We have applauded Prince Charles before for his willingness to spend massive amounts of money on green causes. And now HRH has done it again. He has purchased 1,000 of the rarest British apple varieties. So have Geoffrey Anderton, who owns Lochnaw

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

During World War II ordinary citizens across the country did their part for the war effort by planting victory gardens to lessen the demand on the food system caused by the war. Some have suggested that sustainability is about returning to the more

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

Every day, New York City residents waste 270,000 pounds of food. Want to know what that looks like? Here's an unforgettable way to imagine it - fill up a subway train with the equivalent amount of apples, and release it onto the

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.

It has challenged designers since the invention of the bar code: What to do about those stupid little labels?

Which holiday pie is greenest? Pumpkin, apple, or pecan? Find out in this week's Ask Pablo!

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

Ask Pablo answers: What's the greenest kind of booze we can drink this holiday season?

Schoolchildren plant a forgotten apple tree in New York.

Lots of great Food Day events across the country, but New York's will be particularly tasty and loud.

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

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 the Guardian notes in its headline, Wood you believe it?

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.

A design competition shows ideas that might soon be floating off French Polynesia

There are 17 atriums that need to be filled with creative uses.

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

Lipinski Lasovsky Johansson has designed a beautiful building and, wow, what beautiful drawings.

Moriyama & Teshima Architects + Acton Ostry Architects win design competition.

Metsä Wood design competition produces very interesting entries, like this one from Sigurd Larsen.

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.

Dr. David Katz argues that poor nutrition is a greater threat than the coronavirus, but we think both are concerning.

It's your guide to conquering the grocery store as efficiently as possible.

It supports local business owners and gives you more local and seasonal options.

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

This modern and comfortable two-bed treehouse in Texas is open to guests.

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.

This inviting, one-bedroom canal boat is in the 600-square-foot range and has all the comforts of home.

Really, there is a lot to love about his work that applies to green building. Really.

Everyone is talking about "overtourism" these days. I was recently part of the problem.

Architects all over the world should be doing this too.

It's wonderful to see architects take small interventions for housing for the homeless so seriously.

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines."

"How are we going to protect it if we don't understand what's at stake?"

Where the words and appeals of those indigenous tribes destined to be displaced by the dam had failed, nearly two-hundred native Amazonians have now gathered in a last ditch effort to protect their homeland using their bodies.

This project learns from spiders by envisioning a series of interconnected webs that would allow scientists to study the rainforest without harming it.

Yep, people can do pretty amazing things when they set their sights on it. These are some of our favorite (sometimes crazy) human accomplishments and amazing feats of strength.

For one tiny spider recently discovered in the Peruvian Amazon, creating an incredibly convincing decoy of itself seems to come naturally.

The Amazon is home to one of the most fascinating life forms of all -- humans, like us, but who are living free from the narrow confines of our 'civilization'.

Now confirmed, the legendary boiling river deep in the Amazon was long considered an impossibility due to its distance from active volcanoes.