Solar farm atop a PrimeAsia Leather Corp. leather tannery in Vietnam. Courtesy photo via WWD. Tanning is an intense chemical process which transforms decomposable rawhide into leather, but not without discharging serious pollution into water; Around

He is one of Asia's emerging architects, famous for building stunning, affordable and durable buildings out of bamboo.

Referencing traditional terraced agriculture, this modern house with terraces has an integrated rainwater collection and irrigation system that would allow it to grow greenery.

Last week there were used battleships for sale on e-bay, this week we've got used space shuttles. But not going as cheaply as the warships and not being turned into pots and pans either.

Yesterday for our third post in the Do Lectures 2011 series we encouraged you to Start Where You Live. You never know quite how far you will travel. In the

Leave the office behind. Sierra Club is offering a wild summer ride. It even pays real money.

The future is mobile as businesses dematerialize and hit the road

Is she trying to "put together a 21st Century technology company using 19th Century workplace mentalities"? Or is this a smart move?

People often write of climate associated flooding, loss of agricultural productivity, spread of tropical disease, and so on. The City of Lahore, Pakistan is experiencing

The near-death of one of India's most distinguished scientists has halted work on a major hydroelectric dam in the Himalayas. Professor AD Agarwal, 77, former dean of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi at Kanpur,

If you're already on TreeHugger it's safe to assume that you've got an interested in what lies under the great green umbrella. And, now, if you've also got an

With all the recent brouhaha over inaccurate and since retracted statements in the 2007 IPCC climate change report about the speed with which Himalayan glaciers are melting, a recent series of posts over at China Dialogue is

From the "re-positioning of old news' file: as quoted in the New York Times story about a trillion dollar minerals discovery in Afganistan, U.S.

Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan. A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the 'timber

Back when 20% of Pakistan was underwater, I wrote about the influence of deforestation on the flooding--deforestation caused in no small part by illegal logging at the hands of the so-called timber mafia, a group with

Climate-related disasters and other losses will cost Pakistan $14 billion each year, a former environment has said.

NASA is using decades of space exploration technology to build a new eco-aware base here in California.

Yanaizu Town, Kawanuma District, Fukushima Prefecture is rural-at-best and about as far away as you can get from the big cities. The town recently made the news when Chiba

Can a nuclear weary TreeHugger really believe what she's hearing? Could uranium mines be facing shortages? Earlier this

The heat in the upper six miles of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity

A former Nazi bunker located in Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover. The building, which looks like a giant LEGO, will supply 3,000 homes with heating and 1,000 of those with electricity, cutting 6,600 tons of CO2 per year.

With the abundant geothermal potential of the United States, what are the biggest barriers to tapping into that renewable energy source? Leslie Blodgett of Geothermal Energy Weekly answers.

A recently opened power plant in the Nevada desert uses two types of renewable energy.

Plus... Shell announces first carbon capture project in the Alberta Tar Sands; Arctic oil and natural gas's high cost to limit their global share.

Geothermal energy constantly gets overshadowed by other sources of clean energy, like wind and solar, because it's still more expensive. But with every passing year, it gets closer to its time in the spotlight.

Do you think we need to shift to solar, wind, and geothermal energy? Then show some love this week in order to help grow this important societal transition.

What's it going to be? Check out this fun infographic to learn amusing and interesting facts about both popular beverages.

Promoting the gift economy and community resiliency, this man has been traveling the country for the last decade, offering free cups of tea out of his bus home.

It may not make economic sense to park bikes this way, but it sure is fun to watch.

These flowery sculptures seem to grow and flourish, out of repurposed dead animal skulls.

You will find your ikigai at the intersection of what you are good at and what you love doing.

Because of the weather, some of the country's famed cherry trees are having a surprise autumn bloom instead of in spring.

In Japan, celebrating the transient beauty of flowers is a beloved custom when the cherry blossoms spring to life.

A new tea set to become the world's most expensive is being fertilized with panda feces, and is touted as having cancer-preventing properties.

The problem may seem immense, but there are many good solutions.

In which I try to clear up some misconceptions.

In a bid to meet the city's goal of recycling 60% of its waste by 2015, Seattle is turning its sights on food scraps that end up in the trash.

A Seattle educational non-profit hopes to crowd-fund a series of portable, off-grid shelters for some of the city's homeless, which local high school students will design and build with the help of professional architects and builders.

I could write this post in my sleep, it is such a tired playbook that happens so often in real estate development.

It really could be the future of sustainable, green and healthy housing.

Which really, is how every building and office should be designed.

Find out why one family found living on a renovated bus to be an appealing tiny-house-on-wheels alternative.

These delicately formed hand-crank and motor-activated art installations blossom and grow perpetually.

Jeff Bezos said “Alexa, open The Spheres” and it evidently worked.

Stand Up (On Your Bike) And Be Counted I've already written about Copenhagen's cyclist counter a while ago. I still think it's a great idea, not only to count cyclists, but as a subtle tool to show the strength of the local bike community and to add a

They call it green. I call it too much.

London's international embassies are showing off their countries' design as part of the London Design Festival.

A tiny apartment in a new tourist hotspot is remade with clever modern elements to maximize space.

A roaming freelance photographer and writer go on the road in this self-built live-work space on wheels.

After promising not to use sodium lauryl sulfate in any products, The Honest Co. is under scrutiny after two lab tests found significant amounts of the chemical in its laundry detergent.