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10 beautiful underwater views from Google Street View

Take a virtual tour of these amazing spots.




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INDEX: Google Cardboard may be the next very big thing.

It's cheap, it works and Oh, the places you'll go.




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Google to encircle the globe with internet balloons next year

The ring of giant Project Loon balloons will bring data service to people living below.




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If you get all your news here, you may be living in a bubble

We're all friends here, right? So I can talk honestly?




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Google's Project Ara modular smartphone is finally being released

But is it truly modular?




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Nevermind, there won't be a modular smartphone after all

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has scrapped the release of the Project Ara phone.




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Google will be able to offset 100% of electricity needs with renewable energy in 2017

The tech giant has hit this major renewable energy goal ahead of all its competitors.




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Recycling rates improve when people know what items will become

Jeans into insulation, plastic bottles into coats – details like this make people more inclined to use the blue bin.




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So much plastic is being made that "recycling has no impact"

A Canadian scientist wants us to rethink our approach to plastic and challenge the colonial system that produces it.




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Producers could finally be responsible for packaging waste in Ontario

The Canadian province is overhauling its recycling program, which would include holding producers accountable for their wasteful packaging designs.




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The best bar soaps for every body part

With disinfecting and sanitizing on everyone's mind, good old-fashioned bar soap has never been more necessary. It's still possible to go plastic-free, too. These are the best bar soaps for every body part.




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Montreal's impressive food recovery program will expand throughout Quebec

A partnership between Moisson Montreal and the largest grocery chains in the province will continue to salvage hundreds of tons of food that would otherwise be discarded.




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World's largest Cross-Laminated Timber apartment complex being built in Montreal

And a big part of the pitch is sustainability and comfort.




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These floral sculptures pay homage to the humble beauty of insects (Video)

Part art, part meditative process, these works are created with plant material harvested from the artist's urban garden.




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Coming soon: weird but maybe wonderful alternative electric vehicles

BRB introduces a bunch of concept vehicles that look like a lot of fun without fossil fuels




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Surprising Agreement On The Connection Between Obesity and Healthcare Costs

Michael Pollan writes in the New York Times about the connection between the American diet and the cost of health care; Surprisingly, conservative writers like Marie-Josée Kravis are saying much the same thing,




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USDA Fighting Obesity With One Hand, Promoting High-Fat Cheese With The Other

All the foodies are outraged by the New York Times Expose on the marketing of cheese. The front page story While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales by Michael Moss describes how Dairy Management helps




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Masters of Beef Advocacy Grads Take On Sustainable Food Supporters, Attacking The Wrong Target

If you don't subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow




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Rethinking The Food Label To "Inspire Food Literacy"

The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's News21 program and Good Magazine have shortlisted the three finalists in a competition to design a better food label. They "asked for designs that were informative, instructive and




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Study describes chicken nuggets as edible "super glue"

Doctors from the University of Mississippi dissected two nuggets and were shocked by what they found.




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Energy Star Moving Beyond Data Servers, Certifying Entire Data Centers

"For the US in 2006, online data centres accounted for 1.5 percent of the entire country's electricity use - equating to more than the entire state of Massachusetts. " View the chart up close...Really interesting facts/stats! Image via GDS Digital via




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A Healthy Thanksgiving Begins in a Green Kitchen

We're well aware of the importance of health when it comes to preparing foods in the kitchen—between Salmonella, E. Coli, and a variety of other




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BC's First Energy Star Qualified Home is a Round Beauty

A round home is British Columbia's first home to be Energy Star qualified, a topic of contention on TreeHugger.




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Element Hotel Times Square - My Stay at the Soon-to-be LEED Certified Hotel in NYC (Photos)

Can hotels be 100% eco-friendly and affordable? I tried out Starwood's Element Hotel in NYC to find out how far a 411-room urban hotel can go green. The result is mostly positive with a few letdowns.




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Beat the heat: EPA's infographic is a good place to start

The information is pretty basic but it's not trivial, and would make a difference.




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Thanks to new tech, it’s easier to Live Better Electrically

From heat pumps to induction, it has never been easier to give up gas.




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Nudie Jeans' repair shops should be the new standard for sustainable fashion

We’ve all ripped a pair of jeans, but we’re not all tailors. Nudie Jeans has a great solution.




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Baltimore Announces Massive Smart Grid Program - 2 Million Meters to be Installed

Baltimore residents, get ready to get in on the smart grid party. Baltimore Gas & Electric has just announced that it has filed paper with the Maryland Public Service




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Renewable Tradition: Baltimore's "Arabbers" Sell Produce On Residential Streets - In Horse Drawn Carts

Wikipedia carries a definition of Arabbers which includes this:An arabber (or a-rab) is a




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Threatened Homeowners Battle Endangered Beetles

For most people, living along southern Chesapeake Bay with a scenic view over the waterfront might sound idyllic, but for nearly 100 residents who do, it's turned into a nightmare. Slowly, the




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Another vertical forest being built by Stefano Boeri in Lausanne, Switzerland

And I am going to be positive, upbeat and happy about it, really.




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Tallest timber tower in Sweden is about a lot more than just wood

From the green roof down to the electric boat, there are so many interesting aspects of sustainable design.




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Historical courtyard residence converted into modern workspace in Beijing

A traditional dwelling has been preserved by renovating it to include a new office, library, kitchen and guest room.




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Converted ambulance becomes one man's traveling home-on-wheels (Video)

Diverging from the Sprinter van conversion trend, this man revamped an old life-saving vehicle into his own tiny home.




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Entire Swiss village to be repurposed as a wonderful hotel

A fading fairytale village will become Switzerland's first 'scattered hotel' thanks to a foundation committed to saving it.




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Good news: Bitcoin is becoming worthless

The digital currency is in its death throes.




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The troubling link between self-care and capitalism

The covering-yourself-with-blankets movement isn't nearly as cuddly as it seems.




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Borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbor benefits everyone

It fosters connection and community, boosts happiness... and results in delicious baked goods.




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Over half the new homes in the USA are insulated with fiberglass batts

We used to say this stuff should be banned because it was always installed badly. Has anything changed?




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Haiti's Rebuild May Be Biochar's Big Breakthough

Biochar, the "co product" of burning wood or agricultural waste in a pyrolitic (oxygen free) environment, has




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Food, Water, and... Permaculture? Rethinking Disaster Relief for Haiti and Beyond

A growing number of environmentalists are re-envisioning 'disaster relief' as something that can provide hope for the future, not just a hot meal and somewhere to sleep. Their tool of choice? Permaculture.




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Beyond the Gulf Oil Spill: Five Ongoing Ecological Disasters With No End In Sight

Living some 6,000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction to me. A big, big abstraction, but still.




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The surprisingly bold and beautiful world of sea slugs

On land, slugs are far from nature's most beautiful creatures--but underwater, the family of shell-less creatures known as nudibranchs come in bright neons, glowing pastels, and vibrant primary colors. The 3,000 different kinds of nudibranchs get their




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The Surprisingly Bold and Beautiful World of Sea Slugs (Slideshow)

Slugs as we know them aren't the most colorful land-based creatures, but the shell-less mollusk known as nudibranchs (meaning "naked gills"), or sea slugs, are the complete opposite: The more than 3,000 different members




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This tiny house carved out of a single tree could be in Hobbiton instead of Haida Gwaii

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.




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Is boycotting palm oil really the best thing to do?

The palm oil situation is bad, but some people argue that it would be worse if replaced by other vegetable oils.




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Is Brooks Running the Best Green Source for Runners?

You a runner? Or an exercise-oholic? And you want your workouts to reflect your green lifestyle? Well, the race is ON or at least for me and a few friends to find the best performing green running equipment.




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Honeybee Swarm Delays Flight at Pittsburgh International Airport

The queen led her minions to the engine of a Delta airplane, delaying the flight until the protected bees could be professionally removed




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It's the start of the Extinction Rebellion

Two weeks of climate action are starting on April 15.




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Human composting soon to be allowed in Washington

It's a more environmentally-friendly way to dispose of a body than burning or burying.