Perkins&Will's new Dallas office tries to do all three certification systems in one beautiful historic building.

The KISS principle applies to everything, including building design.

George Monbiot says you don't set targets in an emergency, you act.

We know extreme weather events are linked to climate change, so why isn't this part of every report?

Duke Energy Corp. is reportedly discussing with BMW Manufacturing Co. the potential for building a solar energy plant at the car company's Spartanburg South Carolina USA facility. Well, isn't that a German sort of response to US government pressure?

No "do the bright thing" for cars; instead, the BMW X6 designed to "look particularly menacing."

Reducing your carbon footprint and building community go hand-in-hand toward creating a better planet.

End goals for CO2 emissions are just one part of the picture. How fast we start moving toward them is just as important.

Minimizing your footprint is nice. Maximising your impact is better.

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."

From Genghis Khan's reforestation to King Edward I's 14th century ban of coal mining, these famous people were dedicated to TreeHugger ethics --- even if they didn't know it.

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.

Everyone is worried about population growth, but in fact it may well be going the other way.

As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself.

Today is Earth Overshoot Day, but it's not exactly something we should be celebrating. It's actually a wakeup call for humanity.

Population growth is in fact slowing down but everyone is using more of everything.

Demographers are complaining, but Americans have many good reasons for not wanting so many kids.

Move over, regular solar panels.

For those who say it's too difficult...

Buying products from solar farms is just one more way to support clean energy.

Now that's progress...

It's a good thing global fish stocks aren't in peril...

Allison Arieff reviews the Buckminster Fuller retrospective at the Whitney. She writes "His brain was constantly consumed with the serious issues of his day —

It can; but until Americans are willing to trade quantity for quality, nobody will bother doing it.

Those of us who love everything Bucky are stunned too.

Fretting about authenticity and appearance detracts from more important concerns.

Apparently people are eating less of it.

First we have to declare 'peak livestock', then eat less beef and more beans.

Researchers gathered data over two years by following 70 different dogs, from 37 different breeds, as they... defecated and urinated.

The gaze between human and dog can share physiological properties similar to that of mother and infant, a new study finds.

The tech helps owners take care of their dogs the way the dogs take care of them.

A great gesture that allows you to zoom into a map with one hand on your smart phone.

The software lets you virtually float down the Yampa River, which has been largely unchanged by man.

Making sure the water you're about to drink is free from pathogens is a snap with this portable UV Purifier.

As you can see in the satellite photos above, California is experiencing a massive drought over most of the state. The most visible aspect from space is the snow cover (or lack thereof) over the Sierra Nevada mountain range

A 1.5-degrees-Celsius warmer world would bring bigger gusts of wind more regularly.

That's more underwater than usual.

How can we be moving away from fossil fuels and spending billions on building pipes for them at the same time?

When the rare leucistic moose appeared before his camera, photographer Anders Tedeholm captured the magic.

It's either billions of dollars in polar engineering, a rapid cut in emissions now, or an all-of-the-above strategy.

Common sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen may be blown by the wind or carried across the land

A major report just released offers expensive technological solutions. We reivew options ranging from barriers to bow-hunting.

Do international treaties mean anything when America needs fresh water?

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.

The robots have gathered new information that will help scientists determine how fast the ice is melting.

Another signs that the poles are warming fast.

This is the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" defense.

Thanks to COVID-19 we are generating a lot more of it, and nobody wants to touch it. Time to try and go zero waste.

In two words: It's not.