We all know that America and the world are getting fatter, but I didn't know that they are even now making special toilets to deal with the problem. In fact it is, um, an expanding market; The Zurn Bariatric wall hung flush

The CEO of the USGBC brings it on and fights back against the Plastic People their poodles in Congress

This glass makes your window treatments obsolete.

Planting trees may be a great way to help save the environment, but thanks to one Catholic diocese in Brazil, it's having a similar effect on parishioners' immortal souls. In an effort to bring a bit of green back

These specimens of the fungi world are both beautiful and strange.

Images via: Zoic.com San Diego based cycling clothing company Zoic just released their spring line, which now includes EcoZoic - an organic and bamboo charcoal blend of clothing that is both functional as well as eco-friendly. But while Zoic wants to

Solar grid parity will vary from city to city. A new interactive map helps show how it will spread.

Meet the Whanganui. You might call it a river, but in the eyes of the law, it has the standings of a person.

Rivers are people too, you know.

Removal of the 118-foot-high dam in France will free the Sélune River, bringing wildlife back to the waterway and the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.

Self-driving cars will likely be big autonomous mobile home theaters.

Something like this could be on the roads by 2022.

An ethanol production mandate could be in conflict with efforts to reduce the Gulf Coast dead zone.

This is not your usual trading site; it is much more of a community.

We have seen many ups and downs in the prefab world, but they may be getting it right this time.

Republican Candidate in Michigan blames too much federal regulation. Others might suggest too little.

Microsoft decided that a good way to advertise its cloud-based Office 365 software would be to actually put a T-Mobile wifi router with 15 days of free wifi inside a magazine advert.

Looking beyond traditional recyclables and the "blue bin", here are some of the organizations and companies seeking to redefine what we consider trash with alternative recycling initiatives and methods of reuse.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is experimenting with a new energy storage technology.

The proposal for redeveloping Toronto's waterfront into a green, sustainable, urban tech hub is controversial.

Finally, a true Zero Waste store has arrived in Canada! Méga Vrac features more than 700 products, making it a perfect place for waste-averse shoppers to stock their pantries.

Lloyd Alter would be so proud.

For Monsanto, superweeds are just another selling point for its products.

We usually start with "A Picture is Worth", but in this case the thousand words are much more powerful. Boingboing quotes designer Justin Perricone: "This is a poster I designed using all of the ingredients in a Ham & Cheese Hot Pocket. First in a

One of the big beefs with Energy Star for housing is that all it cared about was energy; beat the standard code by 15% and you got it. No matter that the best way to make a house efficient is to make it tight, leading to all kinds of air quality

It's not rocket science, it's building science, and it's all here.

Save your clothes with these easy fixes for common zipper problems.

What started in Maryland is spreading. A running club with zombies that chase you. It's about survival of the fittest.

And I am going to be positive, upbeat and happy about it, really.

Really, this trend should be nipped in the bud.

This former pigeon roost is transformed into a light-filled family home.

As subsidy-free renewables proliferate, it will become harder to derail decarbonization.

School strikes, non-violent direct action, office sit-ins. It feels like something might be building.

We want to extend National Talk Like A Pirate Day just a few more days, especially since it is helping to spread the word about clean sailing and boating. The Sierra Club has put together a fun set of questions to not only get you in the

One more US city fully commits to transforming itself into a better place to live for all.

Don't give up; Collective and individual actions can change the world.

More importantly, it reminds scientists not to lose sight of the importance of human behavior in the search for answers about the physical processes of climate change

At TreeHugger, we like to keep things realistic, raise a skeptical eyebrow to potential vaporware, and to keep in check our giddy inner children that get sweaty palms when we see something like the VentureOne. After all, a bright idea, some capital, and

Well, as much as you can humanize a $136,000 sports car.

Love to accessorize, but want to stay green? Here are some ways you can do both.

The competition is looking for new ideas for capturing the emissions from fossil fuels and turning them into something useful instead of harmful.

The goal could be reached even earlier, if Scots changed what they eat.

Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.

In anticipation of a new retrospective at the Whitney, "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, " Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the New Yorker, quoting Fuller about the need for innovation:

The 'library subscription' model for food containers is becoming increasingly popular.

The movement of air around the planet is fascinating, and has never been more clear thanks to this map. The modeling system used to make it can simulate worldwide weather at remarkable detail.

A lesson in what happens when the humans disappear.

New quarters are coming and they star FRUIT BATS!

Progress is being made. But the climate keeps unravelling.

The Obama administration loves its czars almost as much as the media loves using the title. So here goes: The U.S. Asian Carp Czar, also known as John Goss, says he has a multi-pronged strategy to help keep Asian carp from