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• Need a fix?

  Ask Umbra visits the Fixers’ Collective [VIDEO]

  Posted 9 Mar 2010 11:59 PM By Umbra Fisk

  Umbra visits the Fixers’ Collective in Brooklyn, a “social experiment in improvisational fixing and mending.” Get your fix. Watch this! Read More

• hip to be square

  Modern modular done right

  Posted 5 Mar 2010 4:02 PM By treehugger.com

  A lot of lessons have been learned over the last decade as architects and manufacturers try to make modern green prefab affordable and accessible to a wider audience. A new entry into the market is Challenger, a modern architect-designed line of houses from Manitoba, Canada's Conquest Manufacturing. They recently displayed a new model, the Cube, at the National Home Show in Toronto. Read More

• frackin' busted

  Tech startup’s pollution detector aids enviro justice group 1

  Posted 5 Mar 2010 2:59 PM By Todd Woody

  Residents of two North Texas towns fear that local fracking operations are releasing toxic chemicals. Now a new, easy-to-use analyzer lets them get real time, stealthy readings of local air pollution levels, pinpoint the sources -- and plot it all on a Google map. Read More

• carbon's atomic weight

  E.U.‘s ‘carbon fat cats’ get rich off trading scheme, study finds 3

  Posted 5 Mar 2010 9:54 AM By Agence France-Presse

  Europe's system for industrial carbon quotas has enriched the continent's biggest polluters, with 10 firms together reaping permits for 2008 alone worth $680 million, a new report revealed. Read More

• Wally Green World?

  Putting Wal-Mart’s green moves in context 12

  Posted 4 Mar 2010 10:39 AM By Stacy Mitchell

  On the one hand, you have Wal-Mart's sustainability program, which proposes to reduce the emissions associated with some of the products its sells. On the other hand, you have Wal-Mart's core business model, which ensures that we have to replace those products far more often. Read More

• But can you buy them on Etsy yet?

  Hand-made electric cars serve a niche market in Japan 2

  Posted 4 Mar 2010 10:38 AM By Agence France-Presse

  While auto manufacturing giants spend millions to develop environmentally friendly electric cars, one Japanese company has taken a more low-key approach, crafting hand-made "green" cars. Read More

• Citizen hurricane

  Katrina victims seek to sue greenhouse-gas emitters 3

  Posted 4 Mar 2010 9:52 AM By Agence France-Presse

  Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue greenhouse gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the devastating 2005 storm, legal documents showed Wednesday. Read More

• Fecal matters

  Peepoo bags help the developing world take off a load 1

  Posted 3 Mar 2010 7:15 PM By Ashley Braun

  A lot of people in this world don't have toilets. But thanks to folks who give a crap, they now have Peepoo! Take a whiff of their work. Read More

• Bill & TED's excellent adventure

  Bill Gates and our innovation addiction: A recipe for climate inaction 29

  Posted 3 Mar 2010 9:28 AM By Michael Hoexter

  Bill Gates is encouraging a peculiar type of 21st century passivity by government officials, investors, and activists that has a high probability of leading to climate inaction. The "more innovation" meme repeated by Gates has limits that need to be acknowledged. Read More

• homestar stunner

  Obama home upgrade program targets jobs, energy conservation 6

  Posted 2 Mar 2010 5:12 PM By Agence France-Presse

  President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled plans to give hefty reimbursements to U.S. homeowners who make home improvements to conserve energy. Read More

• mississippi's burning

  Trouble mounts for Entergy following radioactive leaks at Vermont nuclear plant

  Posted 2 Mar 2010 2:19 PM By Sue Sturgis

  New Orleans-based power giant Entergy is in hot water following revelations that its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant has leaked radioactive contamination to the environment -- and its trouble isn't limited to Vermont. The Mississippi State Attorney General is also taking aim at the company, questioning Entergy's recent transfer of more than $1 billion from its parent company that oversees its Mississippi operations to its troubled nuclear division. Read More

• Chemical burned

  Dow trying to have it both ways on climate? 11

  Posted 28 Feb 2010 4:40 PM By Miles Grant

  Does Dow Chemical support climate action? Or think it would destroy America? Depends on which Dow Chemical you're listening to. Read More

• Coffee hit by global warming, growers say 3

  Posted 26 Feb 2010 9:59 AM By Agence France-Presse

• Making sense of Wal-Mart’s big green announcement 34

  Posted 25 Feb 2010 4:32 PM By Jonathan Hiskes

• World’s biggest solar-powered boat unveiled 2

  Posted 25 Feb 2010 2:55 PM By Agence France-Presse

• British Airways plans to get wasted on future flights

  Posted 25 Feb 2010 1:10 PM By Ashley Braun

• Chinese pollution concerns dash Hummer deal, analysts say

  Posted 25 Feb 2010 12:18 PM By Agence France-Presse

• King Corn airs complaints about USDA 8

  Posted 25 Feb 2010 8:59 AM By Tom Philpott

• Abu Dhabi bailed out Dubai—is the world next? 1

  Posted 24 Feb 2010 3:28 PM By Terry Tamminen

• The economics of the Bloom Box 39

  Posted 24 Feb 2010 3:58 PM By Jesse Jenkins

• Hummer to hum along no more? 20

  Posted 24 Feb 2010 3:57 PM By Ashley Braun

• Gold, silver, bronze, & green 1

  Posted 24 Feb 2010 12:38 PM By Frank Sesno

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