Photo via qmnonic Nothing like a flood of minks loose in a country’s already fragile ecosystem to put environmentalists in a tough spot. Two fur farms in northern Greece were raided, the results of which saw 50,000 minks running for the hills.... 

Image credit: Peak Moment TV A few years ago, Scott McGuire launched an experiment in backyard sustainability —exploring how much food he could grow in his backyard for his family, and whether they could reach self-sufficiency. So what happened?... 

Mary Taffe took these pictures at the same spot in Big Stone Lake last summer (left) and this summer (right). Photos by Taffe via pollutionsolutionanybody . Last year at this time, the part of Big Stone Lake near Mary Taffe’s house was a murky,... 

Image credit: The WHO Farm When Michelle Obama first announced her White House garden , locavores everywhere rejoiced. Here was a highly symbolic, yet practical, indication of where the administration stood on sustainable agriculture. Yet while the First... 

Image credit: SyncStudios I’ve never been much of a gamer, but I did always enjoy the constructive challenges posed by games like SimCity and its later spin offs. That’s why I kind of liked the idea of a Facebook game that lets you nurture... 

Image credit: SyncStudios I’ve never been much of a gamer, but I did always enjoy the constructive challenges posed by games like SimCity and its later spin offs. That’s why I kind of liked the idea of a Facebook game that lets you nurture... 

photo: Jennifer Woodard Maderazo via flickr TreeHugger has covered the uncomfortable and largely under-publicized topic of peak coal on a number of occasions, but David Roberts over at Grist just brought it up again–and it’s a topic certainly... 

Image credit: Centre for Alternative Technology Environmentalists may spend a lot of time battling against the fossil fuel lobby , but the awkward truth is that there is plenty of fighting between “green” groups too—perhaps most notably... 

Photo via Blogamole If your reaction to insects is more fearful than interested, then Wilmer Valderrama has a show for you: He’s signed on to produce the Science Channel’s new series “Bugging Out,” which he hopes will get people... 

TreeHugger has noted before that swapping is good for your budget and for the environment . House-swapping and home exchanges are not new; one company facilitating swaps has been doing it since 1953. It was developed as a way of getting low-cost vacation...