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

I'm a fan of any policy that discourages people from schlepping loads of unnecessary stuff around the planet.

Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.

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.

TreeHugger Emeritus Mat McDermott describes his experience of living through Sandy.

A look at the fallout from the recent oil price crash.

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

The company quietly helps rebuild the island's electrical systems.

If you're going to go for it, you may as well REALLY go for it.

It'll be interesting to see how this is received.

All 2,800 stores will go paper or reusable bag only... eventually.

Now, for the rest of the U.S. and Canada to get on board...

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

A piece of baby furniture that's designed to last longer by changing into other useful things as one's child grows.

Install and forget about these induction powered lights from Denmark.

COBE architects are turning charging time into quality time.

Billions of gallons of water may be wasted because of this.

Researchers at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology have developed a zebra-smelling cattle collar which will be tested on Masai herds subject to the biting tsetse fly,

Dozens of sheep and goats broke out of a slaughterhouse in upstate New York on Tuesday night, and gave police quite the runaround.

The already tense battle over mining in Inner Mongolia has erupted further after a Mongolian herder was run over by a coal truck and killed while trying to block the

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

A bit of weekend prep work goes a long way.

From preserved lemons and scrap scarves to flavored salts and bath melts, these handmade gifts can be made en masse for everyone on your list.

The red glowing street lights allow light-shy bats to cross the road.

With more than 22,000 acres newly opened up to the iconic mammal, the release of bison onto new turf is a profound thing to see.

There isn't much choice, as groundwater reserves are insufficient. But really...is bottled water any worse than this? Four years behind schedule and nearly $80 million over the original budget, the nation's largest sea water desalination facility

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

Having given Global Water Challenge a Best of Green award earlier this year for their innovative work on the issues of drinking water and sanitation, it goes without saying that TreeHugger is a fan of their work.

Using solar stills to purify water isn't a new idea, but it's an effective one. And now new efforts are underway to use this old technology to help green the desert.

Who says wheat-free can't mean indulgent? Best-selling cookbook author Karen Morgan offers up irresistible (and also vegetarian) main courses, snacks, and desserts.

Whether for parental sanity or oceanic health, this is a powerful step toward a much better world.

The anti-straw movement is definitely having a moment. Let's hope the momentum continues.

With aging baby boomers and young people who can't afford housing, there's going to be a huge market for these.

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann speaks with Adam Werbach about coral bleaching and youth-powered activism in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green.

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.

This could take a lot of smelly gas mopeds off the road.

With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged

Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the

It may sound like an oxymoron, bringing sustainable practices to mining operations, but unless we all stop consuming resources immediately, mining is also not going anywhere. So this is good news: since 2007, Alcoa's Jamalco

It will soon be illegal to sell, trade, or donate furs of any kind.

This vegetarian tidepool dweller could be an answer to dietary protein in times of climate crisis, but who could ever eat a charmer like this?

Telecommuting just isn't fashionable anymore; the "water cooler effect" is.

Researchers combine social media and artificial intelligence to better predict damage from global sea level changes

Our photo of the day comes from "The Wild Place Project."

Our photo of the day comes from a cloudforest in the Andes of Ecuador.

Our photo of the day comes from Los Banos, California.

Our photo of the day comes from the watery wilds of Wilsons Promontory in southern Australia.

After a few big players entered the ring, the environment was spared some 1.5 billion plastic shopping bags in under 100 days.

This company creates modern, energy-efficient versions of the backyard 'granny flat'.