king Madrid co-working space is an adaptable playground for grown-ups By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:15:43 -0400 This flexible interior design for a collaborative workspace has plenty of hammocks and giant exercise balls to keep its co-working members happy. Full Article Design
king I tried walking barefoot in New York City By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:20:49 -0400 I did it so you don't have to. Full Article Living
king Pedrail introduces a barrier to protect people walking and biking By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 12:09:09 -0500 It's always about the car, but this Florida company is thinking about the rest of us. Full Article Transportation
king No, distracted walking is not causing the dramatic increase in pedestrian deaths By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 11:53:40 -0400 This is an urban design issue, a car design issue, and a demographics issue. Distracted walking is a rounding error. Full Article Design
king 10 companies making ethical and eco-friendly swimsuits By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:23:00 -0400 From recycled yarns to fair-trade sewing to reclaimed fabrics, these swimsuits will make you feel good, both inside and out. Full Article Living
king Big North American banks still banking on extreme fossil fuels By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:02:01 -0400 Big risks evidently still promise big rewards. Full Article Energy
king Ron Wallace is the 'Lord of the Gourd' with Record-Breaking Giant Pumpkin By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:00:00 -0400 How would you like to carve a Jack-o-lantern from one of these three record-breaking pumpkins from this weekend? Full Article Living
king This solar panel produces up to 5 liters of drinking water per day from the air By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:53:23 -0400 Zero Mass Water's SOURCE device is a rooftop solar device that produces water instead of just electricity. Full Article Technology
king Shocking! Thousands of Mutilated Shark Fins Drying on Hong Kong Rooftops By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:50:33 -0500 Tens of millions of sharks are mutilated and left to die slowly each year so that some affluent people in Asia can each soup. This has to stop. Full Article Science
king Irish county becomes first in English speaking world to make Passive House standard mandatory By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:31:49 -0500 It may lead to as many as 20,000 passive houses being built over the next five years. Full Article Design
king Taking Time From Volcano Frenzy to Think About Oceans By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:43:49 -0400 On one side of the world, the hovering ash cloud is making it very, very difficult for millions travelers to get home and using up a lot of media air. Meanwhile on the other side of the Full Article Science
king Finally Baby-Making Time For One of a Kind Tortoise? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:29:00 -0500 If Lonesome George suffers from performance anxiety, it's hard to blame him. At the ripe old age of nearly 100, the last-of-his-kind Galapagos tortoise has been charged with preserving his species' genetic Full Article Science
king Slow Biking is actually a competitive sport By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:33:04 -0500 In the Netherlands it is actually a thing, to ride your bike as slowly as possible without falling over. Full Article Transportation
king A bike parking facility in Tilburg is even more beautiful than their bus station By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 06 May 2019 08:48:10 -0400 It even has moving sidewalks for bikes. This is how you get people out of cars. Full Article Transportation
king 'Weed dating' & trash picking: The new tourist guide to Amsterdam By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 09:15:00 -0400 The city hopes to combat overtourism by getting visitors off the beaten track and doing more useful things. Full Article Living
king What I learned about induction stoves in French cooking school By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:30:00 -0400 It changed my life but I can also recommend some changes Full Article Design
king Personal electric mobility is taking over Paris By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:51:32 -0400 Instead of banning these technologies, we have to figure out how to manage them. Because they are inevitable. Full Article Transportation
king Park a house in a parking spot instead of a car By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:57:39 -0400 Or, for that matter, park both a house and a car like Bill Dunster's ZEDpod. Full Article Design
king 4.0 Earthquake Caused by Fracking in Ohio Was Felt in Toronto By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:17:13 -0500 After a series of 11 earthquakes in nine months, a fracking operation near Youngstown has been suspended. Full Article Energy
king Youngstown, Ohio Mayor Buys Earthquake Insurance After Quake Caused By Fracking By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:10:00 -0500 Two days after the earthquake caused by a nearby fracking well the mayor said, "I called my insurance man and got earthquake insurance.” Full Article Energy
king States Increasingly Concerned Over Fracking Wastewater, But Limited In What They Can Do By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:47:00 -0500 Weak regulations mean an extra dose of toxic wastewater for some states, like Ohio. Full Article Energy
king Biking Through Amish Country for Climate Ride By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:09:47 -0400 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). Full Article Science
king New York State lawmakers want to ban walking with portable electronic devices By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 15 May 2019 15:54:14 -0400 There are all kinds of distracted and compromised people in our roads. Some of them cannot help it. So why are phones a problem? Full Article Transportation
king Co-working offices are built out of shipping containers inside old bakery By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:50:20 -0500 This is shipping container architecture that makes sense. Full Article Design
king Stair of the Week 'focuses on offering employees an activity-based working environment' By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:25:56 -0400 A health insurer practices what it preaches. Full Article Design
king Taking the stairs keeps your brain younger By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:31:34 -0500 Yet another reason to skip the escalator/elevator and hoof it instead. Full Article Living
king Not the Stair of the Week, soon to be replaced by "Vertical Walking" By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:38:13 -0400 Why go diagonally when you can go straight up? Full Article Design
king 12 life lessons from the mind of Stephen Hawking By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 07:54:31 -0400 Not only did he have a startlingly brilliant brain for physics, but Stephen Hawking had a pretty good knack for life as well. Full Article Living
king Ecotricity proposes "green gas mills" at every UK fracking site By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 06:19:02 -0500 Income for farmers, or fracked natural gas—will communities be allowed to decide? Full Article Energy
king UK energy company offering 'poop gas' for heating/cooking By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:32:16 -0400 UK households can now buy 15 percent green gas and 100 percent green electricity with one easy tariff. Full Article Energy
king Nairobi Installs Solar-Powered Lights - Making Streets Brighter, Safer & More Energy-Efficient By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:55:00 -0500 The city council has begun installing solar-powered lights around the streets of downtown Nairobi. Full Article Design
king In Kenya, dried poop briquettes are serving as a clean cooking fuel By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:13:26 -0400 This waste-to-resource project not only produces a less smoky and long-burning fire, but could also help improve health and sanitation outcomes. Full Article Energy
king Breathtaking timelapse video shows the beating heart of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:47:00 -0400 It was shot from "sea to summit" in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, one of the most dynamic landscapes on Earth. Full Article Science
king Google Street View coming to Hawaiian hiking trails By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:59:33 -0400 Soon you'll be able to see hardened lava flows, rainforests and beaches up close without leaving your house. Full Article Technology
king Honolulu bans pedestrians from “distracted walking” By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:05:31 -0400 More pedestrians are getting killed in the roads. Are their phones really the reason? Full Article Transportation
king On MNN: Big beds, Working from home is the worst, the death of the stick shift. By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:30:43 -0400 And a really nice solar decathlon winner. Full Article Living
king Dolphins are breaking into nets to steal fish thanks to overfishing By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 18 May 2018 15:38:10 -0400 Why does this not surprise me? Full Article Science
king Asking if animals can feel pain isn't really about science By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:52:04 -0400 Scientists argue over whether some animals have the brains for suffering. Full Article Science
king Crazy-looking eco development powers 10% of the island of Tenerife By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:00:00 -0400 It would be hard to find a cooler looking vacation home than one of these cabins... Full Article Energy
king Walking Away From Haz Waste By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:09:03 -0500 On a cold and windy November weekday there aren't any cars lined up at the new Kretsloppsparken (Waste Park) Alelyckan outside Gothenburg, even though there are four lanes available - a veritable expressway! - for vehicular drop-off of practically every Full Article Design
king Scotland bans parking on sidewalks By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 08:40:48 -0400 One would think this would be obvious, that sidewalks are for people, not cars. Full Article Transportation
king This solar hydropanel can pull 10 liters of drinking water per day out of the air By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:04:12 -0500 SOURCE is a solar-powered and self-contained device capable of harvesting up to 10 liters of clean drinking water per day from the air. Full Article Technology
king Looking up to radiant ceilings for heating and cooling By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:01:27 -0400 It's counterintuitive, but this prefab panel system from Messana makes a lot of sense. Full Article Design
king Teen Green: Local Teens Making a Difference By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:46:40 -0400 They’re a recently established group of about a hundred teens, but students in Claremont, California are busy making a difference by creating a model environmental structure out of earth and biodegradable materials using Super Adobe, a form of earth Full Article Design
king There are toxic 'little monsters' lurking in your children's new clothes By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:00:00 -0500 Join the DETOX campaign to pressure the fashion industry to stop exposing our kids to hazardous chemicals and contaminating waterways. Full Article Living
king Let's stop calling the new headquarters for Apple, Facebook and Google "Green": Look at the parking ratios By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:19:00 -0400 You just have to look at the parking ratios to know they are environmental disaster areas. Full Article Design
king Indian state aims to plant record-breaking 50 million trees in one day By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 14:55:26 -0400 Uttar Pradesh is going to be looking a lot greener after a marathon 24-hour tree-planting frenzy. Full Article Business
king Simple solar-powered water purification system turns sewage water into clean drinking water in India By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:28:38 -0500 The system will also help reduce the spread of disease in rural villages. Full Article Technology
king Antibiotics in meat could be making us fat By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 07 May 2018 21:06:00 -0400 If these drugs have a fattening effect on livestock animals, it's logical that they would do the same for humans. Full Article Living
king Electrify Everything: Why our thinking has to be as flexible and resilient as our buildings By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:02:33 -0500 It is hard keeping up with the latest ideas in green building, but things are changing fast. Full Article Design