Value of Fossil Fuel Exports By Fuel, 1949-2010

Growing bike sales, a boom in sharing, and an interest in growing your own food are ust some of the signs that we could be moving beyond our current energy paradigm. Add your own to the list.

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

We have lots of stuff, it's just unevenly distributed.

When printed in a precise pattern onto carbon nanotubes on paper, these photosynthetic bacteria can produce electricity from sunlight, which could power biodegradable environmental and medical sensors.

Is this totally silly and a waste of time and money, or is it a great leap forward? Or is it too soon to tell?

This stunning temporary pavilion utilizes Hong Kong's time-honored bamboo construction methods in conjunction with cutting-edge computational design.

Vibrantly colored wire is saved from the landfill and woven into recycled fan cages to produce these fresh pieces of furniture.

Built with the help of a village's last remaining bamboo weaver, this computer-designed pavilion was built by hand using local materials.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real estate market, and an uncertain currency future, make a house out of shredded-up money.

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.

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

The humble avocado pit has been rescued from the compost bin of obscurity and remade into these magical little sculptures.

In which snail mail provides a lesson in the loveliness of slow living.

An innovative eco-tourism project in northeast Turkey will take travelers along ancient nomadic routes to taste artisanal organic honey, meet local beekeepers, and enjoy spectacular scenery along the way.

The largest honey packer in the US faces criminal charges over fraudulent trade in Chinese honey.

Combining elements of natural beekeeping, citizen science, open source hardware, and networked smart devices, these DIY beehives could be a powerful tool in the fight against Colony Collapse Disorder.

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

All photos credit Collin Dunn Ed. note: 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with a stop in the Florida Everglades, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety

The Galapagos Islands are like no place on earth. The Galapagos Islands have too many

Lonesome George is quite a character. He's a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago, he's the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he's gone, that's it -- his species will

Image: allaboutgeorge, Flickr, CC BY The Digital Migration Continues to Change the Face of Consumption A new study from the Ponyter Institute reveals that by the end of 2010, more people were reading their news online than in traditional newspapers. 34%

Plastic waste has been diverted from the city's shoreline to create a cost-effective, green space alternative.

We have lots of waste plastic and not much use for it, so why not use it instead of asphalt or concrete?

Children. Alone in the forest. At night.

Switching from fossil fuel powered cars could save 45,000 lives per year and on its own almost solve climate change

Made with simple materials, this extraordinary instrument creates experimental acoustic sounds that sound eerie yet beautiful.

Clever idea from Finnish designer combines portable storage with fixed dresser unit

These paper plate eyes bring a chuckle when added to trees and rocks.

Or, for that matter, park both a house and a car like Bill Dunster's ZEDpod.

And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.

After 52,696 steps, a review of a LifeSpan treadmill desk.

Because people gotta move.

Mayon is the largest of the Philippines' 22 active volcanoes, at 8,070 feet. The plumes of smoke and flows of lava make it seem like it is already erupting, yet scientists say the big fireworks could be still to come, and more than 40,000 people have

Many feared the worst, and it seems like that's what we got.

A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.

A new law hopes to fix deforestation and teach young people about environmental stewardship.

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

Quoting directly from the Philadelphia Eagles presser: "The Eagles have contracted with Orlando FL-based SolarBlue, a

Paris has the Promenade plantée and New York has The High Line, parks created on top of once-abandoned railway tracks. Now plans are afoot in Philadelphia to transform the Reading Viaduct into what its designers are

A new football stadium in Philadelphia is in the running for the unofficial title of "Greenest Stadium in America."

A new public space in Philadelphia helps make the city more human-scale and increase quality of life for people who work or pass through the area.

Going for LEED Platinum in an affordable townhouse with clean modern design

Another model for the development industry: Smart young people using their own money

Are solar-powered trash cans a fuel-saving, money-saving way to keep the streets clean? Or are they worse than regular trash cans?

Partnering with a forest conservation non-profit to plant a tree for every watch purchased, Analog Watch Co. creates chic timepieces out of recycled wood.

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.