Shoppers have realized that paying a few extra cents can make or break a domestic food producer.

The Canadian city is the latest to rethink disposal culture and insist on something better.

A list of 10 resolutions shows that big changes are coming to the professional food world.

A few tweaks by stores could make the process more efficient.

They're using the Flashfood app to give customers steep discounts and divert food from landfill.

The idea that the US electricity grid could be knocked out for 1.5 years is a bit shocking. But that's what the agency in charge of protecting it has revealed.

Alex Steffen comes up with a term that really defines so much of what is happening (or not happening)

The big Danish design competition really has similar goals to TreeHugger: to promote good green design that makes the world better

A look at some of the nominees which are brilliant, and others that are something else.

Using shipping containers for housing near a Danish rock music museum makes sense, sort of.

Billions of gallons of water may be wasted because of this.

Just yesterday I joked seated at my neighborhood's dive-y, not-concerned-about-clean-food diner that the likely hormone-injected milk I stirred into my coffee might spur the growth of a third boob. It was a risk I was

Researchers at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology have developed a zebra-smelling cattle collar which will be tested on Masai herds subject to the biting tsetse fly,

What progress has been made since the first wave of media excitement about this project? We catch up on the news of efforts to breed an ancient species back from extinction

The world's weirdest living thing should encourage us to rethink what we think about intelligence.

Another reason to electrify everything.

Consumer demand for meat, soy, palm oil, and more has resulted in 60% of primate species facing extinction.

The 530-acre forest has hundreds of ancient giant sequoia, including the fifth-largest tree known on the planet.

Meet the primate species that are among the most endangered on the planet, and the most in need of conservation measures.

Among other things, the data reveals answers about the size of blue whales, the largest organisms to have ever lived on Earth.

An ambitious scheme to build a number of solar power stations along the Mediterranean shores of the Middle East and northern Africa could generate enough electricity to supply one sixth of the European Union's needs. The generators, individually fitted

XEROX/PARC Spiral Water Filtration Technology A typical water-treatment plant is very big and very expensive. XEROX's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has come up with a new technology that could make the whole process cheaper and simpler, potentially

Having given Global Water Challenge a Best of Green award earlier this year for their innovative work on the issues of drinking water and sanitation, it goes without saying that TreeHugger is a fan of their work.

All over the world, inspired, creative, (and often obsessed) entrepreneurs are tightening bolts and swirling beakers, inventing the next generation of green technology. Andrew Heintzman is a venture capitalist with the aim of finding and funding these

This novel wave energy technology can deliver large volumes of high pressure water ashore for desalination or power production (or both).

When an Iowa State professor of mechanical engineering followed his hunch about spider webs, it paid off: he proved biological materials can rival metals in conducting heat.

What if the Google Street View car took thermal energy scans of all the country's buildings and then built a database of building energy efficiency information? That's the concept behind startup company Essess's approach to home energy audits.

A unique solar panel has been designed at Stanford that cools buildings by reflecting sunlight and radiating thermal energy out into space.

It lets them be creative with their cooking and the kind of spaces they set up in.

This might be one of the smartest ways to use a smart thermostat.

The smartest features of a smart thermostat may actually be the pretty simple.

Over the last 30 years, habitat loss for imperiled species in the U.S. was more than twice as great on non-protected private lands than on federally protected public lands.

It's an industrial design approach, a product that is refined almost to perfection.

Caveat emptor.

You have heard of "fast fashion." Get ready for fast architecture in container-sized modules.

The promise of prefab was healthy, cost-effective, energy efficient homes designed by talented architects. Is it finally here?

They're designed as temporary living for Malibu fire victims, but nice enough that they might never leave.

With aging baby boomers and young people who can't afford housing, there's going to be a huge market for these.

Eco-architect Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Prudence Ferreira about the three criteria for Passivhaus certification. Prudence is the founder of Integral Impact Inc, a green building firm with a strong focus on zero energy buildings. As the president of

These days when your coffe machine breaks, it is usually cheaper and less hassle to just buy a new one. I was therefore pleasantly surprised about the repairability of my Presso coffee maker, which still keeps serving me off the grid!

In cars, houses, furniture and electronics, The trend was toward increasing repairability and simplifying recycling. Apple goes its own way.

C2C products were featured in the Unity Home seen at Greenbuild.

Meet Dopper, a Cradle to Cradle water bottle company that’s bringing clean water to Nepal.

It is hard to imagine a greener product than natural tree bark.

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes

A medical practice in Manchester, England is giving patients indoor plants to help boost wellness.

WIth cooler weather and shorter days, your indoor plants could use a little help getting ready for the new season.

Even if doomsday never comes, these 20 plants are some of the most practical you can grow.

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Thanks to the folks at Daily Candy for this awesome tip! With the holidays coming up, and that inevitable office party or family gathering, maybe it's time to freshen up your kitchen