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.

There was a big pile of beautiful lumber to choose from too.

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

Too much information?

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.

The Autonomous Hotel Room from Aprilli Design Studio raises some interesting questions.

If a building doesn't meet these basic and necessary criteria, it doesn't deserve an award.

The most prestigious prize in British architecture is given to the solidly green project rather than the flash in the pan.

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

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

You may think it sounds like an oxymoron, but travelling to faraway places with little ones in tow can actually be quite fun. Here are some ways to make it a lot easier.

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.

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.

A new government initiative called "Childbirth is Normal!" addresses the epidemic of caesarean births plaguing the country.

Since 1984, Brazilian farmer Ernst Gotsch has been restoring 1,200 acres of deforested land into a working, regenerative farm. The results are amazing.

A relentless sweet tooth, naïveté, and sneaky marketing are conspiring to create a health disaster in every corner of this country.

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

A lack of space becomes something more roomy with some simple design strategies.

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.

Chewy, salty, and impossible to stop eating, they're the next best thing to an actual trip to Brazil (especially when paired with a caipirinha).

It's having a negative effect on the fishing industry, he claims.

In photographer Yao Lu's "View of Waterfall with Rocks and Pines," two men stand underneath the spreading branches of a gnarled pine tree, aiming their cameras off in the distance, where

What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD

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

What's the cutest tiny shed or building, best single family house, or best new furniture design? Vote on these and more.

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

Here is a way to squeeze six stories of building in the space of five.

Mount Manresa was a community space owned by Jesuits, but has now been sold to developers.

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

"Exuberant low cost studios for creatives and artists" are plugged into a giant structure in this revolutionary project.

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

Forget everything you've heard about how to clean mushrooms.

Here's everything you need to know about roasting the iconic winter squash.

From cherries and cauliflower to grapes and pumpkins, wonderful things happen when you cook these foods whole.

Learn how to elevate a basic DIY pumpkin pie spice blend with these simple tweaks.

This tender, buttery, flaky crust is one of the easiest I've ever made, and also the most delicious.

You'll get a perfectly crispy, golden exterior.

There are a lot of ways to bake a potato, but this method results in the perfect mix of fluffy middle and crispy skin.

Whatever you do, do not let these gems go to waste.

This super easy recipe makes a plant-based pumpkin pudding that is rich, creamy, healthy, and delicious.

Here's a simple trick for elevating already delicious roasted vegetables.