Stickers can be fun, but how eco-friendly is this new craze for decorating walls? We have found two brands that claim their vinyls to be eco-chic, and some even come with decorative eco-reminders; very clever! Hu2 in the UK has just

They look so cute on their polyurethane sofa, in front of the wall of vinyl windows and doors, in the stock shot from the Canadian vinyl industry. The Vinyl salesmen are also

Should the stuff be kept away from kids? The American Public Health Association thinks so.

The plastics industry is going state by state to get LEED banned from government projects. What's their problem?

This is what has been touted as the greenest company in America. Will they give vinyl a green sheen?

Steven M. Johnson beats a whole lot of TreeHugger posts to the punch.

In which Steven shows once again how far ahead of the pack he was.

Steven M. Johnson has some good ideas, but there have been others worth noting in TreeHugger.

Steven M. Johnson's great idea for ultralight camping combines your dinnerware with your goggles.

Why turn your car into a living room when it can also be a kitchen?

I thought the ELF was a great new idea; turns out our hero was there first.

In one cartoon he solves a long list of issues that have kept it from going mainstream.

Steven M. Johnson shows how the well-equipped mobile worker got around twenty-five years ago.

Work/life balance is over-rated anyway.

Once again our favorite visionary was ahead of his time.

Steven M. Johnson beat the GrubHub by 25 years.

Our favorite cartoonist solves a major problem with tiny houses.

This gives the "spin cycle" a whole new meaning.

A test, on a trip from Toronto to Quebec City.

We've discussed Osprey packs in the past, particularly their Resource collection of packs with about 80% recycled content (see links below). Recently, we noted via SNEWS that they'd released their 2009 Sustainability Report, indicating

On first reflection it would seem that living in a war zone is rough, no matter your species. When armed conflicts erupt we are too often overwhelmed by the numbers of humans injured and killed. How animals are affected

Solar farm atop a PrimeAsia Leather Corp. leather tannery in Vietnam. Courtesy photo via WWD. Tanning is an intense chemical process which transforms decomposable rawhide into leather, but not without discharging serious pollution into water; Around

As far as endangered species go, it's mostly bad news, with the occasional positive story. Well this news seems to fall somewhere in the middle: in late August, a group of Laotian villagers in the Annamite Mountains captured a saola,

What appeals to me most about Article 22's Peace Bomb Bracelet is the collection's history and story: Each piece has been made by Lao artisans from

The terracotta tile walls give it a warmth and character, and it seems much larger than it is.

It looks more like a temple than a bar.

Designboom shows Trong Nghia's latest house, built out of towers with trees on top in the middle of a block.

He is one of Asia's emerging architects, famous for building stunning, affordable and durable buildings out of bamboo.

Our favorite Vietnamese architect builds a giant wall of white planters... again.

Once again testing the limits of bamboo as an eco-friendly material for large buildings, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia constructs this striking structure near the city of Da Nang.

Prior to the discovery, fewer than 1,000 grey-shanked doucs were known to exist, making them one of the 25 most endangered primates on the planet.

The newly discovered horned mountain toad found in Southern Vietnam's elfin forest is the smallest of its species – and is already considered endangered.

Cities and towns with good public-transit options offer more convenience for residents and are, of course, more environmentally friendly places to live. Now it

There is a man dressed in a silver lamé suit jumping about with extraordinary energy in a wind blown field in West Wales. His name is Steve Edge and his motto in life is:

Yesterday I introduced the Do Lectures 2011 with a flash of party glitter from Steve Edge and the statement, Things are not just the way they are. This first emerging

So far in our Do Lectures 2011 series we've talked about the fact that Things Are Not Just The Way They Are, we always need to ask difficult questions and challenge the

Leave the office behind. Sierra Club is offering a wild summer ride. It even pays real money.

Clean energy is creating jobs and boosting local economies nationwide.

The internet company thinks it is better if people work at the office rather than on the internet. Is this a good idea?

Is she trying to "put together a 21st Century technology company using 19th Century workplace mentalities"? Or is this a smart move?

The rise of clean energy jobs is outpacing the loss of fossil fuel ones.

In honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, one scientist gives her tips on forging your own path.

The Statue of Liberty may be a welcome sight to see for many entering the U.S. from around the world, but according to a recent NYC Health Department study, immigrant children are five times as likely as those born in the U.S. to suffer from lead

People often write of climate associated flooding, loss of agricultural productivity, spread of tropical disease, and so on. The City of Lahore, Pakistan is experiencing

As if melting Himalayan glaciers weren't enough to radically (and perhaps catastrophically) reshape water supply in South Asia, a new report from researchers at Purdue University shows that summer monsoons could be

The near-death of one of India's most distinguished scientists has halted work on a major hydroelectric dam in the Himalayas. Professor AD Agarwal, 77, former dean of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi at Kanpur,

Adventurous, and eco-friendly, travelers often seek out off-beat lodging options, staying in yurts or on organic farms, both to soak up more local color and to avoid the

With all the recent brouhaha over inaccurate and since retracted statements in the 2007 IPCC climate change report about the speed with which Himalayan glaciers are melting, a recent series of posts over at China Dialogue is

Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan. A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the 'timber

Let that sink in for a second: Over a period of 18 hours and 40 minutes on September 29th, Muhammed Yousuf Jamil, a Lance Naik (Lance Corporal) in the Pakistani Army singlehandedly