It has one of the biggest pipelines of proposed new coal plants. But now those plans may be changing.

Prior to the discovery, fewer than 1,000 grey-shanked doucs were known to exist, making them one of the 25 most endangered primates on the planet.

Referencing traditional terraced agriculture, this modern house with terraces has an integrated rainwater collection and irrigation system that would allow it to grow greenery.

Strong and lightweight bamboo features prominently in this beautiful renovation of a rooftop cafe.

Made with strong and versatile bamboo, this structure has had multiple lives and can be easily and quickly assembled and disassembled over and over again.

This series of structures in Vietnam use bamboo and modern design tools and techniques to make a statement.

In many countries like Vietnam, there is nobody to even pick them up, let alone recycle them.

Last week there were used battleships for sale on e-bay, this week we've got used space shuttles. But not going as cheaply as the warships and not being turned into pots and pans either.

Leave the office behind. Sierra Club is offering a wild summer ride. It even pays real money.

If you think data center jobs are boring, think again! The IceCube Observatory's data center on Antarctica is an amazing opportunity for adventurous geeks.

The future is mobile as businesses dematerialize and hit the road

Free Geek is a non-profit reuse organization. Its mission: provide access to computers, the internet, education, and job skills to the local community.

Christopher Mims describes how robots are changing manufacturing and eliminating jobs

The internet company thinks it is better if people work at the office rather than on the internet. Is this a good idea?

Is she trying to "put together a 21st Century technology company using 19th Century workplace mentalities"? Or is this a smart move?

Thanks to GRID Alternatives and Wells Fargo, more than 1000 US military veterans and active servicemen will be getting solar industry job training and job placement.

Re-introducing vocational training in high schools could benefit students in countless ways, from preparing them for skilled, lucrative careers to giving them practical skills that make them feel useful.

Sushi is everywhere these days, and robots will soon be everywhere making it.

The rise of clean energy jobs is outpacing the loss of fossil fuel ones.

People often write of climate associated flooding, loss of agricultural productivity, spread of tropical disease, and so on. The City of Lahore, Pakistan is experiencing

As if melting Himalayan glaciers weren't enough to radically (and perhaps catastrophically) reshape water supply in South Asia, a new report from researchers at Purdue University shows that summer monsoons could be

If you're already on TreeHugger it's safe to assume that you've got an interested in what lies under the great green umbrella. And, now, if you've also got an

Adventurous, and eco-friendly, travelers often seek out off-beat lodging options, staying in yurts or on organic farms, both to soak up more local color and to avoid the

Image credit: Marjukka Grover Because Water is so Vital, Even Enemies Can Find Common Ground There's no doubt that as our climate gets weirder, the world will increasingly face a severe water crisis. Given the fact that we absolutely cannot live without

Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan. A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the 'timber

Back when 20% of Pakistan was underwater, I wrote about the influence of deforestation on the flooding--deforestation caused in no small part by illegal logging at the hands of the so-called timber mafia, a group with

We know that illegal logging contributed to the devastation caused by last summer's flooding in Pakistan, when up to 20% of the nation was underwater. New research now sheds light on how so much rain fell: A rogue

PETA and I may disagree about the ethics of eating meat, and there are plenty of people who object to PETA's overly sexualized campaign tactics. Nevertheless, I have always felt they are one of the more effective campaign

When heavy rains caused rivers to overflow and flood parts of Pakistan last year, it set into motion a surprisingly complex chain of events that scientists are only now beginning to understand -- and which may have

Some good news on the critically endangered Indian vulture: New research published in PLoS One documents how the rate of the bird's decline has fallen since India, Nepal, and Pakistan banned the veterinary painkiller

As salinization impacts agriculture around the world—another effect of climate change that will hit already-vulnerable places and people the hardest—farmers, small-scale farmers in particular, have to figure out how to

If you thought the flooding in the northeast in the wake of Hurricane Irene and subsequent storms dropping heavy rain, thank your lucky stars you're not in Pakistan. In a repeat of last summer, the nation is again in the grips of catastrophic flooding,

Time-lapse video shows the construction of a latrine in rural Pakistan -- from before the hole is dug until the doors are hung on each 'stall.'

NASA is using decades of space exploration technology to build a new eco-aware base here in California.

It's like that 1965 movie Crack in the World, where drilling for geothermal energy causes all kinds of problems. There are such high hopes for real geothermal power; there is a lot of heat down there that can vaporize water and run turbines.

Indonesia may not be tapping into much of its superior

The heat in the upper six miles of the earth's crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity

A former Nazi bunker located in Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover. The building, which looks like a giant LEGO, will supply 3,000 homes with heating and 1,000 of those with electricity, cutting 6,600 tons of CO2 per year.

Demand for lithium is growing very rapidly thanks to portable electronics and electric vehicles. What if we could get a lot of lithium cheaply, without building new mines?

Energy policy and energy use are not forces of nature beyond our control. It's all about choices; different choices set us off on different paths, but don't prevent us from switching course.

A new type of geothermal heat pump system being tested in Philadelphia can tap into a city's sewage lines to capture heat.

A recently opened power plant in the Nevada desert uses two types of renewable energy.

Plus... Shell announces first carbon capture project in the Alberta Tar Sands; Arctic oil and natural gas's high cost to limit their global share.

Geothermal energy constantly gets overshadowed by other sources of clean energy, like wind and solar, because it's still more expensive. But with every passing year, it gets closer to its time in the spotlight.

Do you think we need to shift to solar, wind, and geothermal energy? Then show some love this week in order to help grow this important societal transition.

Compared to New Zealand, we all have work to do.

Another effect of weather weirding: Higher tea prices coming? Northeast India tea production expected to drop 60% in 2012 this year.

Turn trash into a school garden in Harlem by recycling drink bottles in Times Square today.

Chamomile is one of the oldest and most popular medicinal herbs, but it has also become one of the best studied.

Whether it's coffee or tea, Katherine and Margaret love their steaming mugs of deliciousness.