The fruit company is spreading its clean energy bets across many sources.

It may lead to as many as 20,000 passive houses being built over the next five years.

These delightful mementos of the Irish countryside remind us of nature's beauty, but are also responsibly sourced and packaged.

If you like a little sugar in your morning (and late morning, and afternoon) coffee, but don't like the calories, there's a good chance you use one of the many artificial sweeteners on the market. But there's plenty of evidence

Two years after legalizing urban beekeeping New York City could be running out of space for bees.

The largest honey packer in the US faces criminal charges over fraudulent trade in Chinese honey.

Was he a role model or a victim?

The stunning new marine preserve surrounding the Galápagos will be off-limits for fishing in a bid to conserve its unique habitat.

This discovery could change how we think our planet works

News Corporation, parent company of Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently of The Daily for the iPad, was the first global media company to commit to and then achieve the goal of becoming carbon neutral.

The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.

Apparently kids are meant to be seen and not heard.

This small 118-square-foot apartment holds a few pleasant, space-saving surprises.

This small and versatile apartment in the heart of Paris uses innovative modern materials for its furniture and cabinetry.

Made with simple materials, this extraordinary instrument creates experimental acoustic sounds that sound eerie yet beautiful.

Touch the trees, hear them hum and murmur.

A NYC-based artist and programmer makes music out of pollution; listen to it here.

Like a gadget from a superhero's gizmo-kit, two engineering students have invented a device to battle blazes with noise – water and toxic chemicals not required.

Sound healing is based on the idea that pure, deconstructed sound can rebalance the body's energy.

The unusual concert was held in the depths of the Florida Reef to promote coral reef protection.

The Musical Mountaineers carry a violin and piano up trails to perform in secret wilderness locations.

Perhaps we should have included one in our perfect bathroom.

Studies show that standing has anti-ageing effects.

Because standing desks cannot stand alone.

Last week when the US Geothermal Energy Association released it's biannual report which stated that geothermal power had grown by 20% so far this year , it cemented what TreeHugger said over a year ago: Geothermal power is the poor

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

There is something mesmerizing about this clip of a squid worm, also named teuthidodrilus samae by researchers after it was 'discovered' recently in the depths of the Celebes Sea between Indonesian and the Philippines.

If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people

A modern but retro-flavored makeover for the endearing bicycle rickshaw by Filipino designer Kenneth Cobonpue.

Campbell Soup Company will soon be sourcing about 15 percent of the energy used at its factory in Napoleon, Ohio (the company's largest) from solar power generated by a just-announced power purchase agreement (PPA) and land lease

Two days after the earthquake caused by a nearby fracking well the mayor said, "I called my insurance man and got earthquake insurance.”

It's déjà vu all over again, with the old guard trying to stop the newcomers...

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).

They are as gutsy and gritty as ever.

It makes a lot of sense in a country with no workers and five other permanent stadia.

Wiarton Willie saw his shadow this morning, which means the cold weather will stick around.

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario

Does it make sense putting this in a small town up on the Canadian Shield?

Canadian birch hauled out of Canada's Ottawa River adds resonance and tone.

220 years ago a lot of people wanted to move to Canada. Here is how they were welcomed.

Just when it started to seem like we had mapped out pretty much all lifeforms on Earth, biologists say they have now found yet another ark-full -- and all in just one small region of South America.

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.

The new find may change anthropologist's conception of early Peruvian prehistory.

Biologists believe that oil companies are to blame for the recent dolphin deaths.

Peru continues to approve oil and gas projects despite previous exploration leading to the death of half the Nahua tribe.

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.

From mites to cockroaches, our house dust is literally crawling with things.

New research documents that mantises worldwide are eating small birds; in the US, invasive mantis species are devouring hummingbirds.

With crickets in decline, some scientists say that the insects' summer crooning may become a thing of the past.