The world had a bunch of big goals it didn't succeed in making by this year. Now the UN is creating an even bigger set of goals - finally taking the environment into account. But how to educate the world about the goals? Turn to comics.

Sad Anniversary digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/one-year-later-tva-toxic-coal-ash-spill-tennessee.php';A year ago, a massive coal ash spill took place in Tennessee. About 5.4 million cubic yards of ash ended up in a river and

Having a view of green space or access to a garden or park is linked to lower frequency and strength of cravings, study finds.

Photo: Toyota The Japanese Government Told Toyota to do the Same Now's not a good time for Toyota, and it's not a good time for the 2010 Prius hybrid, a kind of "halo" car for the company. Yesterday, I wrote about an acceleration problem that Apple

Photo: Toyota Update: Kaizen Fail: Toyota Recalls 437,000 Hybrids Worldwide, Mostly 2010 Prius Models 311,000 Third Generation Prius Hybrids to be Recalled by Toyota It seems like Toyota has yet to hit rock bottom. Last week the NHTSA announced that it

Apologies for the bad Photoshop job... Photo: Zipcar Logo, Toyota Less Than 1% of Zipcar Fleet, But... I'm pretty sure that many TreeHugger readers are also Zipcar customers (car-sharing in general is booming), and chances are that with that crowd, the

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

Should the stuff be kept away from kids? The American Public Health Association thinks so.

In one cartoon he solves a long list of issues that have kept it from going mainstream.

And the Seattle housing shortage problem at the same time.

The problem may seem immense, but there are many good solutions.

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

Anti-littering ad reminds Dublin residents to put trash in its rightful place--or else!

Parisians are complaining, but the fact is that people need a place to pee; it's a human right.

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.

A new study finds altered neurological performance in children during peak pesticide spraying for the Mother's Day flower harvest.

Which side of the bed gets the stair? Batlab solves it with two.

Fresh criticism from Georgian environmentalists adds to the diplomatic tensions created by Turkey's dam-building spree.

A new exhibition in Toronto looks at sustainable development.

A new study shows how adolescents quickly improved their sleep time and quality in just one week's time.

Religious communities may be wide open to fighting climate change, new evidence reveals.

We often criticize climate denialists for being anti-science, and yet many environmentalists reject science that clashes with their own worldview.

Lead? Aerobic bacteria? Misleading labels? Consumer Reports tested popular brands of the widely used supplements; here's what they found.

This fake fight has a good cause.

A new study found men think society expects them to conform to stereotypes ... but how right are they?

You already own the solutions. They are called feet.

A representative of the industry says I shouldn't be picking on fiber glass. He's right.

Lack of diversity makes grapes vulnerable to climate change.

A series of newspaper articles ask the wrong question.

The director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre says it's a huge problem that meat is so "culturally embedded in Western societies."

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

"Bags for life," as they're called, do not get reused nearly as much as retailers would like to believe.

Judith Thornton questions the conventional wisdom about plastic packaging. She has a controversial point.

If a massive water footprint, air pollution, contaminated drinking water, earthquakes, and general environmental degradation weren't bad enough...r

At least $40 million worth of carbon credits have been stolen in recent weeks from various registries across Europe, in what some are calling a growing black market for carbon credits.The Wall Street Journal explains that there are

Our brains can't handle it.

It has challenged designers since the invention of the bar code: What to do about those stupid little labels?

Eco-friendly sandals are nice, but they won't save the planet.

Scientists discovered that plants in the Arctic are growing twice the height.

Current water treatment can't remove these wastes that are increasingly implicated in serious environmental effects

Last week news broke that microplastics are found in 93% of bottled water and the highest levels ever were found in an English river. Can we ever clean this up?

A British critic calls two green icons, rammed earth and Passivhaus, "architectural trickery at its most cynical."

There's plenty of "recognizing," "acknowledging," and "noting" going on in the final draft of the Rio+20 text. Lot's of UN-ese. And that's about it.

Yes, but first we need to develop a collective conscience when it comes to travel.

Imagine a bucket of greenhouse gases that's almost full.

Another reason to electrify everything.

There is an alumina crisis right now. Making it is dirty and polluting, and it's back in the USA.

The award-winning DropBucket is a recycled cardboard trash can that can be reused and/or recycled.

We covered this subject before but I got it wrong. Peter Flax of Bicycling Magazine got it right.