Investing in youth is an investment in a sustainable future

Former Stanford dean Julie Lythcott-Haims sets out a sensible guide for why and how American parenting needs to change, if we truly want our kids to do well in life.

Who needs a dining hall when you've got a dorm kitchen available? Even if you don't, make it happen with a few basic tools and skills.

Food insecurity is a very real problem for many Americans, but who knew that it affected so many college students, too?

A new study has found that sleep disturbances have a greater effect on academic performance than anxiety, depression, binge-drinking, and marijuana use.

It's the eternal struggle for anyone tasked with feeding themselves.

Perhaps the school should offer a course on parenting instead, so this problem is solved for the next generation.

It has become a familiar pattern. A natural disaster occurs and we can't help but wonder how it may have been influenced by climate change. Here's a look at how the Colorado rains and flood were connected to global warming.

The Mountain Pine Beetle is getting more press because of the havoc it is causing in the Southern Rocky Mountains, but the Spruce Beetle has the potential to be equally or even more devastating in Colorado.

Another phase of the wonderful Green Lane Project has just been announced, and PeopleForBikes has taken the opportunity to highlight biking and protected bike lane growth in the US through a new video.

Ruling represents the first time that a coal mine has been rejected because of the failure to adequately consider and disclose the impacts that a mine would have on climate disruption.

This beautiful area near Salida, Colorado, could become the next national monument, with your help.

EPA to blame for the catastrophe on the Animas.

Who said politicians never did anything good?

Another good reason to move to Colorado.

This kind of trailer means you can eliminate the head-banging sleeping loft.

As part of their More Than Just Parks project, Will and Jim Pattiz spent two years filming in the majestic Colorado mountains.

This tiny house builder and architect just built himself and his wife a bigger (but still tiny) home, equipped with a space-saving elevator bed.

And people keep saying it's too expensive to deal with climate change.

A new study from Deloitte predicts what we have said before: e-bikes will eat cars.

TreeHugger isn't the only place to sing the virtues of the modern composting toilet. But Fox News? Really?

We keep saying that this is the way we should go, but perhaps the technology here just wasn't ready.

The last thing the world needs is a high tech electrochemical reactor toilet. This is a social problem, not a technical one.

Pooping in a hole in the ground isn't everyone's cup of tea. But with views like these, relieving yourself the old fashioned way can feel positively luxurious.

A look at what has changed, and how much has actually stayed the same.

It's about time that we stopped wasting drinking water to flush away our waste; Allison Bailes did it and isn't complaining.

This simple Australian design has some interesting features and benefits.

Urine for a surprise as Alex Wilson concludes that urine collection beats composting. I was, because they are not mutually exclusive.

Put your poop to work; it's fuel for a biological furnace.

This is a very clever and clean alternative toilet. Unfortunately, it shrink-wraps your poop in foil and sends it to landfill.

Was it design, or was it our resistance to change? What made the NoMix a NoGo?

Nutrient cycling is important. But it's not something you want to get arrested for.

The new interpretive center has earned certification from the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and features a green roof planted with native prairie grasses.

It's becoming easier to do so as the rules change and the toilets get better.

Here's the drill on the Earth Drill toilet.

Here's the hot poop on a toilet with a conveyor belt to move the stuff out of sight, out of mind.

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The big Glastonbury music festival is getting new composting loos

Architect designs a composting toilet that is "no cost, no impact"

Got some clean electricity? Then you can cremate your crap.

Gord Baird and Ann Baird have written the definitive guide.

Since 2006, bat populations in the northeastern United States have been decimated by a mysterious condition known as "white-nose syndrome." Caused by a fungus,

Ah love. Woody Allen has some nice thoughts on this tricky thing that perhaps gets more thought around Valentine's Day. The recent swan divorce shocked us to the core, so we decided to ponder the happy

With thousands of species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- and some 110,000

photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr White nose syndrome, a disease caused by exposure to a particular fungus, first discovered in 2006, has been afflicting bats in the eastern United States and appears to be spreading. Considering that it's

When it comes to finding fascinating species previously unknown to science, it turns out that forests of Papua New Guinea are a darn good place to look. Researchers have recently disclosed their

New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been

The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say.

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.

Dig out those old da Vinci drawings of winged flying machines, as he was really on to something!