It has become a trillion dollar industry where nobody wins.

Do we really want our furniture to be inspired by burgers and hot dogs? We prefer Slow Food.

An exhibition of their work is at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.

A cluttered apartment room becomes a modern place to sleep and play for three siblings.

This smart system automatically frees up floorspace and can learn your preferences.

The modular MoreFloor system lets you store things in your floor -- clothes, shoes, even a bed.

They are sized between the tiny Manhattan "design studio" and their standard big boxes.

The problem is, it's not just about the presence of chlorine, but rather why the chlorine is needed in the first place.

Here's what happens when kind humans and open-armed owls encounter an orphaned owlet.

We’ve reported on Transition City Bristol before, one of the first city-wide Transition Town initiatives [Disclaimer: This author has good friends involved in the project, but we’d be writing about it even if we didn’t]. It looks like things are

Yum...there's nothing like homemade applesauce. It always tastes better when you've made it yourself. Our question is: How many food miles will this DIY job add?

You may have heard that the iPhone 3G went on sale this morning. I saw a line outside of the AT&T; stores here in Manhattan, and I heard there was a line around the block this morning at the Union Street Apple store in San

Victory gardens have come back ever bigger - garden magazines and home gardening tools sales are good even in this recessionary economy. The harvest season is almost upon us, and an extension of that urban victory garden idea is to glean the fruit (and

Deep from the innards of the TreeHugger test kitchen (ok, there's no TH test kitchen, just the hordes of us hungry bloggers trying to keep both budget and taste buds happy) emerges a new, quick, and decidedly healthy everyday

There's a , and now trees in Central Asia have theirs as well. The

During World War II ordinary citizens across the country did their part for the war effort by planting victory gardens to lessen the demand on the food system caused by the war. Some have suggested that sustainability is about returning to the more

Photo credit: Abhijit Tembhekar via Flickr/Creative Commonsdigg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/scientists-develop-rot-proof-apple-stays-fresh-four-months.php';Scientists in Australia have developed an apple that won't rot. Or, won't rot

From the news that scientists have created a bacteria that lights up around landmines to the development of a rot-proof apple--that stays fresh for 4 months--a lot happened this week in green. A new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and

Every day, New York City residents waste 270,000 pounds of food. Want to know what that looks like? Here's an unforgettable way to imagine it - fill up a subway train with the equivalent amount of apples, and release it onto the

Hundreds of people weathered the blizzard last Sunday to support New Amsterdam's Wintermarket in lower Manhattan. The New Amsterdam Market is not your

Rosh Hashana, also known as the Jewish New Year, was celebrated this past week. One of the iconic symbols of the holiday, is honey, which is eaten with challah and apples. Honey has important meaning for the celebrants of Rosh

Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore.

Which holiday pie is greenest? Pumpkin, apple, or pecan? Find out in this week's Ask Pablo!

Fruits and vegetables last all winter with jams, fruit butter, marmalades, and pickled vegetables from new cookbook Home Canning by Janet Cooper.

Lots of great Food Day events across the country, but New York's will be particularly tasty and loud.

No one loves an apple more than a schoolteacher, but even they could learn a thing or two about the best way to eat it.

These reefs live in murky water with low levels of light and are likely to survive rising sea levels, researchers say.

But I am in the tank for the one that came in second

A design competition that shows that we can have our cake and eat it too.

Don't just sit there, do something.

There are 17 atriums that need to be filled with creative uses.

Archigram’s Plug-in City meets 3D Printing

It's urban, Passive House and prefab. What's not to love?

Lipinski Lasovsky Johansson has designed a beautiful building and, wow, what beautiful drawings.

Moriyama & Teshima Architects + Acton Ostry Architects win design competition.

Metsä Wood design competition produces very interesting entries, like this one from Sigurd Larsen.

But the hotel design competition is always interesting, even in an off year.

Dr. David Katz argues that poor nutrition is a greater threat than the coronavirus, but we think both are concerning.

School administrators have asked the USDA for greater flexibility in providing emergency meals.

Cornell study finds that when people have easy access to food shops, they discard less at home.

Yet another reason why we need a more resilient food system.

This modern and comfortable two-bed treehouse in Texas is open to guests.

Created by BIG and WeWork, this open-plan school in NYC offers another model for education.

This modular curtain could help existing buildings photosynthesize oxygen and get rid of pollution in cities.

This shipping container house stacks two to get more living space.

This inviting, one-bedroom canal boat is in the 600-square-foot range and has all the comforts of home.

Really, there is a lot to love about his work that applies to green building. Really.

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines."

Steve Webb thinks we should tax upfront carbon like cigarettes, and we should build in wood and stone.

This project learns from spiders by envisioning a series of interconnected webs that would allow scientists to study the rainforest without harming it.