b Finally! Tiny home subdivisions and developments are becoming a reality. By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:14:49 -0500 Another good reason to move to Colorado. Full Article Design
b Salida, Colorado, will be the home of the largest tiny home community in the US By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:48:01 -0500 200 tiny homes, a community building, an exercise facility, a restaurant, and other amenities will be built along the Arkansas River in Salida. Full Article Design
b Refreshing tiny house is built using gooseneck trailer By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:27:02 -0500 This kind of trailer means you can eliminate the head-banging sleeping loft. Full Article Design
b Professional bus homebuilder is at home -- on a converted bus (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 05 May 2017 14:01:43 -0400 A tour inside a solar-powered bus conversion that makes you feel at ease. Full Article Design
b Newly discovered fossils fill gaps in amphibian evolution By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:54:48 -0400 The newfound fossils shed light on the early evolution of one of the planet’s most mysterious amphibians. Full Article Science
b Photo: Cutest mountain goat babies ever, we kid you not By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:08:17 -0400 Our absolutely adorable photo of the day comes from Mount Evans, Colorado. Full Article Science
b Photo: Bighorn sheep rule the mountaintop By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:00:00 -0400 Our majestically cute photo of the day comes from Mount Evans, Colorado. Full Article Science
b See all the seasons at Rocky Mountain National Park in 4 breathtaking minutes By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:48:42 -0400 As part of their More Than Just Parks project, Will and Jim Pattiz spent two years filming in the majestic Colorado mountains. Full Article Living
b Elevator bed & folding porch grace this tiny house builder's home (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 16:50:31 -0500 This tiny house builder and architect just built himself and his wife a bigger (but still tiny) home, equipped with a space-saving elevator bed. Full Article Design
b Colorado could save $2.5 billion from shutting down coal By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 06:01:35 -0500 And people keep saying it's too expensive to deal with climate change. Full Article Energy
b The Hideout tiny house has both fold-down master bed & loft By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:16:29 -0500 This contemporary small dwelling has both a main-floor bedroom and a secondary sleeping loft. Full Article Design
b Why do cyclists break the law? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 29 May 2019 11:41:35 -0400 A new episode of the War on Cars looks at an issue dear to my heart. Full Article Transportation
b This was the decade of the bicycle. What's next? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:28:38 -0500 Probably, the decade of e-mobility Full Article Transportation
b Make room for the e-bikes, the top-selling electric vehicles for the next decade By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:28:13 -0500 A new study from Deloitte predicts what we have said before: e-bikes will eat cars. Full Article Transportation
b World's Biggest Urine Separating, Composting Toilet Scheme Fails By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:58:00 -0400 We keep saying that this is the way we should go, but perhaps the technology here just wasn't ready. Full Article Design
b Crapping On Bill Gates' "Reinvent the Toilet" Winner By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:11:00 -0400 The last thing the world needs is a high tech electrochemical reactor toilet. This is a social problem, not a technical one. Full Article Design
b Nature Loo composting toilet puts some distance between the person and the poop By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:54:00 -0400 This simple Australian design has some interesting features and benefits. Full Article Design
b Blue Diversion develops a toilet that's a lot more than flush and forget By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:57:16 -0400 A toilet is just the working end of a much larger system that can have a huge impact on society. Full Article Design
b Peecycling in the city: Would you "stealth pee" in an urban yard? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:39:14 -0400 Nutrient cycling is important. But it's not something you want to get arrested for. Full Article Living
b Off-grid classroom blends into the last of Long Island’s prairie By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:00:04 -0400 The new interpretive center has earned certification from the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and features a green roof planted with native prairie grasses. Full Article Design
b It's time to bring composting toilets home By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:56:43 -0400 It's becoming easier to do so as the rules change and the toilets get better. Full Article Design
b You (and your poop) will be transported by this French composting toilet By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:49:52 -0500 Here's the hot poop on a toilet with a conveyor belt to move the stuff out of sight, out of mind. Full Article Business
b It's World Plumbing Day By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:11:33 -0500 We turn on the tap and run some of our favorite stories. Full Article Design
b Are public toilets a right in public spaces? (Survey) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 23 May 2017 15:27:10 -0400 If you gotta go, you should have a clean private environmentally friendly place to go. Full Article Design
b Terrific toilets built in Aspen by Charles Cunniffe Architects By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:00:40 -0400 Who says loos have to be boring and utilitarian? Full Article Design
b Man builds $1,500 tiny house, forages & grows his own food (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:33:04 -0400 Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food. Full Article Design
b Great bathroom reading: 'Essential Composting Toilets' (book review) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 20 May 2019 10:21:59 -0400 Gord Baird and Ann Baird have written the definitive guide. Full Article Design
b Chinese Fruit Bats Demonstrate Unusual Sexual Behavior Never Before Seen in Adult Animals By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:15:00 -0400 New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior. While the behavior has Full Article Science
b European Bats Resistant to Deadly Fungus By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:49:46 -0500 Since 2006, bat populations in the northeastern United States have been decimated by a mysterious condition known as "white-nose syndrome." Caused by a fungus, Full Article Science
b 10 adorable bats that may or may not suck your blood By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:00:51 -0500 A lesson in loving flying nocturnal mammals. Full Article Science
b Little Brown Bat Will Be Pushed to Extinction by Spreading White Nose Syndrome: New Study By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:44:00 -0400 photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr White nose syndrome, a disease caused by exposure to a particular fungus, first discovered in 2006, has been afflicting bats in the eastern United States and appears to be spreading. Considering that it's Full Article Science
b Amazon Tribe Battles Rabid Vampire Bats By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:35:08 -0400 At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been Full Article Science
b Cool High-Rise Bat Habitat Draws Nature's Pest-Fighters to New York Sculpture Park (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:00:00 -0400 If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy "Bat Tower" being built to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area. Full Article Science
b Deadly White Nose Syndrome Keeps Spreading Among New York's Bat Population By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:59:30 -0500 New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been Full Article Business
b Insect Hotels Abound at Chelsea Flower Show By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:10:55 -0400 Insect hotels are architectural, recycled and perfectly formed. But you can't stay there: they are for the bugs. Full Article Science
b Billboard Houses Bats and Translates Their Speech, Tells Us What's Up By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:12:16 -0400 If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a Full Article Technology
b South Carolina Documents Its First Human Rabies Case in Over 50 Years By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:30:00 -0500 South Carolina health department announces a human rabies case sourced from a bat. Full Article Living
b Action-Flick Filming Takes Toll on Bulgarian Bat Cave By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:00:00 -0500 The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say. Full Article Living
b The Week in Animal News: Epically Lost Sea Turtle to be Released, Sylvester Stallone Movie Harms Bats, and More By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:56:33 -0500 A young sea turtle found in the Netherlands will be released after a three-year recovery. We also have the search for the "extinct" Javan tiger, Sylvester Stallone's bat cave incident, and more. Full Article Science
b Scientists Estimate Up to 6.7 Million Bats Dead From Disease By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:14:00 -0500 White nose syndrome has decimated bat populations on the East Coast. Now scientists believe the disease, which is spreading, may have been worse than previously imagined. Full Article Science
b Why Bats Need a 'Happy Hour' and Swedes Try to Comply By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:00:21 -0500 Wind power is not just a Danish success story - Swedish wind is growing leaps and bounds. But the bats may suffer, so the Swedes are trying to impose 'bat happy hour' Full Article Science
b The Week in Animal News: Powerful Sea Cucumber Poo, Giant Pythons Invade Florida and More By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:37:00 -0500 Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more. Full Article Science
b How to remove a bat from indoors By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 29 May 2012 05:00:00 -0400 In the face of a devastating epidemic, bats need our tender loving care more than ever. If one sneaks inside, here's how to remove it without toxicants or harm. Full Article Living
b Small Wind Turbines May Cut Bat Activity in Half By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:20:13 -0400 A study of the impact of small residential wind turbine installations on local wildlife populations shows a potential loss of habitat for bats and a steep reduction in activity around the units. Full Article Technology
b Adding Wildlife 'Passengers' to the Urban Commute By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 07:00:00 -0400 A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place. Full Article Design
b Holy Bat Cloud: Designer's Eco-Sculpture Boosts Bat Biodiversity By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:26:50 -0400 One architect creates a series of intriguing artificial habitats for threatened bat populations. Full Article Design
b Artists Build a 'Shanty Town' for Evicted Urban Birds By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:19:00 -0400 The 'Spatzenfavela' ('favela' for sparrows) provides a home for birds that have lost their city nests and roosts due to urban renewal. Full Article Living
b 3D-printed robotic bat wing holds new possibilities for small aircraft By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:56:00 -0500 Dig out those old da Vinci drawings of winged flying machines, as he was really on to something! Full Article Science
b UK bird charity moves forward with gigantic wind turbine By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 08:18:25 -0500 This should take the wind out of the "all turbines are evil" crowd's sails. Full Article Energy
b How to build and operate a bat-friendly wind turbine By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 09:00:00 -0400 When a bird charity installs a wind turbine, they're going to do it right. Full Article Business