You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

Talk about slashing food miles; 'fresh from the roof' is as local as it gets.

Part art, part meditative process, these works are created with plant material harvested from the artist's urban garden.

The age of vehicular cycling is coming to an end; cyclists want equity, not equality

Electric bikes are the great leveller; a lot more people will be doing this.

Wood smoke is a huge source of particulate pollution and really shouldn't be in residential neighbourhoods. But the flavour...

They do this so well in Montreal.

This is the kind of gentle density we need.

Well, that happened fast.

It was a while coming, but this could be a pretty big deal for your average buyer.

For Monsanto, superweeds are just another selling point for its products.

When reviewing the safety of glyphosate, the Environmental Protection Agency considered just five independent studies, and 27 industry-funded studies.

Weed killer, it's what's for breakfast! Glyphosate found in 43 of 45 conventional oat products tested by EWG.

EWG tested 28 brands of conventional oat-based cereals; they all had glyphosate residue, most of them above healthy standards

Batteries recycled from old LEAFs run the refrigeration equipment in this all-electric truck.

In a word, no. Ford can sell this fiction, but it is all about friction.

Docked electric cars can be worse than dockless scooters for pedestrians, but the UEone is a step in the right direction.

Melinda Hanson talks to TreeHugger about taking back the streets.

Michael Pollan writes in the New York Times about the connection between the American diet and the cost of health care; Surprisingly, conservative writers like Marie-Josée Kravis are saying much the same thing,

The New York Times devotes an entire issue of the magazine to food, and of course, Michael Pollan has a place on the menu. He takes our our beloved KFC double down sandwich, Froot Loops being a smart choice, and

The Mandometer was originally developed to treat eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa; it was developed to "teach patients how to eat and recognize hunger and satiety." There are clinics using the technology in Sweden, the USA and

The first Freakonomics book was a lot of fun; the second less so, as it sort of devolved into "if the scientific consensus and/or coast-hugging liberal elite are for it, we are against it" type of thing. Hence Freakonomics Watch; or perhaps it should

Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore's Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights, "the magazine for clean capitalism", Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes

Via Calorielab we learn of yet another thing that makes you fat: eating at your desk. It appears that when you are not paying attention to your food, you eat more and remember less.Researchers at The Universty

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

With guests Kathy Freston and Michael Pollan, Oprah dedicated her full show yesterday to veganism and meat production. She and her staffers went vegan for a week, some of them have decided to continue the diet (or go "veganish") even

While you may not have heard of the Good Food Awards, there is a good chance you've enjoyed food from some of their winners. The not-for-profit organization celebrates not only the kind of food we should be eating but the kind we want to eat.

Recommended reading from two of America's biggest food writers.

They are everywhere, the full page ads with smiling people proud of how much money they saved and how they qualified for all those government grants. But what did they really save? Perhaps a bit of energy, but how much?

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

Katherine Salant writes in the Washington Post:Can a big house be green? Yes, but a smaller house will always be greener because fewer resources were used in its construction and less energy is needed to heat and

We're well aware of the importance of health when it comes to preparing foods in the kitchen—between Salmonella, E. Coli, and a variety of other

The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being made in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades.

A round home is British Columbia's first home to be Energy Star qualified, a topic of contention on TreeHugger.

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

Drying clothes uses an incredible amount of energy, it's clearly a low-hanging fruit for conservation and energy efficiency efforts.

Look Ma! No heatsink!

It was only a few years ago that I was testing LED bulbs that cost $100 each...

The new rule is expected to save Americans $167 billion in energy costs.

Efficiency standards are now toast because of worries of "over-reach and intrusiveness".

From heat pumps to induction, it has never been easier to give up gas.

We’ve all ripped a pair of jeans, but we’re not all tailors. Nudie Jeans has a great solution.

We can do lists too; here are some of the simple things you can do that do not involve spending money and buying stuff.

Many users replace their smartphones every couple of years, even though they have years of life left in them. Here's how to keep your smartphone for longer while keeping up its performance.

Save your clothes with these easy fixes for common zipper problems.

Knitted woollens should never get tossed until you've tried to repair them. Thanks to online tutorials, it's not as hard as it seems.

It's a sign of quality when companies are willing to stand by the goods they sell.

Do we need hyperloops? No, we need trains that work.

The Right to Repair movement is rapidly growing – and it can't come soon enough.