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

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

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

Could this be the lawnmower we've all been waiting for?

Is it time to ban these useless and unnecessary noise and pollution machines?

Hinduism is the oldest

There's a really fascinating feature over at Greater Good on the powerful transformative effects that positive emotions have on our wellbeing, our lives, our bodies, those around us. I won't relay all that Barbara

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

For many

"The world is sweet and verdant

"A Jewish ecology is 'not

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

photo: Rebecca Wilson/CC BY Editors note: The following guest post is by Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati an American-born renunciate at Parmarth Niketan ashram in Rishikesh, India (full bio below). While this post may be a bit broader than other items in the

An interesting step towards eco-friendly spiritual travel: The Alliance of Regions and Conservation, working with WWF, is about to launch the Green Pilgrimage Network. The program, to formally kick off at an event in

Globally, religious groups own 5-10% of the world's forests and influence much more.

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

Like the word 'sustainability', 'environmentalism' has become a hollow word, a word divorced from meaning, a word lacking in soul, separated from its essence.

A new study in the journal Conservation Biology found that snow leopards living near Buddhist monasteries in Tibet are being helped by monks who actively patrol the forests to prevent poachers from killing the endangered cats.

Rev. Richard Cizik and the nonprofit New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good have released a video message to President Obama calling on him to do more to protect public lands from destruction by private industry.

Could it be that green living is making a comeback?

Solar power is a wonderful thing but the benefits are not evenly distributed.

In a compromise with environmentalists, the energy giant is committing some significant resources to clean tech.

Natural light is free and plentiful and the day is long.

SMUD demonstrate that all-electric living is actually cheaper than gas.

Could it be that more efficient lighting means less coal being dug to power it?

It turns out leaving the EU is quite hard. Who knew?

It's an interesting art installation that brings some attention to an electrifying man.

And why not?

More on why the 626 environmental groups demanding action on climate change shouldn't be doctrinaire.

Starting in 1936 they wired the entire country, the houses, the tools and the farms, changing America. It is time to think big and do it again.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't still be trying to electrify everything.

Ian Urbina reports at The New York Times on the negative side effects the tech industries shift to flat screen technology has had on the market for recycling old television and computer monitor glass

Microsoft decided that a good way to advertise its cloud-based Office 365 software would be to actually put a T-Mobile wifi router with 15 days of free wifi inside a magazine advert.

A new report card from the Electronics TakeBack Coaltion shows how each retailer stacks up when it comes to recycling the merchandise they sell us.

Critics have been quick to say that Phonebloks isn't realistic with the current market. What they are missing is that this is the entire point of the project. Phonebloks aims to alter the present, but re-imagining the future.

Photographer Michael Ciaglo has shared his haunting photos from Agbogbloshie, the "digital dump" on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana.

Kodjo Afate Gnikou is a 33 years old inventor from Togo, in West Africa. Using mostly e-waste that he found in a scrap yard, he built a functioning 3D printer that he calls W.AFATE.

Phonebloks was a great idea - mix-and-match pieces means upgrading from a basic platform is forever. Now it has a first competitor - the Eco-Mobius.

There's a lot to look forward to, but what should we expect to see more of in the short-term?

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.

Here are some staggering numbers of what could be saved.

The innovation could mean less e-waste at the end of our electronics' lives.

The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.

By reclaiming precious metals from its 'urban mine' of obsolete electronics, Japan may be able to produce the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics from recycled materials.

The machines are popping up at grocery stores in Norway.

From 50 million tons of e-waste generated annually to 350,000 cell phones thrown away every day, the numbers behind our digital addiction are staggering.

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.

These may be limited to 25 MPH, but the era of autonomous cars is coming at us really fast.

Take a virtual tour of these amazing spots.

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