This is not easy to do.

David Milarch is on a quest to save California's coast redwoods, some of the world's oldest and largest living things; he may be saving the planet along the way.

This couple have found a balance between financial security and freedom, by renting out their house, living out of their renovated garage, and traveling in their van conversion.

The Eagle Creek Fire, which consumed nearly 50,000 acres, was started when the teen threw fireworks into the forested canyon.

This surprising trend combines the comfort found in being around animals, along with the well-known benefits of practicing yoga.

We laughed, we cried, but more important, we picked the recycling-loving winners of Etsy's Handmade Halloween Costume Contest.

As we move into full consumer season it can be difficult to equate your green intentions with the holiday spirit of giving. Perhaps it is time to consider the true value of a gift and how it is made. The Treehugger gift guide will certainly inspire

Etsy invited TreeHugger to write about their favorite green baby items in the Handmade Kids series; clothes and accessories made for children by independent designers. Etsy is that wonderful website that features all things handmade to buy and sell by

Etsy is holding a contest to pick web readers' favourite choices of handmade children's items in seven different categories: furniture, toys, eco-friendly, art, home decor, clothes and accessories. All are made for children by independent designers.

Etsy, the website that features all things handmade to buy and sell by artists and artisans, held a contest to pick web readers' favourite choices of handmade children's items in seven different categories. These were: toys, eco-friendly, furniture,

(Image: NY Times As the world becomes a more perfect place, where elephant landmine victims walk again, streetsigns are best used as jewelry, and coal plants get the royal STFU, we're gonna need more handy little things like the VeloPocket. Along with

Local designers from The NewNew, a group of independent handmade Etsy artists, designers, and crafters in the New York area, have come together for this years spring Handmade Calvacade. The shopping event will feature fine,

Handmade is becoming big business -- reeeally big. Etsy -- the online marketplace for handmade items -- announced earlier this week that it has raised $20 million in venture capital financing and has now tripled its valuation at $300 million (not

'Slow' games make a comeback, as stylish jewelry with a twist.

You might not give an outdated wool suit a second look, but these trendy bags make the most of discarded suit fabrics, transforming old into something new and fashionable.

Keep your feet cool and stylish with high-quality footwear this summer, thanks to the following environmentally minded brands.

Finally, green shoe design is reaching mainstream levels.

This ingenious design uses biodegradable waste products to build the greenest shoe you've ever owned.

Shoppers can now choose to support a broader range of social issues.

This wilderness explorer transformed this van into a mobile, solar-powered home that has all the amenities.

This super-insulated home is built to be earthquake-resistant too.

This couple swapped a ladder for a climbing wall up to their loft.

Compared to conventional shipping container homes, the Pod-Tainer has a relatively spacious interior, thanks to pop-outs on both sides.

A brush with death helped this family focus on the most important things in life, prompting them to convert a bus into a DIY motorhome.

Scientists have been studying the huge submerged landmass for decades and are now pushing for its recognition as a continent.

This modern home is chock full of clever space-maximizing ideas.

Here's an interesting idea: a tiny house on wheels that can be separated from its wheels.

This industrial designer's 3D/4D printed, life-like forms ask the question of whether we can design and engineer "intelligent" plants that can adapt to environmental changes.

Equipped with two bedrooms and a secondary loft, there's plenty of space to grow in this small home.

When a New Zealand supermarket chain ditched plastic packaging, produce sales skyrocketed.

The fire department demands trees and on-street parking be removed so that they can have 20' clear speedways

A Today Show bit today is perhaps the grossest example yet.

This is an urban design issue, a car design issue, and a demographics issue. Distracted walking is a rounding error.

Four miles from the shore of Key West, the fatigued iguana eagerly scrambled aboard the kayak and hitched a ride home.

It's sustainable!

Oh, I am sorry. I meant "trackless trains."

There are lessons to be learned from this model home built by Meritage, even if it is big and beige.

And even worse, they are devouring the much-smaller native treefrogs.

Our photo of the day comes from Florida's John D MacArthur Beach State Park.

This undersea memorial will honor all the US subs and their crews lost since 1900, while creating new habitat for marine life.

Plenty of space-saving ideas packed into a compact, comfortable and contemporary package.

One couple's infamous battle over the right to grow vegetables has resulted in a new bill.

SAMARA's cruelty-free apple leather is created from the waste of the juicing industry.

It's a multifunctional space that hides everything behind its pared-down walls.

So what if it doesn't have pedals and isn't as practical as an e-bike, it's so elegant and minimal.

Massimiliano Locatelli is writing a new language of design that reflects the new technology.

This affordable tiny house was 3D printed using mud, rice husks and straw to create a "zero-kilometre" structure.

This Fair Trade company has new cold-weather footwear for men and women.

Mud Jeans are bringing apparel to the circular economy.

This week, Anishinaabe tribal members began riding horseback along the proposed route of a what could possibly become the largest tar sands pipeline in the United States.