Or, a lesson in learning to love opossums.

Can the social media platform be blamed for the surge in camera-happy tourists?

Photo credit: William Hook via Flickr/Creative Commons

Dan Hanganu mixes the modern with the even more modern, totally respectful of the original.

Image via: Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation Los Vecinos, the first LEED-Certified Platinum, 100% solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego, offer 42-units of state of the art in green housing. The $17.6 million USD project opened its doors

This fake fight has a good cause.

Self-driving cars will likely be big autonomous mobile home theaters.

The rare metal is now worth US $1,700 an ounce.

"If you don't visit quiet, the quiet will disappear."

It's the first living painting in London's Trafalgar Square, and maybe the first anywhere. A Van Gogh picture has been turned into a green living vertical wall.

Microsoft decided that a good way to advertise its cloud-based Office 365 software would be to actually put a T-Mobile wifi router with 15 days of free wifi inside a magazine advert.

All work and no play? Here's a work space with some playful humor built in.

"For the US in 2006, online data centres accounted for 1.5 percent of the entire country's electricity use - equating to more than the entire state of Massachusetts. " View the chart up close...Really interesting facts/stats! Image via GDS Digital via

Can hotels be 100% eco-friendly and affordable? I tried out Starwood's Element Hotel in NYC to find out how far a 411-room urban hotel can go green. The result is mostly positive with a few letdowns.

LEDs were already cheap when you take into account how much money they save you on your electricity bill, but now this is just a no-brainer.

Quickly get connected via video chat to a home & garden expert to get help with your projects through Fountain. We've got beta invites for you to check it out yourself.

One of the world's most famous architectural renderings turns into a building. Will it thrive?

We are going to need a new term that binds them all together. A lecture in 20 slides.

And I am going to be positive, upbeat and happy about it, really.

This modern, Scandinavian take on the hostel includes private rooms and a jacuzzi in the old vault.

A traditional dwelling has been preserved by renovating it to include a new office, library, kitchen and guest room.

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

Karaoke video explaining not to drink water from wells painted red as they contain high levels of arsenic (YouTube via RDI-Cambodia) For this writer, karaoke has long been thought as an activity to be endured rather than enjoyed (and I am sure I am not

It's happening all over, and wood construction can make it even easier and faster.

The researchers have found a simple way to create an energy source for fuel cells using CO2 in the air.

It's an important inflection point. But a lot of work still remains.

In anticipation of a new retrospective at the Whitney, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, " Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the New Yorker, quoting Fuller about the need for innovation:

There is too much oil in the ground there just to leave it, so what about the carbon dioxide and the natural gas consumption. We will just throw some high tech at it; problem solved.

This little solar powered device can take the guesswork out of SODIS water treatment, showing when the resulting water is safe to drink.

Sugar maples rely on consistent snow cover to thrive, and climate change is threatening that.

These high-end kits make converting a van into a home-on-wheels an easier proposition.

On land, a fierce dust storm blots out any sign of life. But offshore, these banes of desert-dwellers' existence can be providers of life in what might otherwise be empty waters,

Surprisingly strong and made with seaweed and a bit of paper, this collection of modern furniture and lighting makes use of an abundant resource.

This week, the full-time TreeHugger crew met up in Atlanta to pow-wow over the blog we all know and love. We are serious subscribers to the working-from-home-is-green ethic, but about every 18 months or so, we get together to

New York Times article asks a lot of questions, and doesn't deliver a lot of answers.

The Aral Sea, Central Asia's most (in)famous body of water, has become a global symbol of environmental mismanagement. But at least one government in the region doesn't seem to have

After a volunteer accidentally burned down its office, Bustan, an environmental justice organization based in Israel's Negev desert, decided it was time to

Deserts are hot, dry, and unforgiving -- which makes them difficult environments for most creatures to survive in. But desert residents who have adapted to the temperatures -- by learning to survive without water, developing their own cooling systems, and

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

The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of

Cooling a data center in one of the hottest parts of the USA can be done by using hot water, as eBay's Phoenix facility finds.

Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.

A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up.

What is CO2 fertilization effect and how is it changing our planet?

"If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere," says Geoff Lawton. So let's get started.

Could strategically-placed rock walls help to re-green the desert?

When you've got a lot of driveway runoff, some careful landscaping can put it to good use.

Imagine millions of these slithering out from the mud? The eggs of this alien desert crustacean remain dormant for years, waiting for a bout of rain to hatch.

The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda.

We take a tour of a sustainable factory that turns discarded glass into durable building materials.