The evaluation report three years after Double Up Food Bucks started giving incentives to SNAP (formerly food stamp) recipients

LEGO is cleaning and repackaging pre-loved bricks and sending them to charities for kids.

Image: Fiskars If it's true that gas-powered lawn mowers crank out 5% of the nation's air pollution, then it's truly time to consider workable alternatives. If we haven't convinced you to replace your lawn with a xeriscape or food forest, you might want

Do posh bees make better honey? These bees, living in the heart of Mayfair, only forage in the best places such as St. James Park and Buckingham Palace.

The university brings the outdoors in to help students relax and focus on studying.

Globally, religious groups own 5-10% of the world's forests and influence much more.

Watching this video on Sacred Economics may be the best 12 minutes and 18 seconds you spend today.

Starting in 1936 they wired the entire country, the houses, the tools and the farms, changing America. It is time to think big and do it again.

Donating your old cell phones to these causes will keep them out of landfills and help others too.

And really, how self driving cars are an attack on freedom.

A new study shows that in fact, if you build them, people use them and drive less.

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

Why doesn't form follow function?

Now, if only we could get US drivers out of their trucks.

Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.

Michael Pollan's food advice will be mandatory holiday viewing for any health- and green-minded individuals.

They are everywhere, the full page ads with smiling people proud of how much money they saved and how they qualified for all those government grants. But what did they really save? Perhaps a bit of energy, but how much?

Many users replace their smartphones every couple of years, even though they have years of life left in them. Here's how to keep your smartphone for longer while keeping up its performance.

It's a sign of quality when companies are willing to stand by the goods they sell.

Before buying new this holiday season, think repair - even if you are buying new!

Our focus should be on making things last and serve their purpose, not throwing them away.

Taking advantage of the Federal stimulus package, Maryland's Governor O'Malley announced the State's intention to purchase hybrid 100 hybrid diesel/electric buses for $62 million.

It looks a lot better than the usual kind, cleans the air and absorbs noise.

But really, they should be dealing with the source of the problem.

This delightful apartment renovation in Spain hides a huge bathtub and other mysteries.

Great cities know the future is renewable.

Yes, slavery is still legal.

A new organic winery for Pizzolato, designed by MADE, is built almost entirely out of local, sustainably harvested wood.

TreeHugger didn't show many of the proposals for housing in Haiti, like Andrés Duany's proposals for a flatpack design (here in Jetson Green); We have spent too much time with Cameron Sinclair, who says "Top down solutions will

U.S. hospitals waste thousands of tons of medical supplies every day. DOC2DOCK collects and redistributes these supplies to match the specific needs of hospitals in the developing world.

Now you can get your morning coffee fix celebrity-style, thanks to an alliance between Leonardo DiCaprio and LaColumbe coffee -- plus, all proceeds support sustainable initiatives.

The palm oil situation is bad, but some people argue that it would be worse if replaced by other vegetable oils.

A growing number of cities are getting serious about tackling the climate emergency.

It's a number that's been thrown around a lot recently. There's a danger it will be misunderstood.

The show gets a lot right about climate change, Al Gore and Manbearpig, but it misses something major about human nature.

Fast fashion hurts real people, as this online series challenges three unsuspecting youngsters to go meet and work with the people who make their clothes.

It's a moving target and, like TreeHugger hero Chris Magwood, we are all learning on the job.

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.

Unless, of course, TINA gets in the way.

Despite the fact that Venice, CA seems to be the epicenter of SoCal's green lifestyle movement, the 24th annual Abbott Kinney Festival that took over the city's main drag on Sunday, September 28th was far from eco-friendly. After claiming last year

One more example of how words can become completely meaningless and even contradictory.

Pollution from power plants, cars, and other transportation is a well-known contributor to outdoor air pollution, but our indoor air quality is often worse; it can be up to 10 times worse for you than the air outside. Microbial pollutants like mold,

Getty Images Volatile organic compounds: something's in the air You can't see them, but they're all around us. They aren't listed as ingredients on the objects we bring in our home, but they're often there. They're volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, a

For as long as our planet has spun 'round the sun, there's been solar energy cascading down on the earth, and, for a long time -- since the 7th century B.C., when glass was used to magnify it -- humans have been working to

We all have to change the way we live or we are in big trouble. But let's be real about it.

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

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.

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.

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