Image credit: Geodesic Greenhouse Kits Geodesic Greenhouse Growing at 6000ft Given the importance of local food to us all, it's amazing we haven't seen more innovative designs for greenhouses and other season extension methods here on TreeHugger. Sure, I've posted on a recycled bottle greenhouse , and we are not short of posts about high-tech vert...

Photo credit: Getty Images / Ryan McVay We talk a lot about eating local, seasonal food, but that can be tricky to visualize in different places around the world, depending on the season, region, even the micro-climate. To help showcase eating what's coming out of the ground, all year-round, we'll run a series of slideshows -- sort of like a calen...

Image of Alabama Moon Tree With a name like TreeHugger, how can we not write about moon trees? Don't run for the plant dictionary yet because they won't be in it. Moon trees is the name given to the trees grown from seeds that were taken to the moon on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. Astronaut Stuart Roosa had worked for the U.S. Forest Service ...

Image via: Hannaford Supermarket Hannaford Supermarket, which first opened in 1883, and is known for their Guiding Stars program, is now the first supermarket in the US to be Platinum LEED certified. They also use about half of the energy of a normal supermarket thanks to the help of their rooftop solar array, the largest in Maine.... ...

The white stuff on that lid contains the endocrine disruptor Bisphenol A We recently reported that the endocrine disruptor Bisphenol A (BPA) was found in organic baby food packed in glass jars, apparently from the lining of the metal lid. (see Bisphenol A Found in Baby Food in Glass Jars) I wondered: could all of our delicious home-made preserves ...

It takes a lot of phosphorus to support our diet-about 222.5kg per person per year for a normal balanced diet. Professor Stuart White, Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney suggests that it follows the same Hubberts Peak pattern as oil, and that we are just about at the peak. He writes in Sustainable Phospho...

Image Source: Francesca Tronchin Dear Pablo: With the energy and water used in washing and drying, isn't it actually more environmentally friendly to use paper napkins instead of cotton?... ...

Image from The Daily Mirror Citizens of Colchester beware! Take to your houses. A masked man, dressed like a creature from the swamps has been filling empty planters and baskets with brightly-coloured marigolds and begonias. He was last seen wandering the streets carrying a sign saying "Save the Roses" after Colchester, England council threate...

Image credit: Vegan Organic Network Agriculture With No Animal Inputs I am no vegan, but I do understand that with the environmental impacts of meat being such a concern, a vegan diet can be very sustainable. Even cutting back on consumption with meat free Mondays, or becoming a weekda... ...

Organicmania OK, So you have given up on canned baby food and switched to glass to avoid the endocrine disruptor Bisphenol A (BPA), right? Well, maybe not. Health Canada (which last year banned BPA in baby bottles) tested baby food bottled in glass and found BPA in 84% of the samples. Martin Mittelstaedt of the Globe and Mail notes that while glas...

Photo gwire @ flickr I first heard of raw milk from my yoga teacher in Asheville. She swore by the stuff claiming that not one of her three kids had ever even had a cavity and she was sure it was a result of the milk. I have to admit I was a bit skeptical at first. The raw food diet is one thing, but raw milk? But the fact of the matter is that it...

The top plants are the non-GM plants, the bottom ones are. Photo: Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics/University of Adelaide One key part of ensuring adequate food supplies as the world's climate changes, especially in places where water supply and water salinity changes are likely to be large, is developing crops with higher salt-tole...

Image: Original Beans We've told you about Original Beans a couple of times. We first wrote about their quest to become the first truly transparent chocolate company by basing their pricing on the true cost of sustainable chocolate production. The second time we caught wind of their collaboration with Wheels4life, where they supply mountain bikes ...

Photo via stock.xchng by bouwm019 Should we be eating more beef in order to slow global warming? It sounds counterintuitive, but it may be so: Cattle could be part of the whole ecological equation to solving climate change and restoring healthy, bio-diverse ecosystems. I am a vegetarian, but I maintain there is a place for grass-fed beef on family...

Plantagon is more than just another vertical farm. We learn from PSFK that it "will dramatically change the way we produce ecological and functional food. It allows us to produce ecological with clean air and water inside urban environments, even major cities, cutting costs and environmental damage by eliminating transportation and deliver directl...

"Thinking big." Image credit:The Economist. Everything has limits. Case in point, regarding expectations for organic food consumption: as reported in Environmental Leader, based on recent national survey of consumers, organic food is expected to grow greatly in importance over the next decade. Let's review the powerful limits to that expectati...

This is neither a Honduran Emerald or Clos LaChance, but it is a hummingbird drinking nectar from a wine glass. Image via: HummingbirdsLiberty on Flickr.com It may not be organic or biodynamic, and it might not be saving the planet, but drinking Clos laChance endangered hummingbird series wine will (help to) save one hummingbird species a yea... ...

In red are counties that have one of the 2 Dengue mosquito vector species. Blue are are vulnerable areas. Image: NRDC That's Pretty Concrete and Scary Matthew recently wrote a post about the climate change induced expansion of the tropics and the consequences of it. One of the main ones is the Northward movement of certain tropical diseases. The N...

Photo credit: Getty Images We've seen some pretty funky feedstock for fabric in our time, from chicken feathers to discarded cigarette butts. Now get set to look at your morning mud in a whole new light because a Taiwanese company has pioneered a method to weave waste coffee grounds into interlaced fibers. The result? A textile that dries quickly,...

Here is an interesting way to go vegetarian; who needs Tofurkey if you can buy meat that is made from nutritious candy. ... ...