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The Week in Pictures: Cherry Tree Sculptures, Catapulting LED Stars, and More (Slideshow)

We've featured a lot of treehouses on TreeHugger, but the plans for this one are a little different: Ten cherry trees will be planted in a circle, and pruned and bent over time to form a unique, two story sculpture.




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Why do people share food photos? [Slideshow]

Jared Keller's essay for Aeon Magazine on the significance of "food porn" photos that have become popular on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites got me thinking about my Instagram food photos and why I shared them.




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Elon Musk TED Talk: Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX, etc

If there's one thing that can't be said of Elon Musk, it's that he doesn't try his best. Few entrepreneurs succeed in just one of the many difficult fields that he's tackled, but it's almost unprecedented to see a single person attack on so many fronts.




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Sleep like a Swede using the lifestyle philosophy of 'lagom'

Another Nordic cultural concept to prove that Scandinavians have it all figured out … but this one could help the rest of us sleep better too.




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Sweden opens road with slot-car style rail for electric vehicles (Video)

Now that's an infrastructure project!




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Hacked office furniture system lets workers sleep, farm and socialize

This office system has been adapted to be flexible, fun and comfortable.




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Infento: DIY construction kit lets kids build their own bikes, sleds & scooters

Fed up of shoddy plastic toys? This modular kit of sturdy parts lets parents and kids construct a wide range of awesome kid-powered vehicles.




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Gas station benzene emissions 10 times as bad as previously thought

Another very good reason to get fossil fuel powered cars out of our cities.




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Chao Slices: A vegan cheese that's actually quite good

A cheese lover dips his toe into the world of vegan cheese. (Not literally.)




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7 Hollywood Hotties and Their Hot Green Cars, Round 2 (Slideshow)

From crush-worthy Crash star Thandie Newton's celebrity-favorite Toyota Prius (pictured) to Paris Hilton's GMC Yukon Hybrid, these seven celebrity hotties are




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Never leave the office when you have Steven M. Johnson's Office Sleeper

Work/life balance is over-rated anyway.




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Steven M. Johnson's take on the wearable sleeping bag

Of course he has been there, done that.




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Go slow to help slow the climate crisis

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




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Geysers Explode With Energy and Life (Slideshow)

When huge volcanoes erupt, sending ash miles into the atmosphere and shutting down air travel for entire continents, the world can't help but take notice.




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Bengal, Assam Tea Production Slashed By Worst Drought in 15 Years

Another effect of weather weirding: Higher tea prices coming? Northeast India tea production expected to drop 60% in 2012 this year.




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"Warm houses for all" is a great campaign slogan

Selling energy efficiency is hard, but the UK Labour Party got it right.




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TreeHugger Radio: Claiming the Arctic Floor, Sled Dogs on Thin Ice, and the Price of Carbon Cuts

This week is all about climate change and its myriad ripple effects. Melting Arctic ice has opened up an international controversy over deep-sea land rights, and Russia will now make a bold move by planting its flag 14,000 feet below the surface. New




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Toxic Sludge Floods Hungarian Villages, Killing Two

It sounds like a plot-line from a bad 1950's sci-fi movie, but unfortunately there's nothing fiction about it. Several towns in western Hungary were flooded today with a toxic red sludge after the waste product from




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The Week in Pictures: Toxic Industrial Sludge Covers Hungarian Villages, Solar Panels on the White House, and More (Slideshow)

A state of emergency has been declared in Hungary where four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in




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Micro-apartment has stairs you can sit, store things in & sleep on (Video)

This small space renovation turns a cramped space into one that has space for almost everything.




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Best of Green: Culture & Celebrity (Slideshow)

We love seeing celebrities use their influence for good--especially when it's for the green good. With their fame and star power, they can encourage fans to eat less meat, cut their consumption, and pay attention to what's




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Sleeping octopus's changing camouflage narrates her dream (video)

Watch a remarkable clip of Heidi the octopus as she sleeps and dreams – from the new PBS series, Octopus: Making Contact.




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Green Fashion: 10 Chic Ways for Women to Wear Hemp (Slideshow)

Don't mistake the ugly, coarse, scratchy hemp of the hippie era with the hemp of today: From catwalks to the office, this once-fringe fabric made of rapidly renewable material is geared for world domination. And it can be found in just about




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Mr. Larkin Charms at Green Fashion Week in New York (Slideshow)

Timely but not fleeting, flouncy but not frilly, unique but not unwearable, clever but never over the top -- Mr. Larkin's Spring 2010 collection was everything green fashion should be. A relative newcomer on the eco-scene, the




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Isoude: Gorgeous Green Fashion That's Built to Last (Slideshow)

A couple of years ago, I made the New Year's resolution that my new clothing purchases would be limited to green garments. With the quality and selection of ">green fashion that's become available recently, it's been a promise




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Green Gift Guide for Mother's Day (Slideshow)

You can't put a price on all mom has done for you -- but you can try to show your gratitude with one of these eco-friendly gifts. All are as good to Mother Earth as they will be to your own momma. From classic -- like




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New Movements' sleek sneakers feature old materials

If you're OK with leather, then the recycled rubber soles and plastic laces, combined with the company's commitment to cleaning ocean plastic, make these an eco-friendly choice.




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Italian island of Capri bans single-use plastics

But there's a strange loophole for biodegradable plastics, which we know aren't much better.




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8 slow fashion dresses for spring and summer

Ethically sourced dresses for this spring, summer and many more sunny days to come.




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Slow fashion advocate Zady launches “Essentials” collection

Zady is working to build a better clothing company from the ground up.




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Peak Copper is back, thanks to Teslas and smart tech

It takes a lot of metal to make this stuff.




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Forward Labs solar roof promises higher production, lower cost than Tesla's

The unicorn of cheap clean home energy will most likely be found in an affordable solar roof that doesn't look like a solar roof, and that can pay for itself quickly. This startup may have developed it.




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Tesla tiny house integrates solar with Powerwall, towed by Model X (Video)

Tesla's tiny house integrates solar power and its Powerwall home battery into a seamless system, and can be towed by the Model X.




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High-performance #TinyLab house is the "Tesla of tiny houses" (Video)

This home for a family of three and two cats has been built with efficiency, comfort and health in mind.




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Tesla rumors: 2 electric cars to be unveiled in March? Electric pickup truck coming in 2018?

It would be a good way to further broaden the appeal of electric vehicles.




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Harder to Find than a Four-Leaf Clover: 9 of Ireland's Most Threatened Species (Slideshow)

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to take a look at creatures just as elusive as that pot of gold.




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Honey laundering exposed as industry giant admits to mislabeling Chinese honey

The largest honey packer in the US faces criminal charges over fraudulent trade in Chinese honey.




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Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving (Slideshow)

A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many




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Are the Galapagos Islands Ready for More Tourism?

The Galapagos Islands are like no place on earth. The Galapagos Islands have too many




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How Do You Teach Kids to Live Sustainably on an Island?

Environmental education is playing a bigger role around the globe as we all learn more about our environmental surroundings. As




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Up Close and Personal with Natural Selection in Action: The Tale of Two Islands of the Galapagos

Each of the islands in the Galapagos is incredibly different. From landscape to ecosystem to the endemic species that can only be found in that




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Retracing Darwin's Steps, and Managing the Human Impact on the Galapagos Islands

The difference between visiting the islands largely untouched by humans and those once habited by people is




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Helicopters Drop Poison on the Galapagos Islands

The Galapagos Islands are the model of biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to surmise the theory of evolution, but scientists have made arrangements to ensure that the latest round of animal deaths




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Operation Rat Kill: 22 Tons of Poison to Kill 180 Million Rats on Galapagos Islands

Usually, air-dropping over 20 tons of poison from an helicopter on a fragile island ecosystem would be a very bad thing...




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Galapagos Islands getting major renewable energy expansion

The current wind power installation has replaced millions of liters of diesel fuel and helped protect the islands' endangered animals.




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Quote of the Day: Timothy Egan on A Mudslide, Foretold

It appears that this act of God had a little help from man, and was an accident waiting to happen.




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Heroic cow escapes trip to slaughterhouse, hides in Dutch forest for weeks

And in the meantime, the bodacious bovine has become a social media star and will receive a full pardon … as soon as they can get her out of the woods.




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Slow Biking is actually a competitive sport

In the Netherlands it is actually a thing, to ride your bike as slowly as possible without falling over.