A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

This year, take a side in the war on the car, and support stores on your neighborhood bike lane or transit route.

This building alternately fries the public, blows them off their feet and cheats them out of promised public amenities. And did I mention it's bloated, top-heavy and just plain ugly.

The judges got it right this time.

... in the place where people understand the risks of living in an anti-globalist, post-fact era

RIBA has announced that all its prizes will now be sustainable. We are going to need a counterpoint.

Bravo to this Brazilian guy for showing how it's done.

These vibrant murals combine nature and realism with the chaos and tumult of the urban landscape.

Here is a way to squeeze six stories of building in the space of five.

We have to use less of the stuff in our cars, our buildings, and our infrastructure.

Take your creamy vegetable soups from dull to delectable with these tips.

NASA finds that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying out – here's why.

A hopeful report by Greenpeace envisions a future where supermarkets have gotten rid of superfluous waste.

It's a mix of speculative fiction and informed prediction. Which do you think is most plausible?

Unless they're specially branded Keep Cups that reduce the likelihood of catering staff getting burned.

The city of New Orleans had given up on glass recycling. Enterprising students from Tulane University decided to step up to the challenge and bring back free glass recycling citywide in spring 2020.

Architect Jorge Fortan cements his case for a concrete and foam sandwich house.

We do a little destructive testing and have a good breakfast.

The batteries could provide back-up power for small solar power systems.

An item as ubiquitous as coffee has varying degrees of sustainability. Being aware of these can help us make better choices.

Wastes are made in the kitchen.

Because “the pursuit of speed is a moral imperative.”

A number of companies are flying SST Trial balloons, but we should all pop them now.

'Coral Garden' is a handcrafted installation that's inspired by the world's threatened coral reefs, and made with upcycled materials.

Switch to a planet-friendly diet this year, and show others how it can be done.

Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.

Shoppers have realized that paying a few extra cents can make or break a domestic food producer.

The Canadian city is the latest to rethink disposal culture and insist on something better.

TreeHugger Emeritus Mat McDermott describes his experience of living through Sandy.

You probably already have most of the stuff you need.

The online-only financial institution will provide low cost loans for solar, electric cars and even electric-assist bicycles.

The Swedish furniture giant keeps ploughing ahead.

Even though it took 6 months to find an alternative, Coop refused to stock microwave popcorn because of the health risks to customers.

The already tense battle over mining in Inner Mongolia has erupted further after a Mongolian herder was run over by a coal truck and killed while trying to block the

A rare, early October blizzard has devastated the South Dakota rancher community, after as many as 100,000 head of cattle may have died following the October 3rd storm.

Researchers find that the neurotoxin is carried in by coastal fog, deposited on the land, and then makes its way up the food chain where it is approaching toxic thresholds in pumas.

That is, if you ever have any...

These simple tricks add the depth and flavor that plant-based vegetable stock can sometimes be missing.

I've made it through the first month of my thrifty New Year's resolution.

The 530-acre forest has hundreds of ancient giant sequoia, including the fifth-largest tree known on the planet.

Last week, we revealed the winner for our Participate! contest, Vinay Gupta's Hexayurt Project. This week, we are profiling two more great entries, the Participate! runners-up. Yesterday, we showed you easy to assemble, 100 percent recycled plastic

This simple, innovative solar still purifies water without electricity or filters.

When an Iowa State professor of mechanical engineering followed his hunch about spider webs, it paid off: he proved biological materials can rival metals in conducting heat.

Google's St. Ghislain, Belgium data center is its most efficient thanks in part to letting the server areas run at temperatures up to 95 degrees.

What if the Google Street View car took thermal energy scans of all the country's buildings and then built a database of building energy efficiency information? That's the concept behind startup company Essess's approach to home energy audits.

The Center for Food Safety's recently launched network is a bid to preserve global plant biodiversity and work toward food security around the globe.

You have heard of "fast fashion." Get ready for fast architecture in container-sized modules.

These flat-packed rest-and-recovery units could take the load off hospitals in a hurry.

Using reclaimed wood and steel from old pig fences, this Dutch company makes exquisite tables, while recycling all byproducts into other useful goods -- cat litter, compost and alcohol..

Meet Dopper, a Cradle to Cradle water bottle company that’s bringing clean water to Nepal.