Taking a stance against our consumer culture is a challenge, which is why you'll need rules to live by.

Young people's interest in 'healthy, clean living' has them cooking, crafting, and counting their pennies in ways that baffle their Boomer parents.

Voting with your wallet has its time and place, but sometimes it's best just to leave the wallet at home.

This sofa will convert into a number of uses, and will accommodate third-party add-ons like armrests, backrests, side tables and more.

This beautiful product, made in the U.S. from sustainable and recycled materials, is my smartest office purchase to date.

Here is a clever new design that unfurls with a flourish and retracts with a simple pull of a string.

The static, traditional lecture classroom is slowly on its way out. Here's how the flexible classroom of the future might be furnished.

A new entry to the eco-friendly furnishings market offers a collection of furniture and home accessories that comes with a bold set of standards.

An exhibition of their work is at the Cooper Hewitt in New York.

Our reviewer rises to the occasion.

This modern work desk lets more than one person sit and stand -- at the same time.

Why are so many people renting lockers when the stuff can be put to good use by people who really need it?

These old, thick cable ropes have done their job: now it's time to reuse them in a beautiful way.

They are sized between the tiny Manhattan "design studio" and their standard big boxes.

Already suffering a perilous decline, the deaths of 4 North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence this month doesn't bode well for the species.

If the goal is to reduce meat consumption, then why not make it more expensive?

A writer argues that glitzy new plant-based technology distracts from the bigger issue of animal welfare.

Here's what happens when kind humans and open-armed owls encounter an orphaned owlet.

We’ve reported on Transition City Bristol before, one of the first city-wide Transition Town initiatives [Disclaimer: This author has good friends involved in the project, but we’d be writing about it even if we didn’t]. It looks like things are

I was reading an apple pie recipe by Food Network chef Michael Smith in my newspaper the other day. I've made a few of Smith's recipes before and I've liked them. The recipe for the crust intrigued me because

You may have heard that the iPhone 3G went on sale this morning. I saw a line outside of the AT&T; stores here in Manhattan, and I heard there was a line around the block this morning at the Union Street Apple store in San

Victory gardens have come back ever bigger - garden magazines and home gardening tools sales are good even in this recessionary economy. The harvest season is almost upon us, and an extension of that urban victory garden idea is to glean the fruit (and

Deep from the innards of the TreeHugger test kitchen (ok, there's no TH test kitchen, just the hordes of us hungry bloggers trying to keep both budget and taste buds happy) emerges a new, quick, and decidedly healthy everyday

From the news that scientists have created a bacteria that lights up around landmines to the development of a rot-proof apple--that stays fresh for 4 months--a lot happened this week in green. A new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and

Hundreds of people weathered the blizzard last Sunday to support New Amsterdam's Wintermarket in lower Manhattan. The New Amsterdam Market is not your

Rosh Hashana, also known as the Jewish New Year, was celebrated this past week. One of the iconic symbols of the holiday, is honey, which is eaten with challah and apples. Honey has important meaning for the celebrants of Rosh

Honeybee Baby and Mom at the Honey Festival Photo By Bonnie Hulkower With Rosh Hashana just a few days ago, I am still remembering the taste of honey drenched apples and challah. There have been plenty of apples and honeys all over NYC in the past

Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore.

Fruits and vegetables last all winter with jams, fruit butter, marmalades, and pickled vegetables from new cookbook Home Canning by Janet Cooper.

Richard Shilling's apples help me appreciate the wondrous variety found in nature.

Artist Jessica Rath uses sculpture and photography to highlight the problem with new hybrid apples and endangered varieties.

No one loves an apple more than a schoolteacher, but even they could learn a thing or two about the best way to eat it.

Supporters think the Arctic Apple will be a game changer - the first GMO to be marketed directly to consumers as convenience food.

A design competition that shows that we can have our cake and eat it too.

It's all a facade, as architects compete to see who can design the ugliest exterior.

As always, they warm your hearts as well as your toes.

The OCADU project won a Wood Works! award and will probably win a lot more to come.

Don't just sit there, do something.

It is a modern plug-in city that is organic in more ways than one.

Archigram’s Plug-in City meets 3D Printing

It's urban, Passive House and prefab. What's not to love?

They really do live up to their billing this year.

It always amazes, how much work people do for this.

Considered to be the highest award a restaurant can receive, the Michelin Guide's 2020 French edition now gives a nod to environmentally minded restaurants.

School administrators have asked the USDA for greater flexibility in providing emergency meals.

Cornell study finds that when people have easy access to food shops, they discard less at home.

Yet another reason why we need a more resilient food system.

This self-sustaining mini-ecosystem is made by a designer who wants to create habitable structures that are also themselves alive.

An old garage shed is transformed into a spacious little home for one grandmother, living near her kids and grandkids.

Currently moored in London's St. Katharine Docks, this lovely modern houseboat is on the market for £290,000.