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

Brad Plumer looks at the issue of "outsourced pollution."

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

Natural materials are the only ones that sequester carbon rather than produce it.

The goal could be reached even earlier, if Scots changed what they eat.

From Genghis Khan's reforestation to King Edward I's 14th century ban of coal mining, these famous people were dedicated to TreeHugger ethics --- even if they didn't know it.

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

Excessive population growth presents an immediate environmental danger greater than climate change.

Without a more comprehensive vision of economic health and better ways to measure it, we are flying blind on a path to economic decline and collapse.

Satisfying the world’s unmet need for contraception would dramatically reduce population growth, easing pressure on natural resources.

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

On a more positive note, the report also notes that population growth with stabilize sooner than expected, at about 8 billion people by 2042.

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

Opposition from the G77 Nations and the Vatican led to the removal of the words 'reproductive rights' from the Rio+20 text, leaving in 'acceptable modern methods of family planning'.

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.

And there are plenty of humans who would agree.

The brilliant Hans Rosling has a data visualization video that helps debunk the myths of the birth and child mortality rates of the so-called developed and developing countries.

Graphic designer Jack Hagley's new infographic shows the world's population as 100 people.

The incomparable Swedish medical doctor and statistician Hans Rosling tackles a very perverse and tenacious myth about overpopulation.

Says the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Today is Earth Overshoot Day, but it's not exactly something we should be celebrating. It's actually a wakeup call for humanity.

Concerned about the overpopulation of our planet and the effect it has on wildlife? Perhaps it's time to talk about the most effective form of male contraception.

Population growth is in fact slowing down but everyone is using more of everything.

If the latest projections prove to be accurate, we need to plan for about a 10% increase in the needed supply of food, drinking water, and energy, and in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

On National Book Lovers Day, we celebrate the ultimate slow hobby.

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

Pollinator power, y'all.

The Bay Area needs affordable housing. And it needs clean energy. A new campaign supports both.

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

It's a good thing global fish stocks aren't in peril...

The British government sees offshore wind as a genuine opportunity to lead.

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

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.

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

Frugality blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames has outfitted her house and family with thrifted finds. This is her advice.

At the time of its construction the Union Tank Car Dome was the biggest clear span structure in the world. It was demolished in 2008 (see Another

After seeing the stunning Dymaxion car built by architect Norman Foster in Abitare and the Guardian, I wrote "I want one." Not that an eleven-seater is particularly useful, but it is just so gorgeous. Over at Metropolis,

Robert Rubin saves " the last, monumental prototype that Bucky was working on when he died".

The Buckminster Fuller Institute ran a competition to update the iconic map; here are some of the finalists

Savings in snow removal alone would have paid for it in ten years.

Summer and winter, they are round rms w vu

Tomorrow, real men eat quiche (cheese pi).

First we have to declare 'peak livestock', then eat less beef and more beans.

Every company should have to do this– more useful information that consumers need.

Some useful tools for working on a 1.5 degree lifestyle.

Researchers gathered data over two years by following 70 different dogs, from 37 different breeds, as they... defecated and urinated.

New research reveals the first solid evidence that an animal (other than humans) can distinguish emotional expressions in another species.

The tiny house movement goes to the dogs with this $30,000 dream house.

The tech helps owners take care of their dogs the way the dogs take care of them.

It could also help us eradicate heritable diseases in dogs.