Spoiler alert: The writer turned out to be a YouTube star.

The Musical Mountaineers carry a violin and piano up trails to perform in secret wilderness locations.

Contrary to what many people believe, they're not going to charity – just straight to landfill.

Clever idea from Finnish designer combines portable storage with fixed dresser unit

Using a combination of LED lights, sunlight and environmental data, a disused oil silo has been transformed into Helsinki's newest art installation and urban destination.

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

There's finally momentum on the international stage. And this is one of the most ambitious announcements yet.

Perhaps we should have included one in our perfect bathroom.

Forget about 3D printing houses; digital fabrication using sustainable materials is a much bigger deal.

Or, for that matter, park both a house and a car like Bill Dunster's ZEDpod.

It is about time that people acknowledged that it's not just cyclists that hit their heads. Helmets for everybody!

Urban dwellers can get a taste of camping out in nature with this temporary island cabin just outside of Helsinki.

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

Eat simpler food.

Doing this was one of the best decisions I made when getting married. (So was marrying a great guy!)

Studies show that standing has anti-ageing effects.

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.

In this installment of Town & Country, Margaret and Katherine share how they work from home.

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.

is looking down at your phone really like putting an aardvark on your head?

And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.

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.

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.

Last week when the US Geothermal Energy Association released it's biannual report which stated that geothermal power had grown by 20% so far this year , it cemented what TreeHugger said over a year ago: Geothermal power is the poor

Mayon is the largest of the Philippines' 22 active volcanoes, at 8,070 feet. The plumes of smoke and flows of lava make it seem like it is already erupting, yet scientists say the big fireworks could be still to come, and more than 40,000 people have

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

Furthering a trend: As the United States continues virtually deadlocked on enacting any legislation pricing carbon or significantly promoting renewable energy, more Asian countries than China are likely to

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.

If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people

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

"The mining companies were telling us that it's safe... We did our research and discovered they were lying through their teeth."

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.

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

The art form of papercuts is taken to another level with these intricate works that draw attention to some of the world's threatened species.