Personal finance writer Michelle McGagh weighs in on how to save money effectively.

A new entry to the eco-friendly furnishings market offers a collection of furniture and home accessories that comes with a bold set of standards.

These old, thick cable ropes have done their job: now it's time to reuse them in a beautiful way.

As always, they warm your hearts as well as your toes.

Engineering students come up with a hyperloop pod that floats on air.

The OCADU project won a Wood Works! award and will probably win a lot more to come.

Moriyama & Teshima Architects + Acton Ostry Architects win design competition.

Really, there is a lot to love about his work that applies to green building. Really.

A young Ecuador slender-legged tree frog considers a fern.

The new-to-science Amazonian glassfrog has skin so transparent that its tiny heart can be seen beating in its chest.

Nature gets digitized in these vibrant animations that feature audio recordings from the rainforest.

Biologists are now beginning to get a better idea of what urban bears are up to when they think no one is watching.

"She was an amazing animal," says one of the rescued otter's keepers. "She taught a lot of people about conservation."

Though accompanied by several friends at the beginning of this trip, he traveled the last thirty-three days alone.

So often we read books on ecology that detail the downfall of a species or habitat. Finally, here is a book that does the opposite, explaining instead the incredible comeback of one of the most important locales for marine

Sarah Archer shows how the kitchen became the colorful nerve center of the modern house.

A visit to the French capital offers great lessons in how to make less waste.

A venue which showcases and sells 100% locally produced design and artisan items while educating about sustainability and fair trade in San Jose, Costa Rica.

"We don't want animals in captivity or enclosed in any way," says Costa Rica's Environmental Minister.

Giving out money revealed something that flew in the face of a common American philosophy.

Braving polar bears and subfreezing temperatures, years of preparation pay off for a University of Hawaii astronomy team.

Activists risk arrest in an effort to prevent slow oil drilling exploration in the Arctic.

The Gwich'in people have been fighting this battle for decades, and now they need broader public support. Learn how you can help.

TreeHugger writers have a lot of experience with this.

The aquatic moss clears 80 percent of arsenic from a container of water in less than an hour.

Low rise buildings, green common spaces, culture, and community living in a housing complex which has become the it living spot for Buenos Aires’ artistic types.

Canadian National Railways figures out a crazy new way to mix oil and plastic – to what end?

Shoe lovers have more and more choice when it comes to buying eco-friendly shoes: Simple Shoes, Worn Again or TOMS are just a few of my favourites and I just found a new brand from France. FYE (for your earth) is a relatively young company that started

Photo: Flickr, CC Bye-Bye Cotton, Hello Cellulose Fibers Cotton is a great fiber to make clothes with, but unfortunately, growing it causes huge environmental problems. It's a crop that uses a lot of water, and most large cotton monocultures are doused

Great gift ideas from DesignMarketo, a platform diffusing up-and-coming designers’ small and limited productions. Our favourite: "Save Fish, Eat Chips" t-shirts!

Levi's new denim line will incorporate on average, eight 12 to 20-ounce plastic soda bottles per jean.

It's only happening in half the world. The rest of us can keep using plastic sticks. (Don't they know about ocean currents?)

I write often about the lessons that one can learn from old buildings, usually discussing ventilation and lighting. It turns out that there are lessons in security and defence as well; Eli Lehrer of Frum Forum notices some

After the beautiful Xylophone of the Forest I shared with you last month, I came across a selection of amazing wooden designs from Spain, both century-old and brand new ones. Confemadera put together an impressive selection

Last week I posted a stunning wooden bicycle, and the beautiful heritage of wooden ceilings in Andalusia from a series of wood design from Spain that Confeadera put together. Other works include the Fab Lab House, some

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 Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other!

Huge wind turbines, solar, wave power, battery storage and a lot of electric cars—these remote Scottish islands may provide a glimpse of the future.

It might cost $125 a bottle, but it tells a cool story about sustainability.

In a cruel twist of irony, some of the world's healthiest food – leafy greens – have become some of the riskiest in terms of foodborne illness.

These new sweetened beverages are flying off store shelves, much to doctors' chagrin – and to children's detriment.

No gym required: From frequency and stride to what to do with your arms, here’s how to get the world's easiest fitness fix.

When Governor Sonny Perdue of the US State of Georgia filed a legal complaint and then formally asked for the support of the Bush Administration to force the US Army Corps of Engineers to stop releasing water from Atlanta's Lake Lanier, perhaps he did

Adopting a waste-conscious and anti-consumerist lifestyle is not something that happens overnight. Sometimes it's nice to hear about other people who are just starting out, like this young family from southwestern Ontario, Canada.

Less than half an inch in length, the brightly colored frogs are highly endemic and vulnerable to extinction.

Building and living in a tiny house can be a big step toward living more sustainably, but using repurposed salvaged building materials to build one might be the Holy Grail of green living.

Here is a way to squeeze six stories of building in the space of five.

Mount Manresa was a community space owned by Jesuits, but has now been sold to developers.

First there was foamcrete, then there was papercrete and hempcrete, and now we've got AirCrete, a foamy mixture of air bubbles and cement.

When you stop buying prepackaged foods, you have to start cooking them yourself. It's not that hard once you get into the swing of it.