The most under-reported  and neglected aspect of the good food movement is the 20 million workers who toil every day harvesting fields, killing and cutting up animals, packing boxes, driving trucks, cooking meals, serving tables, and cleaning up the mess.

I'm tired of every green initiative being hijacked by the negativism in this country. It's time to stand up and turn off.

So much of what he wrote has relevance today.

Those crazy radicals at 475 demand High Performance Building across the Dominion.

Uttar Pradesh is going to be looking a lot greener after a marathon 24-hour tree-planting frenzy.

Several monumental measures were passed in last week's U.S. election.

Yesterday TreeHugger asked whether the Monobloc was the most famous plastic chair in the world. Now, sadly, the death has been announced of the creator of another very famous plastic chair.

In today's weekly newsletter, we go on about why cold showers are good for you (not the reasons you think); show off some very fancy LED lights in a very old fixture design and whine about the designs of tiny houses.

Gather round the holiday vegetable loaf and hear of Thanksgivings past on TreeHugger

Put your money directly into the hands that made the gift you're buying.

The rating system is attacked in 2012 for its 2002 standard and the timing couldn't be worse.

The world is divided into the optimists and the pessimists. Here are two methods for the latter group to deal with the inevitable gray mood after reading all the depressing news about the state of the earth.

My favorite day of the year is a shadow of its former self.

When I wonder what words should replace Emma Lazarus's obsolete phrase on the Statue of Liberty - "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free" I think of Frank Luntz's dictum learned from Joe Romm: "There is a simple rule,

The UK organization wants schools to incorporate that time into their daily curriculum.

There is a day for everything, and today we celebrate ride sharing.

There is sharing, there is abuse, and there is theft. Susie Cagle takes a tough look at the subject.

A new lightweight thermoelectric generator has been developed at NC State, which may be able to power small health sensors or other small wearable devices.

Natural light is free and plentiful and the day is long.

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

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

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

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

By now you've probably heard that adopting a vegetarian diet, or at least cutting way down on you meat consumption, is a great way to reduce your ecological footprint and get some great health benefits at the same time. Now

Chances are that you've never heard of Gene DeSantis, but his story seems one destined for legend. In fact, he's already being likened to a modern-day Johnny Appleseed. For almost three decades, DeSantis has made it his mission

Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.

In a matter of seconds, thousands of lives and dreams were destroyed in Haiti last month.

We want to extend National Talk Like A Pirate Day just a few more days, especially since it is helping to spread the word about clean sailing and boating. The Sierra Club has put together a fun set of questions to not only get you in the

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The future of green building depends on what comes out of our soil.

The Bitcoin is the Hummer of speculative vehicles; let's hope it doesn't make it to its Bar Mitzvah.

Today is Earth Overshoot Day, but it's not exactly something we should be celebrating. It's actually a wakeup call for humanity.

Concerned about the overpopulation of our planet and the effect it has on wildlife? Perhaps it's time to talk about the most effective form of male contraception.

Move over, regular solar panels.

In anticipation of a new retrospective at the Whitney, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, " Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the New Yorker, quoting Fuller about the need for innovation:

Allison Arieff reviews the Buckminster Fuller retrospective at the Whitney. She writes "His brain was constantly consumed with the serious issues of his day —

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day. Vegetarians do not.

Tomorrow, real men eat quiche (cheese pi).

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day.

The monthly vegetarian gathering will also host policy makers to discuss various aspects of climate change.

This long, cold winter has created the most ice cover on the Great Lakes in 20 years—and with ice cover usually at its peak in mid-March, there's still time for records to be broken.

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

Lessons from Amundsen: travel fast and light with a small footprint.

In the US, Arbor Day is April 27, 2007. When this writer was a child, our grade school class planted trees on Arbor Day, told that when we grew up that "our" trees might well still be there, beholden to our childhood actions. We even had an

Doubletree Hotels with the Arbor Day Foundation kicked

The Triumph Elm is being set up on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in honor of Arbor Day this Friday (and you thought the fun ended with Earth Day!). The tree is part of a project by the Morton Arboretum to enlighten

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

Ways to spend the day for those who'd like to skip the whole 'bloodsport of mass consumerism' thing.

The first affordable microwave changed the way we cooked- for a while, anyway

There is no place for you in a healthy, circular economy, and this is nothing to celebrate