 in a million. For a calico or pumpkin-orange colored lobster, the odds are in the excess of 1 in 30

One to keep in you pocket whenever you're faced with someone trying to tell you than putting a price on carbon and promoting energy efficiency will hurt more than they help: Huffington Post reports on the benefits of the Regional Greenhouse Gas

On the Mouzon scale of 1 to 10 for walkability, this intersection gets -10.

Big fuzzy bumblebees do plants a favor, while smaller bee species steal pollen from plants with little in return

Guess which industry pushed that one through?

Lightweight, collapsible, and quick to deploy, this little wind generator might be a viable off-grid portable power source in places where solar isn't appropriate.

Half a century ago zebras were hunted to extinction in the region, now the area is being rewilded and the zebras are leading the charge.

A new study from Pew Research is totally depressing, showing how left and right are moving further apart.

It would be nice to hang out in one of these right now.

Analysts say people are chasing affordability.

Just because something is BPA-free doesn't mean it's safe.

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