These days when your coffe machine breaks, it is usually cheaper and less hassle to just buy a new one. I was therefore pleasantly surprised about the repairability of my Presso coffee maker, which still keeps serving me off the grid!

An affordable, long-lasting and attractive chair made from 100% recycled and recyclable plastic, designed in Barcelona by Estudio Mariscal. Need it far away? Then just buy the seat and get local legs!

Four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing in Hungary as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. A

Santa & Cole takes its environmental policy one step further by obtaining the Cradle to Cradle Certification (C2C) for its 100% Aluminum NeoRomántico Liviano Bench

The toxic red line that runs through this town -- as photographed by Palíndromo Mészáros -- is shocking evidence of what can go wrong.

It's a bird ... it's a plane ... it's a weedy seadragon!

Our photo of the day comes from California's beautiful Central Coast.

Our photo of the day is a lesson in efficiency.

Our photo of the day comes from Rockyview County, Alberta.

Our photo of the day comes from Merced, California.

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

Our photo of the day comes from Calgary, Canada.

Our photo of the day comes from Mono Lake, California.

Our photo of the day comes from Jackson County, Oregon.

Our photo of the day comes from Davis, California.

Our photo of the day is a study in details.

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

Our photo of the day comes from Calgary, Canada.

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

Our photo of the day comes from the romantic rain forest of Ecuador.

Our photo of the day comes from the state of Washington.

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

An existing 1960s studio apartment in Melbourne has been transformed into a more efficient one-bedroom apartment.

Our photo of the day delivers a bit of winter reverie from the waters of Australia.

Our photo of the day provides a lesson in the origins of seashells.

Bobcats are amazing wild cats, and excellent hunters. Able to live even in suburban ecosystems, they play an important role in controling the population of rabbits, hares and other rodents.

This small cat species is native to South America.

Who could resist these cuties?

Out of 300 photos of golden cats taken over the course of over 18,000 trap days, just four images of kittens have been captured.

Since we can't give you wine or Xanax, please accept these kittens to soothe your nerves.

Wrapping up our coverage of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, we look at who came, who bailed out, what happened, and what didn't.

At TreeHugger we like cork, that warm material that can be harvested without chopping down trees, is fully renewable and biodegradable and can be shaped into many funky objects apart from stoppers to keep the wine in the bottles. The designers at

Image Credit: Ivo Canelas Cork has fascinated me for a long time; it's fully renewable and you don't even have to cut the whole tree, it's biodegradable and has curious characteristic such as insulating and shock absorbance. I came across many ugly

Different themes seemed to be embedded in the Valencia Design Week. After spotting 6 great wooden flat-pack designs, I also found these little

Finally, the inside of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is done. The church, set out to build 125 years ago and expected to be finished in 2026, attracts millions of visitors every year. This is no surprise due to the

A wooden kids' bike with a cork seat adapts to the child's necessity as it learns how to cycle. First as a tricycle, then a balance bike and finally as a bike with pedals B'Kid is a longlasting and beautiful object.

Having grown up in Connecticut’s ‘burbs, I know just how difficult it can be trying to live green there when the nearest grocery market can be a 25 minute drive away. My observations of one of the state’s wealthiest parts (Fairfield County) have felt

A coastal grizzly bear pauses in its fishing efforts to pose for a group of photographers watching nearby.

Have the leaves started to change yet where you are? Autumn is just around the corner, and the annual burst of color is about to begin!

The things nature does to sand and rock are amazing. You may think this is an alien planet with bizarre stone houses for extraterrestrials, but no, this is New Mexico in all its mind-blowing glory.

A female northern elephant seal protects her newborn pup as she warns away a young male with amorous intentions for her.

September's most loved images from our Photo of the Day series.

Photographer Gaston Lacombe's beautiful and heartrending series of photographs of captive animals at zoos across five continents.

Five tons of ivory was crushed earlier this year in Manila at the wildlife bureau compound, in an effort to change it's image as one of the world's hotspots for illegal ivory trading.

45 years ago today, the Apollo 8 astronauts took the photo that some say inspired the environmental movement.

War wasn't just a man's game, and it wasn't just about weapons. Soldiers gotta eat.

Madison is a city of lakes.

I was walking through the rainforest and saw something odd.

50 years ago today, the Apollo 8 astronauts took the photo that some say inspired the environmental movement.

Lake Michigan froze over during the polar vortex, so I walked on water.