From the "re-positioning of old news' file: as quoted in the New York Times story about a trillion dollar minerals discovery in Afganistan, U.S.

Some good news on the critically endangered Indian vulture: New research published in PLoS One documents how the rate of the bird's decline has fallen since India, Nepal, and Pakistan banned the veterinary painkiller

Indonesia may not be tapping into much of its superior

The Google-funded research shows that there's 3 million megawatts of geothermal power, across the entire US, waiting to be tapped via enhanced geothermal techniques.

Demand for lithium is growing very rapidly thanks to portable electronics and electric vehicles. What if we could get a lot of lithium cheaply, without building new mines?

Energy policy and energy use are not forces of nature beyond our control. It's all about choices; different choices set us off on different paths, but don't prevent us from switching course.

This integrative technology keeps CO2 out of the atmosphere and makes geothermal energy widely available

Whether it's coffee or tea, Katherine and Margaret love their steaming mugs of deliciousness.

Frank Lloyd Wright would probably have liked this little addition to his winter home.

It's wood, it's small, it's resilient.

Yo Shimada designs a house for a family that believes if you've got it, flaunt it.

This quiet retreat has an interesting interior of overlapping layers that welcomes the outdoors in.

Meet the 'Japan pig,' a newly discovered pygmy seahorse that is as tiny as it is beautiful.

Artisan is the new natural in terms of false advertising.

The show is 101 years old, but this year it's the newcomers that are making their mark.

In which I try to clear up some misconceptions.

It's one thing to design to the Passivhaus standard; it is another thing altogether to prove it.

In a bid to meet the city's goal of recycling 60% of its waste by 2015, Seattle is turning its sights on food scraps that end up in the trash.

These are interesting times for the Passive House movement in America, and this should be a very interesting conference.

And it is beautiful too.

Which really, is how every building and office should be designed.

Find out why one family found living on a renovated bus to be an appealing tiny-house-on-wheels alternative.

Seattle architect Mike Eliason describes what he learned about their housing policies.

Strawless in Seattle is now officially enshrined into law.

Or is it a missed opportunity?

Passive House multifamily buildings use almost no energy and don't cost much more than conventional buildings. They should be everywhere.

Photo via StringBike The Bike, Unchained A group of designers in Hungary have done away with what has long been a staple of bicycle design, those oily old chains, with their creation, the StringBike. Instead of being propelled forward the traditional

Wastewater or sludge storage lagoons are designed, in part, based on statistical probability of annual precipitation and evaporation amounts. The data behind these estimates generally don't take into account contemporary

One designer tackles how the ubiquitous egg carton could be rethought in order to waste less.

London's international embassies are showing off their countries' design as part of the London Design Festival.

A tiny apartment in a new tourist hotspot is remade with clever modern elements to maximize space.

A roaming freelance photographer and writer go on the road in this self-built live-work space on wheels.

Using a self-invented "multiluminous" painting process, this artist transforms ordinary rooms into starry environments.

After promising not to use sodium lauryl sulfate in any products, The Honest Co. is under scrutiny after two lab tests found significant amounts of the chemical in its laundry detergent.

Corporate Knights Magazine asks the question and gets a different result than we did.

The proposed rules are expected to cut U.S. methane emission by 20 to 30 percent.

Appeals court calls EPA approval of bee-threatening sulfoxaflor “based on flawed and limited data.”

Because America needs more SUVs and pickup trucks to be great again

Many of Obama's rules never came into force, and many of Trump's will never make much difference.

Reducing the benefits they can count will reduce the number of regulations that pass the cost-benefit analysis phase of regulation

In this eye-popping example of adaptive reuse, a crumbling church is remade into a public skatepark, complete with incredible murals.

But could it be the ugliest house we have ever shown on TreeHugger?

Napping in the daytime is good for your health and probably for your productivity.

Optional add-ons like desks, drawers, cabinets, trundle beds and even bike racks make this single bed a place to work, play, rest and relax.

I used to think that this kind of furniture would become a very big deal. I was wrong.

Ephemeral and unexpected, this outdoor workspace is intended as an urban refuge.

This small space renovation turns a cramped space into one that has space for almost everything.

This Bilbao tower is like nothing the Passivhaus world has seen.

That scintillating time that is the cusp between high school and the rest of one's life is a thrill. And no moment captures the feeling more succinctly than graduation day itself.

They're hot, they're celebrities, and they believe in saving the Earth. But what's better is that they all have one thing in common (besides the environment) -- they're single! We've listed some of our favorite eco-hotties below