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President's executive order might open national parks to logging

It is a brave new world of "reducing vegetation" and "fuel reduction" and a lotta logging.




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How to sharpen your 'noticing' skills when traveling

The stuff you notice that no one else does, that's the most important!




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Australia's First Green Star Public Housing Project Opens in Sydney

Green Star is to Australian commercial and government buildings, what LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) is to American structures of a similar ilk. The 5 Green Star rated Lilyfield Housing Redevelopment in inner




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Ocean Iron Fertilization Could Stimulate Toxic Algae Blooms in Open Ocean

There's no doubt that geoengineering brings out passionate emotions both pro and con, as recent debate on TreeHugger about the sort of-moratorium on some research coming out of the Convention on Biological Diversity




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What are the world's most livable cities? Depends how you measure it.

The Economist puts Melbourne in number 1 spot, Vancouver in 3. They're not.




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Industrial warehouse converted into open workplace with no private offices

An old warehouse is transformed into a three-level open office with lots of shared spaces for a tech company in Vancouver.




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Whatever happened to: wave power? Why is it so far behind wind and solar?

This promising source of clean energy is facing an uphill battle.




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Luxurious Alpha tiny house opens wide on both sides to let the outdoors in

This ingenious design features a roll-up garage door and a drop-down deck on either side, allowing the home to feel even more spacious.




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Prefab off-grid cabin opens up with pulley-operated windows

This compact shelter is a place for a family to spend their summers in the middle of nature.




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Help Create a Twitter Book for Copenhagen

We all can't go to Copenhagen this week, but there are so many ways to make our voice heard nonetheless. ThisPlace09 is an art and Twitter project that conveys personal thoughts about climate change to the delegates and the




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Sweden opens road with slot-car style rail for electric vehicles (Video)

Now that's an infrastructure project!




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A late Xmas present? Toyota is open-sourcing 5,680 hydrogen fuel cell patents

The real competition for green tech is not other green tech, but the old, dirty incumbents.




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Cabin Spacey offers 'pay-as-you-live, location-independent' prefab homes

This company is working to build a network of urban prefabs under a 'pay-as-you-go' model of home ownership.




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Toyota Kills Most Inexpensive Prius Model, Raises Price $400 on Others

Image: Toyota Supply & Demand A few months ago, Toyota was quite afraid of the new low-cost Honda Insight hybrid. It even went as far as to make a $21,000 version of the 2010 Prius (aka Prius I) to try to compete with Honda on price. Well, seems like




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Dome and curved walls of bamboo renew this open-air cafe

Strong and lightweight bamboo features prominently in this beautiful renovation of a rooftop cafe.




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Do Lectures 2011 - The Importance of Independence

Over the past few weeks we've been sharing the amazing ideas and themes that emerged from the Do Lectures 2011. This year's inspiring talks are now being launched online in




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What happened to vocational training in schools – and can it come back?

Re-introducing vocational training in high schools could benefit students in countless ways, from preparing them for skilled, lucrative careers to giving them practical skills that make them feel useful.




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Pentagon 'Discovers' Huge Lithium Deposit in Afganistan

From the "re-positioning of old news' file: as quoted in the New York Times story about a trillion dollar minerals discovery in Afganistan, U.S.




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World's First Solar-Geothermal Hybrid Plant Opens in the Nevada Desert

A recently opened power plant in the Nevada desert uses two types of renewable energy.




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Whatever happened to: coffee pods?

These pods of evil have taken over North America, bringing tons of waste with them.




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What will happen to the Edith Macefield house?

She wouldn't sell to the developer around her, and now it is a prime example of "demolition by neglect."




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Amazon's Spheres open in Seattle

Jeff Bezos said “Alexa, open The Spheres” and it evidently worked.




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Designer's awesome secret studio is suspended under bridge

Ephemeral and unexpected, this outdoor workspace is intended as an urban refuge.




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The Lucky Penny: A small home in one tiny co-housing community (Video)

The themes of this stunning little house are copper, lots of natural light, and participation within an intentional tiny co-housing community.




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Giant 5-foot tall penguins roamed New Zealand with the dinosaurs

The discovery of one of the oldest penguin fossils in the world reveals higher diversity of early penguins than previously assumed.




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The Boomer is an elegant, steel-framed, open-plan tiny home

Made in New Zealand, this modern little house looks clean and bright inside and out.




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All-glass solar-powered PurePods are for glamping out in the open

Made out of glass, these rentable cabins in New Zealand's wilderness are meant to reconnect guests with nature.




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"ReNEWable Living Home" opens Orlando Builders Show, and it's not totally horrible

There are lessons to be learned from this model home built by Meritage, even if it is big and beige.




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Keystone XL’s builder asks for suspension of pipeline application

A new twist in the plot for the controversial pipeline, as TransCanada asks for a suspension of its application.




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Whatever happened to "Peak Car"?

It seems to be following the same path as Peak Oil, and happy days are here again.




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Solar freakin' roadway opens in China

Is this totally silly and a waste of time and money, or is it a great leap forward? Or is it too soon to tell?




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House Made of a Billion Euro Notes Opens to the Public

It's a house made out of a billion euro notes, but you can't spend any of them.




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Get to Know an Awesome Animal: The Galapagos Penguin

When it comes to the Galapagos, most people think: Islands; tropical; Equator; volcanoes; some variation on those general ideas probably pops to mind, unless you've been here. If you have been here, you probably know that a




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From bottles to bike lanes: the first PlasticRoad opens in the Netherlands

We have lots of waste plastic and not much use for it, so why not use it instead of asphalt or concrete?




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Derelict garage studio transformed into bright open loft in Paris

A small, rundown garage and artist's studio becomes a new home to a family of three.




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The Week in Animals News: Mass Animal Escape, Sweaters for Penguins, and More (Slideshow)

Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.




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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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Starbucks opens sipping container drive-thru in Taiwan

It is an eye-catching Kengo Kuma design, but it ain't sustainable.




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Province of Ontario introduces new penalties for careless drivers causing death

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.




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Remarkable hotel hosts guests in clear capsules suspended 400 ft. on mountain (Video)

Created for adventurers by adventurers, this unique hotel in Peru features three sleeping pods that guests must climb up to.




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Stair of the week dominates Copenhagen science museum

160 tons of steel and 10 tons of copper never looked so good




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What happens if oil goes to $400 a barrel?

Current events could lead to another oil embargo by Saudi Arabia, and it could be 1973 all over again




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Hero: Fukushima's ex-chief who spent 6 months at the station after the disaster just died of cancer

Masao Yoshida, one of the Fukushima 50 who stayed behind at the earthquake and tsunami-struck power plant after the other employees evacuated, has just died from esophageal cancer.




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Generation gap: wind opens big lead over nuclear in China

In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent.




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On MNN: Bikes stopping for red lights! And other reporting from Copenhagen

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




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Whatever happened to Jimmy Carter's solar panels: The sequel

Instead of an exciting adventure, we got a road not taken.




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In Copenhagen Bicycles Overtake Cars

As a result of half a century of planning, Copenhagen has achieved a fabulous cycling goal - during the morning rush hour more bikes and mopeds pound the inner city streets than personal cars and buses. Just a bit more than a third of inhabitants get




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5 strange things that've happened on the winter solstice

With the winter solstice association with death and rebirth – these historic events of December 21st take on new resonance.




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Eco-conscious clothing maker opens brick-and-mortar shop in San Francisco

San Francisco readers can now find local and green clothes at Amour Vert’s new shop in Hayes Valley.




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Pendant Lamp That Lights, Grows & Cleans The Air: Babylone By Greenworks

Perfect idea for spaces with poor air quality: a multi-functional hanging lamp that grows air-purifying plants.