The New York Times visits Oberlin College's new SEED, or Student Experiment in Ecological Design, "a microcosm of a growing sustainability movement on campuses nationwide, from small liberal arts colleges like Oberlin and Middlebury, in Vermont, to Lansing Community College

Everybody and their dog was out yesterday with bells on for Bells on Bloor, a bike parade to promote the idea of bike lanes on the major crosstown street in Toronto. They were looking for a thousand cyclists, but it

If your school hasn't had a chance to hold a fashion show featuring outfits made out of recycled items, now just may be the time to consider it. As St. Ann's School in NY recently demonstrated that they could take

In his New York Times article Ben Stein said we had to have a moon-shot scale drive to drill everywhere and turn coal into oil into gasoline. After our previous post commenter RC said "Only a numbskull treehugger could argue

We've seen Ford Escape Hybrid taxis in New York City, and now they are making the move to sunny Los Angeles, where they will serve as patrol cars for the Los Angeles County Lifeguard Headquarters. If only Baywatch were still

Does this image look familiar? It might be because you saw it over the recently announced European Green Capitals award which will recognize European cities that are models of environmental programs and sustainability. Sharp eyed readers at TreeHugger noticed an

Meat-lovers and vegetarians alike will find much to like about Paul Roberts' pièce de résistance, "Carnivores Like Us," in this month's SEED. The article, adapted from Roberts' new book, The End of Food (see Mother Jones' recent

When we reported on the proposed Urban Aquaculture Center (UAC) last week, commenter Luke informed us of a video featuring UAC affiliates Growing Power - a collective of urban community farms experimenting with aquaponics, vermiculture, greenhouse salad crops and good,

I always used to vote for the left-leaning New Democratic Party and its leader Jack Layton, shown here on the famous Couch Bike with bike safety expert, Member of Parliament and spouse Olivia Chow. In the last election I voted

The Onion tells us: Geneticists at the California Institute of Technology announced Monday that they have developed a tomato with a 31 percent larger price tag than a typical specimen of the vine-ripened fruit. "By utilizing an exciting new breakthrough

Jim Clark in his gallery with one of his favorite Inuit sculpturesAs a young man looking for adventure, Jim Clark took a job as an Alaskan king crab fisherman. Fifteen years later, he had found as well a deep and

Greenbiz.com is reporting that AT&T will soon add 105 compressed natural gas (CNG) and hybrid vehicles to its fleet in order to "track fuel efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, operating costs, performance and driver satisfaction of each vehicle" as well as

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is fraught with so many difficulties, not least of which is its time frame, that it's hard to know whether the technology could be a real part of meeting global warming CO2 reduction goals, or

Two British engineers have discovered a novel technique that could help make biofuel production cheaper and boost the energy content of some crops by up to 20%. The process, called "torrefaction," consists of slowly heating biomass in an inert atmosphere

It turns out noted science writer -- and 2007 "Australian of the Year" (not to mention a TH favorite) -- Tim Flannery is an advocate of geoengineering. Specifically, he supports a scheme in which sulfate aerosols would be injected into

Cartoonist Mark Fiore does another one of his wonderful parodies, blaming the hot sun burning hundreds of thousands every year and for causing disease-carrying wind. After all, we all know that clean coal is the answer to all of our

Meet Nicola Giuggioli, the founder of Eco, London's sustainable design store.:: Find out what our resident beauty expert, Summer Rayne, has to say about eco-friendly hair dye.:: Substitute fatty Chinese fast food with Kelly's healthy Dim Sum.:: Make line drying

As Mick almost said, We all need something to lean on, so Maruja Fuentes of San Juan, Puerto Rico, developed Leanwall for public spaces. It is composed of two molds made of recycled ABS plastic that are identically shaped. These

Memorial Day Weekend is coming and -- in spite of crazy high gas prices --more Americans than ever are planning to get away by car. But hey, it doesn't have to cost as much as you think.As you probably know,

Please join us in welcoming a our special guest, Russ George. Russ has a completely out-of-the-hive idea to share with us: posing a hypothesis that is sure to get a buzz going.Open letter to all those who love a roll