The Jenni solar charger and battery pack aims to make it easy to begin going solar at home, starting with your portable electronics

Report accuses wood burners of being naively careless when they should be worried

Everything you need to know about building a proper blanket fort.

It's less flashy. In fact, it kind of blends in. But it's still designed to save energy.

A study suggests we should turn up the heat; it's not so simple.

A landmark report released by The Nature Conservancy has demonstrated that effective conservation measures - far from simply benefiting the local biota - can also help alleviate poverty. The study, co-authored by Nature Conservancy policy advisor

The UK grocery chain has long been a Fairtrade champion, but recently announced it would invent its own 'fairly traded' certification scheme.

Eighty percent of garment workers are young women between 18 and 24. They are overworked, underpaid, and abused. That's where the real female empowerment needs to start.

Outside the southeastern Turkish city of Mardin lie the 6th-century ruins of the Roman settlement of Dara,

In the latest example of how tough life can be for would-be women cyclists around the world, the new police chief of the Iranian city of Esfahan has decreed it a crime for women to ride a bike

With water shortages and air pollution posing increasingly grave threats to the Middle East, artists in the region are working to make environmental issues more visible, both at home and in international

Shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Awards, this elegant building makes good use of wasted stone generated from a town's large stonecutting industry.

They are supposed to be better for your health, but standing desks don't come cheap. This inexpensive flat-pack design for a portable unit can turn your existing office furniture into a standing desk.

In stark contrast to other flat-pack furniture designs, Groovebox is meant to be as simple to put together as possible, with no fasteners, tools, or mammoth assembly instructions needed.

These pre-assembled pieces of furniture can fold completely flat, and when needed, are opened up into three-dimensional functionality.

TreeHugger has been a fan of photographer Ed Burtynsky's work for a long time. We first spotted it here and have enjoyed watching him branch out into film with "Manufactured Landscapes", which was recently released in the US and the UK after debuting

A big book from a photographer who takes big pictures

Edward Burtynsky's collection called Water documents the role water plays in ecosystems, energy, cultural practices and disasters.

A TreeHugger hero visits our sister site.

It's about time that someone did, too.

Over the past three months, over a million people from all around the globe have contacted LEGO to ask them to drop their oil partnership.

You just have to look at the parking ratios to know they are environmental disaster areas.

Think bike lanes cost too much? Let's put it into a little perspective.

San Francisco readers can now find local and green clothes at Amour Vert’s new shop in Hayes Valley.

This looks like a long-needed solution to one of the key barriers to electric vehicle adoption, and I can hardly contain my excitement.

A custom-made addition to this small condo packs in extra features and functionality, creating more spaces in one.

Using a bit of research and lots of careful gardening, this man was able to help reestablish a population of rare butterflies in his backyard.

Another tool that makes life easier to live without a car.

Scientists are concerned about how airports are conducive to the spread of disease.

The source of 70 percent of New Delhi's water, the Yamuna River is filthy with sewage and garbage, but people are now being drawn to its banks by a new art exhibit that seeks to raise awareness about the river's plight.

Don't let artist Agustina Woodgate -- who says stuffing is "like looking into the soul" -- near your favourite stuffed teddy bear.

Bangkok-based artist Nino Sarabutra investigates what really makes people happy, and how much money is needed to live a good life.

From chard on a chair to tat soi in a suitcase, artist Jenna Spevack is cultivating a tasty variety of organic microgreens in her furniture farms -- and visitors to her upcoming gallery show will be able to reap the harvest.

Unsuspecting visitors to the small fishing village of Cheng Long might feel the need to blink and rub their eyes. Is there really a giant bowl and chopsticks sinking into the wetlands? What are those brightly colored things growing all over that house?

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto's beautiful 'Global Tree Project' reveals the natural world with hanging trees, gilded boulders, and more.

The Royal College of Art graduate students show their (environmental) stuff at the year-end show.

The dumpster full of glowing garbage out front of Switzerland's Gewerbemuseum sets the stage for what's inside -- an art exhibition of works both poignant and comical, all made from discarded plastic bags.

Motoi Yamamoto's salt labyrinths and intricate installations are as stunning as they are sustainable.

A remarkable exhibition of the future of transportation is mounted in the middle of industrial archaeology.

Sixty-five porters and 75 yaks labored over two years to bring more than eight tons of trash down from the slopes of Mount Everest -- and into the hands of local artists.

Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier

I'm tired of every green initiative being hijacked by the negativism in this country. It's time to stand up and turn off.

Residents in North Omaha want clean energy, not the coal pollution they're getting now.

Chemical companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the industrial waste industry are exempt from a law requiring companies handling hazardous waste to protect public health and the environment - and vulnerable communities are at risk.

So much of what he wrote has relevance today.

Or, a lesson in learning to love opossums.

Can the social media platform be blamed for the surge in camera-happy tourists?

Those crazy radicals at 475 demand High Performance Building across the Dominion.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says there's an ideal time.

The happy country that set a Guinness record for planting 49,672 trees in just one hour welcomes the birth of a new prince by more than doubling that planting.