or Community Supported Aquaponics Takes Off in the UK By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:23:16 -0400 Volunteers are trialling an urban fish farm allotment in Bristol, England. Could this help ensure food security in an uncertain future? Full Article Science
or Distributed Energy Generation Would Produce More Than Gigantic Tidal Barrage By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:16:13 -0500 The Severn Barrage could create 50,000 jobs and provide 5% of the UK's electricity needs. Critics say we can do better than that. Full Article Energy
or New Mayor Takes Entire Salary in Local Currency By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:00:32 -0500 There was a time when local currencies were usable only at food co-ops and yoga studios. When a city mayor elects to take his entire salary in local notes, you know things are changing. Full Article Business
or Photos show hearts and souls made out of foraged flowers By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 05 May 2014 05:00:00 -0400 This looks like lungs, sort of, but it's really made out of meadow flowers. Full Article Living
or Streets are for people (and water slides) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 07 May 2014 16:32:14 -0400 A slippery art installation in Bristol, England, reminds us that streets are not just for cars. Full Article Design
or Building an up-cycled, open source cargo bike for a city of hills By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:28:12 -0400 The Bristol Cargo Bike project is creating a "light weight mega geared micro logistics vehicle of choice for a city of hills." Full Article Transportation
or Bristol, England, aims for carbon neutrality by 2030 By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 06:55:04 -0500 "It's an emergency," say council members. "So let's act like it." Full Article Business
or Emory U Students Pledge to Do 3 Green Things By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:09:00 -0400 As part of their larger Campus Sustainability Initiative, Emory University (GA) students are being asked to commit to each doing three green things in their personal life and on campus. While the program is voluntary, the university Full Article Business
or What Does Al Gore Have to Do With Football? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:41:00 -0500 This week former Vice-President Al Gore made a stop by Atlanta last week to talk about...well, climate change. But while he was there, he took the time out to talk to one of the NFLs most green athletes, Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli. Still Full Article Living
or 7 Short and Senseless Flights We'd Love to Ban By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:00:51 -0500 Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane. Not only do you Full Article Science
or How Smart (or Dumb) is your City on the Sun? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 09 May 2010 06:01:11 -0400 You won't find Lobster Boy in Hartford, Connecticut. Or Salt Lake City, Utah, or Denver, Colorado, for that matter. Those are the top three most "Suntelligent" big cities in the U.S., according to a survey by the American Full Article Living
or The Hub, a Shared Work Space for People Who Care. In a City near You! By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:13:23 -0500 Working in shared office spaces is an attractive solution for creative start-ups, and has become more and more sought-after in many of the bigger cities. Green Spaces in Manhattan has turned into a well-working Full Article Design
or Mom Charged With Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street After Kid Killed By Hit-and-Run By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:47:45 -0400 I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current transportation Full Article Transportation
or Walkscore Rates the Most Walkable Cities In America. Is It A Useful Metric? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:30:00 -0400 Yesterday I wrote about a mom who was convicted of vehicular homicide after her son was killed by a drunk hit-and-run, because she crossed the street from a bus stop without walking almost half a mile to the traffic light. Today Walkscore has released Full Article Design
or Porsche American Headquarters Has Green Roof, Natural Ventilation By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:53:00 -0500 There is something contradictory about building a Green Porsche Headquarters at an Aeropolis, but whatever. Full Article Design
or Lloyd Alter's Favourite Stories of 2011: July By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:55:29 -0500 It's summertime, and the living is easy, and we are talking about air conditioning. Full Article Design
or Tom Vanderbilt On The Importance Of Walking, Both For Our Health and For Our Cities By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:16:00 -0400 St. Augustine said "Solvitur Ambulando": It is solved by walking. So does Tom Vanderbilt in this great series in Slate. Full Article Transportation
or More on the Trick or Treat Test: Calculating the "Candy Density." By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:18:00 -0400 Planner Paul Knight shows how to do the math and figure out where to go for maximum candy Full Article Design
or We've got twins! Extremely rare panda cub twins born in Atlanta zoo By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:00:16 -0400 Pandas, which are one of the better known endangered species out there, just aren't very good at breeding, making their survival more problematic than if, say, they had cubs by the bucketload every year. Full Article Science
or #1 metro area in US for electric car growth is no longer in California By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:32:00 -0500 If you thought the top market for electric car growth was somewhere in California, you'd be right many months out of the year, but not the 4th quarter of 2013. Full Article Transportation
or The whole city of Florence can fit in one Atlanta cloverleaf By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:30:21 -0400 Steve Mouzon looks at the true cost of sprawl. Full Article Design
or Headline of the week: Suburbs will thrive forever By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:18:51 -0500 Forever is a very long time. Full Article Design
or Link Between BPA and Heart Disease Seen in Urine, New Study Reports By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0500 A new study finds those with heart disease had higher concentrations of BPA in their urine. Full Article Living
or Can SUBSPORT Help Chemical Companies Move Towards Safer Alternatives? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:08:00 -0400 The Substitution Support Portal SUBSPORT launched this week, intending to give business improved tools for substituting hazardous chemicals with safer substitutes. Full Article Technology
or More Americans Drinking BPA in Canned Beer, Thanks to Economy and Pabst Drinking Hipsters By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:19:00 -0400 Beer cans are lined with the stuff, but hey, thats the price you pay for convenience. Full Article Living
or Popeye the Sailor Man after a life of eating from BPA lined cans By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:52:00 -0500 Cartoonist Joe Mohr shows how the chemical might have affected the cartoon hero Full Article Living
or More Americans drinking BPA in canned beer By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:25:10 -0500 What's in that "polymer lining" in every can? A gender-bending hormone that may be really bad for you. Full Article Living
or EWG has released new report on BPA in canned food By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 08:00:00 -0400 Find out which brands are the best and worst players in the canned food industry right now. Full Article Living
or Who cares about BPA? Canned beer is more popular than ever By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 11:33:12 -0400 Nobody should be drinking canned beer. Period. But it is particularly bad for young women. Full Article Living
or Turkmenistan Starts Building New Desert Sea: Glorious Deed or Disaster Waiting to Happen? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:30:00 -0400 The Aral Sea, Central Asia's most (in)famous body of water, has become a global symbol of environmental mismanagement. But at least one government in the region doesn't seem to have Full Article Business
or Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:44:00 -0400 Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region Full Article Business
or Threatened Tortoises Slow Down Desert Solar Project By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 15 May 2011 03:55:40 -0400 The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of Full Article Technology
or Arabian 'Unicorn' Back from the Brink in Middle East Thanks to Captive Breeding Program Success By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:00:00 -0400 A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until Full Article Science
or Planting Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Fight Dangerous Dust Storms in Seoul By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:21:15 -0500 Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home. Full Article Science
or 8 Awesome Airstream Hotels, From the California Desert to the French Pyrenees By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 30 May 2012 05:51:36 -0400 A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up. Full Article Living
or Aboriginal hunting practice helps kangaroos By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:17:53 -0400 Studies show that humans and kangaroos may have co-evolved to be mutually beneficial to one another. Full Article Science
or Clever rainwater garden grows squash and corn in Arizona desert By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 06:44:05 -0400 When you've got a lot of driveway runoff, some careful landscaping can put it to good use. Full Article Living
or Prehistoric shrimp emerge from Australian desert after heavy rain By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:00:59 -0500 Imagine millions of these slithering out from the mud? The eggs of this alien desert crustacean remain dormant for years, waiting for a bout of rain to hatch. Full Article Science
or Tree-dwelling gray foxes decorate with skeletons By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 12:04:31 -0400 As the only canids that can climb trees, gray foxes frequently drag fawn and rabbit skeletons onto the branches with them. Full Article Science
or Man selling mint leaves in Morocco (photo) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:31:43 -0400 It took me hours, but I finally found this guy. Full Article Living
or Huge lake appears in North America's hottest, driest spot By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:04:38 -0400 Check out these photos of a surprise 10-mile lake that popped up in Death Valley, California. Full Article Science
or 10 ways to make your garden more green By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 06:00:00 -0400 How green does your garden really grow? Top 10 tips for making sure your garden is chemical free and growing strong. Full Article HTGG
or Mind the gap: New bridge in Cornwall is actually two giant cantilevers By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:22:35 -0400 What does it feel like to be an arch? Very different from how it feels like to be a cantilever. Full Article Design
or School board apologizes for "Santa Goes Green" concert in oil patch By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:18:19 -0500 The play bombed in Oxbow for promoting a green agenda. Full Article Energy
or Why choosing solar panels or a hybrid car has more impact than you think By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:01:14 -0500 As it turns out, personal energy choices can be contagious. Full Article Energy
or Photo: California towhee is the picture of spring By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Our photo of the day comes from Atascadero, California. Full Article Science
or Photo: Wood duck proves Mother Nature's flair for drama By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 06 May 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Our photo of the day reveals the wonderful frippery of waterfowl. Full Article Science
or Photo: Baby song sparrows sing for their supper By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Our photo of the day is a lesson in singing and building. Full Article Science
or The zany, swinging lives of acorn woodpeckers By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 14:08:21 -0400 Welcome to some of the most bizarre social behavior on Earth. Full Article Science
or Photo: Young peregrine displays its perfect form By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Our photo of the day comes from above the Pacific Ocean. Full Article Science