Lloyd Alter's favorite stories from our sister site.

Gather round the holiday vegetable loaf and hear of Thanksgivings past on TreeHugger

All kinds of interesting people were at Greenbuild.

A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now.

One of the great North-American cyclist cities has a big bash to celebrate bike culture!

For Monsanto, superweeds are just another selling point for its products.

When reviewing the safety of glyphosate, the Environmental Protection Agency considered just five independent studies, and 27 industry-funded studies.

A judge has ruled against Monsanto; company complains that it would drive some customers away. Unsealed documents add to drama.

Weed killer, it's what's for breakfast! Glyphosate found in 43 of 45 conventional oat products tested by EWG.

EWG tested 28 brands of conventional oat-based cereals; they all had glyphosate residue, most of them above healthy standards

The USGBC, and their insanely popular rating system LEED, have been on the frontlines of the green building movement for quite a while. Everyone has taken a shot at them at least once. There’s all the talk about how the credits are

A round home is British Columbia's first home to be Energy Star qualified, a topic of contention on TreeHugger.

But really, they should be dealing with the source of the problem.

Of course, Bucky answered, "Why not?" On Pi Day, we look at the Dymaxion and other round houses."

A satellite that ran out of fuel two years ago is now giving scientists a huge wealth of data.

The overhaul now includes the Voyager feature for deep exploration, not just satellite views.

The bigger question: why is the industry playing into the hands of the anti-fracking activists?

Radioactive uranium occurs naturally in soils but farming techniques may be causing it to dissolve into groundwater

American organic farmer Eliot Coleman explains how his innovative winter gardening methods work, allowing growers to harvest veggies year-round.

For the first time ever, a nursery for endangered ray pups and adolescents has been discovered – giving researchers hope to learn more about these rare gentle giants.

It's a 340 ton rock, balancing over a crevice...forever.

Whether your traveling tastes run rural or urban, green hostels offer an inexpensive and character-filled -- not to mention sustainable -- alternative to bland hotels.

This could mean we're drinking our plastic waste.

A new decree has opened the door to global waste exports – and rampant pollution.

Is shopping so important that people have to die or get pepper sprayed?

Whether they are growing to be thousands of years old, making life-long friendships or confounding us with their resilience, trees provide to us invaluable material resources.

How will you promote actions that divert more waste from disposal and conserve natural resources?

Consumers are connected to the things they care about, providing access to ventures that have the potential to make real impacts.

Just take them with big photos, nobody will ever know.

This is not a joke. It is also a teaching moment about blogging.

In California, many people are saying that all the wiring should be underground because of fire risk. It won't happen.

Four species of walking sharks have been discovered in the waters off northern Australia and New Guinea.

The Brooklyn based artist participated in a local show covering a concrete playground in a mixture of knitted yarn and Brazilian ribbons.

Spanish collective Basurama arrived in Niamey, Niger, to assist locals in the construction of new leisure spaces with local, low cost materials.

Have the leaves started to change yet where you are? Autumn is just around the corner, and the annual burst of color is about to begin!

Photographer Gaston Lacombe's beautiful and heartrending series of photographs of captive animals at zoos across five continents.

It could move goods, transport hydrogen, reduce CO2 and water the lawn all at once.

The city's new mayor has announced an ambitious project to build a park aimed at providing new public spaces and controlling sprawl.

It brings together all of my favorite things – food, friends, travel, and biking, of course.

And the air outside in urban London is pretty awful.

Beef Products Inc took its best shot at making up for its silence during weeks of public lashing over what has been dubbed “pink slime,” an additive in ground beef made through a high-tech process that BPI invented.

A new study found global fertility rates are on the decline in hundreds of countries

Rising out of surrounding trees and rock, this playful little area takes its design cues from local bird habitats and the town's skiing traditions.

Mush! Dog sledding vacations are wilderness travel that’s part arctic nostalgia and part Inuit homage, resulting in a unique way to see snowy countryside.

Once all the gifts have been opened, all the feasting done, all the toasts made, the time will soon come to figure out what the heck to do with the Christmas tree around which so

Scientists and concerned beachcombers are looking for answers.

We are definitely not going back to the way we were.

Compact but comfortable, this small home features clever small space design ideas and uses coffee grounds as fuel.

You may have learned that natural foods decompose in nature; Glacier National Park reminds us why it's a bad idea.

Until it can be composted in my own backyard, I'm not getting excited.