Part of a series where I try to calculate the carbon footprint of my life.

But I have it easy compared to most North Americans, and perhaps am fooling myself.

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, almost everybody is living a low carbon lifestyle.

The top 10 percent consumes 20 times more energy than the bottom 10 percent.

No matter how hard we may try to tame her, Mother Nature always comes back to claim her turf.

"It's just an amazing, amazing thing that people have done."

Soon, willow, alder, ash and oaks will grace the banks of the Maritza river once again.

The consumer products giant says it will "fundamentally rethink its approach to packaging."

If you must shop, do it from a company that's spreading the wealth.

Main Street retail is vanishing under pressure from online shopping and rising rents. There are good reasons to save it.

The Canadian city is the latest to rethink disposal culture and insist on something better.

A list of 10 resolutions shows that big changes are coming to the professional food world.

Loop's reusable packaging service is coming to brick-and-mortar stores in U.S., Canada, and France.

While the immense amount of rain and devastating floods that hit Colorado nearly two weeks ago were already tragic , they have also exposed a concern regarding the lax environmental regulations that allow the oil and gas industry to drill in flood zones.

More than six months since tar sands oil spilled into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood, two homes have just been leveled by Exxon in order to clean up oil that was found under their foundations.

After two years of pressing pipeline regulators to release inspection photos and videos of the 60-year-old Enbridge pipeline that carries tar sands oil through the Straits of Mackinac, NWF took it upon themselves to inspect the pipeline.

The largest oil spill in the U.S. happened 25 years ago today.

New study finds Aliso Canyon disaster’s impact equivalent to annual greenhouse gas emissions from over half a million cars.

Largest study yet predicts "The next nuclear accident may be much sooner or more severe than the public realizes"

The company quietly helps rebuild the island's electrical systems.

Lloyd's of London joins the ranks of big insurers who no longer see coal as a viable investment.

It's over. As of midnight on May 31st 2018, data on the hazards and risks of every chemical sold in Europe is available to ensure safety

From blending beef with mushrooms, to boosting plant-based menu items, companies are doing a lot to cut back on meat.

The online-only financial institution will provide low cost loans for solar, electric cars and even electric-assist bicycles.

Sony, McKinsey & Company, Royal Bank of Scotland and WeWork are all committing to going all-out for clean energy.

Now, for the rest of the U.S. and Canada to get on board...

This is the first-known attempt of a commercial company to undertake a physical clean-up of trash from open waters.

It's not only Tyson that's looking to hedge its bets with vegetarian meat and dairy analogs.

With a renewed partnership between the fashion label and resale consigner The RealReal, McCartney is coaxing consumers into a circular economy.

Upcycling workshops, electric deliveries and limited parking spaces. What's not to like?

'Instead of putting the money back into our business, we’re responding by putting $10 million back into the planet. Our home planet needs it more than we do.'

It's all about the culture.

A piece of baby furniture that's designed to last longer by changing into other useful things as one's child grows.

Part treasure hunt, part real-life Pokémon Go, the hidden giants (which are made entirely of scrap wood) can be found by treasure map or riddle poems.

The big Danish design competition really has similar goals to TreeHugger: to promote good green design that makes the world better

Install and forget about these induction powered lights from Denmark.

A look at some of the nominees which are brilliant, and others that are something else.

It is reflective and glows in the dark, perfect for "enhanced safety in traffic" -- and the dance floor.

Computers and technology let designers do things that were unimaginable just a decade ago.

Design by Jens Quistgaard stands the test of time.

We always write "Learn from Denmark." We take it back.

COBE architects are turning charging time into quality time.

But no, we're not going to compare to that other tower.

It's much easier to keep clean.

Billions of gallons of water may be wasted because of this.

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Just yesterday I joked seated at my neighborhood's dive-y, not-concerned-about-clean-food diner that the likely hormone-injected milk I stirred into my coffee might spur the growth of a third boob. It was a risk I was

Researchers at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology have developed a zebra-smelling cattle collar which will be tested on Masai herds subject to the biting tsetse fly,

Once you've seen what goes on inside a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) it's tough to accept the trade-off of horrific animal suffering in order to have cheap food.

Dozens of sheep and goats broke out of a slaughterhouse in upstate New York on Tuesday night, and gave police quite the runaround.