In an interview with Democracy Now!, Michael Pollan says taking back control of cooking may be the single most important step to help make our food system more sustainable.

The dog days of summer are right around the corner and homeowners are looking for ways to

I can't stop thinking about Natasha Pettigrew. She was 30 years old, a Green Party candidate for Senator in Maryland, and killed this month in the early morning hours by being struck from behind by a woman in an SUV. The driver did not stop, dragged

It was designed to stay cool without air conditioning, and the green roof was part of the strategy.

Irish architects Heneghan Peng win the competition to house world's largest canoe collection

Diverging from the Sprinter van conversion trend, this man revamped an old life-saving vehicle into his own tiny home.

Yes, slavery is still legal.

Yet another reason why deforestation is bad: So much of Haiti's mountainsides have been eroded away because of deforestation and hurricanes that it may have stressed Earth's crust, triggering the earthquake that

U.S. hospitals waste thousands of tons of medical supplies every day. DOC2DOCK collects and redistributes these supplies to match the specific needs of hospitals in the developing world.

Once one of the great mysteries of the natural world, the bluefin tuna's migration pattern has finally been elucidated by the workings of an international team of scientists as part of the global 10-year Census of Marine Life. To reach their

Megan McArdle at the Atlantic piles on the Infographic debate, " issuing a plea to bloggers to help stop this plague in its track."

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Scientists say this is the only way to feed 10 billion people without causing catastrophic damage to the planet.

It's a number that's been thrown around a lot recently. There's a danger it will be misunderstood.

Carbon sequestration, the technology taking carbon dioxide out of fossil fuel emissions, just got a boost

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

We all have to change the way we live or we are in big trouble. But let's be real about it.

Population growth is in fact slowing down but everyone is using more of everything.

Apparently people are eating less of it.

The 'library subscription' model for food containers is becoming increasingly popular.

Researchers gathered data over two years by following 70 different dogs, from 37 different breeds, as they... defecated and urinated.

Dogs have been trained to sniff out a devastating avocado tree disease before it becomes fatal – and they are really, really good at it.

New street view images suggest that one of the Google maps cars was in an accident

Who needs GPS? Nothing beats a trusty paper map for navigating a foreign city.

Lack of rain has reduced potato crop yields to a third of what they usually are.

A new study suggests we look to the past for guidance on how to cope going forward.

A lot of people believe the Earth is flat. It's silly ... or is it?

In a new video, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot explain that we must use nature to fix our broken climate.

This is the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" defense.

I tasked myself with buying no plastic bottles for the year; here's how it's going so far.

"There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." (Kenneth Grahame)

These 'living fossils' have survived mass extinctions over the course of their eons of existence, but it just might be two youngsters that save them from the human threats they face today.

And GO Logic shows again that they really do with the Little House on the Ferry.

Why are architects eschewing overhangs? Because they can.

A sweeping new survey reveals that Americans on average have a surprising amount of leisure time.

With fewer than 30 vaquitas left in the wild, the 'panda of the sea' is the most endangered marine mammal in the world. Now a crazy plan might just save them.

Filters on buses and smog-eating towers are not the answer.

The first affordable microwave changed the way we cooked- for a while, anyway

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

Exposed by low tide and bereft of a cooling breeze, the mollusks overheated to the point of cooking.

This week former Vice-President Al Gore made a stop by Atlanta last week to talk about...well, climate change. But while he was there, he took the time out to talk to one of the NFLs most green athletes, Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli. Still

I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are

Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America: In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than

From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a new dramatized documentary

It took me hours, but I finally found this guy.

Although the term “Passive House” might seem to refer to single family homes, these concepts can be applied to all kinds of buildings.

Featuring eye-catching geometries, local and non-toxic materials, these unique furniture pieces meld a medley of traditional weaving and woodworking techniques.

In Brooklyn and Toronto, the same story: "accidents" where cyclists somehow lose control, fall under rear wheels.

Instead of combining the two poles of work and leisure, this simple and functional design separates them into distinct volumes.

The CO2 emissions from making stuff like concrete, plastic, aluminum and steel matter right now.