Bigger wheels mean more stability and regular-bike feel, but it comes at a price.

Changing attitudes about cities and getting people out of cars takes a lot of work.

It calls for more support of bikes, walking and transit, banning ICE-powered cars sooner.

Keeping your bike in tip-top shape means regular maintenance, preventative measures, and the occasional on-the-road quick fix.

Way more people get traumatic injuries in the shower than they do on bikes, but almost nobody takes the most basic safety precautions.

We covered this subject before but I got it wrong. Peter Flax of Bicycling Magazine got it right.

The streets are deadly and the cops don't care, but we now have David Shellnutt.

Enough toxic stuff that you should get out your vacuum cleaner.

Forget decluttering. KonMari is now all about re-cluttering.

Yet another study weighs in on the most efficient way to clean dirty dishes.

It's painful but necessary if you want to maintain an organized home.

Now's the time to tackle jobs you've been thinking about for months.

Amid all the confusion, here's some solid advice on how to keep your clothes clean and free from contamination.

Listen to scientists, not industry lobbyists, and just keep cleaning.

This might be the perfect bed for a New York apartment.

A cramped, rundown apartment gets a makeover with this mysterious-looking black box.

This well-crafted tiny dwelling has its own space-saving elevator bed that can go up and down with the push of a button.

Inspired by bird wings, this unique wind generator is claimed to efficiently harvest energy, even from low wind conditions.

The Nautilus shell-shaped turbines could fit on rooftops of houses or buildings in urban environments.

All those cat pictures and viral videos won't harm the Earth.

Even in the wild world of offbeat wind energy machines, Tyer Wind's design stands out.

One of America's fastest growing professions, wind turbine technician, attracts people with a unique set of skills, as demonstrated by climber and composer Jessica Kilroy.

The powerful 12-MW turbine is being developed and tested now.

Used clothing donations are more of a hindrance than a help, in the eyes of the East African Community. We need to listen to what they're saying.

Since both require the same habitat, scientists are worried how primates will survive the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations.

In a compelling new documentary, The Flood, Angela Bassett narrates the story of the life in one of the world's last great wildernesses.

New short narrative film strives to deepen the global discussion around the illegal wildlife trade.

We've scratched the surface of Sierra magazine's Cool Schools list on Treehugger before, but this time I've decided to dig into one of the schools so we can learn more about what

From campus gardens to intensive recycling, Sierra magazine's annual list gives a tip of the hat to the nation's most sustainable schools.

Sierra magazine released its 2012 Cool Schools list, and UC Davis took #1 - let's learn more about them.

Former Stanford dean Julie Lythcott-Haims sets out a sensible guide for why and how American parenting needs to change, if we truly want our kids to do well in life.

Food insecurity is a very real problem for many Americans, but who knew that it affected so many college students, too?

Perhaps the school should offer a course on parenting instead, so this problem is solved for the next generation.

Rising out of surrounding trees and rock, this playful little area takes its design cues from local bird habitats and the town's skiing traditions.

This beautiful area near Salida, Colorado, could become the next national monument, with your help.

This tiny house builder and architect just built himself and his wife a bigger (but still tiny) home, equipped with a space-saving elevator bed.

Probably, the decade of e-mobility

TreeHugger isn't the only place to sing the virtues of the modern composting toilet. But Fox News? Really?

We keep saying that this is the way we should go, but perhaps the technology here just wasn't ready.

The last thing the world needs is a high tech electrochemical reactor toilet. This is a social problem, not a technical one.

A toilet is just the working end of a much larger system that can have a huge impact on society.

It's becoming easier to do so as the rules change and the toilets get better.

I really don't want to crap all over this new toilet design, but it is too complex, too expensive and no, it won't charge your phone.

We turn on the tap and run some of our favorite stories.

Gord Baird and Ann Baird have written the definitive guide.

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy "Bat Tower" being built to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area.

New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been

If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a

Wind power is not just a Danish success story - Swedish wind is growing leaps and bounds. But the bats may suffer, so the Swedes are trying to impose 'bat happy hour'

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.