rc The Arctic is becoming lush, and that's a problem By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 12:57:57 -0400 Scientists discovered that plants in the Arctic are growing twice the height. Full Article Science
rc International agreement bans commercial fishing in the Arctic By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:51:37 -0400 As melting ice opens up new potential for exploitation in the Arctic, a new ban aims to protect much of the fragile ecosystem. Full Article Business
rc Video shows stunning loss of oldest Arctic sea ice in last 30 years By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:55:15 -0500 A new NOAA report reveals we've lost 95% of the Arctic's oldest, thickest sea ice. Here's what that looks like. Full Article Science
rc Best way to cut Arctic "black carbon"? Stop burning fossil fuels By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 06:27:02 -0400 70% of this potent pollutant comes from fossil fuels, not biomass burning. Full Article Science
rc The Arctic coastline is falling into the sea By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:04:00 -0400 In 40 days over the summer, the coast had retreated by 14.5 meters, sometimes more than a meter a day. Full Article Science
rc Big cruise ships in the Arctic are a bad idea By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:00:00 -0400 An Arctic explorer calls for 'party ships' to be kept out of this sensitive and remote part of the world. Full Article Living
rc Barns are being lost and stolen in search of "rustic chic" interior design By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 12:44:32 -0400 A lot of our history is being lost so that people can get that popular look. Full Article Design
rc The circular economy comes to your living room By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 14:55:50 -0400 How to choose things for your home that have had, or can have, second lives. Full Article Design
rc Artist's architectural illusions transforming urban walls (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:38:17 -0500 Blank city walls are huge canvases for this artist transforming our perception of ordinary buildings. Full Article Living
rc Women With High PBDE Levels 50 Percent Slower to Conceive, New Study Says By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:00:28 -0500 Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com's Naturally Green section. Full Article Living
rc Irregular Neon Fence Lights Up Parking Lot in Buenos Aires, Changes Fencing Perception By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:00:00 -0400 Parking lots will never be green, period. But design can make them less of an eye sore. And who knew a fence could look cool? Full Article Design
rc Walmart Introduces Supercube Tractor Trailers to increase fuel economy, get trucks off the road By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 31 May 2013 10:12:00 -0400 There are a lot of good ideas in this truck; will they catch on? Full Article Business
rc Wood that wows: Teeple Architects' Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:44:03 -0400 It's all about the amazing connections. Full Article Design
rc Fashion firm Marimekko turns to birch tree based alternative to water-intensive cotton By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:49:00 -0400 With demand for natural textiles spiking, sustainable companies need to look beyond pesticide- and water-intensive cotton Full Article Living
rc Gratitude exercises don't help with depression or anxiety By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:21:52 -0400 Telling people to be grateful for what they have doesn't help alleviate symptoms of depression or anxiety, according to new research. Full Article Living
rc Nature Conservancy Land Purchase Could Save Alabama's Red Hills Salamander By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:51 -0400 A little salamander that is found in only a Full Article Science
rc This Black Friday, Occupy Main Street; Shop At A Local, Small Independent Merchant By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:46:00 -0500 Lets declare a day of non-action, of unoccupying the big box stores. Instead, let's support our local, green neighborhood shops that need our custom. Full Article Business
rc Will Hooping Green Your Exercise Routine? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:48:00 -0400 Bill Nye was the guy that said driving your car to the gym is literally insane - why not reclaim a piece of childhood through hooping? Full Article Living
rc 8 storey Cross-Laminated Timber apartments win Finlandia Prize for Architecture By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:18:43 -0400 Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies." Full Article Design
rc Governor General's Medals for Architecture in Canada unveiled By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 19 May 2016 15:03:01 -0400 It's the country's biggest architectural award and quite a few are TreeHugger friendly Full Article Design
rc 2017 Architizer Awards are "a stunning celebration of innovative architecture" By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:20:21 -0400 They deserve an award for putting on such a terrific award program. Full Article Design
rc Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to scientists studying circadian rhythms By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 09:19:25 -0400 Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve. Full Article Living
rc Roots Architecture at WOMAD 2011 - A Game of Structural Consequences (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:00:16 -0400 What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD Full Article Design
rc DIY dome homes built from AirCrete are an affordable & ecofriendly option By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 20:03:10 -0400 First there was foamcrete, then there was papercrete and hempcrete, and now we've got AirCrete, a foamy mixture of air bubbles and cement. Full Article Design
rc Lighten up: Primary steel production is responsible for up to 9 percent of CO2 emissions By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 10:23:16 -0500 We have to use less of the stuff in our cars, our buildings, and our infrastructure. Full Article Science
rc How a 1% surcharge on restaurant bills can help fight climate change By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 03 May 2019 11:00:00 -0400 It's a curious reversal of the farm-to-table movement. Full Article Science
rc Architects have to deal with the "wicked problem of embodied carbon." By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:59:21 -0500 A British critic calls two green icons, rammed earth and Passivhaus, "architectural trickery at its most cynical." Full Article Design
rc Cepezed's new offices are a demonstration of circular design By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:21:09 -0400 Design for deconstruction out of low-carbon materials is the way of the future. Full Article Design
rc In praise of Brutalist architecture By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:37:23 -0400 The ones we have left should be preserved; they don't make them like they used to. Full Article Design
rc ETH robot builds curvy reinforced concrete wall By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 08:15:40 -0400 Is this the future of construction? Full Article Design
rc Should Billionaires Be Forced to Pay a 1% Tax for International Development? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:32:00 -0400 A new UN report says that a 1% tax levies on the world's 1,225 billionaires would more than make up for the shortfall in development aid from governments. Full Article Business
rc Researchers produce electricity with paper, tape and a pencil By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:37:09 -0500 The device made from household objects could replace AA batteries for powering small electronics. Full Article Technology
rc New e-commerce site is a one-stop-shop for humanitarian aid products By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:03:41 -0400 The Level Market wants to make the procurement of humanitarian aid and development products as easy as shopping on Amazon. Full Article Technology
rc Waste Reduction Week reminds us to think circular year-round By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 06:30:52 -0400 How will you promote actions that divert more waste from disposal and conserve natural resources? Full Article Living
rc Cue the Q4 holiday overconsumption By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:52:07 -0500 The most wonderful time of the year is often the most wasteful Full Article Living
rc All-electric commercial airplane takes first flight By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:04:49 -0500 “December 10, 2019 will be remembered as the day the electric aviation age started.” Full Article Transportation
rc Artist's intricate newspaper papercuts carve out a deeper story By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:20:30 -0500 These delicate works of art are made out of current and vintage newspaper broadsheets, and prompt us to look beyond the daily news cycle. Full Article Living
rc Circular logic: Round runways could save a lot of land, reduce fuel consumption and cut noise By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:43:42 -0400 This is not a joke. It is also a teaching moment about blogging. Full Article Transportation
rc Rock in a box with Arkitema Architects' shipping container housing project By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:10:15 -0400 Using shipping containers for housing near a Danish rock music museum makes sense, sort of. Full Article Design
rc Cows, Goats Escape from Slaughterhouse, Only to be Forced Back In By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:16:51 -0400 Dozens of sheep and goats broke out of a slaughterhouse in upstate New York on Tuesday night, and gave police quite the runaround. Full Article Business
rc California's iconic fog is bringing super-toxic mercury ashore By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:38:42 -0500 Researchers find that the neurotoxin is carried in by coastal fog, deposited on the land, and then makes its way up the food chain where it is approaching toxic thresholds in pumas. Full Article Science
rc Data storage could soon be 8 percent of the world's energy use By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:26:14 -0500 There is a real footprint to all those baby pictures and Netflix binges. Full Article Energy
rc Eat sea urchins to save the oceans By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:00:00 -0500 These spiny little animals are in desperate need of population control, and our sushi habits could help. Full Article Science
rc Border Region Looks to Desalination to Counter a Parched Rio Grande By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:20:47 -0500 We´ve noted in the past plans for new desalination plants in Australia and low-grade energy desalination technology from New Mexico. Full Article Business
rc Researchers Develop Chlorine-Tolerant Membrane for Easy Desalination By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:50:00 -0400 Record droughts, falling water tables and the rapid depletion of aquifers have helped make desalination, a process once considered impractical and too expensive, a viable technology -- at least in some places. As such, there has been a rash of stories -- Full Article Technology
rc Observe World Water Day on March 22 By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:11:29 -0400 Images from Prix Pictet World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 every year, is an initiative of the United Nations that recognises that water is a basic requirement for all life. This year's theme: "Shared Water - Shared Opportunities" and "Whether Full Article Business
rc Masdar Developing Desalination Plants Powered by Renewable Sources By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:02:00 -0500 The UAE's clean tech giant plans to have a commerical-scale plant by 2020. Full Article Technology
rc Quebec architects and prefab builders offer "eco-housing kits" By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 08:40:22 -0500 The promise of prefab was healthy, cost-effective, energy efficient homes designed by talented architects. Is it finally here? Full Article Design
rc JUPE health is an 'immediate response to hospital overcrowding' By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:21:42 -0400 These flat-packed rest-and-recovery units could take the load off hospitals in a hurry. Full Article Design
rc RIP Roger Taillibert, architect of the Big O By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 06:45:01 -0400 People have complained about his building since they started pouring the concrete. Full Article Design