Made by NPR, it explains what's recyclable, what becomes trash, and why.

The ancient Ok glacier, a fraction of its former size and unable to move, was declared dead in 2014.

Some places have looked at paying people to recycle, but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead. When the UK talked about implementing a "pay-as-you-throw" scheme for trash, our readers were

One craftsman is on a mission. Not only is he reclaiming and repairing quality hand tools. He is taking on corporate hegemony in the process.

Some pretty smart designers, builders and consultants have a pretty good idea for a sensible building standard.

Picture having a massive, beautiful expanse of woods near your home. You go there to hike, fish, hunt -- just to enjoy nature. Now picture a highway running through it.

The flying robots will start helping officials to locate lost hikers.

Who says you can't have both beauty and efficiency?

It's another national monument established by Obama and threatened by Trump.

GO Logic have always designed beautiful homes. This was the next Go Logical step.

Trees are the longest living and largest living organisms on earth. One acre of forest absorbs six tones of carbon dioxide and puts out four tones of oxygen. Trees are good noise barriers, making a city and neighborhood quieter. This is just the tip of

Doubletree Hotels with the Arbor Day Foundation kicked

Instead of buying some new "green" products for Earth Day, start a legacy for your community by planting trees for Arbor Day.

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

A new study suggests a sweet spot for daytime snoozes.

The 'puffin patrol' is saving baby puffins by the handful.

Doing street improvements for pedestrians and cyclists increases sales by 30 percent. So why aren't cities doing it?

How do you design a green, sustainable and healthy kitchen?

Perfect for tiny spaces, this multifunctional unit can be used as a kitchen, storage and workspace.

Kitchens should be for cooking.

Are you buying for looks or for function? It can be a tough call.

Lessons from the kitchens at Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation in Marseille.

We will all be poor, fat, and buried in plastic.

Treehugger has noted before how one can generate electricity from algae; Now Designboom shows a lamp designed by Mike Thompson that uses the principle. Place the lamp outside and the algae generates electricity during

These stunning underwater organisms offer an ethereal beauty hard to reproduce on land.

The ocean is full of uncharted territory -- and of breathtaking natural wonders that look like they'd be more at home on Pandora than in the blue depths just off the beach where you spent your summer vacation. These stunning underwater plants offer an

We really do need more of this kind of thinking.

An interesting design concept that envisions humans becoming semi-photosynthetic thanks to a symbiotic relationship with algae.

Is this company getting closer to the dream of making truly sustainable carbon-negative fuel?

Designed with 'artificial leaves' of glass filled with algae, this lighting fixture is made to produce extra oxygen.

The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further. For the first time, it is being tried on a city-wide scale,

Image credit: pawpaw67, used under Creative Commons license. Malaysian palm oil producers may be committing to green(er) practices, but that's unlikely to appease George Monbiot. He has long been a critic of biofuels for vehicles, but he is absolutely

The British city of Bristol hopes to promote local business with their own high-security scrip featuring local designs

The Bristol Pound is not your average local currency scheme. A new video sets out the vision for this ambitious, city-wide scheme.

This looks like lungs, sort of, but it's really made out of meadow flowers.

A slippery art installation in Bristol, England, reminds us that streets are not just for cars.

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

Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane. Not only do you

I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are

I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current transportation

Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America: In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than

A community garden in Atlanta proviudes refugees from around the Globe a space to grow food, share their culture and to build community as a result.

St. Augustine said "Solvitur Ambulando": It is solved by walking. So does Tom Vanderbilt in this great series in Slate.

Planner Paul Knight shows how to do the math and figure out where to go for maximum candy

Pandas, which are one of the better known endangered species out there, just aren't very good at breeding, making their survival more problematic than if, say, they had cubs by the bucketload every year.

Things don't quite work as they are supposed to when people stand up.

It is appalling that in much of America, they are considered a frill.

It was a sad day last year when intense lobbying efforts in Congress won out, and a ban on BPA in children's products was blocked. But it seems that China and Malaysia have beaten us to the punch. According to Green Biz, China and

BPA had been found to trigger the release of insulin in nearly twice the amount as when glucose is ingested.

A new study finds those with heart disease had higher concentrations of BPA in their urine.