Some pretty smart designers, builders and consultants have a pretty good idea for a sensible building standard.

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

In an effort to support local food production and defend customers' rights to buy and eat whatever local farm products they want, 16 towns in Maine have created their own local food ordinances.

It's as if Chris Knight left for a weekend camping trip, but didn't come home for a quarter-century.

An object lesson in how not to do city-building.

This fascinating installation where algae, bioluminescent bacteria, humans and smartphones interact may chart where a new generation of urban "cyber-gardeners" may go.

Instead of using a conventional polyurethane core, this sustainable surfboard starts with an algae-based foam blank.

Cherry-picking has become a family bonding experience – and a practical zero-waste food storage tactic.

This week, the full-time TreeHugger crew met up in Atlanta to pow-wow over the blog we all know and love. We are serious subscribers to the working-from-home-is-green ethic, but about every 18 months or so, we get together to

A community garden in Atlanta proviudes refugees from around the Globe a space to grow food, share their culture and to build community as a result.

It is one thing to ban something, it is another thing to have something to replace it with at hand. We don't.

The Substitution Support Portal SUBSPORT launched this week, intending to give business improved tools for substituting hazardous chemicals with safer substitutes.

A new report shines the light on a dirty little 'secret' of canned goods, which has little to do with the food itself, and everything to do with the coating in the can.

There is no place for you in a healthy, circular economy, and this is nothing to celebrate

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

How green does your garden really grow? Top 10 tips for making sure your garden is chemical free and growing strong.

The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda.

It's why we have to reduce demand as well, with radical efficiency.

It's killing everything, including renewable energy.

Some 200 bald eagles are scavenging the goods at Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dumping the leftovers in suburban backyards.

Here is another reason to hate the Hudson Yards in New York City.

Discovered in a cave, the surprising find reveals a fast and giant bird that weighed almost as much as a polar bear.

Pigeons sure, but urban eagles and city vultures? A beautifully illustrated new book, Urban Aviary, spills their secrets.

Our photo of the day comes from Akumal, Mexico.

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.

Mongstad industrial area at night. Photo Tøssekaien via flickr. The Norwegians have been big supporters of carbon capture and storage, and the government helped get the public to go along with building of a gas-fired plant near an existing oil refinery

It could of been a great prototype for affordable efficient housing across Britain.

These old, thick cable ropes have done their job: now it's time to reuse them in a beautiful way.

We’ve reported on Transition City Bristol before, one of the first city-wide Transition Town initiatives [Disclaimer: This author has good friends involved in the project, but we’d be writing about it even if we didn’t]. It looks like things are

You may have heard that the iPhone 3G went on sale this morning. I saw a line outside of the AT&T; stores here in Manhattan, and I heard there was a line around the block this morning at the Union Street Apple store in San

Victory gardens have come back ever bigger - garden magazines and home gardening tools sales are good even in this recessionary economy. The harvest season is almost upon us, and an extension of that urban victory garden idea is to glean the fruit (and

During World War II ordinary citizens across the country did their part for the war effort by planting victory gardens to lessen the demand on the food system caused by the war. Some have suggested that sustainability is about returning to the more

Richard Shilling's apples help me appreciate the wondrous variety found in nature.

Lots of great Food Day events across the country, but New York's will be particularly tasty and loud.

They really do live up to their billing this year.

But the hotel design competition is always interesting, even in an off year.

An old garage shed is transformed into a spacious little home for one grandmother, living near her kids and grandkids.

This is what happens when LEDs get cheaper and better: designers use more of them. Someone predicted this once.

Something to put all the composting, shorter showers and EV talk in perspective.

The dorado catfish swims more than 7,200 miles, making it the world champion of freshwater fish migration.

Nature gets digitized in these vibrant animations that feature audio recordings from the rainforest.

Though accompanied by several friends at the beginning of this trip, he traveled the last thirty-three days alone.

Whether urban, suburban, or rural, transportation systems dictate and define human interaction and community. Join BookHugger for a panel discussion of this phenomena.

There's something magical and awe-inspiring about animal interactions that has yet to be explained by science.

And now the three unlikely friends live together under a single roof.

Among other remarkable features, a cat’s tongue is covered in little spines, turning it into the world’s most magical hairbrush.

It seemed like a good idea at the time...

A venue which showcases and sells 100% locally produced design and artisan items while educating about sustainability and fair trade in San Jose, Costa Rica.

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