Not long ago, my parents installed a sizable solar array on their home in England. Now my brother has just emailed with photos of his own installation. What's going on? Besides providing more evidence that solar feed-in

Local currencies are nothing new, but one city is allowing its businesses to pay their taxes with local money.

Volunteers are trialling an urban fish farm allotment in Bristol, England. Could this help ensure food security in an uncertain future?

This looks like lungs, sort of, but it's really made out of meadow flowers.

A slippery art installation in Bristol, England, reminds us that streets are not just for cars.

The Bristol Cargo Bike project is creating a "light weight mega geared micro logistics vehicle of choice for a city of hills."

"Most people are already operating ‘off grid’ in different ways to varying degrees, but the vast majority don’t feel the need to make a big lifestyle song and dance about it."

"It's an emergency," say council members. "So let's act like it."

Abandon not all ye moth-eaten and shrunken cashmere sweaters—designer Brooke Serson Cernonok of Teddylux can sprout an entire menagerie from your castoffs.

This week former Vice-President Al Gore made a stop by Atlanta last week to talk about...well, climate change. But while he was there, he took the time out to talk to one of the NFLs most green athletes, Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli. Still

Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane. Not only do you

With science pointing to all the pitfalls of sugar on human health and longevity, I have ever more reason to curb desserts and hidden sugars. Sadly, "reason" lacks in my vocabulary during the holidays. On

This week, the full-time TreeHugger crew met up in Atlanta to pow-wow over the blog we all know and love. We are serious subscribers to the working-from-home-is-green ethic, but about every 18 months or so, we get together to

Working in shared office spaces is an attractive solution for creative start-ups, and has become more and more sought-after in many of the bigger cities. Green Spaces in Manhattan has turned into a well-working

I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are

I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current transportation

Yesterday I wrote about a mom who was convicted of vehicular homicide after her son was killed by a drunk hit-and-run, because she crossed the street from a bus stop without walking almost half a mile to the traffic light. Today Walkscore has released

Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America: In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than

There is something contradictory about building a Green Porsche Headquarters at an Aeropolis, but whatever.

It's summertime, and the living is easy, and we are talking about air conditioning.

A community garden in Atlanta proviudes refugees from around the Globe a space to grow food, share their culture and to build community as a result.

Proof that buildings from the 70s and 80s can be fixed well instead of demolished: Perkins + WIll gets the highest LEED score in America.

St. Augustine said "Solvitur Ambulando": It is solved by walking. So does Tom Vanderbilt in this great series in Slate.

If you thought the top market for electric car growth was somewhere in California, you'd be right many months out of the year, but not the 4th quarter of 2013.

Steve Mouzon looks at the true cost of sprawl.

Things don't quite work as they are supposed to when people stand up.

Yumbii, an Atlanta-based food truck, adds a low emissions super food truck to its fleet. Check out its environmentally friendly features.

This loft-less tiny home makes quite a statement, both inside and out.

It is appalling that in much of America, they are considered a frill.

Forever is a very long time.

It is the first big city in the South to commit to being fully renewable energy powered.

It was a sad day last year when intense lobbying efforts in Congress won out, and a ban on BPA in children's products was blocked. But it seems that China and Malaysia have beaten us to the punch. According to Green Biz, China and

More and more stores are getting rid of paper receipts and offering to send electronic versions by email.

A new study from the Breast Cancer Fund shows that BPA is found in canned foods marketed specifically to kids. This should be no surprise to TreeHugger readers; we have been talking about BPA lining cans for years. All

Just when I thought it would be fine to cook with canned tomato sauce - bis-Phenol A recently having been granted toxicology probation - emerges the possibility that BPA can make you obese. Ohhh wait - not

Under pressure from parents and breast cancer groups, Campbell's Soup says it has transition plan away from BPA in motion

It is one thing to ban something, it is another thing to have something to replace it with at hand. We don't.

Without a hint of irony, FDA maintains several web pages with helpful information for parents and others wishing to avoid BPA, such as: “What You Can Do to Minimize Your Infant’s Exposure to BPA.”

Where does the FDA stand on a BPA ban?

The Substitution Support Portal SUBSPORT launched this week, intending to give business improved tools for substituting hazardous chemicals with safer substitutes.

It seems that the only people who benefit from this rule change are the members of the American Chemistry Council who make BPA.

Cartoonist Joe Mohr shows how the chemical might have affected the cartoon hero

A new study from the University of Illinois shows how chemical exposure early in life can alter stem cells and cause disease.

Researchers have found that lignin, a compound found in wood, could replace BPA in plastics.

Find out which brands are the best and worst players in the canned food industry right now.

Study assessed the effect of endocrine disrupting chemicals on mice's desire to exercise and found that it makes them lazier.

From one problem to the next...

A new report shines the light on a dirty little 'secret' of canned goods, which has little to do with the food itself, and everything to do with the coating in the can.

And that was after one week of avoiding foods that may have come into contact with the notorious hormone-disrupting chemical!

Scientists have found that the chemicals used to replace BPA over the past 20 years have the same damaging effects.