The Norwegian ship has been given a new clean energy life.

The new wave energy harvester will be utility scale and tough enough to need little maintenance, even in rough seas.

The wave energy generators would help to both generate power and dissipate the power of the waves crashing against the shore.

While we've seen many celebrities jumping on the green bandwagon, we've also seen them doing it for the real deal. Many have been eco-conscious for years--some are just realizing how important it is to promote a sustainable

Beating out New York City, the small Tennessee town of Signal Mountain is the first in the nation to pass a Green Food Resolution. But, just what does a Green Food Resolution mean for farmers, consumers, and

Regardless of the outcome of high profile public debate--viz Waterkeeper Bobby Kennedy Jr v. Dirty Coal Don Blankenship smackdown tomorrow night at the University of Charleston--or vehement protest from the likes of youth

16 years ago, Horrace Burges had a divine vision, a calling from heaven. And, like the ark-crafting Noah before him, Horrace picked up a hammer and built a large wooden structure of his own--the world's largest tree house. At 10

After a storm hit Tennessee last Sunday and Nashville saw record-shattering rainfall, the Cumberland River swelled to overflowing and the city experienced an epic flood. As soon as it was safe, residents were out

From a $50,000 portable recycled house to a tiny green egg house for Chinese students, TreeHugger has already offered plenty of posts that prove that green living doesn't have to mean high-end LEED certified luxury.

PNC, Citi, and UBS are the top three financial enablers of mountaintop removal coal mining, according to a new report by Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club that ranks ten of the world's largest banks.These

TVA and reactor-maker Babcock and Wilcox have agreed to work together to see if they can build up to 6 "small reactors." Nuctuplets, then? They can knock these

The delicately hued petals and striking brown florets of Tennessee's purple coneflower once seemed fated to live on only in description, or as a ghostly sketch yellowing on the page of some dusty botanical volume, yet today it's

Mattresses have plenty of reusable materials, but most recyclers don't want them. Landfills don't like them either. But a Tennessee nonprofit does.

Because everyone knows that bike paths are just the thin edge of the wedge. Next, they come for your cars.

Would you let corporations decide how climate science gets taught in your kids' classroom? That's what's happening in Tennessee.

Woops.

Having trouble breathing? It may be because of where you live. The 2012 Asthma Capitals list is out. Is your city on the list?

It may be old, dirty and coal powered now, but it was once a vision of a brighter future, was a giant stimulus project and helped win WWII.

Affordable housing doesn't have to look cheap, and LEED Platinum doesn't mean it has to cost a fortune.

Simple but striking, this small treehouse retreat was built by hand and furnished with repurposed flea market finds.

To make an extra bit of income and to have a smaller home to live in for the future, this Nashville couple decided to build a modernist micro-home.

This ingenious design features a roll-up garage door and a drop-down deck on either side, allowing the home to feel even more spacious.

Do you plan it where there is lots of room, or do you put it where there is good transit accessibility?

In a word no. But people in cars seem to get a free pass for everything.

A new report by Barclays Capital suggests a dark side to the building boom in places like China, India, and Turkey.

Building new roads has been a major contributor to the city's unsustainable growth, newly released Landsat photos show, but more of the same appears to be on the horizon.

The Architecture Foundation of British Columbia issues a challenge: Design a four-person home made entirely of materials from a 100-mile radius around Vancouver.

Using a dishwasher for storage makes a lot of sense; finally a dishwasher designed around the idea

"This is not concrete, this is nature!"

Nature and the environment are still a big part of this protest.

Thousands of pairs of unwanted eyewear are collected and transformed into a unique, twinkling facade for an Istanbul museum.

Tourists can witness it firsthand, thanks to Intrepid Travel's partnership with a local NGO.

We here at TreeHugger recently announced that the Carnival of the Green will now include a Twitter section.You can still submit as normal via email, of course, but this new part of the Carnival will be called "Best Green Tweets." So, if you use Twitter

We here at TreeHugger recently announced that the Carnival of the Green will now include a Twitter section.You can still submit as normal via email, of course, but this new part of the Carnival will be called "Best Green Tweets." So, if you use Twitter

We here at TreeHugger recently announced that the Carnival of the Green will now include a Twitter section.You can still submit as normal via email, of course, but this new part of the Carnival will be called "Best Green Tweets." So, if you use Twitter

We here at TreeHugger recently announced that the Carnival of the Green will now include a Twitter section.You can still submit as normal via email, of course, but this new part of the Carnival will be called "Best Green Tweets." So, if you use Twitter

Citizen persistence at measuring and publicizing pollution levels results in a major turnaround by Beijing.

This year's nominees include amazing concept gadgets, biomimicry in robotics, crowd-sourced projects and more. Vote for your favorites here.

To promote their fantastic garden grant program, Seeds of Change is bringing a seed vending machine and photo booth to several US cities, where visitors can tweet for seeds.

There are a number of reasons why this is an excellent idea.

It's an all-natural TreeHugger-approved carbon capture and storage plan.

We still have to reduce our carbon emissions.

Having a view of green space or access to a garden or park is linked to lower frequency and strength of cravings, study finds.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reached an important milestone this Tuesday afternoon when BP started their 'static kill' procedure to seal the oil well, and the good news is, that it seems to be working -- so far. In other green news, the

Here is someone who gets the message across, in a funny and beautiful way. Australian Stuart McMillen takes topics around environmental sustainability and turns them into catchy cartoons.

It's a TreeHugger's dream come true. Leafsnap is a new free app that identifies trees.

This week's photo roundup includes a sculpture made from living cherry trees, an artist catapulting LEDs into the sky to make stars, and more.

We've featured a lot of treehouses on TreeHugger, but the plans for this one are a little different: Ten cherry trees will be planted in a circle, and pruned and bent over time to form a unique, two story sculpture.

An isolated winter scene beats out the competition in the annual awards ceremony.

It was pretty much inevitable; the company just couldn't capitalize on the digital revolution.