One man. One veggie-oil powered car. Four months. 20,000 miles. Today Joe Connor, freelance sports-writer, leaves San Diego for his 3rd Annual Green Power Sports Tour, kicking off at a pre-season Raiders game in Bakersfield. Loaded

UC San Diego is using one of its free gifts - some of the best solar exposure in the country - to further power and shade the campus. Several solar trees (solar panels installed on a vertical racking system that supports

Experts agree that as wild fish stocks decline and the world's population grows we will increasingly rely on aquaculture to feed the hungry planet. But many conservationists are concerned about the

Image via: Aaron Chang Gallery Aaron Chang, popular recycled fashion swimwear designer and professional photographer, not to mention surfing legend, is opening a green art gallery in San Diego, February 28, 2009. Each of the pieces are printed with

Image via: Flickr Stingaree Nightclub in San Diego is hosting weekly events titled "The Green Side of Sting" each friday in March. Each week a new, local, green group will host a green event at the club, bringing green fashion, sustainable energy and

Image via: Wakeland Housing & Development Corporation Los Vecinos, the first LEED-Certified Platinum, 100% solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego, offer 42-units of state of the art in green housing. The $17.6 million USD project opened its doors

While San Diego was not considered a very green city just a few years ago, this sunny patch of paradise is quietly coming into its own by leaps and bounds. Enough businesses are seeing the light, and new green ones are opening

More and more, urban biking has become one of the best ways to see a lot of a city in a short span of time, so it's a no-brainer that more hotels are offering free bikes along with the price of the room. In

Now that the summer surfing season has come to a close, (is there ever really an end to surfing season?), it's time to give your board a little TLC, upgrade any thrashed gear and prepare for the big waves of the

A Colorado family that had long ago given up on finding their cat got some incredible news this week, when Willow was found in New York City -- five years later and 1,800 miles from home.

In exchange for cultivating someone else's backyard for a year, this activist is experimenting with an increasingly simpler lifestyle, documented step-by-step online.

The UK newspaper dates the movement back to the publishing of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; I contribute with a guest post on architecture and design

Inspired by a centuries-old text on traditional Chinese medicine, a young researcher has found that seeds from the gingko tree could prove helpful for acne, psoriasis, dermatitis and eczema.

Fighting for her life after narrowly escaping a horrible house fire, doctors used sustainable fish skin grafts on the Rottweiler's burns to help save her life.

And it reduces food waste!

Packed with smart advice, this downloadable PDF is full of delicious recipes that can save you money and hassle.

This fake fight has a good cause.

When you try and go too fast it says, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

Perhaps AVs should have their own lower speed limits until they figure this all out.

They want to build beacons into bikes. Will implants in pedestrians be next?

A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now.

We are wasting too much time, energy and money on autonomous vehicles. We know what to do and it's not AVs.

The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels. More than a quarter of the total U.S. grain crop was turned into ethanol to fuel cars

French tire giant Michelin recently held its 10th Challenge Bibendum, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event is a chance for Michelin to rally industry players around the flag of sustainable mobility and the future of the automobile. Here's me loo

This year, French tire giant Michelin (yes, the Michelin that made the tires on your car) held its 10th Challenge Bibendum event, this time in Rio de Janeiro. If you've never heard of this thing, don't kick yourself,

If it seems like you've read a variation of the above headline before you're not wrong, and as much as anything it's a sign of the rock road cellulosic ethanol and biofuels in general have had in the past few years. The details: The Department of

The UK organization wants schools to incorporate that time into their daily curriculum.

Climate crisis? What climate crisis?

Here's a one-stop green guide to traveling in San Jose, from hotels to a night on the town.

This analysis looking at the real footprint of e-readers slaps us with a shocking reality check.

Global Citizen changed the lyrics to include a strong anti-food waste message, and the result is both entertaining and informative.

This could be why so many people ignore global warming.

There are reasonable limits on what people can do on their properties. But this goes too far.

This is not your usual trading site; it is much more of a community.

Alice + Whittles makes use of high-quality materials that would otherwise go to waste.

"If you don't visit quiet, the quiet will disappear."

Wait, there's more! It slices! It dices!

UC Berkeley’s new robot is the most vertically agile robot ever built – why is it so unnerving?

Bitcoin mining uses so much power that it may well turn into an environmental disaster.

"If a touchscreen must be used, it should be embedded alongside a set of fixed, physical buttons that support muscle memory and single actions."

The fact that it is supposed to last longer is a bigger deal.

Don't Blink or You'll Miss It! Google has created a series of video ads called "Search Stories". They're basically short vignettes showing some cool projects that were made possible by people finding the right information (using Google, of course). The

Matt Grocoff describes how his ancestors lived " in an elegant cradle-to-cradle, closed loop pattern."

Beekeeper, and World War II veteran, is at risk of losing his beehives he's had since the 1950s.

When cars first began appearing in the late 19th century, some cities moved to ban them -- but there is still one place in the US that has yet to change its mind.

This could turn 5-7 billion square meters of glass in the USA alone into solar power plants, plus power your cell phone and other gadgets

It is designed to dry beeswax wraps more easily, but its usefulness goes beyond that.

Golf courses looking to go green can look no further than Audubon International. From now until the end of this PGA season, for the first 100 golf courses that sign up at Bonterra Greens the Greens, Bonterra

Raking Without the Cussing Sometimes the greenest products are those not marketed as green at all – take the humble rake for instance. As a TreeHugger I already know that leaf blowers are the scourge of humanity (and don’t even get me started on leaf

Ideal Bite: Are you getting very, very sleepy? by Heather Stephenson "You will be if you follow this tip. Conventional anti-insomnia pills work, but if you don't wanna lose sleep over side effects and potentially addictive ingredients, induce