The billion-dollar app specializes in sharing digital photos, but tugging along behind it is a growing pile of material stuff.

TreeHugger Founder Graham Hill stopped by the TED Conference recently to outline his LifeEdited project—and explain why a keen ability to edit will be the most important skill of the next century.

Step 1: The idea of a car that runs on compost. Step 2: Implementation of a car that runs on compost. We're half done.

When it comes to walking the green and sustainable walk, Greenfield really puts it all on the line.

Swedes enjoy an interesting "close-to-nature" lifestyle -- this informal study shows how it might help visitors from other countries.

Leave it to the Swedes to combine physical fitness with PICKING UP LITTER!

These delicious, healthy meals can be on the table within half an hour.

A new report finds reducing meat consumption is as important as tackling transportation emissions, but the politics are daunting.

Gosh, there are a lot of ways to eat less meat. And a lot of ways to talk about it, too.

Reducing meat consumption is one of the best ways to help the environment. A new book offers many ideas for how to make it happen.

Forty companies just pledged to do their part to serve more veggies, helping the environment in the process.

A new campaign aims to bust the "protein myth".

It is exhilarating to have a bike anywhere you want it. It is depressing to see the state of the bikes.

This week a new report has been published by UK environmental think tank Green Alliance which unites top UK businesses on a mission to design out waste in industry. The report is called A Pathway To Greener Products and calls on the new coalition

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Stickers can be fun, but how eco-friendly is this new craze for decorating walls? We have found two brands that claim their vinyls to be eco-chic, and some even come with decorative eco-reminders; very clever! Hu2 in the UK has just

In one cartoon he solves a long list of issues that have kept it from going mainstream.

Solar farm atop a PrimeAsia Leather Corp. leather tannery in Vietnam. Courtesy photo via WWD. Tanning is an intense chemical process which transforms decomposable rawhide into leather, but not without discharging serious pollution into water; Around

Cities and towns with good public-transit options offer more convenience for residents and are, of course, more environmentally friendly places to live. Now it

There is a man dressed in a silver lamé suit jumping about with extraordinary energy in a wind blown field in West Wales. His name is Steve Edge and his motto in life is:

You are visiting a cottage, you have to bring something and you want it to be nice. What to do?

Whether it's coffee or tea, Katherine and Margaret love their steaming mugs of deliciousness.

Watch these beautiful Japanese macaques at Wild Snow Monkey Park who have truly mastered the fine art of relaxation.

A Seattle educational non-profit hopes to crowd-fund a series of portable, off-grid shelters for some of the city's homeless, which local high school students will design and build with the help of professional architects and builders.

Residents and businesses alike are joining the Lonely Whale Foundation to help stem ocean pollution by giving up plastic straws for the month.

Photo via StringBike The Bike, Unchained A group of designers in Hungary have done away with what has long been a staple of bicycle design, those oily old chains, with their creation, the StringBike. Instead of being propelled forward the traditional

They call it green. I call it too much.

After promising not to use sodium lauryl sulfate in any products, The Honest Co. is under scrutiny after two lab tests found significant amounts of the chemical in its laundry detergent.

The next game-changing technology might not be in the form of an electric car with a longer range, or more efficient solar panels, but rather a better way to dry your clothes.

Washing and drying clothes can take a toll on your wallet and the planet – these easy tips make it better.

A cost-benefit analysis seems appropriate for any major regulation -- but at what point in the process?

Ok, so this isn't a true green item. But, kudo's to my favorite eco-celeb, Leonardo DiCaprio for his consistent give-back spirit. Leo and Kate Winslet returned to their Titanic roots to help out the ship's one remaining

100,000 acres of Sumatran rainforest to be protected in Indonesia by a new type of zoning, which will generate sustainable revenue from non-timber forest products.

The online craft market place becomes a certified B Corp, and announces $40m in new funding. This could be a great thing for all of us.

This new California-based company is run by two entrepreneurial moms who understand the value of local production, quality fabrics, and reducing one's environmental impact.

Look At Me Designs transforms old sweaters and tee shirts into fresh new styles.

Ethically sourced dresses for this spring, summer and many more sunny days to come.

Zady is working to build a better clothing company from the ground up.

Eco Touch is providing an old product to a new market. While waterless car washing products have been available for over a decade, demand for them in America has been slight. While similar products have taken off in areas with strict water regulations

The North American holiday actually has its roots in a newspaper strike in Toronto, a fight over toxic working conditions.

Most of the english speaking world has the day off today, in what started as a tradition of helping and sharing, and ended up at the mall.

A pioneer of peak oil community action sits down to talk with her mother about a previous crisis and how she survived it.

Futurist Guy Dauncey acknowledges that the stakes are high and the challenges are enormous. Yet defeatism is not an option.

It reveals what we already know but needs repeating – that more time in nature equals greater happiness in kids.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real estate market, and an uncertain currency future, make a house out of shredded-up money.

The Irish beer giant has stopped using fish bladders for filtration of its keg beer; cans and bottles to follow suit by the end of the year.

In which snail mail provides a lesson in the loveliness of slow living.

All photos credit Collin Dunn Ed. note: 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with a stop in the Florida Everglades, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety

...or does this augur the final breakdown of civilization?

Using someone else's tools and space has forced me to adjust my approach to cooking.