For the Sunday, December 8 issue, a centerspread ad has been designed as a piece of planet-friendly wrapping paper.

My search for the perfect water bottle is over thanks to the beautiful, drinker-friendly, ocean-loving, coral-planting NAECO Bottle.

Establishing certain habits can make cooking easier.

They show that the struggle is real, and you're not alone.

Welcome to almost 30 percent of the world's forest cover.

Consumer demand for meat, soy, palm oil, and more has resulted in 60% of primate species facing extinction.

You think Big Ben is tall? It's got nothing on the tallest tree in the world.

The Amazon rainforest doesn't need prayers, it needs protectors.

The 530-acre forest has hundreds of ancient giant sequoia, including the fifth-largest tree known on the planet.

Meet the primate species that are among the most endangered on the planet, and the most in need of conservation measures.

With more than 22,000 acres newly opened up to the iconic mammal, the release of bison onto new turf is a profound thing to see.

Among other things, the data reveals answers about the size of blue whales, the largest organisms to have ever lived on Earth.

It's time for swift and immediate action to protect marine life from further devastation.

Mixing conservation with death care, a new start-up offers permanently protected memorial trees that solve a slew of problems.

We´ve noted in the past plans for new desalination plants in Australia and low-grade energy desalination technology from New Mexico.

Residents of the driest inhabited continent, Australia, have evidently been cottoning onto the fact that water means life and we need to be more thoughtful in our use of this rather precious resource. Since the year 2000, Australians have managed to

There isn't much choice, as groundwater reserves are insufficient. But really...is bottled water any worse than this? Four years behind schedule and nearly $80 million over the original budget, the nation's largest sea water desalination facility

Record droughts, falling water tables and the rapid depletion of aquifers have helped make desalination, a process once considered impractical and too expensive, a viable technology -- at least in some places. As such, there has been a rash of stories --

XEROX/PARC Spiral Water Filtration Technology A typical water-treatment plant is very big and very expensive. XEROX's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has come up with a new technology that could make the whole process cheaper and simpler, potentially

Droughts and possible water rationing have been in the news recently in California, Israel, Mexico, and Australia. As much of the water used is these regions is for watering gardens and lawns

Having given Global Water Challenge a Best of Green award earlier this year for their innovative work on the issues of drinking water and sanitation, it goes without saying that TreeHugger is a fan of their work.

Stand at the edge of a reservoir, river, or ocean and it's hard to imagine that the planet could ever run out of water; even just a day at the beach makes your one small shower a day seem like less of a threat. But with

Here's a frequent question asked by people wanting to create positive sustainable changes in the world: Is it more effective to work as a change agent from inside the current system or is it better to

All over the world, inspired, creative, (and often obsessed) entrepreneurs are tightening bolts and swirling beakers, inventing the next generation of green technology. Andrew Heintzman is a venture capitalist with the aim of finding and funding these

These low-impact, solar-powered desalination units could be a potential boon to water-scarce coastal communities, disaster-prone areas, as well as local marine life.

A new water treatment system could save billions of gallons of water each year by recovering almost all of the waste water at bottling plants and water treatment facilities.

The UAE's clean tech giant plans to have a commerical-scale plant by 2020.

This system could produce 3,500 gallons of clean water per day, at half the cost of current desalination methods, using just the motion of the waves to power the Reverse Osmosis process.

The latest episode of Fully Charged appears to come to us from the future. Or, maybe just Australia...

A proposed office uses "climatic architecture" to cool the building by making it into a natural wind tunnel.

Who says wheat-free can't mean indulgent? Best-selling cookbook author Karen Morgan offers up irresistible (and also vegetarian) main courses, snacks, and desserts.

Google's St. Ghislain, Belgium data center is its most efficient thanks in part to letting the server areas run at temperatures up to 95 degrees.

The iPod of thermostats gets updated with new energy saving features and increased functionality in its mobile apps.

What if the Google Street View car took thermal energy scans of all the country's buildings and then built a database of building energy efficiency information? That's the concept behind startup company Essess's approach to home energy audits.

An ice cream cart uses solar panels to power its refrigeration unit.

The smart thermostat is now compatible with most home heating and cooling systems in the U.S. and Canada.

From making homemade pasta and bread crumbs to cauliflower rice and so much more, the humble box grater is a genius, multi-talented workhorse.

It lets them be creative with their cooking and the kind of spaces they set up in.

The technology uses radiative sky cooling to help cool buildings without electricity.

This could keep people from overheating in their wearable electronic outfits or simply in the heat of the ever-warming days

The smartest features of a smart thermostat may actually be the pretty simple.

This ancient method is simple and cheap.

An event on Lake Tahoe promises "world class minds, radical innovation and kickass rock 'n roll". And solutions to the biodiversity crisis, too.

The secret to a diet that makes the microbes in your gut healthy, for fighting obesity and disease

One-third of emissions reductions needed for 2 degree target could be achieved with better land management.

Whether for parental sanity or oceanic health, this is a powerful step toward a much better world.

The veteran naturalist and broadcaster is not holding back (this time).

The anti-straw movement is definitely having a moment. Let's hope the momentum continues.

Incredibly, this appears to be the first time the government has really tried to tackle this crucial issue nationwide.

Almost half of the land on Earth is now farmland.