For all those of you who insist on green lawns, for your kids to play on or your dogs to roll in, you still don't have to lay down a carpet of thirsty bluegrass, which 95% of American lawns

It's not pretty, but a fact of life, gardens are rich pickings for thieves.

Some nice symbolism here... WWF-Nepal reports that it has just completed its target for 2011 of planted 108,000 trees in the Sacred Garden of Lumbini, where the Buddha was born roughly 2,500 years ago. Over the next ten years the

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is experimenting with a new energy storage technology.

Slow, incremental changes are more effective than trying to do it all at once.

One of the biggest challenges of making cities more bike friendly is that most of the road space is already "used up." Adding bike lanes means removing something. That's when a bit of perspective comes in handy.

This is the kind of gentle density we need.

Fleet purchasing may turn out to be critical to electrification.

Following anti-Monsanto activism in other countries, Poland has announced plans to completely ban the growth of Monsanto’s genetically modified strain MON810.

For Monsanto, superweeds are just another selling point for its products.

Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.

You just can't fool Mother Nature.

Want to do something really different for Thanksgiving this year? Come have an organic dinner on the lawn of Monsanto's World Headquarters and watch the latest show from Rev. Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir.

When reviewing the safety of glyphosate, the Environmental Protection Agency considered just five independent studies, and 27 industry-funded studies.

A judge has ruled against Monsanto; company complains that it would drive some customers away. Unsealed documents add to drama.

The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought

It's not rocket science, it's building science, and it's all here.

The Right to Repair movement is rapidly growing – and it can't come soon enough.

Our focus should be on making things last and serve their purpose, not throwing them away.

Back in 2009, the EPA was sued for "abdicating leadership" on protecting Chesapeake Bay. Part of clean water advocates' anger was directed at a lack of geographical targeting for agricultural conservation funding. But

Chances are that you've never heard of Gene DeSantis, but his story seems one destined for legend. In fact, he's already being likened to a modern-day Johnny Appleseed. For almost three decades, DeSantis has made it his mission

A group of scientists argues our current climate change models get it wrong. Tracking "Carbon" only tells half the story.

One of the world's most famous architectural renderings turns into a building. Will it thrive?

An ecological economist says humans have been thinking about themselves all wrong.

Turns out, environmental issues are not about awareness. People get it.

New wind and solar will be cheaper than 96% of all existing coal by 2030.

Pioneers are already making inroads into the market. But once economies of scale kick in...

Argentine architect Carlos Levinton, who we've seen help Bolivian communities with PET, was asked by the UN White Helmets Comission to collaborate with ideas for the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.

photo: J. Novak Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on

How one crowdfunded organization is using earth building techniques to build impressive and durable structures for Haiti.

Small-scale solar panels promise many off-grid applications for renewable energy, and the SolarPuff is a particularly elegant example.

PNC Financial Services Group, based in Pittsburgh PA, has built a plant-covered exterior wall, "to make its headquarters building more energy-efficient." Looking like one of those huge billboards seen along an

One more US city fully commits to transforming itself into a better place to live for all.

Scientists say this is the only way to feed 10 billion people without causing catastrophic damage to the planet.

Our bet: no.

You can't help but notice the street kids in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Some of them, darting through the heavy traffic of tuk-tuks and motos on their hunt for crisp dollar bills, are so young they have yet to learn to talk. Other than scooping them off

Just a quick one on ethanol and Southeast Asia: Chinaview.cn is reporting that Cambodia has opened the nation’s first ethanol production facility. Using cassava as a feedstock, at least initially all of the

Previously unknown species in a relatively undisturbed bioregion of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia have been uncovered by a recent study — 24 in total, including a so-called "corpse

There are only an estimated 116 wild Asian elephants in Cambodia's Seima Protection Area, and until now most of the photographic evidence of them has be taken by camera traps. New footage released by the Wildlife Conservation Society changes that. The

It's not enough to not make things worse. Our buildings and our actions have to make things better.

At TreeHugger, we've been big fans of car-sharing services for a long time. ZipCar has long dominated the field, pushing the envelope recently by adding hybrid vehicles and expanding into new

Evonik and Siemens announce two-year project to demonstrate feasibility of "technical photosynthesis" using eco-electricity to convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals

Excessive population growth presents an immediate environmental danger greater than climate change.

Move over, regular solar panels.

This is green energy writ large. Very large...

Now that's progress...

Scott Parenteau welds it all together from scrap metal and dishwasher parts at Maker Faire.

The robot was part of a bigger mapping project that reveals the overall volume of ice in Antarctica, not just the ice cover.

As you can see in the satellite photos above, California is experiencing a massive drought over most of the state. The most visible aspect from space is the snow cover (or lack thereof) over the Sierra Nevada mountain range