This month, BookHugger presents The Death and Life of Monterey Bay by Stephen R. Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka. Readers can order a discounted copy today and then join a live chat with the

Hsu's case for the superiority of a carbon tax over other methods of pricing carbon is throughly and eloquently made. But will it actually help us get past our collective aversion to the word 'tax'? That's frankly the bigger question.

In this excerpt from the latest book by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the authors look at the realities of local food.

And it's available now across the UK.

These people know a thing or two about money. And they say it's INACTION that's going to cost us.

Now if only he can keep his job in the fall election.

70% of this potent pollutant comes from fossil fuels, not biomass burning.

The late artist Chris Burden balanced a Porsche 914 with a meteorite.

I wasn't sure if we’d covered Earth Weave’s wool and hemp carpets, but I was wrong. Years ago, Kara had mentioned them in a nice little primer on Finding Solutions to Toxic Carpeting. What makes Earth Weave noteworthy is that they claim their Bio-Floor

"We are working on the design of communities and begin with what we call the Essay of Clues. We look at things like the sun, the wind, the water, the biological history and the culture of the site. Then we imagine that we are birds that evolved for that

Here is an interesting idea for a rug made of pieces of felt. We stumbled upon Julika Welge's Growing Carpet at this year's Designersblock at the London Design Festival, where the bright colours and the rich texture first

Carpeting may be something we give little thought to, but the ubiquitous floor covering is actually a serious environmental problem. Not only are toxic chemicals often used in the making of most carpeting, they are

Not much point in having a healthy house if you spend all day in an unhealthy office.

Martín Azúa's latest rug design is made from esparto soles from the traditional spanish espadrilles. It will be used in Camper's shoe stores.

A Brooklyn-based design studio turns to digital animation to generate the patterns for these striking rugs made out of recycled carpet pieces.

A report from GAIA reveals how old carpets go straight to landfill or get burned because many manufacturers haven't developed closed-loop production.

So much of the economy changes if cars last five times as long and hardly need service.

So much for the "sharing economy". North Americans don't like sharing cars or parking spaces.

Researchers looking at the question come up with some good ideas.

Canoo redesigns the electric car from the ground up. It redesigns the ownership model too.

It will be electric, autonomous and shared. Where have we heard that before?

He wants data? We've got data. And if it saves just one life.....

Two misfortunate advertising campaigns from Argentina use polar bears and tackiness to promote air conditioning.

Ethics and environmental consciousness drove this project by DIALOG at the University of Calgary.

Image credit: Karen, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Say an average fancy t-shirt holds carbon footprint of 6kg but is never sold and sits in the warehouse of a textile/clothing production company. I take that same t-shirt and use it to

One of the biggest floor-care brands in Britain has unveiled a cardboard vacuum cleaner made from its own packaging, the Vax ev. And it was created by a student.Open and Assemble—Without the Packaging Waste The vacuum is sold in a

The big light bulb manufacturers get what they want out of the DOE and the President. We should all stop buying anything from them.

This building alternately fries the public, blows them off their feet and cheats them out of promised public amenities. And did I mention it's bloated, top-heavy and just plain ugly.

Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes.

The Autonomous Hotel Room from Aprilli Design Studio raises some interesting questions.

RIBA has announced that all its prizes will now be sustainable. We are going to need a counterpoint.

Bravo to this Brazilian guy for showing how it's done.

Even a full day later, a one-hour shift in the clock is hard to adjust to.

Greta Thunberg, Margaret Atwood, Michael Mann, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, Bill McKibben, George Monbiot and more make the case.

Some question if it is even possible.

Or are they just fooling themselves and being selfish?

They have always been controversial, and they may well be counterproductive.

With a carbon credit card, it doesn't have to be hard.

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

The carbon footprint of concrete can be a whole lot better, if you make it out of carbon dioxide.

Whether they are growing to be thousands of years old, making life-long friendships or confounding us with their resilience, trees provide to us invaluable material resources.

Tiny scales along the animals' bodies improve the efficiency of their movements through water. These structures could do the same for aircraft.

These delicate works of art are made out of current and vintage newspaper broadsheets, and prompt us to look beyond the daily news cycle.

'Coral Garden' is a handcrafted installation that's inspired by the world's threatened coral reefs, and made with upcycled materials.

In an effort to appease critics, the airport is focusing on four key environmental strategies.

I was disappointed to see that Subaru, beloved of TreeHugger types, is on the wrong side of this issue.

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

Climate Caretakers offers a 7-week guide to reducing your carbon footprint.

Because a single day of #OptOutside isn't enough for real action.

In our dystopian future we might all be buying power by the watt-hour from a cart in the market.