The researchers have found a simple way to create an energy source for fuel cells using CO2 in the air.

In what is said to be a first for automakers, Ford is developing foams and plastics using captured carbon dioxide, which could be integrated into the company's vehicles within five years.

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.

Evonik and Siemens announce two-year project to demonstrate feasibility of "technical photosynthesis" using eco-electricity to convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals

It's also affecting everything from meat packing to crumpets.

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."

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

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

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.

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.

On a more positive note, the report also notes that population growth with stabilize sooner than expected, at about 8 billion people by 2042.

The 21st century needs a redefinition of security, to something broader than military terms, a relic of the Cold War.

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

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'.

The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people.

On National Book Lovers Day, we celebrate the ultimate slow hobby.

For those who say it's too difficult...

The British government sees offshore wind as a genuine opportunity to lead.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute ran a competition to update the iconic map; here are some of the finalists

The styrofoam substitute that they grow into packaging and insulation is the next big thing in building.

Tomorrow, real men eat quiche (cheese pi).

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day.

A new kind of food label hopes to fight obesity by stating how much exercise is required to burn it off.

Help fund solutions to the global water crisis by purchasing a t-shirt from a company that donates to Thirst Relief for each shirt sold - enough money per shirt to give one person access to clean, drinkable water for 25 years!

California has been going through a drought for about 3 years now, with 2013 being the driest year on record.

'When Nestlé Comes To Town' tells the moving story of residents in Cascade Locks, Oregon, who have united to fight Nestlé and keep it from bottling their precious and sacred water.

This ambitious goal is all the more remarkable because NIPSCO is currently 65% coal dependent.

We are going backward, not forward.

Carbon dioxide continues as the main concern, but we ignore methane at our own risk

If you can't beat 'em, ship 'em. The state of Illinois is spending $2 million to ship invasive Asian carp back to China, where they're considered a delicacy. In Illinois, and the Great Lakes region, they're

It led to a series of other agreements that protected and cleaned up the Great Lakes environment

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.

Dictionary.com picks the perfect word for our dystopian future!

Even a species that has benefited from temperature increases in the past may be hurt by excessive warming.

... the Emperor Penguin! It vows to call for marine reserves in Antarctica to protect its imperilled species.

We are now prisoners of the petrochemical industry.

I don't buy many plastic bottles, but the ones that I do will take some creative workarounds to avoid.

This year, Gandhi's birthday will be marked by a national crackdown on six specific plastic items.

Maine's taking a stand against oil usage and oil dependency--frankly the bigger issue than where we get our oil from, tar sands and other unconventional oil sources aside. As NRDC Switchboard reports, the state has passed a law

Organic wool comfort wear company Ramblers Way founded by Tom and Kate Chappell, of Tom's of Maine fame has come a long way since their first collection, comprised of natural blonde wool jersey knits

There are approximately 2 million reasons to love trees ... but we'll start with these.

From crayfish to parakeets, these species are at risk of disappearing from the planet.

37 species under national protection have been observed in the Ziwuling area, thanks to massive reforestation efforts.

A conference on sustainable construction in the Can of Ham is in denial about upfront carbon emissions

After another site makes a list, we add our own suggestions.

We really do need more of this kind of thinking.

The vast majority of species exist in a sort of 'dark matter' biomass. But new tools are shedding light on the microscopic organisms that, although invisible to our eyes, constitute the "most diverse and abundant" life forms on earth.

"It's an emergency," say council members. "So let's act like it."

It's summertime, and the living is easy, and we are talking about air conditioning.

Proof that buildings from the 70s and 80s can be fixed well instead of demolished: Perkins + WIll gets the highest LEED score in America.