Using mushrooms to challenge our unhealthy obsession with "body preservation," artist Jae Rhim Lee fabricates a suit that will remediate environmental toxins from dead bodies.

Sure, a bicycle can replace your car -- but as Frank Zappa demonstrates, it could replace your drum-set, too.

This automated smart home system for small apartments takes the effort out of having to transform your all-in-one furniture unit by hand.

These transforming shoes can go from flat to a stylish stiletto within seconds.

Leggings are a wardrobe staple for many, whether we’re keeping our legs warm in the winter or staying comfy at yoga all year long.

With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg facing criticism for supporting Keystone XL pipeline, a comedy duo mocks Facebook "Mess" Everything Up Department.

Honeybees survey vast tracts of land during their communal foraging. They share their best finds in a waggle dance, which new research has turned into a powerful tool for assessing ecosystem health.

Although some may wish it so, a world without spiders would be a miserable place.

This 10-minute video was shot by a man who was supposed to be at the MusiCafé bar that was engulfed by flames on july 6.

Here is one woman's version of simple living on the river, in a boat that is equipped to see the tough northern winters through.

Interested in trying out a night or two in a hand-built earthship? Here's one you can rent, located in an "eco-preneur" and permaculture community in Quebec.

In a Canadian province where a winter heating with electricity might cost a few hundred dollars per month minimum, this man manages to cut his heating bill by using free solar energy.

Built on a gooseneck trailer, this big tiny home features a lot of clever small-space design ideas.

This micro-home is a customized, winter-proofed dwelling for two.

Coming in at 425 square feet, this extra-wide, modernist tiny house actually feels quite roomy.

This winter-proofed van is now home to two engineers who love the outdoors.

A Colorado family that had long ago given up on finding their cat got some incredible news this week, when Willow was found in New York City -- five years later and 1,800 miles from home.

Ordinary humans can see about 1 million colors, but thanks to a genetic mutation, this artist can see an estimated 100 million colors.

In exchange for cultivating someone else's backyard for a year, this activist is experimenting with an increasingly simpler lifestyle, documented step-by-step online.

This renovated bus is a mobile coworking space that brings location-independent professionals out into the great outdoors, combining work with a hike, a bike trip or a surf ride on the waves.

A beautiful video by photographer Pete McBride shows how this epic and ancient river is now the most endangered in the country.

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.

A new article published in the online journal PLoS ONE takes on the issue of energy sprawl -- namely how much land is required to produce energy from different sources -- under different potential US energy and climate policies in 2030.

This year, French tire giant Michelin (yes, the Michelin that made the tires on your car) held its 10th Challenge Bibendum event, this time in Rio de Janeiro. If you've never heard of this thing, don't kick yourself,

There is a day for everything, and today we celebrate ride sharing.

Why own a fondue pot when you can borrow one?

Sharing resources and renting just what you need is green, but not much of a business model.

There are a lot of good reasons to get rid of that old plug.

UC Berkeley’s new robot is the most vertically agile robot ever built – why is it so unnerving?

Aiming to raise awareness about e-waste recycling, this photographer used 4,100 pounds of e-waste in these futuristic scenes.

"If a touchscreen must be used, it should be embedded alongside a set of fixed, physical buttons that support muscle memory and single actions."

Don't Blink or You'll Miss It! Google has created a series of video ads called "Search Stories". They're basically short vignettes showing some cool projects that were made possible by people finding the right information (using Google, of course). The

Ideal Bite: Are you getting very, very sleepy? by Heather Stephenson "You will be if you follow this tip. Conventional anti-insomnia pills work, but if you don't wanna lose sleep over side effects and potentially addictive ingredients, induce

Artists installed a grass carpet through a French town to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its arts and nature trail programs.

The university brings the outdoors in to help students relax and focus on studying.

Addicted to a lush green yard? It’s time to change the paradigm and kick the grass to the curb.

Here at TreeHugger we've long documented how every major religious group has come out supporting strong action on climate change, so the following irony, pointed out by Climate Progress shouldn't come as a shock: Even

Some timely examples of the intersection of Islam and environmental stewardship, both coming via the good folks over at Green Prophet: 1) Any new mosque built in Qatar must be eco-friendly, and 2) a new green guide to

Watching this video on Sacred Economics may be the best 12 minutes and 18 seconds you spend today.

It is a wonderful wooden and digital world, but will it ever happen?

The proposal for redeveloping Toronto's waterfront into a green, sustainable, urban tech hub is controversial.

What's more fun than riding with 25,000 people through car-free streets on a beautiful day (and night)?

One of the great North-American cyclist cities has a big bash to celebrate bike culture!

This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.

It's up to you to decide if you want to take the shortest route, the cleanest one, or the quietest one.

Books aren't just for reading -- you can carve incredible works out of them too, as this artist has done with this 24-volume set.

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

Part art, part meditative process, these works are created with plant material harvested from the artist's urban garden.

The age of vehicular cycling is coming to an end; cyclists want equity, not equality

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