Environment
San Diego Reduces Water Consumption By 11 Percent
Like much of Southern California, San Diego wrestles with unflagging drought conditions, but some years are worse than others. In 2009, the city...
Environment
Subway Branch Takes Company Slogan Literally
At the Subway across the street from Tokyo Station, the catchphrase "Eat Fresh" has taken on new meaning. The store recently installed a...
Environment
Five Reasons to Trade Your Four Wheeler for a Two Wheeler
This morning, Treehugger put together a persuasive list of reasons to stop driving and start cycling. Aside from the fairly obvious health...
Environment
Climate Change Refugees, Coming Soon
The Panama Islands have experienced some of the first instances of what is likely to be a common phenomena—climate change refugees. Various...
Environment
Plantable Print: The New Trend in Sustainable Packaging
As a devoted reader torn between my love for print and my love for trees, I'm eager to check out this horticultural alternative to the digital...
Environment
Pollution-Eating Concrete to Save Your Lungs
Researchers in the Netherlands have recently tested a special type of concrete that has the potential to absorb nitrogen oxides, which are a much...
Environment
Design Students Find Surprising New Use for Outdated Speedos
When swimming competitions updated their regulations for swimwear this year, the Speedo LZR racer swimsuit was rendered obsolete as a sellable...
Culture
Offshore Oil Strike: Fun for the Whole Family?
The premise of a board game from 1970 has become eerily prophetic in retrospect—players build oil rigs, drill offshore, and cringe when their...
News
Bait Bikes: Clever Theft-Deterrent or Entrapment?
Inspired by a Toronto campaign to reduce bike theft, British police are deploying GPS-fitted, poorly locked and unlocked "bait bikes" around town...
Environment
Pop-up Eateries Implement Sustainable Design
It makes sense that the rise of pop-up restaurants has coincided with the decline of economy—the smaller investment, use of social media, and...
Environment
FDA Takes One Step Forward, One Step Backward
The FDA has long fought to regulate and cut back the widespread use of antibiotics in animal feed, which has created resistant super bugs that...
Environment
Visionary Vegetarianism: Meat, Dairy, and the Future of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Your individual dietary choices could mean more than ever, according to a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. If the...
Environment
Jersey Offshore: Wind Farms Can't Hurt
Alternative-energy naysayers sometimes argue that building things like offshore wind farms would not only be unfeasible, but that they would also...
Environment
Urban Sprawl Heats Things Up
Researchers at Georgia Tech have recently found evidence that in decentralized and sprawling cities (such as Los Angeles), the frequency of very...
Design
The Humble Tent, Redesigned for Disaster Relief
In the wake of a disaster, supplying shelter to the displaced is crucial. Taking its aesthetic cues from a tent (albeit a forward-thinking,...
Environment
Six Reasons to Care About the Ocean's Well Being
The dire state of our oceans goes well beyond the scope of the Gulf Oil spill; major pollution, rising sea levels, and the encroaching...
Environment
Cycle Northern California Coast for Climate Change (Then, Have a Beer)
Treehugger’s shining some light on the upcoming Brita Climate Ride, a five-day fundraising bike ride for climate-change awareness taking place...
Environment
Video Conferencing Cuts Carbon Emissions
Next time you begrudge an early morning video conference, consider the reduced carbon emission of your tele-presence tête-à-tête. A new report...
