Fusing her own blends of recycled glass to create jewels of light and color, this artist's gorgeous mosaics remind us of the spirit of nature.

By 2020 every light bulb is supposed to put out 45 lumens per watt. It's a Bush-era regulation that the current government wants to roll back.

While preservation of the planet's dwindling biodiversity itself has rightly grabbed the headlines at the ongoing Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan, Science Insider points out an important geoengineering

A new report examines the environmental and health impacts of consuming animals products.

Architects, engineers, landscape architects and urban planners all have a role to play and should be acting now.

When you think about it, it's really Moon power!

Building new roads has been a major contributor to the city's unsustainable growth, newly released Landsat photos show, but more of the same appears to be on the horizon.

The billion-dollar app specializes in sharing digital photos, but tugging along behind it is a growing pile of material stuff.

Fed up of shoddy plastic toys? This modular kit of sturdy parts lets parents and kids construct a wide range of awesome kid-powered vehicles.

Forty companies just pledged to do their part to serve more veggies, helping the environment in the process.

The marketing and branding services group BBMG just reported on his year's annual survey of green consumer attitudes. Questions were asked to determine recognition of 13 of

This is one of those comparison posts that that could draw many angry comments: like Could Hype Sell An Inferior Hybrid? - Ford Fusion versus Toyota Camry did. Please carefully read the caveats.

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), as passed by the US Congress in August, 2008, inadvertently threatens to take many handmade toys and children's clothing items off the market. According to the

In honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, one scientist gives her tips on forging your own path.

No plans this weekend? Why not Start a Sea Change? Planet Green’s non-profit partner, the Ocean Conservancy, hosts their 23rd annual International Coastal Cleanup

This is DiCaprio going back to his first love, in a way, as before becoming an actor, he thought about becoming a marine biologist.

100,000 acres of Sumatran rainforest to be protected in Indonesia by a new type of zoning, which will generate sustainable revenue from non-timber forest products.

These are tiny homes with an activist bent, taking a stand against the incursion of a pipeline that could contaminate indigenous lands.

The fashion event's EcoChic Design Awards inspire Asia’s emerging fashion talent to create with minimal textile waste.

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario

Three new private preserves have opened in Peru to buffer existing national parks. Is this the sign of a new trend?

What to do when a church gets in the way of your water plans? Drown it.

What a joy to stumble upon this 2009 gem by Cullinan Studio.

A landmark report released by The Nature Conservancy has demonstrated that effective conservation measures - far from simply benefiting the local biota - can also help alleviate poverty. The study, co-authored by Nature Conservancy policy advisor

Our photo of the day shows Mother Nature's flair for drama.

San Francisco readers can now find local and green clothes at Amour Vert’s new shop in Hayes Valley.

Using a bit of research and lots of careful gardening, this man was able to help reestablish a population of rare butterflies in his backyard.

U.S. doctors believes it's a serious public health concern that requires drastic action.

That's way sooner than almost anyone expected.

We're not called TreeHugger for nothing.

Because we are not called TreeHugger for nothing.

An amusing new study delves into the social consequences of one person witnessing another person doing the 'ethical thing' -- and why it makes them uncomfortable.

The Austrian system can build at 30 storey high-rise in thirty days

The Nature Conservancy is teaching New Yorkers about the protective natural ecosystems in the city

It's a big step forward for the high-tech timber industry.

Judging from what I am reading all over the political map, I suspect that autonomous cars are the new Juiceroo.

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.

A new article published in the online journal PLoS ONE takes on the issue of energy sprawl -- namely how much land is required to produce energy from different sources -- under different potential US energy and climate policies in 2030.

Everybody should be doing this, planning for repairability from day one.

It is a few years old but a real find. We probably won't see the likes of it again for a while.

The age of vehicular cycling is coming to an end; cyclists want equity, not equality

And we thought it was all about symbolism...

For the first time, conservationists from WWF are putting dogs' superb sense of smell on the trail of tigers in Cambodia. Coming from the University of Washington Conservation Canines program, the dogs are trained to sniff out

There are only an estimated 116 wild Asian elephants in Cambodia's Seima Protection Area, and until now most of the photographic evidence of them has be taken by camera traps. New footage released by the Wildlife Conservation Society changes that. The

It's a moving target and, like TreeHugger hero Chris Magwood, we are all learning on the job.

It also can put people back to work and save our forests.

During a recent interview, BMW chief executive Norbert Reithofer revealed that the German automaker was considering bringing a battery-powered vehicle to the U.S. market by 2012 in an effort to meet more stringent

What is "post-consumer recycled"? Once a material or finished product has served its intended use and has been diverted or recovered from waste destined for disposal, it is then considered "post-consumer." Having completed its life as a consumer item,

Population growth is in fact slowing down but everyone is using more of everything.

Some useful tools for working on a 1.5 degree lifestyle.