The fuel cell generates electricity from living plants and could turn green roofs and marshes into power plants.

The tiny fuel cell is long-lasting, low-cost and could power our tablets and smartphones with clean energy.

This is a great way to understand the science behind microbial fuel cells and make a little renewable energy at home.

Toyota has finally released its vision of the future, 20 years in the making!

Goodbye car ownership, hello "mobility as a service."

As Barbara Hendricks leaves the Environment Ministry, we look at the success of meatless meetings in a country with a strong meat culture

Limits would save lives and significantly reduce carbon emissions, but let's keep our priorities straight.

The fight to "follow the money" heats up in as Washington prepares to vote on GMO labeling.

An anti-GMO campaign declares victory.

In a lawsuit settlement today, General Mills agreed to remove the “100% Natural” from more than 20 of its products.

We hear a lot about plastics breaking down at sea, but scientists are discovering that a shocking quantity of plastic enters the ocean already in microscopic form.

The island nation in the western Pacific wants to protect its coral reefs from toxic sunscreen runoff.

This is one of those comparison posts that that could draw many angry comments: like Could Hype Sell An Inferior Hybrid? - Ford Fusion versus Toyota Camry did. Please carefully read the caveats.

Photo: Wikipedia, Public domain 2004 to 2009 Prius Included in Toyota's September 2009 Recall Toyota has just announced a huge recall. About 3.8 million vehicles are included, and that includes the 2004 to 2009 Prius hybrid. Since that's probably a

Photo: Michael Graham RichardPrius Might Become a Family, 8 New Hybrid Models ComingMaybe the rumors that have been floating around for a long time were true... Toyota said during its press event at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show that they are considering

Photo: Michael Graham Richard Twice As Much as 2009 Hybrid Production According to the Nikkei, Toyota is planning to ramp up hybrid vehicle production pretty significantly this year, with a goal of production 1 million hybrids annually in 2011 (up from

More than 8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles have been recalled worldwide (including the 2010 Prius), and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has linked at least 52 deaths to unexpected acceleration in these vehicles. Although floormats

It's a TreeHugger dream: an all electric wooden car designed to last forever.

Sam Suds and the Case of PVC The entire life cycle of PVC is an issue of environmental justice and racism. Many PVC plants are located near poor and communities of color. These facilities have poisoned workers and fence-line neighbors, polluted the

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In March, 2005 John Laumer wrote a defense of vinyl windows: Look Out Any Window; in March , 2006 I suggested that he was wrong in A Year Ago in TreeHugger: A Defence of Vinyl. In March,

Stickers can be fun, but how eco-friendly is this new craze for decorating walls? We have found two brands that claim their vinyls to be eco-chic, and some even come with decorative eco-reminders; very clever! Hu2 in the UK has just

They look so cute on their polyurethane sofa, in front of the wall of vinyl windows and doors, in the stock shot from the Canadian vinyl industry. The Vinyl salesmen are also

Should the stuff be kept away from kids? The American Public Health Association thinks so.

Designboom shows Trong Nghia's latest house, built out of towers with trees on top in the middle of a block.

Our favorite Vietnamese architect builds a giant wall of white planters... again.

The newly discovered horned mountain toad found in Southern Vietnam's elfin forest is the smallest of its species – and is already considered endangered.

Christopher Mims describes how robots are changing manufacturing and eliminating jobs

In its latest issue, GOOD Magazine has a great feature up on the doings of MIT's D-Lab - they call it "an elite unit of low-tech mercenaries" - which seeks to find simple solutions to drastically improve the quality of

The Statue of Liberty may be a welcome sight to see for many entering the U.S. from around the world, but according to a recent NYC Health Department study, immigrant children are five times as likely as those born in the U.S. to suffer from lead

Cities can be hot-spots of pollution, with thousands or millions of people, cars, pets, industries, and more contributing to global warming. But they can also be centers of innovation, as bright ideas, available funding, and

Is it a geothermal system or a ground source heat pump? Yes.

Can panda poo prevent cancer? We also have sad rhino news, fish lawnmowers, and more.

Chamomile is one of the oldest and most popular medicinal herbs, but it has also become one of the best studied.

These flowery sculptures seem to grow and flourish, out of repurposed dead animal skulls.

The embrace of negative space is celebrated in everything from home décor and flower arranging to poetry and all aspects of Japanese daily life.

Because of the weather, some of the country's famed cherry trees are having a surprise autumn bloom instead of in spring.

In Japan, celebrating the transient beauty of flowers is a beloved custom when the cherry blossoms spring to life.

When I asked how vegetarians can avoid animal-based fertilizers, I noted that some people suggested exploring biodynamics instead of organics. In fact, nothing

A government report has found that selenium contamination is connected to fish deformities, including two-headed trout.

I could write this post in my sleep, it is such a tired playbook that happens so often in real estate development.

Find out why one family found living on a renovated bus to be an appealing tiny-house-on-wheels alternative.

Much to the scepticism of our readers we’ve covered hot rocks at least once or twice before. In a nutshell, it’s a form geothermal energy derived from pumping water kilometres underground where it gets heated enough (by hot rocks!) to then rise back to

This week is all about climate change and its myriad ripple effects. Melting Arctic ice has opened up an international controversy over deep-sea land rights, and Russia will now make a bold move by planting its flag 14,000 feet below the surface. New

According to the Spanish newspaper El País last week, Spain will be the first big buyer of CO2 emission rights from Eastern Europe, in order to fulfil the Kyoto Protocol. In 2007, Spain's emissions had

A roaming freelance photographer and writer go on the road in this self-built live-work space on wheels.

The next game-changing technology might not be in the form of an electric car with a longer range, or more efficient solar panels, but rather a better way to dry your clothes.

New legislation would require polyester clothing to have a label warning about shedding in the wash.

Proctor & Gamble blames it on Millennials not knowing how to do laundry, but it's more likely that they don't feel like paying to infuse their clothes with nasty chemicals.

Corporate Knights Magazine asks the question and gets a different result than we did.