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Reformation offers eco-chic with celebrity appeal

Eco-conscious clothier Reformation has gained popularity with a number of celebrities.




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How can fashion be ‘sustainable’ or ‘ethical’?

The terms may be vague, but they allow shoppers to choose what really matters to them personally.




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10 companies making ethical and eco-friendly swimsuits

From recycled yarns to fair-trade sewing to reclaimed fabrics, these swimsuits will make you feel good, both inside and out.




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RubyMoon makes 'gym-to-swim' wear using recycled fabric

After all, why shouldn't you wear the same top to the beach as you do to the gym?




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Native Americans protest tar sands pipeline with horseback ride along proposed route

This week, Anishinaabe tribal members began riding horseback along the proposed route of a what could possibly become the largest tar sands pipeline in the United States.




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Teenager invents faster way to clean up toxic tar sands waste using sand and bacteria

The breakthrough also scored 18-year-old Hayley Todesco a Google Science Fair Award.




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Keystone XL’s builder asks for suspension of pipeline application

A new twist in the plot for the controversial pipeline, as TransCanada asks for a suspension of its application.




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Big North American banks still banking on extreme fossil fuels

Big risks evidently still promise big rewards.




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Field Guide to Eco-Friendly, Efficient, Effective Print

Design like you give a damn with the second edition of Monadnock Paper Mills' how-to guide for creating more-sustainable print materials. A Field Guide: Eco-Friendly, Efficient and Effective Print, accompanied by luscious illustrations by the




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Contemplations On Obama's DeSmogBlog "Award," Blogging, And Presidential Politics

DeSmogBlog has conferred a controversial award on US Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama: It's called the "2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming." Joe Romm's reaction in Climate Progress is here: "DeSmogBlog owes Obama




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Flip Side of Local - New Hampshire Sees Opportunity In Food Self-Sufficiency

University of New Hampshire researchers have analyzed the economic impact of their State's locally-produced food system. The good news: farm market sales - known as 'direct marketing' of food -




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Photo of the Day: An Ice Climber Ascending the Shoestring Gully in New Hampshire

As the temperature drops in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, locals bundle up and get excited. While most wait for the first snow to cover the ski runs, others hold out for those first cold nights to freeze the area's waterfalls.




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Energy News Recap: Hurricanes Versus Wind Farms; Nuclear Power & Childhood Leukemia; More

Beyond the headline, a really great overview of how globalization may well be entirely reshaped by energy constraints, for the betterment of local economies in places where manufacturing has been outsourced for years.




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Panic Buying of Fuel Grips UK Motorists

Panic by UK motorists causes fuel supplies to run dry, all because of a few careless words from the Prime Minister.




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One Graphic Even a Republican SuperPAC Ad Will Have a Hard Time Spinning

Value of Fossil Fuel Exports By Fuel, 1949-2010




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Richard Heinberg's Tiny Fibonacci Studio

Author, activist and post-carbon rabble rouser Richard Heinberg is also a dabbler in green building. Take a tour of his tiny hand-built backyard studio.




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Sooner than you think? A prediction that electric cars will cause the next oil crisis

It actually won't take that much to reduce oil demand enough to cause serious trouble.




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Solar 'smart' greenhouses produce both clean electricity & food crops

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.




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Simple device turns your ordinary home into a smart home

The device monitors the energy use of all the power loads in your house.




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When smart devices jump the shark: An 'intelligent device' for your garbage can

And now, in the 'Give me a break' category, the folks behind this garbage can scanner assume you can't make a grocery list on your own.




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Chicago power company aims for 1 million smart thermostats by 2020

Not only will this save home owners money, but it will also allow utilities to manage demand during peak times.




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15-year-old invents smart microwave that heats foods to their perfect temperature

The teen has been building the DIY microwave, hoping to solve many cooking problems with one device.




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Man builds solar-powered, app-controlled micro-home with "zombie mode" (Video)

It also comes with its own beer dispenser, built-in right in the couch.




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Life with a Sense home energy monitor: More devices, real savings

I knew that real-time data on our energy use would be interesting. But I wasn't sure how much it would actually save us.




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EcoChic Design Award Challenges Chinese Fashion Designers to Face Local Problems

The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.




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Hong Kong Sick and Tired of Smog, Bans Most Polluting Vehicles

Hong Kong has been trying for a long time, through various 'clean air' measures, to deal with smog that is estimated to cause 3,000 premature deaths every single year.




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Hong Kong's housing crisis seen through 40 sq.ft. "cubicle" apartments (Photos)

The growing disparity between wealthy and poor is reflected in this shocking photo report on the tiny island city's critical lack of affordable housing.




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These stylish beanbags are filled with 4,000 recycled plastic bottle caps

One design attempts to deal with the problem of plastic bottle caps -- which often get discarded rather than recycled.




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Tesla rumors: 2 electric cars to be unveiled in March? Electric pickup truck coming in 2018?

It would be a good way to further broaden the appeal of electric vehicles.




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Butterply: Digitally fabricated multipurpose desk is assembled without screws (Video)

Featuring an interlocking system that's inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, this desk also has a swappable, modular system for organizing your stuff.




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3D printed terracotta brick tower explores robotics in architecture (Video)

This digitally fabricated project revives a traditional material with new building technologies.




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Iconic bay window becomes multifunctional 'spine' in this apartment renovation

An under-utilized element becomes a bench, a place to eat, nap and store things in this redesigned scheme.




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The poor whales can't get away from all our plastic trash

The dead ones washing up on beaches are "just the tip of the iceberg."




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Community Supported Chicken Keeping for Backyard Coops (Video)

I may have once mused on the environmental impact of my backyard chickens, but I have no doubt that, overall, keeping them has been both a wonderful experience and a significant contribution to improving our family's




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House Made of a Billion Euro Notes Opens to the Public

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.




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Magical thatched wooden pavilion contains "portals to the universes" (Video)

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long-vanished lake.




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Magical eco-resin jewelry encapsulates Ireland's wildflowers & fungi

These delightful mementos of the Irish countryside remind us of nature's beauty, but are also responsibly sourced and packaged.




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Can 'Ecological Exploitation' Save Teghut Forest?

Supporters of protecting the Teghut Forest in northern Armenia from a company's plans to build an open-pit copper mine there have an uphill battle to fight against the perception that mining




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Turkish Beekeepers Abuzz Over Pesticide Concerns

If you ask me, the real "Turkish delight" is served at breakfast time: A square of rich, thick kaymak (clotted cream), topped with fresh-off-the-comb honey (bal).




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Bringing the Rich World of the Galapagos into the High School Classroom

Now that the Toyota International Teacher Program has ended, I've decided to turn the spotlight on a few of the teachers involved. First came the middle school teachers. Next up, a couple of the high school-teaching




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Crowd-Sourcing Solutions to Plastic-Filled Oceans

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




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Helicopters Drop Poison on the Galapagos Islands

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




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We're Officially Reading More Online News Than Newspapers

Image: allaboutgeorge, Flickr, CC BY The Digital Migration Continues to Change the Face of Consumption A new study from the Ponyter Institute reveals that by the end of 2010, more people were reading their news online than in traditional newspapers. 34%




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85% of Americans Want Better Environmental Coverage. Let the Media Know.

What does it take to get improved environmental coverage in the media?




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Passive House movement gets noticed by the New York Times

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere.




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New York Compost riffs on the city’s iconic muckrakers

The classic daily newspaper box gets updated by a New York artist.




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Heroic cow escapes trip to slaughterhouse, hides in Dutch forest for weeks

And in the meantime, the bodacious bovine has become a social media star and will receive a full pardon … as soon as they can get her out of the woods.




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Tiny-house inspired student housing transforms old office building

Looking to tiny houses for design inspiration, these new student housing units have been constructed in a former Rotterdam office.




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Floating Recycled Park modules are made out of reclaimed plastic trash (Video)

Plastic waste has been diverted from the city's shoreline to create a cost-effective, green space alternative.




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From bottles to bike lanes: the first PlasticRoad opens in the Netherlands

We have lots of waste plastic and not much use for it, so why not use it instead of asphalt or concrete?