For people like me who work all over the place, portable standing desks can be pretty useful

Made by NextDesk, the Encore is ideally green, with bamboo top, recycled aluminum frame, and VOC-free coating - perfect for this TreeHugger writer!

It's really all you need in this era of notebook computers.

Because people gotta move.

Furthering a trend: As the United States continues virtually deadlocked on enacting any legislation pricing carbon or significantly promoting renewable energy, more Asian countries than China are likely to

There is something mesmerizing about this clip of a squid worm, also named teuthidodrilus samae by researchers after it was 'discovered' recently in the depths of the Celebes Sea between Indonesian and the Philippines.

Open terrace in Kimmel Center was too hot or too noisy; now it's fixed.

A new public space in Philadelphia helps make the city more human-scale and increase quality of life for people who work or pass through the area.

If you own an electric car but don't own a garage, what do you do?

We have gone beyond gentrification and are now talking about Pikketyfication, aristocratization and plutocratification.

There are all kinds of distracted and compromised people in our roads. Some of them cannot help it. So why are phones a problem?

This is the future of building, and it works. Get used to it.

It makes a lot of sense in a country with no workers and five other permanent stadia.

I mean, shipping containers are hot. But does this kind of shipping container architecture make sense?

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.

It harms retailers, drives overconsumption, and contributes to traffic jams and pollution. What's the point?

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.

A new study finds altered neurological performance in children during peak pesticide spraying for the Mother's Day flower harvest.

Even the CDC recommends this botanical ingredient as comparable to DEET for repelling disease-carrying insects.

And the top 15 that are least toxic.

Norwegian architect Tron Meyer cuts a stair out of solid engineered wood.

Which side of the bed gets the stair? Batlab solves it with two.

This is a big problem in old buildings: providing universal access without ruining the look of the building.

This month's Full Buck blood moon will star in the longest total lunar eclipse of the century.

Our blue-green Earth might have actually been a different color, thanks to this molecule.

To cap off a week of black hole fever, the cosmic object has now been named by a language professor in Hawaii.

Hubble's image of Messier 3 reveals what astronomers say is one of the prettiest "globular clusters" in the universe.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

Morocco is making good on it's stated goals of increasing renewable energy development, leading towards 40% of electricity from renewables over the next decade.

The latest figures from the EIA show renewable energy sources overtaking nuclear power in the US, through the first nine months of 2011.

Fresh criticism from Georgian environmentalists adds to the diplomatic tensions created by Turkey's dam-building spree.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), by 2018 renewable should overtake natural gas to become the world's second-largest source of energy (oil is #1).

A mix of wind, solar and hydro power could replace fossil fuels in every country in the world.

Take one Estream and add moving water for clean, quiet, offgrid energy.

What to do when a church gets in the way of your water plans? Drown it.

The war on coal, it seems, may be ongoing, no matter who's in charge in Washington.

Couldn't come up with a more succinct way of expressing this, so here it is direct from their website: "Central America has lost more than half of its rainforests in the last 50 years, contributing to mass extinctions and global warming. Rainforest

2007 has been a brutal year for natural disasters in Latin America, keeping the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs busy. The agency said in a recent statement that a record nine missions were dispatched to Latin America

Several years ago, this established cooperative in Honduras decided to pursue Rainforest Alliance certification for its palm oil. Find out what it looks like today.

Sure, you can buy one or you could put your DIY skills to the test and make one with materials you have on hand.

A new technology developed by Korean researchers uses ultra-thin, flexible materials to generate electricity from body heat.

The estimated 80% of Kenyans that are not on a grid rely solely on kerosene to light their homes. But a pay-as-you-go home solar system promises to deliver clean, affordable lighting to rural areas.

There are worse places to be stuck than in Hawaii... I'm starting to think they did it on purpose!

We still need a ton more renewable energy in order to combat climate change, but the good news is that renewable energy is picking up the pace.

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and lessons in management from Renaissance Florence

And dancing robots!

Greenpeace's annual survey of national retailers' progress on sustainable seafood reveals the leaders and the losers.

The debate over the true ecological sustainability of biofuels, the effects on global food prices, and their oft-heard claims of carbon-neutrality has been played out on TreeHugger in great detail. Adding a new

Matt recently wrote Eat Like It's 1975 to Save the Planet: New Report Links Obesity, Energy Consumption & Climate Change, which said We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness, and recognize it as a