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
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
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
Recent research is shedding light on the disturbing state of our planet's oceans and the incredible amount of waste that has collected at sea
There's a rift among some of the environmental groups almost as wide as the cracks in melting Arctic sea ice caused by climate change. Some groups, in the name of progress, are advocating compromises with some of the world's worst polluters and for policies they know to be deeply flawed. Others stick to the science and their core values when campaigning to stop the worst effects of climate change
Commuter park and ride lot. Image credit:Virginia DOT.Post about a transformational technology here and comments are sure to contain one-off criticisms. Many of these critiques become memes that return any time a certain phrase is mentioned. 'Wind power is unreliable.' 'Hydrogen cars will never work because...' 'Green jobs programs are socialist.' No matter that the success of transformat
James and Suzy Amis Cameron support Global Green and sustainable fashion.Across the street from Capitol Records' tower, outside the Avalon Hollywood club, a line of green autos included the Tesla, Prius and luxury Audi A3 TDI from LA Car Guy, the biggest green car dealer in the US. GM also displayed its Chevy Volt as celebrity guests arrived in a variety of hybrids for
Images by B. AlterThe Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Show, held in association with the Design Museum in London, is an exhibition of the best of international design. Nominated by a panel, there are more than 100 design items in seven different categories on display.There were a lot of interesting chairs this year. Before we start on them, here's the (non-chair) design that many are toutin
Lemon leaf with interconnected loops. Photo: RUA team of biophysicists at Rockefeller University recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters about a new way to design distribution networks based on the veins that carry water and nutrients in most tree leaves. This is a great example of biomimicry! Evolution by natural selection maybe be blind, but it has had billions of years of trial-a
Image credit: gadgetdude/FlickrMarine reserves are designed to protect fish, plants, and the reef ecosystems they populate but another factor is integral to their success. Human populations, a recent study shows, have the capacity to help or hurt conservation. Furthermore, research showed, human interactions with the reserves have some surprising consequences....Read the full story on TreeHugger
