The city is getting bike lanes and light rail transit, and their new apparatuses are chosen to better fit the streetscape.

16 years ago, Horrace Burges had a divine vision, a calling from heaven. And, like the ark-crafting Noah before him, Horrace picked up a hammer and built a large wooden structure of his own--the world's largest tree house. At 10

Simple but striking, this small treehouse retreat was built by hand and furnished with repurposed flea market finds.

It's an all-natural TreeHugger-approved carbon capture and storage plan.

We still have to reduce our carbon emissions.

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

It's a TreeHugger's dream come true. Leafsnap is a new free app that identifies trees.

This week's photo roundup includes a sculpture made from living cherry trees, an artist catapulting LEDs into the sky to make stars, and more.

We've featured a lot of treehouses on TreeHugger, but the plans for this one are a little different: Ten cherry trees will be planted in a circle, and pruned and bent over time to form a unique, two story sculpture.

An isolated winter scene beats out the competition in the annual awards ceremony.

Is there somewhere you go to when you need to recharge your batteries? Or remind yourself of the beauty of nature? These are our favorite nature spots.

Is there somewhere you go to when you need to recharge your batteries? Or remind yourself of the beauty of nature? This is the second part of this series.

Yes, they seem tacky and don't make your house smell like a coniferous forest but they also won't dry up and shed their needles all over the place

We've been seeing Nellie's dryer balls and their various knockoffs throwing around their purportedly eco-friendly clout everywhere lately, even on green shopping sites and environmental blogs we know and love. (We even tried to correct these misguided

Designboom shows Trong Nghia's latest house, built out of towers with trees on top in the middle of a block.

Built with a lighter impact in mind, this small mountain retreat is nestled among the trees in Vietnam.

We're looking for treehuggers with a nose for a story.

Let that sink in for a second: Over a period of 18 hours and 40 minutes on September 29th, Muhammed Yousuf Jamil, a Lance Naik (Lance Corporal) in the Pakistani Army singlehandedly

When heavy rains caused rivers to overflow and flood parts of Pakistan last year, it set into motion a surprisingly complex chain of events that scientists are only now beginning to understand -- and which may have

In a recent show of solidarity with the forests and one another, more than a thousand villagers gathered to simultaneously give their beloved trees a loving squeeze.

This chapel looks to nature and the generations-old tradition of Japanese wood joinery for inspiration.

A large section of a 140-year-old Western hemlock tree is faithfully reconstructed by hand from cast molds, using tiny pieces of reclaimed cedar that have been carefully glued together.

These are interesting times for the Passive House movement in America, and this should be a very interesting conference.

This week is all about climate change and its myriad ripple effects. Melting Arctic ice has opened up an international controversy over deep-sea land rights, and Russia will now make a bold move by planting its flag 14,000 feet below the surface. New

Take a look at some of the ways that the shutdown is bad for the environment.

I wrote my first TreeHugger post more than seven years ago. Since then, there's been a lot of water under the bridge. Here are some of the many highlights.

Etsy invited TreeHugger to write about their favorite green baby items in the Handmade Kids series; clothes and accessories made for children by independent designers. Etsy is that wonderful website that features all things handmade to buy and sell by

Demand for this 'green gold' is so high that people are waiting months to get a sapling for backyard planting.

And even worse, they are devouring the much-smaller native treefrogs.

A controversial new ordinance tries to deal with another consequence of mass tourism.

According

A community group plans massive tree planting effort to reforest one of Europe's least wooded areas.

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It sorta defeats the purpose in about twelve different ways.

As their nation's sole law enforcement agency, the Philippines National Police carry a heavy burden when it comes to keeping the country safe -- but arresting one of the biggest threats they face will take shovels, not clubs or handcuffs.

"The mining companies were telling us that it's safe... We did our research and discovered they were lying through their teeth."

A new law hopes to fix deforestation and teach young people about environmental stewardship.

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

"I was shocked when I saw the tree. It was cut down, the head was lopped off, it was so upsetting," said one Cleveland business-owner.

Who needs trees when you can have beer in corner stores?

Want to get quickly into the tree canopy? This modular set of stairs can be quickly and easily wrapped around any tree, without doing damage to the trunk.

It feels much bigger than it actually is, and does not feel weird at all.

A new study published by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences serves as a great example of the interconnectedness of nature and how human activity can disrupt life-sustaining systems.

We matured our cities around the needs to cars. Now it's time to mature our streets around human, not machine, needs. We are all pedestrians.

The city council has begun installing solar-powered lights around the streets of downtown Nairobi.

Soon you'll be able to see hardened lava flows, rainforests and beaches up close without leaving your house.

This aeroponic indoor gardening system from the Italian startup Hexagro is modular, scalable, and automated.

We've written about e-paper here and while the idea seems nifty, it's hard not to think that improving online readers might be the best option rather than adding another electronic gadget to the overladen waste stream. But in a new study from the

Can't we all stop fencing for political position and start talking about using the overwhelming amount of data to solve problems?