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...