Our photo of the day reveals a butterfly of most beautiful contradictions.

Douglas Rushkoff explains that the real costs of a new phone are not measured in just money.

Here's one room in the house that might benefit from a bit more tech.

Aiming to raise awareness about e-waste recycling, this photographer used 4,100 pounds of e-waste in these futuristic scenes.

If only we could buy it in North America.

Researchers propose using the vibrations of the heart to keep pacemakers going, eliminating the need to replace batteries.

Could TreeHuggers soon find themselves hugging a fake tree or idly philosophizing in meadows of artificial grass? More than 225 million square feet of Astroturf have been manufactured since the plastic carpeting made

Pestival, is a weekend festival packed with art, music, talks and workshops, celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. It starts from the fact that eighty percent of creatures on earth are insects, the 'pests' without whom humans

Image: Fiskars If it's true that gas-powered lawn mowers crank out 5% of the nation's air pollution, then it's truly time to consider workable alternatives. If we haven't convinced you to replace your lawn with a xeriscape or food forest, you might want

It's the first living painting in London's Trafalgar Square, and maybe the first anywhere. A Van Gogh picture has been turned into a green living vertical wall.

British artists Ackroyd and Harvey have created a series of temporary grass "photos" of people who work for the local government.

For many

After reviewing the major religions of the world's stances on the environment, it seems pretty clear to me that there are more commonalities than differences. In the realm of metaphysics there are genuine and significant

Some nice symbolism here... WWF-Nepal reports that it has just completed its target for 2011 of planted 108,000 trees in the Sacred Garden of Lumbini, where the Buddha was born roughly 2,500 years ago. Over the next ten years the

The electricity grid can handle a ban, ten years earlier than law makers are aiming for.

It turns out leaving the EU is quite hard. Who knew?

Microsoft decided that a good way to advertise its cloud-based Office 365 software would be to actually put a T-Mobile wifi router with 15 days of free wifi inside a magazine advert.

A new report card from the Electronics TakeBack Coaltion shows how each retailer stacks up when it comes to recycling the merchandise they sell us.

Fewer solar panel manufactures are willing to share information about their manufacturing practices, and that can't be good news.

By 2017, global e-waste rates will increase by 33% to 65.4 million tons per year—the weight equivalent of almost 200 Empire State Buildings.

Phonebloks was a great idea - mix-and-match pieces means upgrading from a basic platform is forever. Now it has a first competitor - the Eco-Mobius.

A coating made from copper nanowires could make those smartphone screens a lot tougher and help the gadgets to last longer.

The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.

Picture this: In 2016 the world generated enough e-waste to fill a line of 18-wheelers from New York to Bangkok and back.

It may well be more Jane Jacobs and Stewart Brand than it is Bjarke Ingells.

The Street View cameras now take you on extreme vertical tours alongside famous climbers.

But is it truly modular?

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has scrapped the release of the Project Ara phone.

Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a ground source heat pump company.

The proposal for redeveloping Toronto's waterfront into a green, sustainable, urban tech hub is controversial.

Slow, incremental changes are more effective than trying to do it all at once.

With disinfecting and sanitizing on everyone's mind, good old-fashioned bar soap has never been more necessary. It's still possible to go plastic-free, too. These are the best bar soaps for every body part.

Books aren't just for reading -- you can carve incredible works out of them too, as this artist has done with this 24-volume set.

And a big part of the pitch is sustainability and comfort.

All work and no play? Here's a work space with some playful humor built in.

Lloyd Alter would be so proud.

Price is no longer the main obstacle. Lack of understanding might be.

You just can't fool Mother Nature.

The Open Sesame documentary examines the importance of open source seeds.

We usually start with "A Picture is Worth", but in this case the thousand words are much more powerful. Boingboing quotes designer Justin Perricone: "This is a poster I designed using all of the ingredients in a Ham & Cheese Hot Pocket. First in a

This weekend's New York Times Magazine was their annual food issue, about a subject dear to TreeHugger's heart: "how the food revolution- from farm to table- is really a story about seeding and savouring communities." Christine Muhlke, in Growing

If you don't subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow

Darya Pino of Summer Tomato prepared this terrific flow chart to help navigate the supermarket.Marion Nestle of Food Politics liked it, noting:

"For the US in 2006, online data centres accounted for 1.5 percent of the entire country's electricity use - equating to more than the entire state of Massachusetts. " View the chart up close...Really interesting facts/stats! Image via GDS Digital via

One of the big beefs with Energy Star for housing is that all it cared about was energy; beat the standard code by 15% and you got it. No matter that the best way to make a house efficient is to make it tight, leading to all kinds of air quality

The Earth Advantage Institute promotes a green building standard from the Northwest that combines the energy requirements of Energy Star with healthy home attributes like air quality, environmental responsibility and and resource efficiency. I thought

Walmart has been in the sustainability spotlight over the last few years, both for implementing its own efficiency measures and for raising the bar for industry at large. Some view these initiatives with skepticism because the

Can hotels be 100% eco-friendly and affordable? I tried out Starwood's Element Hotel in NYC to find out how far a 411-room urban hotel can go green. The result is mostly positive with a few letdowns.

The information is pretty basic but it's not trivial, and would make a difference.

LEDs were already cheap when you take into account how much money they save you on your electricity bill, but now this is just a no-brainer.