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Plastic bottles are the most common litter in European waterways

A report found that bottles have surpassed bags and straws when it comes to prevalence in freshwater rivers.




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Pedestrians will have to be "lawful and considerate" in a world of self-driving cars

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.




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First Iowa Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Gets $105m Loan Guarantee From DoE

If it seems like you've read a variation of the above headline before you're not wrong, and as much as anything it's a sign of the rock road cellulosic ethanol and biofuels in general have had in the past few years. The details: The Department of




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Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 4. Food or Fuel?

The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low-income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history.




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Peak Palladium: Thieves are going after catalytic converters from hybrid cars

The rare metal is now worth US $1,700 an ounce.




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Burger King in UK ditches plastic toys

The fast food chain will also take old plastic toys and melt them down for repurposing.




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Summer hail storm buries Guadalajara under six feet of ice

Climate crisis? What climate crisis?




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San Jose’s "Green Vision" Initiative Means Low-Impact Sleep, Eat and Play is Easy in Silicon Valley

Here's a one-stop green guide to traveling in San Jose, from hotels to a night on the town.




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Why going to the library is one of the best things I do for my kids and the planet

It's so much more than books.




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Ed Sheeran's popular song, The Shape of You, now has an environmental version

Global Citizen changed the lyrics to include a strong anti-food waste message, and the result is both entertaining and informative.




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Use this instead of grass for your lawn

Lawns use up way too much water.




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The Kitchen Library is the latest idea in the sharing economy

Why own a fondue pot when you can borrow one?




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The sharing economy, Cadillac style

Cadillac introduces BOOK, which lets you book the car you want when you want it. We should all be so lucky.




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CupClub is a poster child for sustainable, circular design

It is a cup as service, rather than cup as product.




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Master Plan for new community in Bergen is seriously low carbon

It's got all three: low transportation energy, low embodied carbon, low operating energy.




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Katerra opens the world's biggest factory making Cross-Laminated Timber

At Woodrise 2019, Katerra CEO Michael Marks wows the wood world.




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The North Face and National Geographic are making clothes from plastic water bottles

The limited edition pieces are designed to give plastic waste a second life.




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Photo: Stinging caterpillar masters the quiff

Our well-coiffed photo of the day comes from the rain forest of Ecuador.




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Apple kills the headphone jack on the iPhone. Good idea or planned obsolescence?

There are a lot of good reasons to get rid of that old plug.




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Tesla owners are mining bitcoins with free power from charging stations, but most are mined with coal

Bitcoin mining uses so much power that it may well turn into an environmental disaster.




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Epic art landscapes contain one lifetime's worth of recycled electronic waste (Video)

Aiming to raise awareness about e-waste recycling, this photographer used 4,100 pounds of e-waste in these futuristic scenes.




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Fairphone 2 is the world's first ethical, modular smartphone

If only we could buy it in North America.




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Are touchscreen displays a good idea in cars?

"If a touchscreen must be used, it should be embedded alongside a set of fixed, physical buttons that support muscle memory and single actions."




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Can You Spot TreeHugger in this Google 'Search Story' About Solar Power in Michigan? (Video)

Don't Blink or You'll Miss It! Google has created a series of video ads called "Search Stories". They're basically short vignettes showing some cool projects that were made possible by people finding the right information (using Google, of course). The




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Thousands Ask Univ. of Michigan Stadium to Go Solar

From the Redskins' huge solar installation to a solar-powered NASCAR track that mows its grass with sheep, major sporting venues can be an ideal location for solar power. From large expanses of rooftops and parking lots to their high energy needs to




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University Installs Solar and Electric Car Charging. "Environmentalists" Get Mad.

Western Michigan University is installing solar-powered electric car charging. But it has to chop down nine trees to do it.




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Detecting Plant Diseases? There's an App for that

The Gene-Z app works with Apple and Android and can detect plant diseases in 10-30 minutes.




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Michigan Has Large Shale Gas Reserves, In The Great Lakes Watershed

The Michigan basin has extensive shale gas reserves, yet it is not a political issue for Democrats or Republicans. Why?




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Heart-Powered Pacemakers to Eliminate Battery Replacement Surgery

Researchers propose using the vibrations of the heart to keep pacemakers going, eliminating the need to replace batteries.




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Koby Cottage "Represents a Revolution in Modular Construction"

It is a few years old but a real find. We probably won't see the likes of it again for a while.




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Solar Breweries Come to Michigan

An Ann Arbor brewery has just completed a $350,000 overhaul of its facilities, all in the name of greener beer.




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89-year-old Michigan Beekeeper May Lose his Hives After Neighbor Complaints

Beekeeper, and World War II veteran, is at risk of losing his beehives he's had since the 1950s.




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Could Michigan replace lost manufacturing jobs with solar jobs?

It wouldn't solve everything, but becoming a solar power hub could give a new spark to the area.




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Deja vu all over again: Michigan auto dealers sneakily try to lock Tesla out of the state

When the incumbents do everything in their power to keep you out of the market, rather than try to compete with you directly on the merit of their products, you know you're on to something.




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Michigan lawmaker wants to call burning tires “renewable energy”

Proposed bill would make burning tires and other industrial solid waste count towards the state’s mandate of generating 10 percent of its energy from renewables.




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Flatpack Passive House is made in Detroit

Phoenix Haus brings European prefab technology to the midwest




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See-through solar cells could close gap to meet electricity demand

This could turn 5-7 billion square meters of glass in the USA alone into solar power plants, plus power your cell phone and other gadgets




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Sustainable Sole, Eggplant with Chili and Spring Onions and Heavy Turf

:: Make your soles sustainable with shoe shopping tips from Summer Rayne Oakes.




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"Go Dry" Movement Spreads, As Californians Rip Up Their Grass Lawns

Cut the grass will you?...Are you done edging?....Time to water the




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Is Brown the New Green? Not Watering Lawns Works

It's catching on: homeowners letting lawns go fallow during the summer without wasting resources on watering. When I lived in Seattle it was a common practice. After the grass turns brown, come fall,




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6 grasses for low-maintenance drought-resistant lawns

For all those of you who insist on green lawns, for your kids to play on or your dogs to roll in, you still don't have to lay down a carpet of thirsty bluegrass, which 95% of American lawns




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Middlebury College Launches No-Mow Program

As you walk across the stately lawns of many college campuses, you might not put much thought into what it takes to keep those lawns so neatly trimmed and manicured. Well, that is unless you're being woken up after a long night of "studying" to the




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Environmentalists Try to Trump Trump's Golf Course by Buying Land

Celebrities buying plots of land to block developments is the new new. Last year people opposed to the third runway at Heathrow Airport bought up a plot in the middle of the runway in an attempt to thwart it. Now opponents to




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How to Use Plantings to Protect Your Garden From Thieves

It's not pretty, but a fact of life, gardens are rich pickings for thieves.




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Cornell Installs Indoor Lawn to Soothe Students During Finals (Video)

The university brings the outdoors in to help students relax and focus on studying.




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This robotic lawnmower fuels itself with the grass it cuts, then harvests excess biomass for later use

Could this be the lawnmower we've all been waiting for?




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How to cure lawn lust in 6 minutes (video)

Addicted to a lush green yard? It’s time to change the paradigm and kick the grass to the curb.




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Humans Are Trustees Of Allah's Creation: Islam & The Environment

"The world is sweet and verdant




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108,000 Trees Planted at Buddha's Birthplace in Nepal

Some nice symbolism here... WWF-Nepal reports that it has just completed its target for 2011 of planted 108,000 trees in the Sacred Garden of Lumbini, where the Buddha was born roughly 2,500 years ago. Over the next ten years the




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The First Worldwide Green Hajj Guide & Eco-Mosques in Qatar: More on Islam & The Environment

Some timely examples of the intersection of Islam and environmental stewardship, both coming via the good folks over at Green Prophet: 1) Any new mosque built in Qatar must be eco-friendly, and 2) a new green guide to