In a lawsuit settlement today, General Mills agreed to remove the “100% Natural” from more than 20 of its products.

But more than that, the film is a love story about cooking and gardening -- and the importance of regaining control over where our food comes from.

Diminutive but Electrifying The Toyota FT-EV electric car concept that debuted at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show is based on the platform of the 57 MPG Toyota iQ microcar that recently went on sale in Europe and that is apparently already a hit in

Image: Toyota Supply & Demand A few months ago, Toyota was quite afraid of the new low-cost Honda Insight hybrid. It even went as far as to make a $21,000 version of the 2010 Prius (aka Prius I) to try to compete with Honda on price. Well, seems like

Photo: Toyota Ouch We all knew it was coming, but now it's official. Toyota has formally filed a voluntary recall for 437,000 hybrid vehicles worldwide. Most of those are third generation Prius hybrids, but they're also recalling the few Prius PHEV out

I love this little vehicle. If it ever becomes commercially available outside of carsharing schemes, I may have to get one. Or maybe I should just start a carsharing scheme in my city....

There are now 11 mass-manufactured electric cars that come in under $27,000 in California... after federal and California incentives.

In a bid to highlight the clean air advantage of the Toyota Mirai, a hydrogen fuel cell electric car, the company is putting up pollution-scrubbing billboards.

The forthcoming Tri-Gen facility is being called "the world's first megawatt-scale 100% renewable power and hydrogen generation station."

And why 'ethical' grocery shopping isn't going to save the world.

Physically and mentally, growing plants without chemicals has a transformative effect.

We've been seeing Nellie's dryer balls and their various knockoffs throwing around their purportedly eco-friendly clout everywhere lately, even on green shopping sites and environmental blogs we know and love. (We even tried to correct these misguided

Sam Suds and the Case of PVC The entire life cycle of PVC is an issue of environmental justice and racism. Many PVC plants are located near poor and communities of color. These facilities have poisoned workers and fence-line neighbors, polluted the

Stickers can be fun, but how eco-friendly is this new craze for decorating walls? We have found two brands that claim their vinyls to be eco-chic, and some even come with decorative eco-reminders; very clever! Hu2 in the UK has just

It clogs our oceans and tampers with our bodies, yet without it, all modern life would skid to a stop. Susan Freinkel's new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, explores the rise of plastic into ubiquity, hails it for its life-saving wonders, and explores

Why turn your car into a living room when it can also be a kitchen?

An annual Toronto event is pretty utopian, as two major highways are closed to cars and given over to cyclists.

Cartoonist and inventor Steven M. Johnson has us climbing the walls.

It's a good time of year to look at the benefits of slowing down.

What appeals to me most about Article 22's Peace Bomb Bracelet is the collection's history and story: Each piece has been made by Lao artisans from

The newly discovered horned mountain toad found in Southern Vietnam's elfin forest is the smallest of its species – and is already considered endangered.

Built with a lighter impact in mind, this small mountain retreat is nestled among the trees in Vietnam.

Yesterday I introduced the Do Lectures 2011 with a flash of party glitter from Steve Edge and the statement, Things are not just the way they are. This first emerging

The Solar Training Network will work to build a diverse, qualified solar workforce to meet the needs of the solar revolution.

There are lots of eco-tees out there today, we'll admit it. The tees designed by Me to We clothing have improved on the design of most eco-tees in that they fit better because they are cut longer and larger than your standard

As if melting Himalayan glaciers weren't enough to radically (and perhaps catastrophically) reshape water supply in South Asia, a new report from researchers at Purdue University shows that summer monsoons could be

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

As salinization impacts agriculture around the world—another effect of climate change that will hit already-vulnerable places and people the hardest—farmers, small-scale farmers in particular, have to figure out how to

$46 million is going to give students who do well their own solar power.

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

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

This integrative technology keeps CO2 out of the atmosphere and makes geothermal energy widely available

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.

Craving the perfect cup of tea on a chilly morning? Here are some companies with ethical business practices worth supporting.

Her latest publication is every parent's dream come true -- an attempt to get teens to declutter.

It's wood, it's small, it's resilient.

Schemata Architects gives it a new image and a nice sauna.

This chapel looks to nature and the generations-old tradition of Japanese wood joinery for inspiration.

This quiet retreat has an interesting interior of overlapping layers that welcomes the outdoors in.

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

From ancient urine helping to track climate change to space-age toilets that monitor our health, pee may be coming to our rescue.

Some of the factors influencing grain yields are natural, while others are of human origin.

The show is 101 years old, but this year it's the newcomers that are making their mark.

She wouldn't sell to the developer around her, and now it is a prime example of "demolition by neglect."

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.

Passive House multifamily buildings use almost no energy and don't cost much more than conventional buildings. They should be everywhere.

Not many details on this one, so I'm not sure if it's a genuine modification, a weird advertising campaign or even an art installation. Anything’s possible. I like to think though, that it's a Hungarian motorist who places sustainability as a higher

From Almada, Portugal, where residents will be able to swap recyclable materials for free rides on