Great gift ideas from DesignMarketo, a platform diffusing up-and-coming designers’ small and limited productions. Our favourite: "Save Fish, Eat Chips" t-shirts!

With demand for natural textiles spiking, sustainable companies need to look beyond pesticide- and water-intensive cotton

Once again Milan Design Week is here, and like most years, it is the small independent events that grab our attention. Like the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, that

It's having a negative effect on the fishing industry, he claims.

TreeHugger visits one of Denmark's oldest Eco villages, which includes 74 sustainably-designed highly unique houses and apartment buildings that range from hobbit-style straw to high design.

We have to use less of the stuff in our cars, our buildings, and our infrastructure.

A hopeful report by Greenpeace envisions a future where supermarkets have gotten rid of superfluous waste.

Can digital fabrication and robotic construction techniques help reduce the carbon emissions of concrete?

A new generation of succesful for-profit, mission-driven businesses are serving energy-hungry communities across the globe.

Good for the Westons, owners of both, for doing the right thing by admitting their use of the factory and their willingness to help out.

A new plug-in diagnostic tool could mean better healthcare around the world.

A fail-safe filter that delivers water easily with a sip or a squeeze could save lives in places where water-borne illnesses thrive, but look for it first as a trendy gym accessory.

The batteries could provide back-up power for small solar power systems.

How do companies close the “green-gap” and turn consumer values into action?

A major brand is putting out the first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from recycled beach plastic

The good people of Denmark phoned in enough kroner to plant nearly a million trees.

No more shopping blindly. It's time to question your whole approach to holiday gifts.

Shoppers have realized that paying a few extra cents can make or break a domestic food producer.

They're using the Flashfood app to give customers steep discounts and divert food from landfill.

Lloyd's of London joins the ranks of big insurers who no longer see coal as a viable investment.

The largest hotel chain in the world joins the move against straws.

It's all about the culture.

Even though it took 6 months to find an alternative, Coop refused to stock microwave popcorn because of the health risks to customers.

Denmark’s last wolf was killed in 1813, but after a female travels 340 miles from Germany and meets some males, cubs are expected soon.

We always write "Learn from Denmark." We take it back.

Appliances have labels for energy efficiency, so why not food?

From the world's largest to ones that were here long before the Mayflower, these noble trees are nothing less than U.S. national treasures.

After a month under rubble, a nearly lifeless callery pear tree was found by 9/11 workers who were determined to save it.

Images from Prix Pictet World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 every year, is an initiative of the United Nations that recognises that water is a basic requirement for all life. This year's theme: "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities" and "Whether

The iPod of thermostats gets updated with new energy saving features and increased functionality in its mobile apps.

The new technology would allow precise control over the transparency of windows and how much light is let in.

This might be one of the smartest ways to use a smart thermostat.

An affordable, long-lasting and attractive chair made from 100% recycled and recyclable plastic, designed in Barcelona by Estudio Mariscal. Need it far away? Then just buy the seat and get local legs!

Smaller, faster, cheaper! Single board computer (SBC) innovations are jumpstarting a whole new wave of DIY devices.

It may well be all most people need as a computer, and it may well be what we have been waiting for.

It's impossible for a human to know all of the hundreds of thousands of species of flowers on our planet, so Microsoft has developed flower learning software.

Our photo of the day comes from California's beautiful Central Coast.

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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a world leader in the study, appreciation, and conservation of birds. But the vast educational opportunities it offers aren’t reserved only for Ivy League students.

GreenBlue is challenging companies throughout the United States and Canada to change their thinking about sustainable sourcing.

Cobalt is used to build lithium-ion batteries found in mobile technology. Much of it comes from Congo, where men, women, and children endure dangerous and unhealthy conditions to satisfy our hunger for new devices. It's time we paid attention.

Giving a kid a phone "feels a little like trying to teach your kid how to use cocaine, but in a balanced way."

The technology could help keep buildings cooler in the warmer months.

Modern building codes and zoning regulations, while helping to set safety standards that can save lives, can also serve as big barriers to building small, sensible, and affordable dwellings with alternative materials and techniques.

It might be pretty, but it's just another toxic microplastic.

The project is one of the winners of a Performance Architecture contest to celebrate Guimarães as European Capital of Culture.

In a decade-long case by a group of plaintiffs, a court sentenced a farmer and an aviator to prison for spraying agrochemicals, linking them to environmental pollution and health hazards. Only they can skip doing any time.

The latest urban intervention to celebrate the city's status as European Capital of Culture is an unusual film venue for pedestrians.

At TreeHugger we like cork, that warm material that can be harvested without chopping down trees, is fully renewable and biodegradable and can be shaped into many funky objects apart from stoppers to keep the wine in the bottles. The designers at

Elevated above a flood-prone salt marsh on the Essex coast, this small beach house looks like a bird perched among the grasses.