Our bet: no.

Governments aren't paying attention to scientific research, but maybe crime will get people's attention.

We love products that support or revive traditional crafts. Check out, for ex ample, the work of Kallari, fair trade suppliers of traditional Amazonian baskets, which we reported on here. Now we've come across another cool basket supplier, this time

The contents of your bag reveal more about you than you might think, but what about your choice of bag itself? District Cotton, a New York City-based company dedicated to fashion with a conscience, has a couple of sturdy options that are as socially

With a population that approached 1 million and a surface area of more than 115 square miles, the Khmer city of Angkor in Cambodia was the largest preindustrial settlement on the planet. After coming into being during the ninth century A.D., it thrived

Previously unknown species in a relatively undisturbed bioregion of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia have been uncovered by a recent study — 24 in total, including a so-called "corpse

Australian researchers used LIDAR, the aerial laser technology, to rediscover the city of Mahendraparvata in Cambodia.

Nomi Network helps to provide training and jobs to women in India and Cambodia.

It's happening all over, and wood construction can make it even easier and faster.

It's not enough to not make things worse. Our buildings and our actions have to make things better.

Architects ignore it. "Heads of sustainability" ignore it. Critics have ignored it, but this may be changing.

We have to reconsider what is "acceptable for how houses should look and feel."

Quebec architects propose a 48-storey tower in a forest, "a new relationship between humans and their natural habitat."

When made from the right materials, buildings can be a solution, not a problem.

How my thinking has evolved in the last decade

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?

Perkins&Will's new Dallas office tries to do all three certification systems in one beautiful historic building.

The KISS principle applies to everything, including building design.

It will start as a stand-alone course, but eventually be integrated into all subjects.

Unless, of course, TINA gets in the way.

At TreeHugger, we've been big fans of car-sharing services for a long time. ZipCar has long dominated the field, pushing the envelope recently by adding hybrid vehicles and expanding into new

One more example of how words can become completely meaningless and even contradictory.

The EPA has just released official "fuel economy" and range information for the BMW i3 100% electric car.

No "do the bright thing" for cars; instead, the BMW X6 designed to "look particularly menacing."

Pollution from power plants, cars, and other transportation is a well-known contributor to outdoor air pollution, but our indoor air quality is often worse; it can be up to 10 times worse for you than the air outside. Microbial pollutants like mold,

Getty Images Volatile organic compounds: something's in the air You can't see them, but they're all around us. They aren't listed as ingredients on the objects we bring in our home, but they're often there. They're volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, a

Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink (or so we all learned as kids, right?), but it's definitely not as easy as that these days. In honor of World Water Day (which may or may not have been today), let's

Minimizing your footprint is nice. Maximising your impact is better.

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.

Cars are killing us, and it is time to limit the damage to drivers and to people around them, just like we did with smoking.

It's also affecting everything from meat packing to crumpets.

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

The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.

Agriculture has become the single largest driver of climate change. It's time to start farming for the whole planet.

The 21st century needs a redefinition of security, to something broader than military terms, a relic of the Cold War.

The number is probably far higher than you think.

There is a third, more sustainable option: the library.

It's not revising up its official targets, but the government is hinting that it may now achieve 225 GW by 2022.

Pollinator power, y'all.

Many vegans don't realize that there's 'meat' in their electricity supply.

Primary energy consumption was down, too.

For those who say it's too difficult...

Hydrogen trains are now running in Germany. But are they really green and do they make any sense?

One of the UK's "Big Six" energy companies has gone a dark shade of green.

The country's onward march of low carbon energy shows no signs of stopping.

Home owners are going solar, without having to put anything on their roof.

Stanford scientists figure out a way to get hydrogen out of seawater. Does this matter?

In the first half of 2019, Scottish wind generated enough electricity to power the equivalent of 4.47 million homes, almost double the number of homes there.

From soothing stress to providing weird minerals you didn't know you need, iced tea provides more than just a refreshing boost.

Thirty bottles will buy you a ticket on the subway or bus.