There's plenty of "recognizing," "acknowledging," and "noting" going on in the final draft of the Rio+20 text. Lot's of UN-ese. And that's about it.

The large solar-powered box will help farmers get more food to the market for selling.

The device made from household objects could replace AA batteries for powering small electronics.

In a victory for Berta Cáceres' campaign against a major hydroelectric project, two European development banks have withdrawn support following her and a colleague's recent murders.

The Level Market wants to make the procurement of humanitarian aid and development products as easy as shopping on Amazon.

“Lightweighting” often shrinks down packaging into items that are unrecyclable, difficult to capture, highly polluted and designed without end-of-life solutions.

Why oceans, why now?

Average consumers of all incomes have the ability to meaningfully invest in organizations doing good work

Latest IPCC report calls for urgent action in the way land is used.

Yes, but first we need to develop a collective conscience when it comes to travel.

Imagine a bucket of greenhouse gases that's almost full.

No matter how hard we may try to tame her, Mother Nature always comes back to claim her turf.

The consumer products giant says it will "fundamentally rethink its approach to packaging."

The Canadian city is the latest to rethink disposal culture and insist on something better.

A list of 10 resolutions shows that big changes are coming to the professional food world.

A few tweaks by stores could make the process more efficient.

They're using the Flashfood app to give customers steep discounts and divert food from landfill.

The idea that the US electricity grid could be knocked out for 1.5 years is a bit shocking. But that's what the agency in charge of protecting it has revealed.

The big Danish design competition really has similar goals to TreeHugger: to promote good green design that makes the world better

A look at some of the nominees which are brilliant, and others that are something else.

Using shipping containers for housing near a Danish rock music museum makes sense, sort of.

Just yesterday I joked seated at my neighborhood's dive-y, not-concerned-about-clean-food diner that the likely hormone-injected milk I stirred into my coffee might spur the growth of a third boob. It was a risk I was

What progress has been made since the first wave of media excitement about this project? We catch up on the news of efforts to breed an ancient species back from extinction

The world's weirdest living thing should encourage us to rethink what we think about intelligence.

Another reason to electrify everything.

An ambitious scheme to build a number of solar power stations along the Mediterranean shores of the Middle East and northern Africa could generate enough electricity to supply one sixth of the European Union's needs. The generators, individually fitted

This novel wave energy technology can deliver large volumes of high pressure water ashore for desalination or power production (or both).

When an Iowa State professor of mechanical engineering followed his hunch about spider webs, it paid off: he proved biological materials can rival metals in conducting heat.

What if the Google Street View car took thermal energy scans of all the country's buildings and then built a database of building energy efficiency information? That's the concept behind startup company Essess's approach to home energy audits.

A unique solar panel has been designed at Stanford that cools buildings by reflecting sunlight and radiating thermal energy out into space.

It lets them be creative with their cooking and the kind of spaces they set up in.

This might be one of the smartest ways to use a smart thermostat.

Over the last 30 years, habitat loss for imperiled species in the U.S. was more than twice as great on non-protected private lands than on federally protected public lands.

It's an industrial design approach, a product that is refined almost to perfection.

You have heard of "fast fashion." Get ready for fast architecture in container-sized modules.

C2C products were featured in the Unity Home seen at Greenbuild.

Meet Dopper, a Cradle to Cradle water bottle company that’s bringing clean water to Nepal.

It is hard to imagine a greener product than natural tree bark.

There is an alumina crisis right now. Making it is dirty and polluting, and it's back in the USA.

The new program can learn and classify leaves so well that it could reveal the "tree of life" of ancient plants.

Now you can handwrite letters on your computer.

Using satellite and Google maps images, the program can count and identify the city's trees.

Our photo of the day is a lesson in efficiency.

Remember staring out the window in math class as a kid? Or counting the minutes until spelling was over so you could go to recess? Project Learning Tree (PLT) embraces the fact that students would rather be outside than in ...

Woodland caribou are an iconic but threatened species throughout Canada. They’re natural prey to bears and wolves, who can gain easier access to Caribou habitat through forest roads, pipelines, and other human disturbances.

Does your family PLT? Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an award-winning environmental education program for children and teens in all grades.

Teacher Appreciation Week is May 6-10, 2019, with National Teacher Day on May 7. Every year, Project Learning Tree (PLT) recognizes the educators who have made the most significant contributions to PLT with the Leadership in Education award.

Woodland caribou are considered threatened throughout much of Canada’s vast boreal forest.

Through forestry, SFI provides the essential security of long-term habitat conservation for at-risk species.

Here's why soil is one of our most valuable natural resources and what you can do to support it.