The biggest one is that no matter how clever the design, it is the land that matters, not the house, and that nothing has changed in 70 years.

You're more likely to eat certain foods if your friends post pictures of them.

A heat wave vulnerability map goes viral, boosting interactive technology that helps make important environmental data accessible.

A great gesture that allows you to zoom into a map with one hand on your smart phone.

The mapping technology will eventually be used to get precise solar power potential information for any location around the world.

The new map was created from a study of over a decade's worth of Landsat satellite images and is the first to show in fine detail land use changes around the globe.

Clean drinking water is one of our basic human needs, but in many parts of the world, it's also hard to come by. Here's another look at some of the latest concepts for providing clean drinking water.

One solution for purifying water in remote off-grid areas comes in the form of a wagon, complete with solar panel and water purification system.

As you can see in the satellite photos above, California is experiencing a massive drought over most of the state. The most visible aspect from space is the snow cover (or lack thereof) over the Sierra Nevada mountain range

The ÖKO Odyssey water bottle actually has six functions!

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

It's time for some fareness.

Where have I seen this movie before?

The director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre says it's a huge problem that meat is so "culturally embedded in Western societies."

The average amount of meat consumed per person globally has nearly doubled in the past 50 years, a trend with terrible consequences for environment, scientists warn.

Not just for barbecues, some companies are switching over completely.

The Obama administration loves its czars almost as much as the media loves using the title. So here goes: The U.S. Asian Carp Czar, also known as John Goss, says he has a multi-pronged strategy to help keep Asian carp from

The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale

Do international treaties mean anything when America needs fresh water?

Lessons from Amundsen: travel fast and light with a small footprint.

The source of Antarctica's eerie blood red falls has baffled scientists for more than a century; now new secrets have been revealed.

Along with her large-scale drawings, artist Zaria Forman has recorded the eerie song of a warming planet.

In support of Greenpeace's Antarctic campaign, this may be the prettiest video I've ever watched – and the cause couldn't be more important.

Take subversive action in small ways.

I don't buy many plastic bottles, but the ones that I do will take some creative workarounds to avoid.

I tasked myself with buying no plastic bottles for the year; here's how it's going so far.

"Bags for life," as they're called, do not get reused nearly as much as retailers would like to believe.

In an effort to support local food production and defend customers' rights to buy and eat whatever local farm products they want, 16 towns in Maine have created their own local food ordinances.

Is it possible to keep Kosher and still keep a vegan diet?

There are approximately 2 million reasons to love trees ... but we'll start with these.

Filters on buses and smog-eating towers are not the answer.

Schools are also fundraising to supply face masks for children.

It's to time to jump off the consumption train and embrace the art of repair.

Ways to spend the day for those who'd like to skip the whole 'bloodsport of mass consumerism' thing.

On land, a fierce dust storm blots out any sign of life. But offshore, these banes of desert-dwellers' existence can be providers of life in what might otherwise be empty waters,

Not long ago, my parents installed a sizable solar array on their home in England. Now my brother has just emailed with photos of his own installation. What's going on? Besides providing more evidence that solar feed-in

This looks like lungs, sort of, but it's really made out of meadow flowers.

The Bristol Cargo Bike project is creating a "light weight mega geared micro logistics vehicle of choice for a city of hills."

Abandon not all ye moth-eaten and shrunken cashmere sweaters—designer Brooke Serson Cernonok of Teddylux can sprout an entire menagerie from your castoffs.

I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are

This loft-less tiny home makes quite a statement, both inside and out.

A new study from the Breast Cancer Fund shows that BPA is found in canned foods marketed specifically to kids. This should be no surprise to TreeHugger readers; we have been talking about BPA lining cans for years. All

Just when I thought it would be fine to cook with canned tomato sauce - bis-Phenol A recently having been granted toxicology probation - emerges the possibility that BPA can make you obese. Ohhh wait - not

There is a fundamental logical inconsistency here. Either the stuff is bad for you or it isn't.

Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference in Oxford, England,

Locals in one region of the Australian Outback have been terrorized of late by a roaming band of feral camels. Drought conditions and a recent heat wave are being blamed for driving some 6,000 camels into residential areas near

The literature on soil erosion contains countless references to the "loss of protective vegetation." Over the last half-century, clearcutting, overgrazing, and overplowing have removed so much of that protective cover

From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a new dramatized documentary

The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of

A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up.