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Be my green Valentine

Where we recycle and repurpose the best of our Valentine's Day posts from the past.




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Architectural Valentines: Love means never having to say you’re Saarinen

They are all over the internet today; here are some that relate to buildings we have shown on TreeHugger




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14 ways to go green this Valentine's day

A list of ways to share the love with everyone you adore without hating on the environment.




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Valentine’s Day by the numbers, are you sitting down?

The holiday once marked by amorous missives and hand-plucked posies has evolved into a day of staggering statistics.




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Green gifts for the darkly romantic Valentine

From carnivorous plants to occult-inspired tokens of affection, these are not your grandmother's Valentine's gifts.




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Have a sweet Valentine’s Day – without the stuff

In this installment of Town and Country, we talk about skipping consumerism on Valentine’s Day.




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6 beauty recipes that are pink and red for Valentine's Day

Get in the Valentine’s Day mood with these fun DIY beauty recipes for masks, moisturizers, and scrubs – all of which are suitably pink or red for the occasion!




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How to celebrate a green Valentine's Day

The size of one's carbon footprint is not usually a major concern on this romantic holiday, but it can be mitigated with advance planning.




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Don't rush out to buy a last-minute Valentine's Day gift

It's important to remember that every physical gift comes at a cost that's both financial and environmental.




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Valentine's Day is losing its allure with young adults

Is Cupid's appeal fading as millennials find the holiday has become too commercialized?




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U.S. Food Waste Challenge honors World Environment Day

In keeping with this year's theme, the USDA and EPA are launching a challenge to reduce food waste at each step from farm to fork.




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Gisele Bündchen and Don Cheadle have an environmental challenge for you

Celebrity ambassadors call for support for the UN’s World Environment Day.




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Multi-layered urban housing prototype packs in plenty of great small space ideas

Using a series of overlapping mezzanines and spaces, this accessible, urban housing prototype explores the possibilities of living small but comfortably in the city.




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Passive House beats building code box in Ice Box Challenge

But is it a pyrrhic victory?




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Concept for smarter wave power device a winner in GE's Ecomagination Challenge

The company says this system is simpler than other wave devices that need to be finely tuned to the waves to pick up their energy.




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Artists' glittering art installation repurposes 14,000 eyeglass lenses (Video)

Thousands of pairs of unwanted eyewear are collected and transformed into a unique, twinkling facade for an Istanbul museum.




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Online Activism Forces Break in Official Silence About Deadly Air Pollution in China

Citizen persistence at measuring and publicizing pollution levels results in a major turnaround by Beijing.




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Green Tax Shift & Other Environmental Issues Cartoon-Style by Stuart McMillen

Here is someone who gets the message across, in a funny and beautiful way. Australian Stuart McMillen takes topics around environmental sustainability and turns them into catchy cartoons.




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38 recipes for beans and lentils for superfood meals

Beans and lentils are one of the most important things you can include in your diet. Here are great ideas, from filling breakfasts to sweet and inspired desserts.




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Crunchy-topped lentil casserole [Vegan]

This delicious dish embodies everything comforting about home cooking. Easy, filling, and something everyone at the table will enjoy, whether vegetarian or not.




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Care to Air Design Challenge by Levi's

Air-drying clothing is definitely the cheapest, and especially the most eco-friendly way of drying your clothes; no energy or machinery is needed. However, if you live in a small space, a rainy country or simply are a busy (or forgetful) person,




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Len-Tex's Surface iQ Wallcoverings Earns Cradle to Cradle Certification

Joining gDiapers, the US Postal Service and more, Surface iQ's commercial wallcoverings have earned Cradle to Cradle certification. The only printed commercial grade wallcovering to have earned this certification, Surface iQ's products have an




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How to make your own herbal tea blends

Put kitchen scraps and spices to good use in these soothing, healing concoctions, perfect for a wintry day.




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Selenium Contamination Linked to Two-Headed Trout Near Idaho Phosphate Mine

A government report has found that selenium contamination is connected to fish deformities, including two-headed trout.




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Fabric softener sales plummet, thanks to uninterested Millennials

Proctor & Gamble blames it on Millennials not knowing how to do laundry, but it's more likely that they don't feel like paying to infuse their clothes with nasty chemicals.




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Desert Rain House gets Living Building Challenge Certification

This is not easy to do.




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Etsy Handmade Kids Challenge

Etsy is holding a contest to pick web readers' favourite choices of handmade children's items in seven different categories: furniture, toys, eco-friendly, art, home decor, clothes and accessories. All are made for children by independent designers.




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Etsy Handmade Challenge Award Winners

Etsy, the website that features all things handmade to buy and sell by artists and artisans, held a contest to pick web readers' favourite choices of handmade children's items in seven different categories. These were: toys, eco-friendly, furniture,




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Allbirds' woolen running shoe is said to be most comfortable in the world

Wool is an ideal material for footwear, with its odor-reducing and moisture-wicking properties, so why hasn't it caught on?




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Contest Time! The Crisis of Civilization Remix Challenge

The Crisis of Civilization explores our modern cultural crises by sampling archive film footage from PSAs. Now the makers are asking budding film makers to have a go themselves.




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Can a Bike-Powered Blender Really Change the World?

Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.




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IKEA is now selling solar systems, no Allen key required

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.




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EcoChic Design Award Challenges Chinese Fashion Designers to Face Local Problems

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.




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Luminous lunar pavilion blends tradition with digital design (Video)

This stunning temporary pavilion utilizes Hong Kong's time-honored bamboo construction methods in conjunction with cutting-edge computational design.




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Philippine Fiber Secret to Naturally Water-Repellent Rainwear

In this tog-eat-tog world, the future of fashion—let alone that of green fashion—lies entirely in the industry's chameleon-like ability to reinvent itself. Take Italian outerwear company Allegri, for example. Although better known




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Aukey 20W solar charger delivers plenty of portable power (review)

At less than $50, this little dual USB port solar device is an affordable option for a clean, efficient portable charging solution.




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Patagonia's new Silent Down coats push environmental standards even higher

Recycled fabric, down insulation, and fair-trade sewing make this a top pick if you're in the market for a new coat.




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Expedition floats length of Mississippi River on raft made from trash

Recycled Mississippi is traveling the length of one of America's iconic rivers, which also happens to be one of the most polluted, and filming a documentary along the way.




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A Jewish Response to the Energy Challenge?

Jewish leaders met at the beginning of this month in San Francisco for the first conference dedicated to




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The Best Green Cars and Technology From Michelin's 2010 Challenge Bibendum Show

French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo




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The Best Green Cars and Technology From Michelin's 2010 Challenge Bibendum Show (Slideshow)

This year, French tire giant Michelin (yes, the Michelin that made the tires on your car) held its 10th Challenge Bibendum event, this time in Rio de Janeiro. If you've never heard of this thing, don't kick yourself,




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Interactive exhibit tells a sustainability story through the lens of contemporary art

Art Works For Change is using a unique online exhibit to inspire change through storytelling, including 'featured tours' of the galleries by leading eco-organizations.




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Should you "neither a borrower nor a lender be"? (Survey)

That was the advice of Shakespeare's Polonius, but then there is the sharing economy. Which is it?




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Non-Violence, Service & The Path: Jainism, Sikhism and Daoism on the Environment

In previous posts in this series we've focused on




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Why millennials are destroying our infrastructure, and why bike lanes destroy religious freedom

And really, how self driving cars are an attack on freedom.




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Save the trees! Sign up for Rainforest Alliance's 30-Day Sustainability Challenge

Get simple but powerful personal actions delivered to your inbox every 3 days; 30 actions in all – are you up to the challenge?




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BMW's New Car Share Lends You a Car Where You Find One, Lets You Leave It Where You Want

At TreeHugger, we've been big fans of car-sharing services for a long time. ZipCar has long dominated the field, pushing the envelope recently by adding hybrid vehicles and expanding into new




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Two excellent strategies for second-hand shopping

Frugality blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames has outfitted her house and family with thrifted finds. This is her advice.




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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Many of us will agree that Buckminster Fuller was way ahead of the crowd with his thinking on sustainability and eco-friendly designs. In his time he was considered an eccentric inventor with impractical ideas, now we think he's a genius! Not all of us




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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Got an idea that can save the world? Enter the Buckminster Fuller Challenge and win a hundred thousand bucks. Come up with a "design science solution" (effective application of the principles of science to the conscious design of our total environment