When Brighton council advertised for volunteer shepherds they never imagined that they would get hundreds of applicants. It's not the greatest job description: no pay, lots of walking on quite steep, uneven slopes, duty

Celebrities buying plots of land to block developments is the new new. Last year people opposed to the third runway at Heathrow Airport bought up a plot in the middle of the runway in an attempt to thwart it. Now opponents to

It's the first living painting in London's Trafalgar Square, and maybe the first anywhere. A Van Gogh picture has been turned into a green living vertical wall.

It's not pretty, but a fact of life, gardens are rich pickings for thieves.

Is it time to ban these useless and unnecessary noise and pollution machines?

Saint Francis of Assisi statue, photo: David Morris/Creative Commons. The following post is part of an ongoing series of posts outlining how the world's major religions have traditionally viewed the environment and are putting those beliefs into

Here at TreeHugger we've long documented how every major religious group has come out supporting strong action on climate change, so the following irony, pointed out by Climate Progress shouldn't come as a shock: Even

For many

"The world is sweet and verdant

In previous posts in this series we've focused on

Some nice symbolism here... WWF-Nepal reports that it has just completed its target for 2011 of planted 108,000 trees in the Sacred Garden of Lumbini, where the Buddha was born roughly 2,500 years ago. Over the next ten years the

A Jordanian permaculture teacher is exploring the intersect between environmentalism and spirituality. Her work could take permaculture mainstream in the Middle East.

Two hundred evangelical scientists recently wrote a letter to Congress making the religious case for passing climate change legislation.

Rev. Richard Cizik and the nonprofit New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good have released a video message to President Obama calling on him to do more to protect public lands from destruction by private industry.

Fifth Third Bank shows us just how easy it is becoming for corporations to source all of their electricity from renewables.

The electricity grid can handle a ban, ten years earlier than law makers are aiming for.

Solar power is a wonderful thing but the benefits are not evenly distributed.

SMUD demonstrate that all-electric living is actually cheaper than gas.

It turns out leaving the EU is quite hard. Who knew?

The message "Electrify Everything!" is beginning to spread.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't still be trying to electrify everything.

Photographer Michael Ciaglo has shared his haunting photos from Agbogbloshie, the "digital dump" on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana.

Kodjo Afate Gnikou is a 33 years old inventor from Togo, in West Africa. Using mostly e-waste that he found in a scrap yard, he built a functioning 3D printer that he calls W.AFATE.

There's a lot to look forward to, but what should we expect to see more of in the short-term?

The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.

The machines are popping up at grocery stores in Norway.

If you want to attract good people these days you have to give them a nice place to work.

Using the bones of old-world infrastructure to build new-world infrastructure.

The Street View cameras now take you on extreme vertical tours alongside famous climbers.

And really, how self driving cars are an attack on freedom.

Big business may be coming to the climate party late. But it is making its presence known.

Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have joined together to support Obama's Clean Power Plan as it faces legal opposition.

I, for one, welcome the arrival of soft and sticky google cars.

The app lets kids and adults alike explore, measure and test the world around them.

Alphabet's X moonshot factory spins out a ground source heat pump company.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is experimenting with a new energy storage technology.

The prime minister also mentioned holding companies responsible for the packaging waste they create.

Unfortunately, people like the slogans a bit too much.

Slow, incremental changes are more effective than trying to do it all at once.

This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.

One of the biggest challenges of making cities more bike friendly is that most of the road space is already "used up." Adding bike lanes means removing something. That's when a bit of perspective comes in handy.

The city wants to become a leader in electric transportation, part of a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a third.

It's up to you to decide if you want to take the shortest route, the cleanest one, or the quietest one.

A partnership between Moisson Montreal and the largest grocery chains in the province will continue to salvage hundreds of tons of food that would otherwise be discarded.

Books aren't just for reading -- you can carve incredible works out of them too, as this artist has done with this 24-volume set.

A new study shows that in fact, if you build them, people use them and drive less.

You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time.

Talk about slashing food miles; 'fresh from the roof' is as local as it gets.

Wood smoke is a huge source of particulate pollution and really shouldn't be in residential neighbourhoods. But the flavour...

This is the kind of gentle density we need.