Between planetary and personal health, there's a lot to be said for eating a lot less meat.

Efforts to reduce meat consumption are shifting focus from individual choice to systemic changes.

The fuel cell generates electricity from living plants and could turn green roofs and marshes into power plants.

Virginia Tech researchers figure out how to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant which could drive down fuel cell costs.

Customers pay €1 for a reusable cup that can be returned to any participating business in the city center.

Author Sara Zaske shows that it all comes down to respecting a child's right to independence.

Image credit: Jenni Grover What's the Carbon Footprint of the Antique Industry? I've been told I think too much. (Though I've also been told the opposite is true!) From musing over whether carrots are vegan to wondering about the true cost of my rural

Comments to the post What is the Best Way To Build A Wall? Not A Simple Answer wondered why we wanted to reinvent the wall. The consensus was "Having XPS on the exterior is, I think, the easiest and best solution." I will be

Today, Levi’s released a new Life Cycle Assessment for their jeans as part of an effort to promote more sustainable water usage.

Since pumpkins generally require around 75 to 100 frost-free days, it's a good idea to get a jumpstart on planting them.

Whether lost in the wilderness or just foraging in the woods for delicacies, all of these plants can be safely consumed.

Nathanael Johnson at Grist has begun an excellent series on genetically modified organisms and the ongoing debate over GMOs in food.

Major food conglomerates want to stamp out state-by-state efforts to label foods containing genetically modified ingredients with federal legislation.

Consumer Reports finds that most products advertised as “natural” contain genetically modified ingredients.

Here are 4 common problems with tomatoes during the summer – and tips for how to fix them.

The forthcoming Tri-Gen facility is being called "the world's first megawatt-scale 100% renewable power and hydrogen generation station."

Here is a great way to keep out the sun and plant a vertical garden

This long, deep house has a wonderful low tech vertical garden that anyone could maintain.

This series of structures in Vietnam use bamboo and modern design tools and techniques to make a statement.

The Statue of Liberty may be a welcome sight to see for many entering the U.S. from around the world, but according to a recent NYC Health Department study, immigrant children are five times as likely as those born in the U.S. to suffer from lead

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

As salinization impacts agriculture around the world—another effect of climate change that will hit already-vulnerable places and people the hardest—farmers, small-scale farmers in particular, have to figure out how to

Our photo of the day comes from northern Illinois.

The Google-funded research shows that there's 3 million megawatts of geothermal power, across the entire US, waiting to be tapped via enhanced geothermal techniques.

A former Nazi bunker located in Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover. The building, which looks like a giant LEGO, will supply 3,000 homes with heating and 1,000 of those with electricity, cutting 6,600 tons of CO2 per year.

Demand for lithium is growing very rapidly thanks to portable electronics and electric vehicles. What if we could get a lot of lithium cheaply, without building new mines?

A recently opened power plant in the Nevada desert uses two types of renewable energy.

This integrative technology keeps CO2 out of the atmosphere and makes geothermal energy widely available

It's wood, it's small, it's resilient.

The disaster at Fukushima may have faded from the news cycle, but the radioactive waste it left behind isn't going anywhere. At the Saitama sewage treatment plant, 169 miles from Fukushima, workers are dealing with tons of

From the freshest possible eggs to rich compost to pets with personality, keeping backyard chickens would be a fun and educational foray in urban agriculture.

The problem may seem immense, but there are many good solutions.

Known to TreeHugger for their trademark lamps, the Seattle practice does a bigger building

There's no 'turning into a pumpkin at midnight' because the pumpkin is where it's at!

You don't need to tumble-dry clothes at this time of year. Here's why you should take your laundry outside to hang-dry in the warm sunshine.

The Care Label Project will add a label to thousands of clothes in hopes that people will adopt laundry habits that are better for both fabric and the Earth.

They are so thin that it's hard to believe that they stand up.

This is DiCaprio going back to his first love, in a way, as before becoming an actor, he thought about becoming a marine biologist.

Good Guy Leo strikes again!

Not to overly play into the stereotype of the TreeHugger moniker, but today is 4/20 so a quick review of all the great uses for industrial hemp--you

David Milarch is on a quest to save California's coast redwoods, some of the world's oldest and largest living things; he may be saving the planet along the way.

Portable tiny gardens set in gem-like planters give new life to the concept of jewelry.

Save the sea creatures! Handcraft your own natural specimens using these these simple patterns, yarn and a crochet hook.

Combining low-maintenance air plants with reused sea urchin shells, these unique creations look very much like mysterious jellyfish.

The discovery of one of the oldest penguin fossils in the world reveals higher diversity of early penguins than previously assumed.

This modern home is chock full of clever space-maximizing ideas.

Made in New Zealand, this modern little house looks clean and bright inside and out.

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

This industrial designer's 3D/4D printed, life-like forms ask the question of whether we can design and engineer "intelligent" plants that can adapt to environmental changes.

Most people think of them as environmentalists, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have other ideas.