The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is proposing a rate increase due to extreme drought having reduced their ability to ramp up hydroelectric generators in time for customers to turn on the bright kitchen lights and cook dinner - after 4:00PM. Only 6

Big bucks go to the teams that come up with an air conditioner that's five times as good.

Since 1984, Brazilian farmer Ernst Gotsch has been restoring 1,200 acres of deforested land into a working, regenerative farm. The results are amazing.

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

Another good reason to pile density onto subway lines: Almost free heat and cooling.

A bit of weekend prep work goes a long way.

Don't settle for sub-standard meals. Good homemade food fuels both body and soul.

From amaranth to wheat berries, here's how to cook grains that don't come with instructions.

Home cooks are learning how to make do with what they have, as our grandparents did.

A proposed office uses "climatic architecture" to cool the building by making it into a natural wind tunnel.

Who says wheat-free can't mean indulgent? Best-selling cookbook author Karen Morgan offers up irresistible (and also vegetarian) main courses, snacks, and desserts.

At the tech company's New Mexico data center, it found that oil-submerged servers require far less energy for cooling and actually perform better.

A new material could be applied to roofs that would soak up rain and then "sweat" out the moisture when temperatures are high to cool down buildings without electricity.

A unique solar panel has been designed at Stanford that cools buildings by reflecting sunlight and radiating thermal energy out into space.

Using an age-old method to cool the air, this terracotta "cold pot" could be an energy-efficient and low-maintenance alternative to conventional air conditioners.

The technology uses radiative sky cooling to help cool buildings without electricity.

This could keep people from overheating in their wearable electronic outfits or simply in the heat of the ever-warming days

The dual source heat pump uses either the ground or the air as a heat source.

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.

Thanks to the folks at Daily Candy for this awesome tip! With the holidays coming up, and that inevitable office party or family gathering, maybe it's time to freshen up your kitchen

This cool new website connects travelers with local home cooks for unforgettable meals.

A novel technology surpasses white roofs with its cooling powers.

For many roofs, white paint is the best way to cool down, but for metal roofs a new glass coating could be even better.

Thanks to careful scrounging and salvaging, a Danish design student was able to cheaply build a "self-sufficient" dome for use as a greenhouse.

Spanish collective Basurama built a movable cinema mounted on a bike and used it to expose empty spots which could be turned into public spaces temporarily.

An easy-to-emulate arrangement by local designers made for design exhibition Casa Cor Rio.

This electrically powered prototype will be great for getting you to the market, and carting stuff back home.

If you dream of testing the limits of solar powered mobility, but don't have the DIY gene, here is someone who can help

Just pick a scooter, drive it, then park it. Someone else takes care of the charging.

We've scratched the surface of Sierra magazine's Cool Schools list on Treehugger before, but this time I've decided to dig into one of the schools so we can learn more about what

Who needs a dining hall when you've got a dorm kitchen available? Even if you don't, make it happen with a few basic tools and skills.

It's the eternal struggle for anyone tasked with feeding themselves.

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy "Bat Tower" being built to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area.

Geothermal is a stable & plentiful source of clean energy available all around the world, including in the United States (especially in the West). But that industry is still in its infancy and very little of that resource's potential is being tapped.

Yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a deal to work together against climate change.

It's a mix of evaporative cooling and phase change that takes the temperature down 30 degrees celsius. But does it really work?

Making do with limited ingredients has taken on new urgency in pandemic times.

They tell us, "You are not alone. Others have been here before." That's exactly what we need these days.

Can one device to it all? Should it? Has its time finally come?

Today, September 6th, Trash Tycoon officially launches! It's been a long, hard, fun road getting to this point, and we owe a special thanks to all the beta testers who have been playing and submitting bugs and comments on the forums.

A new study finds that dockless cars cause more problems than dockless bikes and scooters.

This could be a very big deal.

People all over the world can play on their smartphone or tablet a new game where five-time FIFA World Player Award winner Lionel Messi should overcome various missions. Messi jumps over rocks, bridges and other obstacles, makes somersaults, stoops to drive through tunnels and is dodging rockets and monsters. Of course he is allowed to shoot balls to get a free passage.

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The Omega Family Office chairman and CEO said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that taxes will need to go up regardless of who wins the upcoming presidential election.

The "Futures Now" team discusses natural gas with CNBC's Seema Mody.

With football on hold during the coronavirus pandemic, one of the world’s leading freestylers is helping fans remain active under lockdown. Every day, Liv Cooke a four-time world record holder, posts footage of herself performing a freestyle trick with instructions on how to follow suit at home

• A trick a day: how freestyler Liv Cooke is bringing light to the lockdown

Have I ever told you that I really like/enjoy/have fun writing cookbooks? I do. Sure, they are all-encompassing and take over my life while they are being written/cooked/photographed/edited, but in the end, I’m always happy that I spent the time making it (hopefully!) what I wanted it to be. My number one goal when I […]

I’ve been handling Paige’s departure to college pretty well! After the initial weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, I basically just set up camp in my kitchen and have hardly left. It’s my safe zone. My haven. My happy place. Unless the sink is full of dishes, then I want to sell the house. Oh, […]

I mentioned on Confessions that I’ve been cooking away on recipes for my next cookbook.     It won’t be out until NEXT October.     It feels great to start ahead of time! This is a new concept for me.     I’m a little afraid it will be like the few time I […]