so This year, America should turn out the lights in solidarity with Earth Hour, the climate and reality. By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:18:03 -0400 This year of all years, we should stand up and fight the climate change trolls. Full Article Business
so Advisor to EPA says a little air pollution is good for kids By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 08:53:50 -0500 We wrote earlier: "Lick that dirty pacifier!" Now we say "Breathe that dirty air!" Full Article Business
so Designer's awesome secret studio is suspended under bridge By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:00:00 -0400 Ephemeral and unexpected, this outdoor workspace is intended as an urban refuge. Full Article Design
so 6 International Resorts Dishing Pampered Eco Luxury By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:37:29 -0400 Luxury by its very definition means indulgence--while eco-consciousness, such as that employed by Scandic in its moderately-priced hotel chain, is more likely to mean slashing consumption. Full Article Science
so Isoude: Gorgeous Green Fashion That's Built to Last (Slideshow) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:18:35 -0400 A couple of years ago, I made the New Year's resolution that my new clothing purchases would be limited to green garments. With the quality and selection of ">green fashion that's become available recently, it's been a promise Full Article Living
so First in South America: Uruguay to Test Cultivation of Industrial Hemp By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:45:06 -0500 Great news for TreeHuggers in South America: Uruguay could become the first country in the region to authorize the cultivation of industrial hemp, according to El Pais newspaper. The national Ministry of Cattle, Full Article Business
so Sourcing Sustainable Fabrics Made Easy with New Online Marketplace from Summer Rayne Oakes By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:06:56 -0400 When I caught up with Summer Rayne Oakes at a Fashion Delivers event in June, she only briefly mentioned her forthcoming project: Source 4 Style, an online marketing Full Article Living
so Snoop Dogg Publishes 'Smokable' Songbook of His Greatest Hits By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:06:05 -0400 Snoop Dogg publishes eco-friendly, promotional book of lyrics to his chart-topping hits that you can smoke. Full Article Living
so TreeHugger's Greatest Hits, 2004-2012 (with a Soundtrack by Bruce Springsteen) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:54:00 -0500 I wrote my first TreeHugger post more than seven years ago. Since then, there's been a lot of water under the bridge. Here are some of the many highlights. Full Article Living
so Framework Tall Wood Tower in Portland sprouting soon By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 11:00:30 -0400 "Forest to frame" is the new "farm to table." Full Article Design
so In the battle for social domination of the roads, Oregon imposes a bike tax By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:00:40 -0400 Because cyclists should pay their fair share, right? Full Article Transportation
so Adidas' new shoes will dissolve in your sink By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:05:00 -0500 In an attempt to close the loop on production, Adidas has invented a shoe made from biodegradable artificial spider silk that will melt away when you're done with them. Full Article Living
so Adidas sold 1 million pairs of shoes made from ocean plastic last year By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 13:26:00 -0400 Finally, green shoe design is reaching mainstream levels. Full Article Living
so All-glass solar-powered PurePods are for glamping out in the open By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:06:30 -0400 Made out of glass, these rentable cabins in New Zealand's wilderness are meant to reconnect guests with nature. Full Article Design
so TarSandsSOS lets you track tar sands oil tankers By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:09:06 -0500 ForestEthics has launched a new tool called TarSandsSOS that lets citizens track supertankers hauling tar sands oil along the Pacific coast in real time. Full Article Energy
so Winters Were Colder in Your Parents' Day: New England Trees Get 10 Days More Growing Season Than Pre-1970 By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:30:00 -0400 According Full Article Science
so Sustainability Lessons from the Great Depression By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:31:25 -0400 A pioneer of peak oil community action sits down to talk with her mother about a previous crisis and how she survived it. Full Article Business
so Rap News video presents our energy crises, global warming denial, Elon Musk on Mars, and our #1 energy solution By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:55:00 -0400 This rapper nails it, imho. Full Article Energy
so Have we reached Peak Curtains? IKEA's head of sustainability thinks so. By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:08:43 -0500 We have lots of stuff, it's just unevenly distributed. Full Article Design
so Sooner than you think? A prediction that electric cars will cause the next oil crisis By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:40:47 -0500 It actually won't take that much to reduce oil demand enough to cause serious trouble. Full Article Transportation
so Flecks of "solar glitter" can make almost anything solar powered By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 10:48:37 -0500 The tiny, flexible solar cells can be integrated into objects of any shape or size. Full Article Technology
so This solar panel produces up to 5 liters of drinking water per day from the air By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:53:23 -0400 Zero Mass Water's SOURCE device is a rooftop solar device that produces water instead of just electricity. Full Article Technology
so Forward Labs solar roof promises higher production, lower cost than Tesla's By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 26 May 2017 07:00:00 -0400 The unicorn of cheap clean home energy will most likely be found in an affordable solar roof that doesn't look like a solar roof, and that can pay for itself quickly. This startup may have developed it. Full Article Technology
so Solar paint produces hydrogen from sunlight and water vapor By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:32:54 -0400 The unique paint could provide clean power to homes at a low cost. Full Article Technology
so Solar-activated canopy creates interactive environment that responds to light (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:55:07 -0400 This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery. Full Article Design
so IKEA is now selling solar systems, no Allen key required By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:23:02 -0400 So far the panels and batteries are only offered in the UK but it might spread to sunnier North American climes. Full Article Business
so Are solar panels vulnerable to hackers? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:43:57 -0400 A new study says yes, but luckily the fix is simple. Full Article Technology
so Australia will be home to world's largest single-tower solar thermal power plant By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:27:20 -0400 The project will also include molten salt energy storage for 24 hour solar power. Full Article Energy
so Solar blocks could replace solar panels on buildings By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:38:12 -0400 The blocks could be part of the architecture of a building, generating more power than just rooftop panels. Full Article Technology
so Waterproof solar cell could go through the wash and still work By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:43:01 -0400 The solar cell can be stretched, bent and compressed without substantially affecting performance. Full Article Technology
so This concentrated solar power plant is totally tubular & easily transported By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 19:44:12 -0400 The HELIOtube is a radical departure from conventional CSP technology, as it is based around tubes of inflatable plastic film. Full Article Technology
so Tesla tiny house integrates solar with Powerwall, towed by Model X (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:27:31 -0400 Tesla's tiny house integrates solar power and its Powerwall home battery into a seamless system, and can be towed by the Model X. Full Article Design
so Finally, C.F. Møller shows the world how to do building-integrated solar panels By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:34:08 -0400 While the world chases solar generating windows, we see how to do solar generating walls. Full Article Design
so Solar 'smart' greenhouses produce both clean electricity & food crops By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:57:32 -0500 A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light-altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them. Full Article Technology
so Bio-solar wallpaper made with cyanobacteria can be printed with an inkjet By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:25:00 -0500 When printed in a precise pattern onto carbon nanotubes on paper, these photosynthetic bacteria can produce electricity from sunlight, which could power biodegradable environmental and medical sensors. Full Article Technology
so Solar windows switch between tinted and transparent By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 10:02:47 -0500 The technology makes for better energy generation and a better window. Full Article Technology
so Solar freakin' roadway opens in China By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:39:33 -0500 Is this totally silly and a waste of time and money, or is it a great leap forward? Or is it too soon to tell? Full Article Technology
so Man builds solar-powered, app-controlled micro-home with "zombie mode" (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 07:00:00 -0500 It also comes with its own beer dispenser, built-in right in the couch. Full Article Design
so The Red Bees of Brooklyn, and a Search for a Solution By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:07:08 -0500 Earlier in the week, the New York Times reported that bees in Brooklyn had started turning red, and their honey was looking like bright red goo. It turned out that Full Article Living
so Crowd-Sourcing Solutions to Plastic-Filled Oceans By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:40:40 -0400 Sylvia Earle won the 2009 TED prize for her presentation on oceans, and this year got her Mission Blue project up and rolling to create marine preserves. Earle's wish was that we all use all the means at our disposal to tell the story of oceans in Full Article Science
so Shark Extinction Possible Simply From Too Much Soup By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:41:22 -0400 In China, it's shark fin soup, in Japan it's blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S. it's our love of nice thick fish fillets and billions of fish sticks consumed annually - these cultural habits are Full Article Science
so Six Selfish Reasons You Don't Want Dead Oceans By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:00:39 -0400 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 from Full Article Science
so 3 Lessons The Everglades Can Teach Everyone About the Environment By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:59:54 -0500 All photos credit Collin Dunn Ed. note: 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with a stop in the Florida Everglades, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety Full Article Science
so The Ballad of Lonesome George, The Galapagos' Most Famous Tortoise By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:48:27 -0500 Lonesome George is quite a character. He's a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago, he's the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he's gone, that's it -- his species will Full Article Science
so Get to Know an Awesome Animal: The Galapagos Penguin By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:25:04 -0500 When it comes to the Galapagos, most people think: Islands; tropical; Equator; volcanoes; some variation on those general ideas probably pops to mind, unless you've been here. If you have been here, you probably know that a Full Article Science
so Up Close and Personal with Natural Selection in Action: The Tale of Two Islands of the Galapagos By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:32:40 -0500 Each of the islands in the Galapagos is incredibly different. From landscape to ecosystem to the endemic species that can only be found in that Full Article Science
so Helicopters Drop Poison on the Galapagos Islands By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:50:28 -0400 The Galapagos Islands are the model of biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to surmise the theory of evolution, but scientists have made arrangements to ensure that the latest round of animal deaths Full Article Science
so Giant Tortoise Species May Not Be So Extinct After All By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:39:34 -0500 They were thought extinct, but in light of new DNA findings, scientists are echoing a very tortoise-y mantra: 'not so fast'. Full Article Science
so R.I.P. Lonesome George, the Last of His Kind By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:40:38 -0400 Lonesome George, the world's last remaining Pinta Island tortoise, has died at age 100 -- marking the final end of a species millennia in the making, and inching that 'loneliest' mantle one notch closer to us. Full Article Science
so Operation Rat Kill: 22 Tons of Poison to Kill 180 Million Rats on Galapagos Islands By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:31:19 -0500 Usually, air-dropping over 20 tons of poison from an helicopter on a fragile island ecosystem would be a very bad thing... Full Article Science