When the software mogul Mitch Kapor won planning approval for his 10,000-square-foot house in Berkeley, Calif., neighbors were surprised that it will qualify as “green.”
Biologists in central California reported finding the first such egg at Pinnacles National Monument in more than a century.
Image from Mail onlineThere can hardly be a town without Tesco in Britain. The supermarket controls 30% of the business in the country and has stores everywhere. As it expands relentlessly it often wipes out small local businesses in its way. Sheringham, a resort town of 7,500 people has held out for 14 years against Tesco. Instead it has butchers and bakers and fishmongers along its main ro
The countries are the last two major economies to join the agreement reached in December, which calls for limiting the rise in global temperatures.
EBay, recovering from unprofitable quarters and falling market share, has recast its site to make it more attractive to new kinds of shoppers, like the carbon conscious.
Lloyd AlterMany small towns are experiencing a comeback these days; a combination of aging boomers and the green movement, combined with technology that lets people work just about anywhere make them a viable alternative to urban and suburban life. Sami has written extensively in TreeHugger about the Transition Town movement, where people are looking for resilient communities that can survive in
While a national commitment to solar power transformed one mining community, generous subsidies also resulted in unsustainable growth.
Posted on March 8, 2010 by Philippa Martin-KingThat's the new tagline for the Swiss e-recycling campaign which calls on people to take back their electric and electronic toys, devices and economic bulbs to resellers and specialised collecting centres rather than throwing them in the trash.
Photo via USA TodayVolkswagen has recently announced some pretty ambitious goals: it's looking to have 300,000 of the cars it sells yearly--3% of global deliveries--be electric by 2018. It's seeking to surpass Toyota as the world's largest automaker by the same time. Recently, while covering the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, I had the opportunity to sit down w...Read the full story on TreeHugger
United States Sugar's Clewiston sugar cane refinery. A $1.75 billion deal to sell land and assets to Florida was reduced to 72,800 acres, in separate parcels, for $536 million.Florida’s plan to reclaim the wetlands is instead on track to rescue the fortunes of United States Sugar.
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