Feast your eyes on the frozen foods available with no waste at the Globus Hypermarket in the Czech Republic

This nickel structure as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter could do double duty as a battery

A list of chemicals and their uses will support risk assessments and circular economy plans

It's got everything: “Design, construction, love, betrayal, and eventually murder. Just a typical architectural project.”

A minimalist and discreet addition to some exuberant older houses.

Anyone who says that a building has to be demolished because the plan doesn't suit modern uses is either lying or incompetent. Just look at this.

Digital photography has made us lose the wretched chemicals and excess paper of the Polaroid era. So if you want to save a summer memory, you can do it in organic chocolate.

When you're biting the head off a chocolate bunny this weekend, the last thing you want to be thinking about is whether your sweet treat was the product of child slave labor. Don't let that happen to you. Buy good chocolate, people!

You don't want to ruin the romance with a gift contaminated by child labour and slavery.

It's hard, in these days when we worry about sugar and additives and obesity. What to do?

I've eaten a lot of fabulous fair trade chocolate, and this is undoubtedly the yummiest I've ever had!

Whether it's fair trade, organic, handmade, tree-to-bar, or direct trade that you're looking for, these companies have something delectable for everyone.

Homemade popsicles are one of my favorite summer treats, particularly when it’s too hot to bake or cook.

This woman-owned business is making some of the best chocolates on the planet, using Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa to craft a line of luxurious truffles and bars.

Testing shows just how much packaging is required to keep the yum in, and reveals some dirty little secrets on the way

A report reveals that major chocolate companies buy cocoa from illegally-cleared national parks in Ghana and Ivory Coast.

U.S. chocolate sales have been dropping and the industry is very worried. What's going on?

See this fascinating documentary about the dedicated man who created a forest the size of Central Park.

That's a switch: a product from the field of medicine has won a design prize.

This year's specially designed and built pavilion looks like a colourful worm on the ground.

Bees, ivory poaching, and war are amongst the themes portrayed in this year's shortlist.

There is an art to shade gardening: keep it simple.

The small gardens are new and innovative and changing the way we look at them.

But hey, what’s wrong with formaldehyde? It’s in our breath, our apples and our trees.

That's 0.0082677165 inches for Americans, and really thin in either unit.

Can one device to it all? Should it? Has its time finally come?

This could be "a thermostat for the sun."

It all adds up to a huge amount of electricity consumption and carbon emitted, both embodied and operating.

It's a duffel bag with various inserts that will keep you organized whenever you leave the house.

Colombia has declared a state of emergency following discovery of Panama disease Tropical Race 4.

If you think leather is "natural", think again. 15 of 17 gloves tested socred unsatisfactory or inadequate in tests for harmful chemicals.

Several American team members are involved in environmental issues, as well as Olympic ones.

The complex little patterns of old circuit boards are highlighted in this lovely handmade collection of jewelry for men and women.

Bold and refined, these wearable works of art also allude to the object's unspoken history.

Unless you want a dash of melamine or formaldehyde in your coffee, skip the bamboo cups.

Parents will have to embrace the old-fashioned cloth diapering method. That's not a bad thing.

A German study reveals that we're doing a poor job of keeping of safeguarding children's health when it comes to plastic.

A new set of guidelines aimed at children 5 and under hopes to curb sugar intake.

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As you may have seen on every major news channel out there, Hurricane Irene is barreling up towards eastern cities like NYC and Washington DC and from the looks of it, it ain't gonna be pretty. Many New Yorkers are evacuating and those who are staying

Show the world your environment with a new TreeHugger and UNEP partnership with Piictu, a photo sharing social network.

Public washrooms really are just as important as public roads because, in both cases, people gotta go.

It's about time; they are better for the environment and for your bottoms.

We have to stop building highways and start building toilets as we face a whole new public bathroom crisis.

The bacteria are winning.

Another great example of compost poetry that celebrates the magic in our muck.

Triclosan may have been banned in soap, but antimicrobials are still allowed in more than 2,000 other products, which is a big problem.

Scientist explains in new book how germs can be advantageous for kids and how over-sterilizing is hurting them.

Forget about Tony Stark or the Bionic Man, the real cyborg action starts with microscopic swamp creatures