In case you missed it (and you certainly may have in the midst of other current world affairs) it's Hemp History Week. The second annual one in fact. I imagine most TreeHugger readers don't need much convincing that

The Eagle Creek Fire, which consumed nearly 50,000 acres, was started when the teen threw fireworks into the forested canyon.

Handmade is becoming big business -- reeeally big. Etsy -- the online marketplace for handmade items -- announced earlier this week that it has raised $20 million in venture capital financing and has now tripled its valuation at $300 million (not

Finally, green shoe design is reaching mainstream levels.

Not only will this save home owners money, but it will also allow utilities to manage demand during peak times.

This stunning temporary pavilion utilizes Hong Kong's time-honored bamboo construction methods in conjunction with cutting-edge computational design.

Built with the help of a village's last remaining bamboo weaver, this computer-designed pavilion was built by hand using local materials.

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long-vanished lake.

In honor of World Environment Day, organizers of the World’s fair highlighted the greenest exhibit designs.

Usually, air-dropping over 20 tons of poison from an helicopter on a fragile island ecosystem would be a very bad thing...

As their nation's sole law enforcement agency, the Philippines National Police carry a heavy burden when it comes to keeping the country safe -- but arresting one of the biggest threats they face will take shovels, not clubs or handcuffs.

Remember the story of Ohio's Bay Shore coal-fired power plant, the one that (perfectly legally) kills at least 46 million fish a year? Well that's still happening, but not without some legal challenges. A coalition of

Who needs trees when you can have beer in corner stores?

Born out of first-hand research in a Lima slum, this time and water-saving device is targeted at families that live without electricity or running water.

Just like your pet, these big cats can't resist the lure of an open cardboard cube.

Our blue-green Earth might have actually been a different color, thanks to this molecule.

This portable pavilion has a clever lightweight structure where the bookshelves hold up the roof.

A vagrant Cape Sea Lion that made a record trip to Kenya is rescued from a fisherman’s gillnet.

The charity loses millions in rogue currency swap, just like the big boys.

The U.S. Pavilion is spotlighting grassroots efforts to make cities and neighborhoods greener, safer, and happier places to live.

Uttar Pradesh is going to be looking a lot greener after a marathon 24-hour tree-planting frenzy.

Another massive recall raises questions about food safety standards -- and how animals are raised.

Forbes reports on how General Motors is recycling or reusing "90 percent of its manufacturing waste."

Why did Facebook pay $1 billion for Instagram and what can the environmental movement learn from this? It's all about emotion.

Not in the ocean. Below it.

Think we are cutting back? They are just getting started, and we are going to be buried in the stuff.

Research reveals that rivers deliver up to 4 million metric tons of plastic debris to the sea every year, with up to 95% coming from just 10 of them.

They are going to be autonomous taxis. Is this a good idea?

We are wasting too much time, energy and money on autonomous vehicles. We know what to do and it's not AVs.

Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the

A measure that would remove roughly $6 billion in annual ethanol subsidies just passed the U.S. Senate, signaling, among other things, a shift in public attitude towards the once-heralded alternative fuel. It

This will mark a significant scaling of electrified transportation—including trucks and buses too.

In a compromise with environmentalists, the energy giant is committing some significant resources to clean tech.

Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a ground source heat pump company.

In a word, no. Ford can sell this fiction, but it is all about friction.

Baltimore residents, get ready to get in on the smart grid party. Baltimore Gas & Electric has just announced that it has filed paper with the Maryland Public Service

The company had been promising "near profitable" results. It turns out they were lowballing.

Two weeks of climate action are starting on April 15.

A few short weeks ago it came out the China had plans in the works to place 20 hydroelectric dams on the upper

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

The competition is looking for new ideas for capturing the emissions from fossil fuels and turning them into something useful instead of harmful.

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.

Says the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Combining computer-aided parametric design and the design principles of tensegrity (tensional integrity), this experimental pavilion tests the boundaries of building a stronger structure with less material.

You might want to rethink that dream house by the ocean.

Great Lakes residents would be paying this off for 47 years ... but reaping the benefits for just as long.

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.

The 9-mile long archipelago has more Adélie penguins than the entire rest of the Antarctic peninsula combined.

And researchers estimate there's another 3 trillion pieces in surface sediments.