It's not lazy, it's restorative.

This Fair Trade company has new cold-weather footwear for men and women.

These designer shoes embody traditional craftsmanship and a Slow Fashion aesthetic.

This new California-based company is run by two entrepreneurial moms who understand the value of local production, quality fabrics, and reducing one's environmental impact.

Look At Me Designs transforms old sweaters and tee shirts into fresh new styles.

Ethically sourced dresses for this spring, summer and many more sunny days to come.

Zady is working to build a better clothing company from the ground up.

The terms may be vague, but they allow shoppers to choose what really matters to them personally.

Apparel hasn't gotten more sustainable since we started TreeHugger, but a new day for the old T-shirt could be near.

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.

Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture has designed a revolutionary building for an industry that needs a revolution.

Activists deliver a "No Tar Sands!" message to Sustainable Brands corporate conference via kayak flotilla

This is a prime example of divest-invest in action, folks...

Eco Touch is providing an old product to a new market. While waterless car washing products have been available for over a decade, demand for them in America has been slight. While similar products have taken off in areas with strict water regulations

Currently, New Hampshire is the only state in the northeastern United States that has not passed some form of renewable portfolio standards legislation. However, that may change soon. Last week, the New Hampshire House voted decisively in favor of a

This next week is all politics, what with today's Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries on January 8. Most Americans are probably already tired of the election coverage, but we're hoping people stick it out and ask the these presidential

Before Stonyfield Farm was a $325 million company, Gary Hirshberg was milking the cows and trying to get the bills paid. Now, as the largest organic yogurt-maker, he is fulfilling the original mission: make money and save the world. From milk cows to

Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just click here

A few months back we heard about Middlebury College's efforts to green their electricity and heating. Well, over at the University of New Hampshire they're

University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally-produced food system. The good news: farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' of food -

As the temperature drops in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, locals bundle up and get excited. While most wait for the first snow to cover the ski runs, others hold out for those first cold nights to freeze the area's waterfalls.

We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.

The solar cell can be stretched, bent and compressed without substantially affecting performance.

While the world chases solar generating windows, we see how to do solar generating walls.

And now, in the 'Give me a break' category, the folks behind this garbage can scanner assume you can't make a grocery list on your own.

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.

The fashion event's EcoChic Design Awards inspire Asia’s emerging fashion talent to create with minimal textile waste.

Tens of millions of sharks are mutilated and left to die slowly each year so that some affluent people in Asia can each soup. This has to stop.

One design attempts to deal with the problem of plastic bottle caps -- which often get discarded rather than recycled.

The CATable will keep the cat off the keyboard.

The dead ones washing up on beaches are "just the tip of the iceberg."

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to take a look at creatures just as elusive as that pot of gold.

Anti-littering ad reminds Dublin residents to put trash in its rightful place--or else!

Seven architects have created massive and impressive new structures inside a building from the 1700's.

It may lead to as many as 20,000 passive houses being built over the next five years.

A quantity surveyor deals with construction costs for a living, and shows how it's done.

The Irish beer giant has stopped using fish bladders for filtration of its keg beer; cans and bottles to follow suit by the end of the year.

Passivhaus or Passive House does not mean they are just houses.

If you ask me, the real "Turkish delight" is served at breakfast time: A square of rich, thick kaymak (clotted cream), topped with fresh-off-the-comb honey (bal).

It's not a bee attack -- it's just a bee swarm. Here are tips on how to deal with one.

Was he a role model or a victim?

Raw unfiltered honey is a very different product from the filtered honey sold in supermarkets. Educate yourself to know the differences and to know what you're really getting.

In China, it's shark fin soup, in Japan it's blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S. it's our love of nice thick fish fillets and billions of fish sticks consumed annually - these cultural habits are

A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many

TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from

Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List, concluding:

Photo credit: Wikipedia/Creative Commons 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety of conservation and education issues

Since its eruption in late August, the Solyndra scandal has been a lightning rod for political and ideological debates over everything from the role of government in business to the debate on global

Who says the New York Times is ignoring climate and the environment? David Leonhardt writes about the importance of doing something about climate, in a political climate that makes it tough.

Jeff Bezos' purchase is just another step in the long march away from newsprint.