Latest Stories in Culture
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Bloomberg plans to get New Yorkers composting
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg plans to announce a new composting plan that aims to divert 100,000 tons of food scraps from landfills each year and become mandatory city-wide by 2016.
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Hurry! 4 Days left in the Instructables Green Design Contest
There's just a few more days to submit your project to this fun contest, with the chance to win some great prizes!
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NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade Inspires Volunteers
More on the inspiration created when Sierra Club Puerto Rico and Sierra Club NYC volunteers helped gather tons of recycling at Sunday's NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade.
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As vandals deface U.S. parks, some point to social media as part of the problem
A recent piece in the New York Times looks at the disturbingly sharp rise in vandalism in state and national parks, and at how social media is part of the problem and, possibly, part of the solution.
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Artist's experimental greenhouse uses sugar for glass panes (Video)
Inspired by solitary cabins of old, this multi-coloured solarium uses hardened sugar for its transparent skin.
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Grab your camera! Take part in Nature Photography Day 2013
Saturday, June 15th, is the 8th annual Nature Photography Day -- a time to get outside with your camera and celebrate the wonder that is our natural world.
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The top ten posts of the week on TreeHugger, from bike generators to octopuses
Toss in a few Teslas too.
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What does Instagramming our food say about modern eaters?
Is sharing photos of our food really such a bad thing, or is there more to it than just a culture of over-sharing?
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Spanish village returns dog poop to owners who didn't pick it up
Home delivery of their dog's 'lost property' is encouraging villagers to keep sidewalks poop-free.
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Veteran Gives Back Through Inner City Outings
Helping inner city kids see the outdoors is this veteran's favorite pasttime.
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Park-protection fight In Istanbul sparks nationwide protest movement
"This is not concrete, this is nature!"
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Toddler suddenly realizes that meat comes from animals, goes vegetarian (Video)
"When we eat animals they die!" says Luiz. "I don't like that they die. I like that they stay standing up."
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Steampunk Wheel House features tiny living with a circus twist (Video)
A poetic take on tiny houses, this time in steampunk-styled home that literally rolls around, as part of an exquisite performance.
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Why do people share food photos? [Slideshow]
Jared Keller's essay for Aeon Magazine on the significance of "food porn" photos that have become popular on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites got me thinking about my Instagram food photos and why I shared them.
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Valley of Saints explores life on a floating ecosystem
The award-winning film written and directed by Musa Syeed portrays life on Dal Lake in Kashmir.
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Photographer uses rusty old cans to create tintype photographs of desert scenes
Time is as much the subject of these photographs as the desert scenes captured by photographer David Adams, who uses aged tin cans as a way to display his images.
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Artist converts vintage suitcases into 'Nest Colonies'
The notion of 'nesting' takes on new meaning with these beautifully transformed suitcases, fit for the birds.
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Artist creates symbiotic sculptures of ceramic and living moss
Combining ceramics with horticulture, this Brooklyn-based artist makes sculptures that play host to living specimens of moss.
