Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins sets out what Resilience 2.0 might look like.

A pioneer of peak oil community action sits down to talk with her mother about a previous crisis and how she survived it.

George Monbiot claims that peak oil is no longer a major concern. Is he right?

Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.

The problem is not too little oil, says a new IEA report, it's too much oil. And it illustrates why activists should not presume to know the future.

Growing bike sales, a boom in sharing, and an interest in growing your own food are ust some of the signs that we could be moving beyond our current energy paradigm. Add your own to the list.

The Oil Drum is a website published by the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future, a non-profit that conducts research and educates the public about energy issues and their impact on society.

It seems to be following the same path as Peak Oil, and happy days are here again.

We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.

We have lots of stuff, it's just unevenly distributed.

Peak oil used to be about running out of supply; now some think that we will run out of demand. The oil companies will ensure that we never run out of demand.

It takes a lot of metal to make this stuff.

This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.

So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes.

The HELIOtube is a radical departure from conventional CSP technology, as it is based around tubes of inflatable plastic film.

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.

Is this totally silly and a waste of time and money, or is it a great leap forward? Or is it too soon to tell?

Pioneering solar house was designed and engineered by women

The fully automated aquaponics system grows lettuces, herbs and small fruits right in your kitchen.

The teen has been building the DIY microwave, hoping to solve many cooking problems with one device.

It learns your usage patterns but can do a lot more.

Who says you have to wait till New Year's to make a fresh start? No time's better than back-to-school season.

I knew that real-time data on our energy use would be interesting. But I wasn't sure how much it would actually save us.

One design attempts to deal with the problem of plastic bottle caps -- which often get discarded rather than recycled.

Vibrantly colored wire is saved from the landfill and woven into recycled fan cages to produce these fresh pieces of furniture.

No high-tech bells and whistles here, but tried-and-true strategies are used in this renovation to make a small space feel much bigger.

It reveals what we already know but needs repeating – that more time in nature equals greater happiness in kids.

Our photo of the day comes from the waters off Sydney, Australia.

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to take a look at creatures just as elusive as that pot of gold. The lush green landscapes of the Emerald Isle look calm and peaceful from far away -- but Ireland's species -- from a gorgeous barn owl to a toad

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to take a look at creatures just as elusive as that pot of gold.

I grew up in the West of England. I like hard cider. And as a failed beekeeper, I owe a deabt of gratitude (or guilt?) to our furry pollinating friends. So I was delighted to hear that one purveyor of hard cider is

We've heard of transformer apartments, but what about a transformer garden. These movable green walls create flexible outdoor spaces.

The horsemeat scandal in the UK and Europe could make more people turn to vegetarianism.

It may lead to as many as 20,000 passive houses being built over the next five years.

The humble avocado pit has been rescued from the compost bin of obscurity and remade into these magical little sculptures.

Earlier in the week, the New York Times reported that bees in Brooklyn had started turning red, and their honey was looking like bright red goo. It turned out that

An innovative eco-tourism project in northeast Turkey will take travelers along ancient nomadic routes to taste artisanal organic honey, meet local beekeepers, and enjoy spectacular scenery along the way.

It's not a bee attack -- it's just a bee swarm. Here are tips on how to deal with one.

Go beyond your morning toast with these sweet all-natural beauty hacks featuring one of our favorite ingredients.

Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize for her presentation on oceans, and this year got her Mission Blue project up and rolling to create marine preserves. Earle's wish was that we all use all the means at our disposal to tell the story of oceans in

On one side of the world, the hovering ash cloud is making it very, very difficult for millions travelers to get home and using up a lot of media air. Meanwhile on the other side of the

TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from

All photos credit Collin Dunn Ed. note: 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with a stop in the Florida Everglades, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety

The Galapagos Islands are like no place on earth. The Galapagos Islands have too many

Environmental education is playing a bigger role around the globe as we all learn more about our environmental surroundings. As

Conservation efforts, especially in places as renowned as the Galapagos, have something of a reputation. It's developers vs. protesters, consumers vs. conservationists, people

The ballooning rates of people coming to the Galapagos, as residents or tourists, over the past few years has created a variety of environmental concerns for the islands. Not least of these is waste management, as the

Image: allaboutgeorge, Flickr, CC BY The Digital Migration Continues to Change the Face of Consumption A new study from the Ponyter Institute reveals that by the end of 2010, more people were reading their news online than in traditional newspapers. 34%

Remember the Yellow Pages Association? They represent the folks who print phone books. They've fought some efforts by cities to ban phone book distribution, and

Since its eruption in late August, the Solyndra scandal has been a lightning rod for political and ideological debates over everything from the role of government in business to the debate on global