It's the fastest (and most fun) way to fill your house with a variety of delicious baked goods.

Stories from TreeHugger's sister site about how streets are for people.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, and while some great progress has been made, there are still many rivers which are endangered, including one flowing through our nation's capital.

Meet the Whanganui. You might call it a river, but in the eyes of the law, it has the standings of a person.

A beautiful video by photographer Pete McBride shows how this epic and ancient river is now the most endangered in the country.

"It was cool to be in the right place at the right time," says Dr. Sciascia.

The River Thames has inspired artists throughout the ages; here's a modern take on it.

This fake fight has a good cause.

If a country is a body, rivers are its arteries through which vital blood flows. We must revive our waterways before more damage is done.

The Nature Conservancy teamed up with two artists to create a habitat-enhancing sculpture made from natural materials.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has taken to releasing massive amounts of the Colorado River from dams, here's why.

Research reveals that rivers deliver up to 4 million metric tons of plastic debris to the sea every year, with up to 95% coming from just 10 of them.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've finally reached peak TreeHugger.

A report found that bottles have surpassed bags and straws when it comes to prevalence in freshwater rivers.

Removal of the 118-foot-high dam in France will free the Sélune River, bringing wildlife back to the waterway and the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.

The car changed the design of our houses; the AV will change our houses and the way we live.

When you try and go too fast it says, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

Perhaps AVs should have their own lower speed limits until they figure this all out.

Judging from what I am reading all over the political map, I suspect that autonomous cars are the new Juiceroo.

On National Walking Day, a look at how putting cars first kills people who walk and drive.

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.

In Ottawa, Canada, self-driving cars are being touted as a reason to delay transit investment.

Researchers at Georgia Tech warn that there is a risk that self-driving cars might be hacked and cause gridlock.

Photo from Eco-Rally USA Eco-Rally USA, a grassroots transportation group, is launching a trip across the United States aimed at helping to accelerate clean energy vehicles to become the standard for automobiles rather than the exception. The tour start

It's been a while since a good poo-power story has come down the pipe, but here's an interesting one: Massachusetts-based biofuels company Qteros and wastewater recyclers Applied Clean Tech have announced that they

Image: Casajuntoalrio Willie Smits long ago abandoned the customary role of the microbiologist. After working in the Indonesian rainforest for three decades (and marrying a tribal queen), he has taken it upon himself to regrow the delicate ecosystems

New Environmental Protection Agency requirements for its Renewable Fuel Standards program have been released which raise an issue which has sat dormant for a little while: How to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of a

At a time when excessive pressures on the earth's land and water resources are of growing concern, there is a massive new demand emerging for cropland to produce fuel for cars--one that threatens world food

French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo

This year, French tire giant Michelin (yes, the Michelin that made the tires on your car) held its 10th Challenge Bibendum event, this time in Rio de Janeiro. If you've never heard of this thing, don't kick yourself,

Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. The first, from the

This week USEPA announced that the maximum ethanol content of motor fuel sold in the USA would be allowed to rise from 10% to 15%. Positives of the Agency's decision are: reduced dependence on foreign

After several decades of Lrapid rise in world grain yields, it is now becoming more difficult to raise land productivity fast enough to keep up with the demands of a growing, increasingly affluent, population.

Photo: World Economic Forum, Flickr, CC BY-SA Corn ethanol has turned out to be a bad idea -- there's little disagreement about that, especially in environmental circles. For starters, it's an inefficient fuel source, consuming tons of water to produce

Germans rate respect for having a national identity as eco-conscious people. Should it therefore come as a surprise that Germans are not embracing the advent of E10, a 10% ethanol-gasoline mixture, which has

Few industrialists in recent times have done more to imperil environmental protections and public health than the Koch brothers. The force behind Americans for Prosperity and Koch Industries have galvanized

A measure that would remove roughly $6 billion in annual ethanol subsidies just passed the U.S. Senate, signaling, among other things, a shift in public attitude towards the once-heralded alternative fuel. It

If it seems like you've read a variation of the above headline before you're not wrong, and as much as anything it's a sign of the rock road cellulosic ethanol and biofuels in general have had in the past few years. The details: The Department of

Kidney failure is killing sugarcane workers in Central America who supply sugar for both our sweet tooth and demand for ethanol.

The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low-income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history.

There's no mystery why gas mileage is not as good in the winter, but there are some things you can do to make it better.

There is an election coming up and the farm vote matters.

No more pepperoni, salami, bacon, or ham will be offered on school menus.

The UK organization wants schools to incorporate that time into their daily curriculum.

Here's a one-stop green guide to traveling in San Jose, from hotels to a night on the town.

Sensors on cell phones is a concept that has gone mainstream enough that this Kickstarter project has blown its funding goals out of the water. The device turns your cell phone into a "Swiss Army Knife of environmental sensors."

This competition for the best environmental photography never fails to be interesting and professional.

The unmanned flying devices cut out expensive and polluting shipping methods for the heavy books.

It's so much more than books.

The Double Pyramid is an innovative way of portraying how the ecological footprints of our food compare to their nutritional value.