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The Floyd Shelf is a smart bracket that could be a smart shelf or standing desk

But there is a real question of how much one should pay for an artisanal shelf bracket.




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Is Text Neck really a thing?

is looking down at your phone really like putting an aardvark on your head?




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The office of the future may have no seats or desks at all.

Just throw yourself wherever you want to work; your office is where you are.




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Rise up, Rise up! Yet another study confirms that sitting on the job is bad for you

And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.




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Smart desk moves you between sitting and standing throughout the day

The high tech answer to keeping you moving while working.




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Here's the best treadmill desk we've seen yet, designed long before all the other ones

Steven M. Johnson really should have had an agent.




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Standing desks help children pay attention in school

Do the benefits of not sitting all day ever end?




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Artifox's solid wood standing desk has a place for everything

This standing desk is packed with clever organization features, and can be customized for left or right-handed people.




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A new study says standing desks don't have any benefits. Or does it?

It actually seems to say that you can give someone an adjustable desk but you can't make them stand. That's a very different thing.




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Can't stand a standing desk? The New HOVR might get you moving

It's clever, cheap, burns calories and keeps the blood flowing and heart pumping.




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Standing desks are so yesterday; try a treadmill desk for a really energizing experience

After 52,696 steps, a review of a LifeSpan treadmill desk.




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New study says using a standing desk doesn't burn calories

Just standing isn't enough; you gotta move.




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Researchers at Texas A&M develop a bossy and nosy standing desk

It tells you when to get up and to sit down, and checks up on you too.




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New study confirms that adjustable standing desks make you happier, healthier and more productive

Because people gotta move.




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5 Ways Geothermal Power is Heating Up Around the World

Last week when the US Geothermal Energy Association released it's biannual report which stated that geothermal power had grown by 20% so far this year , it cemented what TreeHugger said over a year ago: Geothermal power is the poor




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Luxury and "Eco" Try to Co-Exist at Cacao Pearl's Philippine Resort

Every developer worth his or her weight in white beach sand is vying to be able to proclaim his or her resort the first or best or truest eco-resort.




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"Extinct" Bird Eaten by Mistake: Not an April Fools Joke

A Worcester’s Buttonquail was caught on camera for the first time by a French documentary team who were filming native bird trappers at work in the Philippines. No one realized how rare the bird was until it was identified as a Worcester’s Buttonquail




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Philippine Fiber Secret to Naturally Water-Repellent Rainwear

In this tog-eat-tog world, the future of fashion—let alone that of green fashion—lies entirely in the industry's chameleon-like ability to reinvent itself. Take Italian outerwear company Allegri, for example. Although better known




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Dhaka, Manila & Jakarta Worst Climate-Affected Asian Mega-Cities - Hits Closer to Home Than You Might Think

Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it? Well, WWF has just released a new report that ranks 11 of them




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Mayon Volcano Ready to Erupt, May Cause a Little Climate Cooling

Mayon is the largest of the Philippines' 22 active volcanoes, at 8,070 feet. The plumes of smoke and flows of lava make it seem like it is already erupting, yet scientists say the big fireworks could be still to come, and more than 40,000 people have




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Tiny Philippine Island is Center of a Crazy-But-True Natural Wonder (Slideshow)

This tiny verdant island, called Vulcan Point or sometimes Vulcan Island, lies at the center of a strange-but-entirely-true natural wonder. It's known for being the world's largest volcanic island that's on a lake, on a




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India, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea All Soon Clobbering the US on Renewable Energy

Furthering a trend: As the United States continues virtually deadlocked on enacting any legislation pricing carbon or significantly promoting renewable energy, more Asian countries than China are likely to




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MyShelter Foundation: Lighting Up Homes With A Plastic Bottle and Some Chlorine

If you live in a home without electricity and few or no windows, it's always incredibly dark inside, even at high noon. Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light) is a sustainable lighting project that is trying to help people




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Genetically Modified Eggplant Field Trials Halted by Court in Philippines

The move comes as a result of a petition from Greenpeace Southeast Asia, which asserts that GM crops can cause serious health issues.




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Reinvented Retro-Style Bicycle Rickshaw Gets 'Round

A modern but retro-flavored makeover for the endearing bicycle rickshaw by Filipino designer Kenneth Cobonpue.




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Chinese boat crashes in protected coral reef... with thousands of illegally killed pangolins on board

It was already bad enough that a Chinese boat crashed into the Tubbataha reef, a protected coral reef off the coast of the Philippines, but what the coast guard found inside increased massively the size of the environmental disaster.




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Typhoon Haiyan: 'State of calamity' in the Philippines, 10,000+ feared dead

Many feared the worst, and it seems like that's what we got.




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Intensely layered papercuts highlight plight of endangered animals

The art form of papercuts is taken to another level with these intricate works that draw attention to some of the world's threatened species.




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Coastal Marsh Plants, Adapting To Road Salt, Increasingly Common Along Midwest Highways

Blasting along the Ohio Turnpike, few will notice the coastal salt marsh plants growing along the shoulder. Such plants are now common at the mid-western roadside, having adapted to a half




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Campbell Soup Announces 9.8MW Solar PPA for Ohio Factory

Campbell Soup Company will soon be sourcing about 15 percent of the energy used at its factory in Napoleon, Ohio (the company's largest) from solar power generated by a just-announced power purchase agreement (PPA) and land lease




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A Christian Perspective on Organic Dairy Farming and Positive Child Labor (Video)

From retiring dairy cows to asking whether




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4.0 Earthquake Caused by Fracking in Ohio Was Felt in Toronto

After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended.




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Youngstown, Ohio Mayor Buys Earthquake Insurance After Quake Caused By Fracking

Two days after the earthquake caused by a nearby fracking well the mayor said, "I called my insurance man and got earthquake insurance.”




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States Increasingly Concerned Over Fracking Wastewater, But Limited In What They Can Do

Weak regulations mean an extra dose of toxic wastewater for some states, like Ohio.




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Midwest Coal Plants to Shut Down Sooner Than Expected: One Step Closer to a Clean Energy Future?

10 coal plants in Chicago, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey will be shut down sooner than expected.




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Statistical Analysis Shows 2 Degree Temperature Rise Zones in North America

Analysis bridges differences between various climate change models to predict North American climate change with high certainty. Will skeptics finally be convinced?




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Groundhog EV Day: Ohio car dealers want to prevent Tesla from selling in the state

It's déjà vu all over again, with the old guard trying to stop the newcomers...




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Clover tiny house comes with its own large 'social area' (Video)

No half-done couch here; there's a big place to sit and socialize.




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LeBron James promises a bicycle and helmet for every student at his new school

The basketball star has a soft spot for bikes, which he says gave him important freedom as a kid.




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Young Swedish Firm Designs Bike Palace for Philadelphia

The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all




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Philadelphia Eagles - The Green Team - Scores Touchdown for Energy Independence

Quoting directly from the Philadelphia Eagles presser: "The Eagles have contracted with Orlando FL-based SolarBlue, a




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100K House From Postgreen Wins LEED Project of the Year

I thought we were being edgy when we gave Interface Studio Architects the Best Residential Architect Award as part of Best of Green this year, but I could not help but love the 100K house. Evidently neither could the US Green




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Philadelphia Wants to Join New York & Paris in the Park in The Sky Club

Paris has the Promenade plantée and New York has The High Line, parks created on top of once-abandoned railway tracks. Now plans are afoot in Philadelphia to transform the Reading Viaduct into what its designers are




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Biking Through Amish Country for Climate Ride

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world -- including bikes (for those of the Old Order).




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Gray Area: Provocations on the Future of Preservation

The mixing of old and new is one of the toughest things to deal with in architecture. Do you try to blend in, doing faux old, or stand out in contrast? Does everything get perserved in amber or can




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Postgreen Homes Builds Gutsy Modern Townhouses in Philadelphia

Going for LEED Platinum in an affordable townhouse with clean modern design




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Touring The Gutsy and Green PostGreen Homes In Philadelphia

Another model for the development industry: Smart young people using their own money




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Should private charging stations be installed in public space? (Survey)

If you own an electric car but don't own a garage, what do you do?




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Classic contemporary wooden watches are made with lumber offcuts

Partnering with a forest conservation non-profit to plant a tree for every watch purchased, Analog Watch Co. creates chic timepieces out of recycled wood.




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Bike sharing comes to Philadelphia, finally! 60 stations with 600 bikes (video)

One more city joins the bike sharing club, providing its citizens with a great, healthy, and green way to get around.