David Masters lives in a yurt. But it isn't just a home, he preaches what he practices in an "alternative learning center that provides opportunities for people to develop and reflect on their values and to consider how they might take an active role

An airbag on the hood of the car to protect pedestrians? We also have a video of Paris flooded by rising seas, a sliding library creates an extra room, and more.

Lake Michigan alone receives the equivalent of 100 Olympic-sized pools full of plastic bottles each year.

What is in your drinking water? It turns out there may be more than we know.

This could mean we're drinking our plastic waste.

Reminiscent of a bear's cozy cave, this bedroom for children maximizes the small space in a playful way.

A new decree has opened the door to global waste exports – and rampant pollution.

For at least six weeks, thousands of barrels of tar sands oil have been bubbling up into the forest in Cold Lake, Alberta and neither the oil company or government scientists know how to stop the flow.

One study and a pile of anecdotal evidence has shown that perhaps the decision to remove fluoride in 2011 wasn't such a great idea.

Levi's new denim line will incorporate on average, eight 12 to 20-ounce plastic soda bottles per jean.

Neil Young may be looking for a heart of gold, but he hopes she is wearing a blouse of organic cotton.

It's a solid, sustainable choice all around.

I wrote last year about the Boulder-based Unreasonable Institute's search for people who have great ideas, who think big, who want to change the world, and who seem like they can. Last year's fellowship was a great

An amazing wooden bicycle, hand-made in Spain by two brothers for professional cyclists. The wooden frame is lightweight, resistant and beautiful!

TreeHugger just keeps on having to eat its hat with these guys.

Indulging in a Western-style diet for 7 days impaired the brain function in healthy young people and made them want to overeat, researchers find.

You can't really 'boost' your immune system, but certain lifestyle decisions will make its job easier.

What could possibly go wrong?

Alabama is contemplating a pipeline to the Great Lakes. We've said it time and again: transient drought will not drive the US Federal government to pipe Great Lakes water to the drought stricken states. If it becomes severe enough, and the impacts come

A most painful demonstration of Murphy's Law - that

Cece Durden, a 17-year-old from Uniontown, Alabama, fights coal ash pollution in her hometown

In rural Alabama, an existing landmark building is converted into a new community gathering spot, instead of being torn down.

Is shopping so important that people have to die or get pepper sprayed?

Some of them are surprising and all of them will make a real difference.

This building alternately fries the public, blows them off their feet and cheats them out of promised public amenities. And did I mention it's bloated, top-heavy and just plain ugly.

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

The judges got it right this time.

They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program.

Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes.

RIBA has announced that all its prizes will now be sustainable. We are going to need a counterpoint.

In honor of World Wetlands Day, we’re turning our gaze towards the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands—and one that’s seriously threatened.

Deforestation has revealed the large geometrical geoglyphs built over 2000 years ago – their discovery holds valuable lessons for today.

A relentless sweet tooth, naïveté, and sneaky marketing are conspiring to create a health disaster in every corner of this country.

A lack of space becomes something more roomy with some simple design strategies.

In photographer Yao Lu's "View of Waterfall with Rocks and Pines," two men stand underneath the spreading branches of a gnarled pine tree, aiming their cameras off in the distance, where

TreeHugger visits one of Denmark's oldest Eco villages, which includes 74 sustainably-designed highly unique houses and apartment buildings that range from hobbit-style straw to high design.

Researchers are looking to fungi to help provide a fix for crumbling infrastructure, with promising results.

It is as counterintuitive as it is true: Around the world, communities who have resided on the land the longest often have the most tenuous rights to that land.

A new solar-power kit from BRIGHT Products is like the Swiss Army Knife of solar gadgets.

The technology could save countless lives.

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.

How would you reduce one pound of waste per week from your lifestyle?

Why so much focus on packaging when product waste is equally important to consider?

Whether they are growing to be thousands of years old, making life-long friendships or confounding us with their resilience, trees provide to us invaluable material resources.

How will you promote actions that divert more waste from disposal and conserve natural resources?

Consumers are connected to the things they care about, providing access to ventures that have the potential to make real impacts.

Combining realism with an otherworldly aesthetic, these artworks remind us of the interconnectedness of all life.

Just take them with big photos, nobody will ever know.

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

In an effort to appease critics, the airport is focusing on four key environmental strategies.