Lazy New Yorkers who want to stay on the island and sunbathe will get this floating artificial beach on the Hudson River if this scheme gets crowdfunded and approved.

It sounds counter-intuitive to say the least, but a team of scientists has discovered that running barefoot is better for your feet. What!

It turns out leaving the EU is quite hard. Who knew?

Unfortunately, people like the slogans a bit too much.

With disinfecting and sanitizing on everyone's mind, good old-fashioned bar soap has never been more necessary. It's still possible to go plastic-free, too. These are the best bar soaps for every body part.

Green roofs are wonderful things and lovely to look at, but there are other factors in play here.

It may be the most expensive and useless green roof ever built

A new kind of food label hopes to fight obesity by stating how much exercise is required to burn it off.

Lack of diversity makes grapes vulnerable to climate change.

The company that makes "shoes for people who don't want to wear them" is introducing a new model of adventure shoe constructed with EVA foam made from algae biomass.

The Severn Barrage could create 50,000 jobs and provide 5% of the UK's electricity needs. Critics say we can do better than that.

Our photo of the day comes from the Essex countryside.

The architects call it a "Conceptual Object" but it is pretty and real.

Barcelona wants to build an indoor carbon-neutral ski dome, taking waste energy from the gas industry to cool the hall and using renewable energy to power the rest... fact or fiction? Eco-friendly or greenwashing?

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

As the global economy wildly fluctuates and suddenly out-of-work people struggle to pay the bills, can old-fashioned bartering make a comeback?

A lot of our history is being lost so that people can get that popular look.

I love it when a retail giant highlights eco-friendly products, so when I picked up Pottery Barn's Christmas 2008 catalogue, I was excited to see

"People are visible Wednesday, June 6, 2007, on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., where a section of the $4 million protective sand berm was washed away by higher-than-usual tides over the weekend. An intact section of the berm can be seen in the

Forget trying to broaden your horizons. Focus on deepening them instead.

More than 20,000 barrels of crude oil spilled, but thankfully because of a 40 foot thick layer of clay beneath the field, the oil has been relatively contained and is not believed to have reached a water source.

The rupture spilled thousands of gallons of oil, contaminated at least four miles of beach and spread into the ocean.

The hotel company plans to recycle old soap into 1 million new bars for Global Handwashing Day.

Droughts and possible water rationing have been in the news recently in California, Israel, Mexico, and Australia. As much of the water used is these regions is for watering gardens and lawns

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann interviews Barry Hooper from SFEnvironment about government policy for new and existing buildings in San Francisco in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Barry Hooper collaborates with design

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

A new study finds that degraded agricultural lands could be low-hanging fruit for expanding the world’s conservation areas.

The goal is to highlight the abundance that already exists around us.

At TreeHugger we like cork, that warm material that can be harvested without chopping down trees, is fully renewable and biodegradable and can be shaped into many funky objects apart from stoppers to keep the wine in the bottles. The designers at

Woodzee founder opens a factory in his own hometown, to make wooden sunglasses from recycled materials.

While in Mongolia for World Environment Day, I toured the Salkhit Wind Farm.

Michael Thiele is 'rewilding' honeybees in California, returning them to more natural nest environments in order to help them survive.

Barcelona's bike sharing users are in an uproar; the city council wants to raise the anual fee by 116% in order to reduce the transportation budget.

In Barcelona, buying bulk is part of the city's history -- and visiting one of these historic shops is a unique olfactory experience.

Maio Studio turned an old, dark launderette into a bright new co-working space for creative professionals.

Follow the step-by-step eco-renovation of a 100-year-old Modernisme-style space into apartments in Barcelona. From upcycling to smart water-saving devices and insulating rooftop plants, yök Casa + Cultura is about sustainability and the local culture.

We are still eco-renovating! Here is what we did to our office, a top floor space in the heart of Barcelona. Insulation, energy-saving devices and non-toxic, recycled materials are key.

These simple but intriguing urban art sculptures made out of repurposed tires bring a new sense of place to some of Barcelona's neglected streets.

These premade apartment units are lifted on top of the city's old buildings, making use and maximizing space on Barcelona's "forgotten rooftops."

The city's iconic chamfered blocks will become superblocks the size of small towns.

Sales of bar soap had been sadly slipping, but now shoppers are wising up to its many benefits.

Get your dark chocolate fix with less guilt. Balance Bar introduces a new energy bar featuring sustainably farmed cocoa beans.

Testing shows just how much packaging is required to keep the yum in, and reveals some dirty little secrets on the way

When buying high-quality chocolate, there are many logos, seals, and terms that can make the process of selection rather complicated. Here's a quick look at the various terms and what they all mean.

It's important, but higher isn't always better.

Joe Mimran is more concerned with his flow of creative juices than the tragedy.

Stand out of the line of fire of smoky fumes. Sure, that's the first defense. But what about the dangers of grilled dogs, ribs, and salmon? I've long heard

With barbecue season in full swing, the benefits of using your grill are nearly endless: The meals you can make are delicious, healthy, and guaranteed to keep your kitchen cooler than using your oven.But even slow food grill dinners, be they evenings al

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