Image credit: Olive Garden & Peter Baker (Creative Commons) When I wrote about drying clothes indoors , I was surprised to hear that some folks had considered opening the windows and cranking up the heat on the thermostat as a “green”... 

The Tentstation campground is just five minutes from central Berlin’s main Hauptbahnhof train station. Photo via IgoUgo . In the crowded heart of Istanbul lies a secret garden. Actually, there are probably at least a few, but the one I had the... 

Daily Mail’s Liz Jones and People Tree founder Safia Minney, left to right, in Bangladesh’s first organic cotton farm. Image via Daily Mail . The not so sweet reality of garment workers conditions in Bangladesh is, in short, very bad . Thanks... 

When it comes to green living, Planet Green is the go-to for how-to, and has been beating to death the subject of beating the heat. We round up a few cool thoughts: Should We Declare Heat Days Like We Declare Snow Days? People have lived without air... 

+ Start your pregnancy right with some of our favorite suggestions, from practicing prenatal yoga to avoiding exposure to BPA . + Are you really eating for two? Learn&emdash;and bust&emdash;some common myths about Go here to read the rest: Best of... 

Photo via: Komo News. Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery’s 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. I recently got an email about a “life architect,” Nick Kolesnikoff and his book Your... 

Image credit: Image Shack Ever feel like you live in a parallel universe? From the selective flush , to the slightly less controversial shared flush , I thought I had covered all the options for alternative toilet flushing methodologies. Heck, I’ve... 

Photo credit: Ericskiff Three years ago we were appalled when Organic Oreos were launched , convinced that the organic label was being misused to make a fat and calorie rich product somehow healthier. Now a new study, reported in Livescience , confirms... 

Photo by foodiesathome.com via flickr. TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world’s big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far... 

Image by B. Alter: Ute Decker Ethical jewellery is hitting the mainstream now. There are more and more designers working with ethical materials and the public is becoming more interested and concerned about the provenance of their jewels. This year,...