Kris De Decker questions some of our most cherished assumptions.

Indulging in a Western-style diet for 7 days impaired the brain function in healthy young people and made them want to overeat, researchers find.

Alabama is contemplating a pipeline to the Great Lakes. We've said it time and again: transient drought will not drive the US Federal government to pipe Great Lakes water to the drought stricken states. If it becomes severe enough, and the impacts come

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

A beautiful film celebrates doing things, like starting a fire entirely by hand, that are no longer necessary. There are lessons for us all.

They got this one right.

If a vertical farm fantasy is the best unbuilt project in the UK, then sustainable design is in worse trouble than I thought.

This just pushes every TreeHugger button.

The judges got it right this time.

Too much information?

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

It helps to have such a stunning lakeside site.

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

They say these are about celebrating the best contemporary architecture. But what does that mean today?

Brazil is often in Treehugger because of illegal logging and deforestation. Not this time.

This tender, buttery, flaky crust is one of the easiest I've ever made, and also the most delicious.

The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA) sends out a press release touting their recent political victory in Washington State, and their new promotional campaign, “Build with Strength.” Hilarity ensues.

A key industry association is working to keep warming to "well below" two degrees.

Ambitious progress is possible, even in society's hardest to abate sectors.

Contractors are having trouble meeting the new safety standard.

Access to reliably electricity is what defines civilization in the 21st century, but in many parts of the world, and for a shockingly large number of people, even basic access to electricity is rare, unstable, or nonexistent. This has to change.

How do companies close the “green-gap” and turn consumer values into action?

In our mission to close the “green-gap” through sustainable messaging, every bit of insight counts.

Industry coalitions working with municipal recycling can work, but only in two circumstances

Latest IPCC report calls for urgent action in the way land is used.

We have standing room in landbuses, so why not airbuses?

Author Craig Murray says, "The Earth cannot afford to indulge the pollution caused by massive air tourism."

It really isn't necessary but it sure is a lot of fun and you learn a lot. I am conflicted.

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

They say it reduces CO2 emissions by 80 percent. Does it really?

A list of 10 resolutions shows that big changes are coming to the professional food world.

It's over. As of midnight on May 31st 2018, data on the hazards and risks of every chemical sold in Europe is available to ensure safety

Is American consumerism innate, or manufactured?

It is reflective and glows in the dark, perfect for "enhanced safety in traffic" -- and the dance floor.

Once you've seen what goes on inside a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) it's tough to accept the trade-off of horrific animal suffering in order to have cheap food.

Livestock to Markets seeks to provide a sustainable solution to overgrazing in the Northern Rangelands of Kenya, creating local community capacity for rangelands conservation..

A mini video series just released by the National Young Farmers Coalition illustrates the challenges and joys of starting one's own dairy farm.

With only two members of the species left, a successful egg harvest and fertilization could mean all is not lost.

With over a third of the world's cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world's tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab Emirates has now turned it attention to building the

Here's a frequent question asked by people wanting to create positive sustainable changes in the world: Is it more effective to work as a change agent from inside the current system or is it better to

The new technology would allow precise control over the transparency of windows and how much light is let in.

You have heard of "fast fashion." Get ready for fast architecture in container-sized modules.

TreeHugger was founded as a sustainable design blog. From Alan Chochinov's 10 steps for sustainable design, through Yves Behar's predictions for sustainable design in 2011, to the

A compact chicken coop for city dwellers that wheels around the yard and fertilizes soil is on display at "Dwell on Design" this weekend. The show's awards recognize

In cars, houses, furniture and electronics, The trend was toward increasing repairability and simplifying recycling. Apple goes its own way.

Four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing in Hungary as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. A

It may sound like an oxymoron, bringing sustainable practices to mining operations, but unless we all stop consuming resources immediately, mining is also not going anywhere. So this is good news: since 2007, Alcoa's Jamalco

Yes, but we still have a problem, says Carl A. Zimrig in a new book "Aluminum Upcycled: sustainable design in historical perspective." Because we are using too much of the stuff.

Smaller, faster, cheaper! Single board computer (SBC) innovations are jumpstarting a whole new wave of DIY devices.

So much intelligence and so much technology, to what end.