Canadian Hydro wind farm on Cowley Ridge east of Crowsnest Pass.Image credit:Canwest News Service/Ted Rhodes, via. The offers a somewhat cynical view of a recent green power takeover move, in which Canadian TransAlta has bid to take over the country's

Photos: Courtesy of Ana Walsh.One of our favorite green clothing designers in Buenos Aires, , has come up with a new collection for her 'Fashion Archeology' line and now makes beautiful items for children too.In addition to earning points for

Photo via NPR has an excellent report this morning on about the gadget repair business. According to the news report, business has doubled since the downturn in the economy. Could this mean the start of a culture shift towards heirloom

photo: via flickrEnergy Secretary and President Obama pulled from the budget, saying that it was more important to concentrate on other technologies, but members of Congress aren't having any of it. reports that both the House a...

Via Preston at Jetson Green recently put up a post entitled and I got really excited; I have often thought that the ultimate green home would be made of materials so harmless that you could actually eat them, that there

Photo via If you ever want to get freaked out about how vulnerable our technology is to the (let's face it) brilliant hackers out in the world, check out Black Hat. This year's event will look at the smart grid,

What do you do when you want to grow your own food, but live more than a mile above sea level in Colorado? That's the question my dad wanted to answer when he started this project about a year ago:

Last year, as the dog days of summer began to fade away, I took to the road here in California, hopping from state park to state park on vacation. I have planned a similar trip this year, but it was

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Image credit: Slow Money National Gathering Aims to Put Ethics Back in FinanceIt would be tempting to say that slow is the new fast, but lazy clichés seem somehow antithetical to the search for authenticity and substance represented by advocates

Photo via Now there's the kind of commitment we like hearing from a gadget company. In its Eco-Management 2013 report, the South Korean company Samsung says it is investing $4.3 billion in greening its gadgets and its facilities by, you

Photo via Yes. Er, well, sort of. According to a new report by Vodafone titled mobile technology can be a driver in getting Europe's energy bills cut by about $61 billion (€43 billion) annually, and cut emissions by 113 million

Photo via It's well known that many object to the looks of wind farms and solar plants . But now, North Carolina state lawmakers are actually moving to make it against the law to install large wind turbines in the

photo: via flickrHopefully you're aware of the astonishingly high rate of in Malaysia and Indonesia -- due in large part to logging and . In Malaysia, 82% of remaining forest cover is managed in special protected reserves, which allow selective

Future scientists will surely look back at the tremendous growth era of chemistry in the previous century and muse about the medieval 20th century technology. For millenia, nature has produced everything life on the planet needed using only the energy

photo: via flickrWe've consistently pointed out that there's really no such thing as , when you look at how the stuff is mined, the waste, and all the other emissions beyond greenhouse gases. Now, a new study coming out of

Image via Tweaking your computer's energy saving settings is a no-brainer. But that's just the trouble: the computer is making a "dumb" decision to dim the monitor or go to sleep after a preset time. , the British maker of

Most bats aren't killed from collision with the turbines, but from the changes in air pressure caused by the moving blades, which damages their lungs. Photo: via flickr.The great threat to birds from wind turbines may be, in most places,

Photo via the It doesn't take a green blogger to tell you that the government's defense budget is bloated--and that we're manufacturing way more weapons and vehicles than necessary. Which is why it's good news that the senate voted in

All too often, houses that are really green are not architectural gems, and vice versa. architecture critic Blair Kamin visits Michael Yannell's Net Zero house, designed by Jonathan Boyer of Farr Associates. He approves, noting:The Yannell House, which has four