Keep your feet cool and stylish with high-quality footwear this summer, thanks to the following environmentally minded brands.

SAOLA is a new French brand making slick sneakers from recycled material and algae foam.

This ingenious design uses biodegradable waste products to build the greenest shoe you've ever owned.

This wilderness explorer transformed this van into a mobile, solar-powered home that has all the amenities.

Wool is an ideal material for footwear, with its odor-reducing and moisture-wicking properties, so why hasn't it caught on?

This modern home is chock full of clever space-maximizing ideas.

Here's an interesting idea: a tiny house on wheels that can be separated from its wheels.

When a New Zealand supermarket chain ditched plastic packaging, produce sales skyrocketed.

A Today Show bit today is perhaps the grossest example yet.

There are lessons to be learned from this model home built by Meritage, even if it is big and beige.

Florida's beautiful Frenchman's Forest Natural Area sets the stage for our photo of the day.

One couple's infamous battle over the right to grow vegetables has resulted in a new bill.

But can fast fashion ever be green? Fabrics are easier to change than business models.

With Starbucks poised to open its first store on Italian soil this fall, there is concern about the environmental impact of so much coffee-related trash.

The tiny Italian car is now available in Europe.

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.

The terms may be vague, but they allow shoppers to choose what really matters to them personally.

Apparel hasn't gotten more sustainable since we started TreeHugger, but a new day for the old T-shirt could be near.

Just be aware that this transformation won't happen overnight.

These are tiny homes with an activist bent, taking a stand against the incursion of a pipeline that could contaminate indigenous lands.

Currently, New Hampshire is the only state in the northeastern United States that has not passed some form of renewable portfolio standards legislation. However, that may change soon. Last week, the New Hampshire House voted decisively in favor of a

DeSmogBlog has conferred a controversial award on US Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama: It's called the "2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming." Joe Romm's reaction in Climate Progress is here: "DeSmogBlog owes Obama

If any of you have backpacked the Presidential Range and Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, you know that the weather can change in a hot minute. Over the past 20 years, we’ve hiked through hail, lightening storms, and

Value of Fossil Fuel Exports By Fuel, 1949-2010

Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.

A new study says yes, but luckily the fix is simple.

The blocks could be part of the architecture of a building, generating more power than just rooftop panels.

This WiFi- and Bluetooth-enabled smart bulb features plug-and-play functionality, doesn't require a central smart home hub, and is designed to last for "up to 50,000 hours."

In which I try out a smart lighting system in my dumb home.

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.

This stunning temporary pavilion utilizes Hong Kong's time-honored bamboo construction methods in conjunction with cutting-edge computational design.

Featuring an interlocking system that's inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, this desk also has a swappable, modular system for organizing your stuff.

We've heard of transformer apartments, but what about a transformer garden. These movable green walls create flexible outdoor spaces.

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.

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.

Designer Orla Reynolds Designs a Bookcase Like a Stage Set for Small Spaces

Anti-littering ad reminds Dublin residents to put trash in its rightful place--or else!

In honor of World Environment Day, organizers of the World’s fair highlighted the greenest exhibit designs.

In China, it's shark fin soup, in Japan it's blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S. it's our love of nice thick fish fillets and billions of fish sticks consumed annually - these cultural habits are

Environmental education is playing a bigger role around the globe as we all learn more about our environmental surroundings. As

The current wind power installation has replaced millions of liters of diesel fuel and helped protect the islands' endangered animals.

This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have

The goal is to uncover what businesses are doing, or what they need to be doing, to thrive as global competition intensifies for strategic resources.

Did I mention that nobody cares about the environment anymore?

This stylish and durable trailer looks like a cross between a mini-Airstream and a horse trailer, and has a kitchen in the back.

It gives another meaning to 'eating off the floor.'

Parisians are complaining, but the fact is that people need a place to pee; it's a human right.

Made with simple materials, this extraordinary instrument creates experimental acoustic sounds that sound eerie yet beautiful.

Music is a comforting thing, especially for these rescued elephants living in an animal sanctuary.

Just think what the waste fat from 46 million Thanksgiving turkeys could fuel.