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10 beautiful underwater views from Google Street View

Take a virtual tour of these amazing spots.




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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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Trudeau says Canada will ban single-use plastics as early as 2021

The prime minister also mentioned holding companies responsible for the packaging waste they create.




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Montreal's 2014 Tour de l'Île: 25,000 people on a 50km bike ride around the city! (video)

One of the great North-American cyclist cities has a big bash to celebrate bike culture!




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Montreal reveals plans for an electric car sharing service, aims for 1,000 EVs by 2020

The city wants to become a leader in electric transportation, part of a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third.




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Ikea deliveries now 100% electric in Shanghai

Well, that happened fast.




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Two mail giants commit to 100% electric vehicles

Fleet purchasing may turn out to be critical to electrification.




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Norway's capital adding 70 new electric buses

Let's hope they play nicely with government-funded cargo bikes.




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Canada introduces $5,000 incentive to buy electric vehicles

Now how about some incentives to get people out of cars?




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TreeHugger Radio #202: The Warmest Winter Ever, Arsenic in Your Chicken, Dying Dolphins, and Vermont Versus Monsanto

Jacob and Brian look at chicken pre-marinated with Prozak, the blackest solar cell ever, and Poland and Vermont's fight against Monsanto.




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Electric Ford F-150 pickup truck tows a million pound train. Is this a big deal?

In a word, no. Ford can sell this fiction, but it is all about friction.




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Bioneers 2009: Michael Pollan Drinks Oil

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch Bioneers 2009 - a weekend-long gathering in San Rafael, California of social and scientific innovators focused on environmental issues - kicked off on Friday with Michael Pollan as a headlining speaker. His talk came in the




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LEED Goes 3.0 — and They Ain't Joking 'Round

The USGBC, and their insanely popular rating system LEED, have been on the frontlines of the green building movement for quite a while. Everyone has taken a shot at them at least once. There’s all the talk about how the credits are




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Lighting facts: Did you know that 70% of lightbulbs in the U.S. are still inefficient models?

If every home in the U.S. switched just one inefficient light for an Energy Star one, that would be equivalent to taking 800,000 vehicles off the road in term of greenhouse gas emissions




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10 tips for making your dishwasher more efficient

Today's technology makes dishwashers much more water and energy efficient than hand washing dishes. Here are some tips for taking that efficiency to the next level.




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DIY 2.0: Fountain app is like having a home & garden expert in your pocket

Quickly get connected via video chat to a home & garden expert to get help with your projects through Fountain. We've got beta invites for you to check it out yourself.




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Quick fix: 10 things you can repair in under 10 minutes

From broken zippers to damaged USB cables, embrace your inner handyman with these quick DIY repairs.




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10 tips to make every day Earth Day

We can do lists too; here are some of the simple things you can do that do not involve spending money and buying stuff.




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In celebration of MacGyvering: 90 hacks to welcome in a new word

With Oxford Dictionary’s addition of the verb 'MacGyver' to the official lexicon, we pay homage to the almighty hack.




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Stimulus Dollars In Motion: Maryland Orders 100 Hybrid Buses

Taking advantage of the Federal stimulus package, Maryland's Governor O'Malley announced the State's intention to purchase hybrid 100 hybrid diesel/electric buses for $62 million.




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80,000 Baltimore Students Join Meatless Monday Movement

By now you've probably heard that adopting a vegetarian diet, or at least cutting way down on you meat consumption, is a great way to reduce your ecological footprint and get some great health benefits at the same time. Now




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Bright apartment renovation modernizes a 1920s attic

This former pigeon roost is transformed into a light-filled family home.




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70% of Americans think the environment is more important than economic growth

Turns out, environmental issues are not about awareness. People get it.




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PechaKucha for Haiti - saturday 20/02 worldwide

In a matter of seconds, thousands of lives and dreams were destroyed in Haiti last month.




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Deforestation & Hurricanes May Have Triggered Haiti's Catastrophic 2010 Earthquake

Yet another reason why deforestation is bad: So much of Haiti's mountainsides have been eroded away because of deforestation and hurricanes that it may have stressed Earth's crust, triggering the earthquake that




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Save the trees! Sign up for Rainforest Alliance's 30-Day Sustainability Challenge

Get simple but powerful personal actions delivered to your inbox every 3 days; 30 actions in all – are you up to the challenge?




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Heating our homes kills 10,000 Americans per year

We have to decarbonize, not just because of carbon dioxide and climate change in the longer term, but because it is killing us directly right now.




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Is London moving its carbon neutrality goal forward by 20 years?

A growing number of cities are getting serious about tackling the climate emergency.




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Studio 804 creates smaller houses for a changing market

Dan Rockhill and his students keep pushing the building envelope.




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Forget 2030 or targets; we need to reduce our carbon emissions right now

George Monbiot says you don't set targets in an emergency, you act.




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The VentureOne Hybrid and EV: 100 MPH, 100 MPG, and that Crazy Tilty Action

At TreeHugger, we like to keep things realistic, raise a skeptical eyebrow to potential vaporware, and to keep in check our giddy inner children that get sweaty palms when we see something like the VentureOne. After all, a bright idea, some capital, and




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This Month in Wallpaper*: Design Directory 2007

This month's issue of Wallpaper* magazine is dominated by the 2007 Design Directory, their hand-picked favorite architects and designers from the past year. Always the epitome of cool, the mag's slick picks




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BMW Considering Launching EV by 2012?

During a recent interview, BMW chief executive Norbert Reithofer revealed that the German automaker was considering bringing a battery-powered vehicle to the U.S. market by 2012 in an effort to meet more stringent




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Electric cars growing 100% every year (graphs)

Actually, a bit more than 100%.




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2014 World Green Car of the Year is...

Test out your green car awareness by seeing if you can name the 2014 World Green Car of the Year. Note: it has to be a new model.




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10 ways to live better electrically

The cost of electricity is going up (both in dollars and in environmental and health impacts). Here are some tips for reducing your costs and impacts.




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My 2014 Word of the Year

My word of the year is a little geeky this time around, but it crosses over -- and unites -- fields.




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15 resolutions you could make for a happier, lower-impact 2019

Reducing your carbon footprint and building community go hand-in-hand toward creating a better planet.




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10 ways to green your work ethic

A greener workplace can mean a lighter ecological footprint, a healthier and more productive place to work and good news for the bottom line.




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2050 carbon goals are great, but we must cut emissions now

End goals for CO2 emissions are just one part of the picture. How fast we start moving toward them is just as important.




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XPrize is giving away $20 million for a new technology that makes something good out of CO2

The competition is looking for new ideas for capturing the emissions from fossil fuels and turning them into something useful instead of harmful.




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Happy 10th Birthday, Bitcoin. Now go away before you fry us all.

The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.




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Report: Scotland could reach 'net zero' emissions by 2045

The goal could be reached even earlier, if Scots changed what they eat.




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10 Historical Figures You Had No Idea Were Environmentalists

From Genghis Khan's reforestation to King Edward I's 14th century ban of coal mining, these famous people were dedicated to TreeHugger ethics --- even if they didn't know it.




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By 2050 We're All Likely To Be Using Fewer Resources, Whether We Like It Or Not

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.




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Global Economy Expanded More Slowly Than Expected in 2011

Without a more comprehensive vision of economic health and better ways to measure it, we are flying blind on a path to economic decline and collapse.




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Farms Use 60 Times More Land Than Cities: It's Time to Develop Terraculture

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.




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The UN's Rio+20 Conference Matters

Here's why the United Nations' Rio+20 Conference matters to everyone.




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Reproductive Rights Scrubbed From Rio+20 Text - Why That's Bad News for the Planet

Opposition from the G77 Nations and the Vatican led to the removal of the words 'reproductive rights' from the Rio+20 text, leaving in 'acceptable modern methods of family planning'.




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If the world's population was 100 people [Infographic]

Graphic designer Jack Hagley's new infographic shows the world's population as 100 people.