This month, BookHugger presents Hope Is and Imperative by David Orr. Readers can order a discounted copy today and then join a live chat with Orr on May 25 at 3pm Eastern. (NOTE: The chat has been postponed one day and will

This month, BookHugger presents The Death and Life of Monterey Bay by Stephen R. Palumbi and Carolyn Sotka. Readers can order a discounted copy today and then join a live chat with the

A must-read book for business leaders. Naked value is the ultimate value a product delivers to customers, or the benefits that remain when a product is stripped of most of the energy and material resources required to manufacture and deliver it.

Sometimes the conventional wisdom is right, but sometimes it’s dead wrong.

Lance Hosey argues that how things look and feel is as important as how they're made. If it doesn't move the heart, it doesn't move the needle on sustainability.

A modern life without plastic may seem an impossibility, but this Canadian duo shows it's achievable.

Sarah Archer shows how the kitchen became the colorful nerve center of the modern house.

These 131 exercises will teach you to block distractions and deepen your focus.

This book explains how "one of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare."

It contains all the nutritional info, recipes, and moral support you'll need for a big dietary transition.

The 2019 rating by EWG finds that most sunscreens contain sketchy ingredients and/or don't offer adequate protection.

Watch this English golden retriever named Storm rush in to help the fawn and bring it back to shore.

The stubborn hero refused to leave his goats ... miraculously, they all survived the firestorm.

Anyone who knows dogs probably knows the answer to this question.

A study has found that the more exposure a person has to the natural world, the more inclined they are to make eco-friendly choices.

Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain explains how going offline for a full day each week can change your brain, body, and soul.

Contrary to popular opinion, young people aren't practicing what they preach.

Scott Z. Burns explains why the villain of his blockbuster film is an anti-science blogger, while the heroes are government officials.

A new report ranks countries by their green investments, and also compares performance to our perceptions.

When two male Alston's singing mice meet, they sing an operatic duet that researchers say offers clues about our own speech.

The way students learn about economics teaches them to ignore the environment.

"Can we afford to take action?" just became "Can we afford not to?"

The sci-fi show pulls no punches when it comes to humanity's complicated relationship with work and nature.

The graph says it all...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has asked pilots to avoid flying too close to a group of about 35,000 walrus gathered on an Alaskan beach.

Braving polar bears and subfreezing temperatures, years of preparation pay off for a University of Hawaii astronomy team.

Today, Shell announced it will abandon exploratory drilling off the coast of Alaska.

Researchers discover how Arctic foxes modify their dens to make the surrounding land more fertile.

A team of scientists have developed a novel way to determine the age of these long-lived marine animals.

As melting ice opens up new potential for exploitation in the Arctic, a new ban aims to protect much of the fragile ecosystem.

There's a new polar bear live cam in town ...

Svalbard's wild reindeer are surviving warmer winters by foraging on, yes, seaweed.

Besides the usual hidden storage and mirrors to enlarge the space, this redesigned layout includes a slight rotation to improve circulation.

Located in the heart of Florence, Italy, this small apartment features a minimalist stair, sleeping loft, and a view out onto the city's Renaissance treasures.

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

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

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

I love it when a retail giant highlights eco-friendly products, so when I picked up Pottery Barn's Christmas 2008 catalogue, I was excited to see

Let's just say up front that nobody claims the Inauguration will be deep green - events like this, by their very nature, require a huge amount of car and plane travel, entailing a corresponding belch

Amid the over-upholstered and garishly gilded furniture at the Istanbul Decoration and Design Fair hid some ingenious gems -- designers working with recycled and alternative materials and creating multi-purpose furniture for small spaces.

Thinking about making a move into a home, but really, really want a green space? We stumbled across the perfect (little) eco-home.

Apple remains our culture's most lauded example of great design. But could it be that the company considered to have reached the pinnacle of design is, in fact, an impostor? The definition of good design is changing. It used

We all walk on it every day, but don't often think of it. It's underfoot, and, for many of us, out of mind. But just because you trod on it doesn't mean you shouldn't pay close attention to the materials that make

Patricia Urquiola at the exhibition 'Cosas' at Habitat Valencia. Photo Credit: Petz Scholtus Valencia Design Week has invited us to FEED, the first international design media and bloggers' meeting this week, so together with Core77, Mocoloco,

At this year's Valencia Design Week in Spain, not a huge amount of companies convinced us about their products being truly good for our planet, in fact, we noticed a

A report from GAIA reveals how old carpets go straight to landfill or get burned because many manufacturers haven't developed closed-loop production.

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

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.