Can a rare metal travel without a passport?

Instead of building giant concrete buildings filled with uranium, why not build smaller energy-efficient buildings filled with people.

There is so much in their new strategy that I can't get it all in the title.

This is, in fact, one of the things that e-bikes are really good at. Another dumb move.

Eben Weiss, the Bike Snob, is an unexpected source for this proposal to save the environment.

I'm not quite sure, and the more I look, the more confused I get.

I slice and dice some recent posts on technology

A look at some recent posts on our sister site that might interest TreeHuggers.

And put away your phone if you are on vacation.

A roundup of some posts from our sister site.

Also a look at smart phones for boomers and for refugees, and making the Raspberry Pi higher.

A look at our favorite posts from our sister site.

A really interesting housing project and a look back at Canadian Thanksgiving

And a really nice solar decathlon winner.

Why are our cities being designed around the needs of the trucks instead of vice versa?

also: recycling in crisis, how we will live in 100 years.

And a self-driving chair, a computer in your phone and learning to listen.

and the last job on earth.

A review of posts about aging baby boomers on the Mother Nature Network.

These coolest of sea creatures know what they're doing.

Over the course of three months, previously clean mussels picked up a slew of contaminants from the waters of Puget Sound.

Tangled in fishing line with things looking grim, the story of Frito's rescue is inspiring all around.

The latest report on the state of the world's fisheries paints a depressing picture of the seafood industry.

Greenpeace's annual survey of national retailers' progress on sustainable seafood reveals the leaders and the losers.

Company higher-ups sold stocks while telling investors that everything was fine.

Scientists hope the technology that filmed it can make fishing more sustainable.

Nestle and Tesco are the latest members of a worldwide movement against abandoned fishing nets.

Scientists argue over whether some animals have the brains for suffering.

Abandoned fishing gear is a big problem. But a small army is training to tackle it.

Instead of tossing it, fisheries should capture the protein and fat left in water and use it to feed humans and animals a second time around.

A new study used DNA testing to reveal shark meat being sold under generic fish names.

The gruesome deaths raise serious questions about the practices of fishing trawlers.

It takes the controversial stance that more fish doesn't necessarily mean better fish.

George Monbiot, who is touring his new book Heat, spoke in Vancouver last week. It was riveting, inspirational, and depressing all at once. Ecoshock, an environmental internet radio station, will be posting a recording of Monbiot's speech. Ecoshock is

The 2007 Be The Change Conference is fast approaching and has an amazing line up of speakers to inspire you with the theme "The Sky's the Limit". For the fourth year in a row the BTC conference brings together world leaders in sustainability and social

George Monbiot, everyone's favourite controversial climate commentator, launched the Be The Change conference with a bang here in London yesterday. He leaped off the starting blocks with the statement that not only is it imperative that we reduce Co2

The Be The Change conference last week was chock-a-block full of fascinating speakers, enlightening information and inspiring actions. So far we've shared George Monbiot and Richard Reed's presentations and Drew Dellinger's poetry. We're just sorry we

A lot of people have called George Monbiot a lot worse, but he calls himself a fructivist, which is not defined in any online dictionaries, but appears to derive from the latin fructificare or fructus, meaning fruit. He calls himself obsessed with

The debate over the true ecological sustainability of biofuels, the effects on global food prices, and their oft-heard claims of carbon-neutrality has been played out on TreeHugger in great detail. Adding a new

Image credit: HowStuffWorks Environmentalism and Alternative Medicine - Oil and Water? George Monbiot is undoubtedly no stranger to controversy - my post about his climate change book, Heat, drew 81 comments, while his well publicized opposition to

George Monbiot is at it again, causing controversy by saying "Environmentalism may be emotional but it should always be based on science, not like the wishful thinking behind natural remedies."-Environmentalism must be fact based and there is no room

EvanEco: Carnival of the Green 172 by Don Bosch "Got milk? Grab a glass of the white stuff and a chocolate chip cookie, and join me for some green bloggy goodness..."Guardian Ethical Living: Ethical Superstore and Natural Collection merge into giant

George Monbiot told us that flying is dying; London artist Richard DeDomenici tells us that a return transatlantic flight is equivalent in CO2 and pollution output to driving a car 30 miles a day for a year. So the artist/humorist has

Since the Viet Nam war, Canadians (and some Americans) have been sewing Canadian flag patches on their backpacks when they travel to distinguish themselves from their neighbours. But they will be ripping them off soon, as the country becomes an

The Guardian's George Monbiot talks about climate deniers, junk science, and the need for nuclear.

Actually, we have been down this road before...

No they don't. Whether or not you buy into this study, the fact remains that cars are cars are cars.

"Let’s abandon this disastrous experiment."

It would be hard to find a cooler looking vacation home than one of these cabins...

I get the design part, but is it really sustainable?