This is, whether we like it or not, the future of furniture design.

It's a nice idea, but it needs a bit more rigor.

How to choose things for your home that have had, or can have, second lives.

He is pushing incandescents, but your eyes change as you age, and older people need brighter, bluer and lots more light.

Is it doing the same for people?

Here's a lovely renovation using the healthiest materials, and as few of them as possible.

The LightCycle follows our circadian rhythms via your phone and GPS.

Every year we go look for the latest in sustainable design. Every year the post gets shorter.

TreeHugger writers have a lot of experience with this.

The late artist Chris Burden balanced a Porsche 914 with a meteorite.

Pigeons live large in these big artworks that celebrate the remarkable qualities of these overlooked birds.

These pink and blue-tinted photographs suggest that our biology has a big influence on the way we perceive reality.

Blank city walls are huge canvases for this artist transforming our perception of ordinary buildings.

Made with beads, yarns and other fibers, these hybrid sculptures seem to transform before your eyes.

The wonderful world of birds, painted in life size and all together on a huge 2,500-square-foot wall.

"Come touch the Greenland ice sheet and be touched by it."

We were at the Cottage Life Show in Toronto this weekend, but soon there might be a whole spinoff, "Compost Toilet Life Show" , there were so many new products in the alternative toilet world. One that surprised us was the Finnish Biolan- we are used to

As John Laumer noted earlier, there is a lot of useful stuff in pee, but we dilute it with gallons of water, send it down big pipes mixed with everything else, and suddenly we have monstrous networks of waste piping, sewage treatment plants and water

They pay so much more attention to design in Europe, particularly when it comes to everyday things. For example, The Torqeedo electric outboard motor from Germany looks like fine industrial design. It has an integrated lithium-manganese battery that just

David Masters lives in a yurt. But it isn't just a home, he preaches what he practices in an "alternative learning center that provides opportunities for people to develop and reflect on their values and to consider how they might take an active role

He must have seen my TreeHugger media badge, because the salesman from Element Square called out and said "No trees were harmed in the production of these chairs!" I replied that a lot of fossil fuels were burned and a lot of CO2 released, and he said

Our mothers taught us (well, some of us) to send thank-you notes and to bring a gift when staying at someone's house or cottage as a guest. But what to bring? You don't know their taste, or you don't like their taste or you know that they don't need

An airbag on the hood of the car to protect pedestrians? We also have a video of Paris flooded by rising seas, a sliding library creates an extra room, and more.

Thanks to the internet, housesitters can now travel the world, living in different places for a few days or a few months for free, in exchange for taking care of an absent homeowner's property, pets or errands.

The International Joint Commission has developed a strategy for how U.S. and Canadian governments can address this toxic problem.

Lake Michigan alone receives the equivalent of 100 Olympic-sized pools full of plastic bottles each year.

This water filtration solution requires no electricity, has no moving parts, and can be built affordably with locally available materials.

And it's not just lefty TreeHuggers who are outraged; Everybody is in on this war of words

The Polluted Water Popsicles project is meant to shock viewers into realizing how serious water contamination is in Taiwan.

When the oft-predicted water wars start, we're going to want this technology on our side. Let's hope it survives the budget wars.

Dead zones threaten wildlife and fisheries, taint drinking water, and impact communities. Keeping agricultural runoff out of waterways can help tackle this global problem.

Current water treatment can't remove these wastes that are increasingly implicated in serious environmental effects

They say it has minerals and probiotics, but what else could be swimming around in it?

Weeki Wachee Springs – the first magnitude spring that is home to mermaids, manatees and magic – is being threatened with pollution and development.

New York City water doesn't need to be filtered and citizens have already paid for it, that's what.

Last week news broke that microplastics are found in 93% of bottled water and the highest levels ever were found in an English river. Can we ever clean this up?

In which we gush about all things H2O in celebration of World Water Day.

What is in your drinking water? It turns out there may be more than we know.

Scientists say levels are dangerously high, affecting wildlife and ecosystems.

The aquatic moss clears 80 percent of arsenic from a container of water in less than an hour.

The agency tried to suppress a major toxicology report on perfluoroalkyl chemicals, but now it's been quietly released online -- with alarming conclusions.

Even if the label says 'biodegradable,' please don't do it.

Plastic is often thought of as an ocean contaminant, but it's in our freshwater lakes, too.

Is your child's school flushing water pipes to reduce lead exposures? Do you flush at home? Then you should read this to learn a better solution to lead exposure risks.

This ubiquitous liquid, water, continues to amaze us with its just plain weirdness

Scientists looking at water consumption in different countries came to a not so shocking conclusion.

This could mean we're drinking our plastic waste.

A triumphant win for Toledo residents means that the Great Lake's wellbeing is now an official top priority.

It's uncomfortable to face the source of the pollution.

But others consider it a good opportunity to reevaluate agricultural practices.