People are often surprised to learn that tea bags contain up to 25% plastic, which raises concerns about health and environmental implications. Good news is, there's a better way to make the perfect cuppa.
These delicately formed hand-crank and motor-activated art installations blossom and grow perpetually.
You don't need to tumble-dry clothes at this time of year. Here's why you should take your laundry outside to hang-dry in the warm sunshine.
The Kentucky state Senate Agriculture Committee voted unanimously to approve legislation for legalizing industrial hemp in the state.
(Image: NY Times As the world becomes a more perfect place, where elephant landmine victims walk again, streetsigns are best used as jewelry, and coal plants get the royal STFU, we're gonna need more handy little things like the VeloPocket. Along with
It's that time of year when conscious shoppers remember the Rana Plaza tragedy and unite in their efforts to demand greater safety, fairness and transparency in the fashion industry.
Two years ago when Mion footwear won an ecodesign award we described them as something "you might expect the Jetsons to wear on the weekends." And we wanted the company to be more overt in their green product design. With their new models they've
After thousands of euros' worth of damage, the tourism board is begging young people to be more respectful.
A Worcester’s Buttonquail was caught on camera for the first time by a French documentary team who were filming native bird trappers at work in the Philippines. No one realized how rare the bird was until it was identified as a Worcester’s Buttonquail
A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.
Hunter-gatherers used to populate Europe before ancient farmers took over. Scientists are trying to figure out what happened.
The Guardian columnist and environmental thinker George Monbiot usually manages to provoke a strong debate in our comments sections. Some time ago, our post on his new book Heat raised a fierce exchange of views about the impacts of flying, meanwhile his
As a result of half a century of planning, Copenhagen has achieved a fabulous cycling goal - during the morning rush hour more bikes and mopeds pound the inner city streets than personal cars and buses. Just a bit more than a third of inhabitants get
Knowing how many hours go into every shirt or pair of jeans should influence shoppers' opinion of the price tag.
It's like flatpack without the fasteners; you just bang it together with the big mallet that's harder to lose than an Allen key.
A new investigation by Greenpeace delves into the ongoing environmental devastation caused by our recycling habits.
Working with nature instead of against it, forest gardens promise abundance, as well as the kind of resilience a changing climate demands.
As an alternative to expensive antibiotics, people have taken to taking amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, penicillin and other drugs meant for fish. Here’s why it’s a bad idea.
Like the word 'sustainability', 'environmentalism' has become a hollow word, a word divorced from meaning, a word lacking in soul, separated from its essence.
Conservation organizations used Google Street View cameras to document the places, animals and people most vulnerable to climate change.
If you don't subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow
With guests Kathy Freston and Michael Pollan, Oprah dedicated her full show yesterday to veganism and meat production. She and her staffers went vegan for a week, some of them have decided to continue the diet (or go "veganish") even
By controlling portion size and refusing to overeat, particularly in restaurants, we can reduce food waste and remind ourselves of the true value of food.
The health of young people is disproportionately harmed by climate change, and the government has failed to keep them safe.
The contents of your bag reveal more about you than you might think, but what about your choice of bag itself? District Cotton, a New York City-based company dedicated to fashion with a conscience, has a couple of sturdy options that are as socially
How to slow it? Access to voluntary family planning for all women. It more than pays for itself, reducing unwanted pregnancies, abortions, unplanned births... And helps reduce humanity's environmental impact.
Stanford scientists figure out a way to get hydrogen out of seawater. Does this matter?
'When Nestlé Comes To Town' tells the moving story of residents in Cascade Locks, Oregon, who have united to fight Nestlé and keep it from bottling their precious and sacred water.
A posse of paper penguins has spread to major international cities in the past week, as part of a new Greenpeace campaign to protect Antarctica.
Volunteers are trialling an urban fish farm allotment in Bristol, England. Could this help ensure food security in an uncertain future?
There was a time when local currencies were usable only at food co-ops and yoga studios. When a city mayor elects to take his entire salary in local notes, you know things are changing.
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
The stubborn hero refused to leave his goats ... miraculously, they all survived the firestorm.
It's controversial and probably cost the party leader his job, but there is much to like in it.
Power the World has already brought solar lights to Haiti, now it's working to bring solar powered healthcare kits to Uganda + get a million signatures so that policymakers know we care about ending energy poverty.
Groups working in developing regions could use solar-powered 3D printers to make tools, lab supplies and more on the go.