Over the past 15 years, awareness and interest in livestock conditions and wellbeing have increased exponentially, leading to significant improvements. How much further can it go?

Several monumental measures were passed in last week's U.S. election.

I move around a lot - between being home, at school, and now living abroad, I've lived in seven different apartments or rooms in the last five years. And I don't see myself settling down any time soon. That's why I'm

Passive house designer creates a very active play house.

Finally, Net Zero done right.

Also we've got electric motorcycles and hot rocks.

With a few tips from Grandma thrown in.

Plus two ways to go green as we upgrade our popular series.

Not to mention getting buried in dirt or building with it.

Who says newsletters are old school? We pick the best of each day's TreeHugger and add a little je ne sais quoi

Plus lots of green things.

With a visit to a festival and a brown lawn.

And a few looks back at themes of the last ten years.

Also, much ado about nothing.

In today's weekly newsletter, we go on about why cold showers are good for you (not the reasons you think); show off some very fancy LED lights in a very old fixture design and whine about the designs of tiny houses.

Can't keep up? Here's the best of the week in TreeHugger in digestible little bits.

But what about the future we need?

Because we are not called TreeHugger for nothing.

New research identifies the emotions that motivate some people to make ethical choices day after day.

If we're going to push lifestyle change as a strategy, how we manage our money is one of the most important topics of all.

This new Canadian startup offers fabulous winter parkas and bombers that are entirely ethical and vegan.

The longer we wait, the more expensive (and dangerous) it gets.

Help amplify the message of the global water crisis by lending your social media updates to World Water Day 2012

Ready to share kilowatts? Facebook launched its social energy app today that will enable users to share and compare their home energy consumption.

This glass makes your window treatments obsolete.

"I believe that the earth is calling to us and that we are here to serve the planet as a whole by our ability to appreciate, to give gratitude and praise, to become ecstatic with wonder for the earth."

Will NEOM be "an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization" or "a totalitarian surveillance state"?

The Nature Conservancy is teaching New Yorkers about the protective natural ecosystems in the city

StackitNOW is a great idea but also demonstrates how intractable the problem is.

Stairs are coming out of the closet and becoming the major architectural element, helping keep people active and healthy.

The plyscraper era has begun as Cross Laminated Timber towers start popping up everywhere.

It's a big step forward for the high-tech timber industry.

Lots of luxurious details in this solar-powered, off-grid tiny house.

One man. One veggie-oil powered car. Four months. 20,000 miles. Today Joe Connor, freelance sports-writer, leaves San Diego for his 3rd Annual Green Power Sports Tour, kicking off at a pre-season Raiders game in Bakersfield. Loaded

So you hit a gnarly wave and end up on shore with your board in two pieces. Bummer dude. But your green side can't bear to just trash that board that's gotten you through some pretty wild rides. You could repair it yourself,

Image via: Aaron Chang Gallery Aaron Chang, popular recycled fashion swimwear designer and professional photographer, not to mention surfing legend, is opening a green art gallery in San Diego, February 28, 2009. Each of the pieces are printed with

If you live in San Diego and find the prospect of banding together with your neighbors to get better rates on installing your own solar panels interesting, then this one is for you: 1BOG (that's One Block Off the Grid ...) has announced that they will

Image via: Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation Los Vecinos, the first LEED-Certified Platinum, 100% solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego, offer 42-units of state of the art in green housing. The $17.6 million USD project opened its doors

Now that the summer surfing season has come to a close, (is there ever really an end to surfing season?), it's time to give your board a little TLC, upgrade any thrashed gear and prepare for the big waves of the

A Colorado family that had long ago given up on finding their cat got some incredible news this week, when Willow was found in New York City -- five years later and 1,800 miles from home.

A typical pacemaker could be powered by solar cells as small as 3.6 square centimeters, which could be implanted under the skin, thereby avoiding the need for periodic battery replacements.

Fighting for her life after narrowly escaping a horrible house fire, doctors used sustainable fish skin grafts on the Rottweiler's burns to help save her life.

A visit to a Sri Lankan herb and spice garden reveals a rich history of trade and alternative medicine.

Long-living fish can now be tracked for their whole lives with a single tag.

People are being killed every day and the problem is the design of our streets as much as the cars and drivers.

Self-driving cars will likely be big autonomous mobile home theaters.

Is the conventional wisdom that we need not worry about tailpipe emissions in biofuel-powered vehicles, because the plants had been absorbing carbon while growing, grossly misguided?

It creates as much CO2 as a million transatlantic flights. Why isn't this a bigger deal?

We often ask the question "Why buy when you can rent?" but we never thought of this.

There are reasonable limits on what people can do on their properties. But this goes too far.