When doctors team up with food banks, it improves health and staves off chronic hunger.

Don't let a passing crisis, serious though it is, distract you from the real fight.

The howl of magnificent Zephyr at NY's Wolf Conservation Center gets Mother Nature's attention.

Filters on buses and smog-eating towers are not the answer.

London Fashion Week was disrupted by protesters who want the industry to declare a climate emergency.

It's to time to jump off the consumption train and embrace the art of repair.

The Norwegian Consumer Authority thinks the fast fashion company is misleading shoppers with its so-called Conscious Collection.

Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell makes a case for rooms; We concentrate on one of them.

Lessons from the kitchens at Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation in Marseille.

Is this company getting closer to the dream of making truly sustainable carbon-negative fuel?

Designed with 'artificial leaves' of glass filled with algae, this lighting fixture is made to produce extra oxygen.

We have long called for deposits on everything. California shows that even that is not enough.

Tipster Peter S. was equally bemused by our mention of the petroleum powered bicycle jetpack. So much so, he thought one good turn deserved another. Thus we’ve now discovered the MobiBke. Take one foldable full performance Dahon ZeroG mountain bike

The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further. For the first time, it is being tried on a city-wide scale,

Bristol, UK, just keeps on popping up on Treehugger. Most recently we talked about the potentially ground breaking Transition City Bristol initiative, a community lead process to plan for peak oil, but as we noted then, it doesn’t end there. It’s also

Stunning Art Project Projects Impacts of Climate Change TreeHugger was founded on the idea that art and design can help solve the ecological crisis we are facing - most recently evidenced by our round up of environmental artists shaking up the art

We know that bike commuting saves money, and that cycling to work combats obesity too. So it's no surprise when we hear that bike commuting is on the rise in many cities. One company is stepping out way ahead

The British city of Bristol hopes to promote local business with their own high-security scrip featuring local designs

The Bristol Cargo Bike project is creating a "light weight mega geared micro logistics vehicle of choice for a city of hills."

Abandon not all ye moth-eaten and shrunken cashmere sweaters—designer Brooke Serson Cernonok of Teddylux can sprout an entire menagerie from your castoffs.

Steve Mouzon looks at the true cost of sprawl.

At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical

When you've got a lot of driveway runoff, some careful landscaping can put it to good use.

A Brooklyn dinner party turns "dumpster diving" into an informative meal.

Common Good was started by Sacha Dunn and her husband Edmund Levine out of their personal desire to have refillable and eco-friendly option when it comes to cleaning supplies.

We take a tour of a sustainable factory that turns discarded glass into durable building materials.

In Brooklyn and Toronto, the same story: "accidents" where cyclists somehow lose control, fall under rear wheels.

Just when we thought there was a chance for a rationalist US Administration to mesh with the Climate-action oriented EU and with an increasingly open-minded China...[Vaclav] Klaus has called man-made global

Heavy traffic, aggressive drivers, few bike lanes, and fear of theft made the Czech capital a place where cycling was "only for the brave," as an article for Radio Prague put

The architects call it a "Conceptual Object" but it is pretty and real.

Embedded in a hillside, this eccentric dwelling uses a series of functional ramps that connect all the spaces together.

Last month, my partner gave me a Fjällräven Kanken rucksack for my 30th birthday, and I have to tell you about it, as this is a classic amongst the eco-designs nowadays. I first spotted these slightly odd-looking bags in London many years ago, and

School is a testing ground for the way we perform later in life. It can mold us into fine upstanding members of society, or not. While environmental responsibility isn't something we have to learn early in life, it certainly makes

The CO2 emissions from making stuff like concrete, plastic, aluminum and steel matter right now.

With 100 percent recycled content, it's an impressive standard for technical gear.

It's a conversation most parents don't want to have, but it's necessary.

Joshua Becker, author and minimalism guru, argues for the many benefits of raising kids in an uncluttered, simplified space.

A new report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation outlines steps to a circular fashion economy.

You don't want it in your life. Do everything to avoid it.

It is, quite literally, the 'outfit of the day,' never to be seen again because it has been returned to the store.

Remember pallets? Remember infographics? We have both in one post!

A cluttered apartment room becomes a modern place to sleep and play for three siblings.

This sturdy bed helps to declutter small spaces by combining sleeping and storage.

It's all a facade, as architects compete to see who can design the ugliest exterior.

This modular curtain could help existing buildings photosynthesize oxygen and get rid of pollution in cities.

Architects all over the world should be doing this too.

Steve Webb thinks we should tax upfront carbon like cigarettes, and we should build in wood and stone.

The people of Newtok, Alaska are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away.

On June 17, 2013, NASA's Terra Satellite captured a rare photograph of a clear view of Alaska. While the photo itself is beautiful, the reason for the nearly cloud-free sky has concerning implications for climate change.

Adapting to climate change is going to affect the lives of every human on Earth. But for some those impacts are hitting a little sooner and a little harder than they are for others.