The designer Tom Ford takes FIVE of them every day. That's a bit much.

While their brethren, the dreaded chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), may be on the wane, fluorocarbons -- a class of equally dangerous industrial gases -- are still wreaking havoc. As the name implies, the main distinguishing characteristic between CFCs and

1) In a popular topic we've visited several times, Forums user moseph is "wondering, big or small, what is

Who doesn't love a picture of a bicyclist reading a book on top of a bashed up car?

Fussing with a camera can mean you miss the actual moment you're trying to preserve.

Our dreamy photo of the day comes from Bohuslän, Sweden.

Are crops that produce their own pesticides as scary as they sound?

They look so cute on their polyurethane sofa, in front of the wall of vinyl windows and doors, in the stock shot from the Canadian vinyl industry. The Vinyl salesmen are also

Of course he has been there, done that.

This gives the "spin cycle" a whole new meaning.

Yesterday for our third post in the Do Lectures 2011 series we encouraged you to Start Where You Live. You never know quite how far you will travel. In the

Is it a geothermal system or a ground source heat pump? Yes.

People are often surprised to learn that tea bags contain up to 25% plastic, which raises concerns about health and environmental implications. Good news is, there's a better way to make the perfect cuppa.

These delicately formed hand-crank and motor-activated art installations blossom and grow perpetually.

Could Japan be attempting to shirk its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol by purchasing lower-grade carbon credits? Having pledged to cut emissions to 6% below 1990 levels, the country is now racing to make ends meet as

You don't need to tumble-dry clothes at this time of year. Here's why you should take your laundry outside to hang-dry in the warm sunshine.

The Kentucky state Senate Agriculture Committee voted unanimously to approve legislation for legalizing industrial hemp in the state.

(Image: NY Times As the world becomes a more perfect place, where elephant landmine victims walk again, streetsigns are best used as jewelry, and coal plants get the royal STFU, we're gonna need more handy little things like the VeloPocket. Along with

It's that time of year when conscious shoppers remember the Rana Plaza tragedy and unite in their efforts to demand greater safety, fairness and transparency in the fashion industry.

Two years ago when Mion footwear won an ecodesign award we described them as something "you might expect the Jetsons to wear on the weekends." And we wanted the company to be more overt in their green product design. With their new models they've

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

Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List, concluding:

Why can't the Wall Street Journal call it what it is?

After thousands of euros' worth of damage, the tourism board is begging young people to be more respectful.

Instead of banning these technologies, we have to figure out how to manage them. Because they are inevitable.

Clever idea from Finnish designer combines portable storage with fixed dresser unit

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

A six-year dispute over mislabeled shipping containers has been settled, but the world can learn an important lesson from this.

Yet another reason to skip the escalator/elevator and hoof it instead.

Take one Estream and add moving water for clean, quiet, offgrid energy.

Hunter-gatherers used to populate Europe before ancient farmers took over. Scientists are trying to figure out what happened.

It was shot from "sea to summit" in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, one of the most dynamic landscapes on Earth.

This endangered Hawaiian monk seal was photographed at the Poipu Beach Park in Kauai.

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The Guardian columnist and environmental thinker George Monbiot usually manages to provoke a strong debate in our comments sections. Some time ago, our post on his new book Heat raised a fierce exchange of views about the impacts of flying, meanwhile his

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

Knowing how many hours go into every shirt or pair of jeans should influence shoppers' opinion of the price tag.

It's like flatpack without the fasteners; you just bang it together with the big mallet that's harder to lose than an Allen key.

A new investigation by Greenpeace delves into the ongoing environmental devastation caused by our recycling habits.

Working with nature instead of against it, forest gardens promise abundance, as well as the kind of resilience a changing climate demands.

As an alternative to expensive antibiotics, people have taken to taking amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, penicillin and other drugs meant for fish. Here’s why it’s a bad idea.

Like the word 'sustainability', 'environmentalism' has become a hollow word, a word divorced from meaning, a word lacking in soul, separated from its essence.

Conservation organizations used Google Street View cameras to document the places, animals and people most vulnerable to climate change.

Electric bikes are the great leveller; a lot more people will be doing this.

As prices drop and range increases, more and more people are going electric.

If you don't subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow

With guests Kathy Freston and Michael Pollan, Oprah dedicated her full show yesterday to veganism and meat production. She and her staffers went vegan for a week, some of them have decided to continue the diet (or go "veganish") even

By controlling portion size and refusing to overeat, particularly in restaurants, we can reduce food waste and remind ourselves of the true value of food.

There are so many missing teeth, so many vacant lots in so much of rust belt North America. We showed how Superkül took back a sketchy main street store in Toronto for their live/work space; Now Azure Magazine shows us how

If one geoengineering plan doesn't work, maybe two or three combined will