Because everyone knows that bike paths are just the thin edge of the wedge. Next, they come for your cars.

It may be old, dirty and coal powered now, but it was once a vision of a brighter future, was a giant stimulus project and helped win WWII.

Thousands of pairs of unwanted eyewear are collected and transformed into a unique, twinkling facade for an Istanbul museum.

This renovated apartment incorporates some interesting storage concepts for a cleaner, brighter space.

You never know what climate you may end up in...

There has been endless discussion of the the outcome of the COP15 conference. Here is another positive note (book) from the group This Place09. It is an art and Twitter project that sought to convey personal thoughts about

Happy New Year! This week marks Carnival of the Green #208, and the first Carnival of 2010. Congratuations to all who have submitted entries and hosted over the years to make it such a success!

Come one, come all, witness The Twittertape Machine that prints a feed of your tweets and mentions on Twitter.

Here is someone who gets the message across, in a funny and beautiful way. Australian Stuart McMillen takes topics around environmental sustainability and turns them into catchy cartoons.

You can see these magnificent photo portraits of Londoners on a wall or on the web.

Is there somewhere you go to when you need to recharge your batteries? Or remind yourself of the beauty of nature? These are our favorite nature spots.

Is there somewhere you go to when you need to recharge your batteries? Or remind yourself of the beauty of nature? This is the second part of this series.

Everywhere you look for the next week in London there is an arty billboard.

We've brought MacArthur-winning activist Majora Carter's most-excellent speech at TED 2006 to your attention before, but she's so amazing and inspiring we had to stick the video in front of you (again). Watch this formidable force of nature in action.

Believe it or not, these folded works of wonder are created from a single sheet of paper -- no cuts, no glue.

The Uniti electric city car will come bundled with a green charging incentive for buyers in Sweden.

36 artists from 17 different countries have created 15 totally unique art suites out of ice

New research suggests that mother bears have found a loophole in hunting laws and are using it to protect themselves and their cubs.

This once-derelict small apartment has been renovated on a budget into a more modern space.

Like a nesting doll, this all-in-one wall unit functions like a multipurpose piece of furniture.

Art meets accidental crowd-sourced recycling.

These sets of precision-cut oak blocks and planks, combined with clever connectors, are intended to help spark creativity and imagination in kids, and to "make playtime more meaningful."

It costs very little, distracts kids for longer, and minimizes clutter around the house. In other words, it's every parent's dream come true.

Oxybenzone may be effective at filtering UV light, but it comes at a dangerously high cost to human health.

It's a great way to spend time outside and travel for cheap.

Our best recipes for autumn, when we crave warm, comforting food to counter the falling leaves and frosty bite in the air. These recipes offer vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.

It's not a veggie burger. But there's a lot less beef in it than normal.

The groundbreaking technology has gotten even better with the ability to self-heal and produce hydrogen from dirty water.

Last week at CES in Las Vegas, Toyota revealed the FCV concept car for the fuel cell vehicle they will be making available next year. I had a chance to see the concept this week at the Detroit Auto Show.

This small hydrogen fuel cell charger promises a week of clean power for your gadgets. But is it ready for prime time?

The versatile, two-dimensional medium of paper is reconstructed into art that pops off the page.

Author Sara Zaske shows that it all comes down to respecting a child's right to independence.

We have to start thinking about housing as a social good instead of a financial instrument.

After a long-lasting and loving monogamous relationship between the US Green Building Council and the Forest Stewardship Council, it seems the USGBC is considering, not a break up, but definitely thinking

Image from Tetra Pak Tetra Pak is the world's largest packaging company so when they decide to do something environmental it has a big impact. They have just announced that all of their UK and Irish packaging will be FSC (Forest Stewardship Council)

Alex previously wrote about concerns as China Tightens Grasp on Rare Earth Metals Vital for Green Technologies; now we are seeing it in action. After a dispute over a collision between the Japanese Coast Guard and a Chinese

I love this little vehicle. If it ever becomes commercially available outside of carsharing schemes, I may have to get one. Or maybe I should just start a carsharing scheme in my city....

In a bid to highlight the clean air advantage of the Toyota Mirai, a hydrogen fuel cell electric car, the company is putting up pollution-scrubbing billboards.

Short design-life products made of PVC have been a common, inexpensive, and functional choice for almost 50 years. But, vinyl can also be a risky choice of material for objects often handled by consumers, posing a risk of lead exposure, especially if

Joining gDiapers, the US Postal Service and more, Surface iQ's commercial wallcoverings have earned Cradle to Cradle certification. The only printed commercial grade wallcovering to have earned this certification, Surface iQ's products have an

Steven M. Johnson beats a whole lot of TreeHugger posts to the punch.

Steven M. Johnson has some good ideas, but there have been others worth noting in TreeHugger.

I thought the ELF was a great new idea; turns out our hero was there first.

We've discussed Osprey packs in the past, particularly their Resource collection of packs with about 80% recycled content (see links below). Recently, we noted via SNEWS that they'd released their 2009 Sustainability Report, indicating

This series of structures in Vietnam use bamboo and modern design tools and techniques to make a statement.

So far in our Do Lectures 2011 series we've talked about the fact that Things Are Not Just The Way They Are, we always need to ask difficult questions and challenge the

Over the past few weeks we've been sharing the amazing ideas and themes that emerged from the Do Lectures 2011. This year's inspiring talks are now being launched online in

Leave the office behind. Sierra Club is offering a wild summer ride. It even pays real money.

With all the recent brouhaha over inaccurate and since retracted statements in the 2007 IPCC climate change report about the speed with which Himalayan glaciers are melting, a recent series of posts over at China Dialogue is

The heat in the upper six miles of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity