It won't be long now before fall. As summer draws to a close, it's time to take stock: How satisfied have people been with the summer?

These are not a bunch of free-ranging hippies, on the contrary: the World Wide Fund for Nature organized the event in Grugapark in Essen with a very clear goal in mind – to publicize the need to protect our forests as wildlife habitat. What better excuse do 848 people need to hug a tree? Viel Spaß!

Viva con Agua is a Hamburg-based charity that helps people around the world have access to clean drinking water. Here, a group of local kids partake in a sponsored run – RUN4WASH – in order to raise money to help others.

Sarah shows us four essential items that individuals can use to help the environment.

Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland is a large energy reserve that provides cold and hot water for individual and collective heating, cooling, and air conditioning needs in an environmentally friendly way. Find out more about how it works!

30 degrees Celsius instead of 40: The campaign "Wir drehen runter" ("We're turning it down") from the environmental foundation WWF and detergent brand Ariel aims to convince people to wash their clothes at lower temperatures. This not only protects the climate, but also saves energy and, therefore, money.

As a preparation for Frankfurt’s “Herbs Day,” more than five hundred children made propellers and planted them in a field in Frankfurt’s Bonames district.

Let's explore the concept of a single-family passive house: is a future without residential dependence on fossil fuels possible?

A tiny urban nook yields an enormous amount of living and working space, winning environmental awards to boot.

When it comes to the climate crisis, hope isn't necessarily the first thing that springs to mind. However, there have been some encouraging developments. Here are five examples.

In this video, physicist and author Harald Lesch talks about how Germany could phase out coal and nuclear power completely and still meet all of its energy needs.

Germany is not a big enough country to devote all of its land to creating renewable energy – but there is another place with vast expanses of empty space and limitless sunshine.

In this presentation from TEDxMünchen, Milena Glimbovski speaks about the topic of recycling, and how she became involved in the fight against excessive packaging.

Milena Glimbovski speaks about the process of starting Original Unverpackt, a supermarket in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood that sells food only in bulk or in recyclable containers.

Does this sound familiar? The lights are all on, the computer is running and next to it the radio is blaring, the heat is on full and the window is wide open. It's your kid's room, and he isn't even home! Hessian Environmental Minister Priska Hinz is trying to change all of that with sustainability projects in the classroom.