It lets them be creative with their cooking and the kind of spaces they set up in.

This might be one of the smartest ways to use a smart thermostat.

Octogenarian couple united by a love of entomology

The Center for Food Safety's recently launched network is a bid to preserve global plant biodiversity and work toward food security around the globe.

The secret to a diet that makes the microbes in your gut healthy, for fighting obesity and disease

Whether for parental sanity or oceanic health, this is a powerful step toward a much better world.

The anti-straw movement is definitely having a moment. Let's hope the momentum continues.

Learn how to transform your yard into a sanctuary for birds, bees, and other little critters.

With a $1 million donation, Andrew and Jane Cliffordhope will double the size of the world's largest cat-free sanctuary.

Are we really going to let this happen on our watch?

Entice butterflies to stay, eat, mate and lay eggs in your garden with these plants and tips.

When the earthworms are in trouble, we all are.

Serious threats are endangering lightning bugs across the globe; and they are all thanks to humans.

Over the last 30 years, habitat loss for imperiled species in the U.S. was more than twice as great on non-protected private lands than on federally protected public lands.

The promise of prefab was healthy, cost-effective, energy efficient homes designed by talented architects. Is it finally here?

With aging baby boomers and young people who can't afford housing, there's going to be a huge market for these.

Eco-architect extraordinaire Michelle Kaufmann interviews Barry Hooper from SFEnvironment about government policy for new and existing buildings in San Francisco in this TreeHugger exclusive from West Coast Green. Barry Hooper collaborates with design

TreeHugger was founded as a sustainable design blog. From Alan Chochinov's 10 steps for sustainable design, through Yves Behar's predictions for sustainable design in 2011, to the

Using reclaimed wood and steel from old pig fences, this Dutch company makes exquisite tables, while recycling all byproducts into other useful goods -- cat litter, compost and alcohol..

An affordable, long-lasting and attractive chair made from 100% recycled and recyclable plastic, designed in Barcelona by Estudio Mariscal. Need it far away? Then just buy the seat and get local legs!

It is hard to imagine a greener product than natural tree bark.

People have complained about his building since they started pouring the concrete.

This is turning into a really big bandwagon.

He was a pioneer of sustainable design.

Nobody cared much about this a few years ago. They do now.

KieranTimberlake and Lake|Flato team up with Bensonwood to offer OpenHomes

Need some houseplant inspiration? These are the plants getting the most love on Instagram.

Looking for indoor plants that are hard to kill? These green troopers are resilient and don't demand too much from their keepers.

It's a powerful organizational tool that pulls a household together.

Some plants help each other enormously, while others hinder their neighbors – use this cheat sheet to ensure harmony in the vegetable plot.

It's time to rewild the manicured garden – here's how to start.

Think outside of the houseplant box with these unique ways to bring some green indoors.

BloomingTables are a lovely solution for saving space ... and keeping indoor plants away from kids and pets.

A medical practice in Manchester, England is giving patients indoor plants to help boost wellness.

WIth cooler weather and shorter days, your indoor plants could use a little help getting ready for the new season.

Colder weather provides some unique challenges for indoor plants; here's how to how to help them get through it.

Why aren't people lining up for this enclosed solar powered e-cargo tricycle? It pushed every button.

With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged

We have been fans of Seattle's Graypants for a while; Seth, Jonathan and Jon "strive to come up with designs and ideas that are thoughtful and have an impact, whether it be furniture, lighting, architecture or graphics." Most of the work we have shown

Four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing in Hungary as torrents of red toxic sludge, the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. A

The flood of toxic red sludge, which burst forth from a containment pond in Ajka, Hungary and covered several villages earlier in the week, reached a branch of the River Danube today. According to the head of the

The toxic red line that runs through this town -- as photographed by Palíndromo Mészáros -- is shocking evidence of what can go wrong.

Personal care is a big subject, but we'll focus on caring for our general appearance: Cleansing and cosmetics, hair care, skin care, makeup, hair removal and, of course, that time of the month most women deal

Made from virgin materials that require resource-intensive manufacturing processes, reusable water bottles aren't the perfect solution that you may think.

But hey, it's all in the interest of national security; Americans have to be ready to defend themselves from Canada.

Remember how aluminum cans are "100 percent recyclable into pure aluminum"? They lied.

A new book, Allowed to Grow Old, reveals beautiful portraits of something we don't get to see very often: Elderly farm animals.

The animals get distracted and distressed. Oh, and you could get your head bitten off.

Jellywatch.org has tapped into the power of citizen scientists to collect data on jellyfish populations and you can help.

Smaller, faster, cheaper! Single board computer (SBC) innovations are jumpstarting a whole new wave of DIY devices.