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Good news: Bitcoin is becoming worthless

The digital currency is in its death throes.




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Trend Watch: "Green Wrap" Virus Spreading As Major Bank Turns Plant Wall Into Billboard

PNC Financial Services Group, based in Pittsburgh PA, has built a plant-covered exterior wall, "to make its headquarters building more energy-efficient." Looking like one of those huge billboards seen along an




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Jargon watch - "cocktail geoengineering" takes fixing the earth to the next level

If one geoengineering plan doesn't work, maybe two or three combined will




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Jargon watch: Aufstockung, or vertical additions

It's happening all over, and wood construction can make it even easier and faster.




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Happy 10th Birthday, Bitcoin. Now go away before you fry us all.

The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.




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This bacon-scented patch could help kick your meat habit

Wannabe vegetarians can fulfill their cravings using scent, rather than the real thing.




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Is your dog scratching because of a meat allergy?

Who would have thought our canine companions could have allergies to a carnivorous diet?




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Common Kitchen Ingredient Helps Clean Drinking Water

80% of diseases in developing countries trace back to contaminated water. Could a simple ingredient from the kitchen shelf solve the problem?




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How to fix scratched sunglasses

Yes, it's actually possible!




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31 outside-the-box tips to ditch plastic

TreeHugger and Elephant Journal have teamed up to share 31 creative tips for skipping plastic, one for each day of July.




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Where our kitchens came from and where they are going

How do you design a green, sustainable and healthy kitchen?




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Compact all-in-one kitchen unit hides stove, fridge and dishwasher (Video)

Perfect for tiny spaces, this multifunctional unit can be used as a kitchen, storage and workspace.




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Why do kitchens look the way they do?

Hint: It's all about putting women in their place.




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Modular kitchen unit liberates small spaces with its flexibility (Video)

This modular design can adapt to any situation, meaning more usable space can be freed up.




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Should your kitchen have a recirculating or a direct-exhaust hood? I am exhausted just thinking about it

It is a real problem when designing energy efficient homes, and it seems that there is no good solution except ordering in.




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Is the kitchen island finally going away?

Kitchens should be for cooking.




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Kitchen manufacturer figures out new ways to use more electricity

Abimis offers refrigerated drawers and heated tops. Does anyone need this?




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Is the end of the kitchen nigh?

A new report suggests that soon we will order everything in and we won't need a kitchen at all.




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Adaptable kitchen-in-a-box is for cooking-challenged millennials

This compact all-in-one cooking kit is looking to overhaul the traditional kitchen for today's hectic schedules and non-traditional living situations.




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The case for the closed kitchen

Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell makes a case for rooms; We concentrate on one of them.




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The Kitchen of the Future might be no kitchen at all

The Miele Dialog oven, combined with meal delivery, may make it obsolete.




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All I want is an open-concept kitchen

It would make my life as a parent so much easier.




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6 different kitchen floors that are healthy and green

Are you buying for looks or for function? It can be a tough call.




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Will the kitchen get Ubered out of existence?

Uber founder Travis Kalanick's new company runs "CloudKitchens" for cooks without restaurants. This will be big.




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British architects put women in the kitchen, British women architects get mad

More proof that some things never change.




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Closed or open kitchen? Charlotte Perriand's design is the best of both worlds

Lessons from the kitchens at Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation in Marseille.




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Passive House Institute's look at kitchen fans is less than exhaustive

Can a recirculating fan deliver the indoor air quality we should demand?




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The future of food: Imaginary brands cooked up in ghost kitchens

We will all be poor, fat, and buried in plastic.




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Finally, a minimalist fire extinguisher for your minimalist kitchen

Every kitchen should have one of these, and now it can fit right in.




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Five kitchen trends that should die in 2020

After another site makes a list, we add our own suggestions.




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How to design a compact kitchen

You really don't need all those big appliances.




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Jargon Watch: Plasticarian

A new term for those who try to live without plastic, that might just catch on.




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School board apologizes for "Santa Goes Green" concert in oil patch

The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda.




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Sammy, the one-winged bald eagle, snatched from wildlife refuge

The reward for information leading to an arrest has climbed to $12,000.




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Australian School Ditches Bottled Water, While Another Becomes First Carbon Neutral School

While no longer breaking news, the endeavours of students and staff at two different Australian schools still merits attention. One school went bottled water free, whilst




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9 Easy Recipes for Small-Batch Fruit and Vegetable Canning and Preserving

Fruits and vegetables last all winter with jams, fruit butter, marmalades, and pickled vegetables from new cookbook Home Canning by Janet Cooper.




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The Midcentury Kitchen is a riot of color, from avocado green to harvest gold (book review)

Sarah Archer shows how the kitchen became the colorful nerve center of the modern house.




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Ice Watch is Olafur Eliasson's visual reminder of climate change

"Come touch the Greenland ice sheet and be touched by it."




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Greenwash Watch: HDPE Chairs

He must have seen my TreeHugger media badge, because the salesman from Element Square called out and said "No trees were harmed in the production of these chairs!" I replied that a lot of fossil fuels were burned and a lot of CO2 released, and he said




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Johnson & Johnson's half-hearted switch from plastic to paper cotton buds isn't good enough

It's only happening in half the world. The rest of us can keep using plastic sticks. (Don't they know about ocean currents?)




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Milan Furniture Fair 2011 - Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant by Martí Guixé

Once again Milan Design Week is here, and like most years, it is the small independent events that grab our attention. Like the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, that




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Today Is Boxing Day, A Great Idea That Turned into Wretched Excess

Celebrated outside of the United States, the holiday used to have a real meaning.




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20 foods you can make from scratch to avoid plastic

When you stop buying prepackaged foods, you have to start cooking them yourself. It's not that hard once you get into the swing of it.




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6 big-batch breakfasts for holiday entertaining

House full of guests? These recipes will make your mornings go much smoother.




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10 plant-based staples to stock a vegan kitchen

After decades of eating mostly a plant-based diet, these are the basic staples I've learned to keep on hand for a variety of meals.




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From food packaging to cleaning supplies, the kitchen is a vortex of disposability

Wastes are made in the kitchen.




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The gas bubble is feeding the speculative Bitcoin bubble

Instead of flaring off gas, they are burning it to run computers that mine bitcoins. Is this any better?




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Bon Appétit's Test Kitchen promises to be more sustainable in 2020

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




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Jargon Watch: "Predatory Delay"

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




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Sleep under the stars to watch the Perseids

There's no better way to enjoy a sky full of shooting stars than to sleep beneath them.