Adopting a waste-conscious and anti-consumerist lifestyle is not something that happens overnight. Sometimes it's nice to hear about other people who are just starting out, like this young family from southwestern Ontario, Canada.

A good followup to Buy Nothing Day.

This year, take a side in the war on the car, and support stores on your neighborhood bike lane or transit route.

Some of them are surprising and all of them will make a real difference.

It's actually pretty clever as it pumps out fresh water and electricity.

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."

The architect/ engineer says we have the tech now to live better electrically.

It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly

And why not? It sounds like fun, just hanging around, eating grass

The Templar Block in Hamilton Ontario pushes a lot of buttons.

Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve.

Let's hope that unlike the Oscars, they make the right choices and open the right envelopes.

RIBA has announced that all its prizes will now be sustainable. We are going to need a counterpoint.

Solar power has grown up, and it's ready to blow up.

Unless the desperately needed rain arrive, São Paulo residents are being warned to "prepare for a collapse like they've never seen before."

Despite Natura's seemingly excellent and forward-thinking business model, their list of ingredients is surprisingly awful and toxic, which calls into question the B Corp certification standards.

Parks in North American cities could really take a lesson from this one in Recife, Brazil.

There are certain things I've hardly missed, and others I've missed more than I expected.

In honor of World Wetlands Day, we’re turning our gaze towards the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands—and one that’s seriously threatened.

Less than half an inch in length, the brightly colored frogs are highly endemic and vulnerable to extinction.

This fascinating film reveals disturbing facts about malnutrition and infant mortality, and the role of insidious corporations in perpetuating these problems.

These vibrant murals combine nature and realism with the chaos and tumult of the urban landscape.

Deforestation has revealed the large geometrical geoglyphs built over 2000 years ago – their discovery holds valuable lessons for today.

Brazil is often in Treehugger because of illegal logging and deforestation. Not this time.

A clever redo of a small 376-square-foot apartment in São Paulo that uses lots of glass and reflective surfaces.

Experts blame urban sprawl for the increased number of attacks.

Built as part of a community training project, this multifunctional structure acts as a place for visitors to stay, as well as an extra office or a place for the kids to play.

Owner of Timberland, Vans, and Dickies says it needs assurance that materials used in its products "don't contribute to environmental harm."

While the greenest vacation is often a staycation, it's nice to know that when you do travel, whether it be for business or pleasure, a hotel can meet you half way.

In 2009, architects Franck Deboute and Karine Montagnon decided to build their dream home and office. The site: the Pointe du Raz, hanging out over the Atlantic Ocean, in Brittany, France. The

When the team at nature-minded Spanish architecture firm Urbanarbolismo decided to build a tree house, they set some high standards. Working with a centuries old oak tree, they wanted to create a place for

While some cities are tearing down thousands of vacant homes, Occupy Our Homes movement offers a compassionate alternative.

TreeHugger visits one of Denmark's oldest Eco villages, which includes 74 sustainably-designed highly unique houses and apartment buildings that range from hobbit-style straw to high design.

Girls and boys have a lot to gain from learning to work with their hands

A process that recycles cigarette butts into bricks for construction could kick a nasty littering habit.

Want to build your own tiny house? Clueless about where to start? Check out this Instructables tutorial.

First there was foamcrete, then there was papercrete and hempcrete, and now we've got AirCrete, a foamy mixture of air bubbles and cement.

We have to use less of the stuff in our cars, our buildings, and our infrastructure.

Hurry, before the tomatoes set sail for the season, indulge in a big, beautiful Horiatiki salad.

Learn how to master the mashed potato with a few simple tweaks.

Need some last-minute inspiration? We've gather together our favorite vegetarian and vegan recipes from which to choose.

House full of guests? These recipes will make your mornings go much smoother.

New research finds that a two-pronged approach is necessary to fight things like sea-level rise and ocean acidification.

It's part of a statewide effort to crack down on plastic waste.

NASA finds that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying out – here's why.

There are huge upfront carbon emissions from building new housing; a better approach is to be smarter about what we have.

It's a mix of speculative fiction and informed prediction. Which do you think is most plausible?

Unless they're specially branded Keep Cups that reduce the likelihood of catering staff getting burned.

The Story of Stuff's latest film underscores the importance of putting deposits on all cans and bottles.

A Tesla won't get a camel through the eye of a needle.