This specially designed Finnish axe requires less force to split wood as it acts both as a wedge and as a lever.

Perhaps we should have included one in our perfect bathroom.

This Finnish design doesn’t look quite finished but it is ingenious.

The wheels on the desk go round and round.

Because standing desks cannot stand alone.

New research suggested benefits for giving students the option to stand during class.

For people like me who work all over the place, portable standing desks can be pretty useful

But there is a real question of how much one should pay for an artisanal shelf bracket.

Just throw yourself wherever you want to work; your office is where you are.

The high tech answer to keeping you moving while working.

Switching to a standing desk doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing endeavor.

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.

It is better than a fixed standing desk? They make a good case for it.

Do the benefits of not sitting all day ever end?

This standing desk is packed with clever organization features, and can be customized for left or right-handed people.

It sorta defeats the purpose in about twelve different ways.

Made by NextDesk, the Encore is ideally green, with bamboo top, recycled aluminum frame, and VOC-free coating - perfect for this TreeHugger writer!

Is that a cheap standing desk, or an expensive cardboard box? Hard to tell.

It's really all you need in this era of notebook computers.

It actually seems to say that you can give someone an adjustable desk but you can't make them stand. That's a very different thing.

It's clever, cheap, burns calories and keeps the blood flowing and heart pumping.

After 52,696 steps, a review of a LifeSpan treadmill desk.

Just standing isn't enough; you gotta move.

It tells you when to get up and to sit down, and checks up on you too.

Because people gotta move.

They're good for some things, but researchers say they're not the magic bullet solution for health that many would like them to be.

This tiny verdant island, called Vulcan Point or sometimes Vulcan Island, lies at the center of a strange-but-entirely-true natural wonder. It's known for being the world's largest volcanic island that's on a lake, on a

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for 'Ecocide' to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara

There is something mesmerizing about this clip of a squid worm, also named teuthidodrilus samae by researchers after it was 'discovered' recently in the depths of the Celebes Sea between Indonesian and the Philippines.

As their nation's sole law enforcement agency, the Philippines National Police carry a heavy burden when it comes to keeping the country safe -- but arresting one of the biggest threats they face will take shovels, not clubs or handcuffs.

Grassroots activist honored for 10-year protest against a proposed nickel mine on Mindoro Island

Many feared the worst, and it seems like that's what we got.

The best ideas aren't always the most expensive ones.

A new law hopes to fix deforestation and teach young people about environmental stewardship.

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

With research showing the installed cost of solar dropping 11% in just 6 months, it's little wonder that corporations like Wal-Mart are ramping up their plans to go solar aggressively. Walgreens made headline back in 2006 for its commitment to solar,

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.

Analysis bridges differences between various climate change models to predict North American climate change with high certainty. Will skeptics finally be convinced?

It's déjà vu all over again, with the old guard trying to stop the newcomers...

This series of composting furniture designs aims to "integrate worms and people into interdependent domestic bliss."

It's déjà vu all over again, again! Auto dealers have been fighting Tesla Motors on multiple fronts for a while now, trying to either force them to do business with the traditional sales model, or be prohibited from selling in certain states.

Toxins leached out of old coal mines in the American Rust Belt are converted into custom paints.

No half-done couch here; there's a big place to sit and socialize.

The basketball star has a soft spot for bikes, which he says gave him important freedom as a kid.

One was recently installed at an Ohio university. Is this the message one wants to give to students there?

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all

Philadelphia architects Interface Studio are known to TreeHugger for their work with PostGreen and on the 100K house. They have also just completed a modular student residence at Temple University that really does demonstrate

Quoting directly from the Philadelphia Eagles presser: "The Eagles have contracted with Orlando FL-based SolarBlue, a

Paris has the Promenade plantée and New York has The High Line, parks created on top of once-abandoned railway tracks. Now plans are afoot in Philadelphia to transform the Reading Viaduct into what its designers are