Treehugger has been closely following the saga of Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey since he published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal saying, among other things, that "A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the

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An initiative to stop selling red-rated seafood by 2013 had been launched a year early and will go into effect on Earth Day 2012.

This week, Jacob and Brian talk about a greener Apple Inc., crazy-ass weather, Obama's oil and gas issues, and a dating site for the doomsday crowd.

For the first time ever Greenpeace has given a US seafood retailer (in fact two of them) a green rating. There are some notable laggards though.

Healthy, wholesome baked goods need not taste like cardboard and molasses when these substitutions are made.

Have researchers found the secret behind the 'French paradox'?

In addition to straws, the market is further reducing plastic use across all of its stores in the US, the UK, and Canada.

Choose your thoughts carefully, as they become more instinctive over time.

Humans have been marveling over this wintry spectacle since long before Instagram.

Weather forecasters need to stop treating it as such.

The economic crisis and pandemic have made it patently clear that US capitalism is not at all exceptional. Like everything else in the universe, American capital’s political system is subject to sharp and sudden changes. After Bernie Sanders handily won the first few contests of the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination, he was seen as an unstoppable threat—prompting every other candidate to immediately fold up their campaigns and close ranks against him. After months of panicking over Bernie’s momentum, the ruling class finally managed to reverse the course of the electoral race—and they did it with unprecedented speed. Now, after an electrifying rollercoaster ride, Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the American presidency is over, and a balance sheet is needed.

A major political crisis has broken out in Brazil. The Minister of Justice Moro resigned yesterday after president Bolsonaro removed the head of the Federal Police (FP) Valeixo, who had been nominated by Moro. The now former minister of justice has accused Bolsonaro of wanting to appoint a new FP head from whom he could get information in relation to cases involving Bolsonaro's sons, including the assassination of PSOL councillor Marielle Franco.

A number of mercenaries had been killed and others arrested in La Guaira on 3 May while trying to disembark in Venezuela as part of a plot against the Maduro government. On 4 May, another eight mercenaries were arrested in the coastal town of Chuao in Aragua state, amongst them two former US special forces veterans.

Study documents 5893 leaks of explosive, global warming gas. It gets worse: testing four months after the leaks were reported indicated that 9 were still emitting dangerous levels of the gas.

Nobody is actually asking the question, because pedestrians don't matter, do they?

It's mostly a fake, completely rebuilt in the early 1950s.

The 25-pound lady bobcat was last seen on Monday morning.

Just read the headlines and weep

It's not a big deal but it could become a big symbol.

The New York subway, The Los Angeles Metro, and more ranked by someone who travels a lot but never drives.

Fitwel is all about healthy living, and it's going to be big.

On this National Walking Day, a look at the excuses cities use to make it difficult to do so.

Boxy But Beautiful designs have been around for a long time, and there is a real logic to them.

It's like a moving High Line, and is still a very good idea.

Britain has already made great progress in decarbonizing the grid. It looks like there's more to come.

The fall of coal has been swift in Britain, and there's no sign of it ever coming back.

On Caltech's campus, student engineers and scientists are busy in labs day and night working on hairy solar panels, termite

It's an icon that has been part of our lives forever... The electricity pylon was invented, in this design, in the '20's and since then it has been marching across the fields and highways of our mind

Among music festivals, Bonnaroo is the juggernaut, and this year is was bigger than ever with 80,000 people descending on Manchester, Tennessee. One of the innumerable artists to preside over the festival's many stages (which included sitting in with My

One of the most venerated scientists of our time, James Hansen is the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a position he's held for three decades. Long before climate change was a household term, Hansen was one of the first to talk about

A judge rules against smart meter opponents in Naperville, Illinois who wanted to hold a vote on whether the devices should be installed in their city.

Burbank Water & Power opens a sustainable power plant campus as a model for re-adapting industrial sites from water reclamation to solar

Popular anger at profiteering energy utilities is high. One wind-power pioneer is hoping to harness that sentiment with a funny viral video.

Many clean tech wonks have never heard of them, but Alevo plans to be manufacturing grid-scale energy storage on a huge scale within the next few years.

In the future, we'll be buying energy from utilities that look very different than what we are used to.

Should we care where our electrons come from?

Efficiency and conservation aren't just about your personal footprint. They're about reaching tipping points.

From child labor to blood diamonds, showing your love can have some seriously unexpected pitfalls.

Valentine's Day is all about romancing your sweetheart. These companies show the planet some love too.

Where we recycle and repurpose the best of our Valentine's Day posts from the past.

They are all over the internet today; here are some that relate to buildings we have shown on TreeHugger

A list of ways to share the love with everyone you adore without hating on the environment.

The holiday once marked by amorous missives and hand-plucked posies has evolved into a day of staggering statistics.

From carnivorous plants to occult-inspired tokens of affection, these are not your grandmother's Valentine's gifts.

In this installment of Town and Country, we talk about skipping consumerism on Valentine’s Day.

Get in the Valentine’s Day mood with these fun DIY beauty recipes for masks, moisturizers, and scrubs – all of which are suitably pink or red for the occasion!

The size of one's carbon footprint is not usually a major concern on this romantic holiday, but it can be mitigated with advance planning.

Say I love you with these lovely living gifts that go easy on the planet.