Redwoods Treehouse Restaurant Sits High In New Zealand

If you'd like to cross treetop dining off of your bucket list, check out the Redwoods Treehouse near Auckland, New Zealand. This wonderland of cocoons and walkways built from sustainably-harvested pine and poplar slats and locally-milled redwood balustrading is about as amazing as lofty eateries come. Daytime diners can expect to be shined on by natural light as they dine 40 meters above the ground.

Exploring China's Eco Conscious Countryside

It may be famous in places like Costa Rica and Kenya but have you ever thought about China as an eco-destination? Ecotourism in China is exceeding rare, but it does exist. Jinbo village in Wenchuan county, Sichuan province has been offering ecotours since 2009. With the help of social workers from Hong Kong's Polytechnic University and Guangzhou's Sun Yat Sen University, this quaint Qiang minority village produces organic produce for the...

Is iPad Helping Businesses to Go Green?

Apple’s iPad tablet device is helping businesses take on more environmentally friendly habits, enabling them to cut costs and save resources. Energy usage, environmental auditing and paper reduction are all areas where businesses are seeing improvements as a result of adopting the iPad. Read on for a closer...

Google's investment in Transphorm could be good news for electric cars

Google said today it had invested in a startup called Transphorm, whose power-conversion efficiency technology could some day help create more efficient electric cars. The company's technology can reduce by up to 90 percent the power lost when one form of energy is converted to the other (say, from AC — alternating current — to DC, direct current). Hybrid and electric car drives also convert electricity from AC to DC, so the Transphorm's...

Green Gold? Organic Olive Oil...

The last three decades have seen a boom in demand for olive oil, and nowhere has benefited more than Italy. One of the oldest foods in the world, olive groves are a familiar sight across the country with a mixture of ancient groves and modern farms producing...

‎2011 Ethical Fashion Show : 1st - 4th September at the Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

Helsinki's Eco-Friendly Underground Master Plan

The world's greenest data center lies 30 meters below the ground surface of a cathedral in Helsinki, Finland. It's just part of an entire subterranean world being created for Helsinki's underground master plan. CNN reports that Helsinki is the first city to develop such a plan, focused on building in its hard bedrock below ground...

Want to Be An Intern on an Island? Now's Your Chance

Photo: Isla Palenque, courtesy of Amble Resorts  We try to treat our interns pretty well here at TreeHugger, but I'm fairly certain we've never asked them to kick their flip flops off on the beach and run Hasselhoff-style into the warm surf. That's not to say they don't have fun, but if you're looking for an equally fun internship that does involve running into the ocean, get ready to get excited....

Inside the all-electric Esflow, the Nissan Leaf’s sexier sister

While its official world debut isn't pegged until the 2011  in just a few weeks, the  ESFLOW electric sports car concept has been revealed in the flesh–or should we say aluminum and carbon fiber?–at a special media event in Frankfurt, Germany this week. The High Gear Media team was on hand to bring you these live shots of the striking concept, revealing it in the utmost detail and giving us a look at...

Coolest Seed Bank Ever? Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Copenhagen: Europe's Coolest Green City

Cutting edge architecture, miles of cycle routes and green spaces galore have made the Danish capital a hotspot for green travellers. Ruth Styles packed her bags for a weekend in Europe's greenest capital city...

Is This The Future Of Electricity?

"If you wanted to generate all the world's electricity, you could do it with less than 1% of the area of the world's desert." Gerry Wolff, Coordinator of Desertec, makes this statement in this video from the Guardian, "The Challenge Of Solar Power." But if Wolff is correct, why hasn't it been done yet? Seville, Spain hosts the first commercial operation of solar tower technology in the world...

New York Fashion Week: Tara St. James Schools Us in Zero-Waste Design

Study NY by Tara St. James, New York Fashion Week Fall 2011. Photo: Emma Grady Next up in our on-site coverage of the best of green couture at New York Fashion Week is 2011 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation winner Study NY by Tara St. James, who schools us in zero-waste pa...

Christopher Raeburn - SS11 Dazzle - Video

NEWGEN winner Christopher Raeburn collaborated with graphic designer Regis Tosetti and photographer Sam Scott-Hunter to create a beautiful film that captures the highlights of his spring/summer 2011 collection. Due to be shown at his exhibition during London Fashion Week, it is set to a soundtrack of noises recorded and reworded by toot! at his East End studio.

Holly Cara Price: Sustainable, Recyclable, Durable: Purses and Bags Made from Movie Film

Julie Lewis was a stay-at-home mom with an undergraduate degree in Biology and a Masters in Nutrition and Biochemistry in 1991 when she came up with an idea to help avoid leaving a world of garbage for her children to deal with when they grew up. That idea turned into Deja Shoes, based on sandals she had seen made from automobile tires in the developing world...

Jeremy Leggett: U.S. Must Help Saudi Arabia Turn Into "the Saudi Arabia of Solar," WikiLeaks Cables Say

U.S. diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks reveal something close to desperation in Saudi officialdom about keeping oil exports alive while at the same time growing domestic electricity generation rapidly. These twin challenges are interrelated and growing progressively worse, because what the leaked cables do not say is that Saudi Arabia is currently burning well over a million barrels a day of...

WATCH: Bamboo Bikes Ride Through One Of Dirtiest Capitals In The World

How can you make a green form of transportation even greener? Bryan McClelland may have the answer: bamboo bikes. McClelland has created the BamBike, a bicycle made out of bamboo. The bicycles are made in Manila, Phillipines, which Reuters reports is one of the most polluted capitals in the world. The bikes, costing around $500, are built by local skilled laborers, and the company advertises that as "a company that is interested...

Chernobyl Birds Have Smaller Brains, Shorter Lives

An abandoned ferris wheel in Pripyat, Ukraine, near the Chernobyl disaster site. Photo credit: Andrzej Karoń/Creative Commons Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, research is showing that prolonged exposure to the remaining low-dose radiation has a serious impact on wildlife in the region. New research has found that birds living near Chernobyl have, on average, a brain 5 percent s...

Emiliano Godoy for Ecoist - Cool Candy Wrapper Chair - Eco Design

Images via designboom.com 

A great discovery over at Designboom this week is a new design from Emiliano Godoy, one of our favourite thought provoking designers. Emiliano, he of the biodegradable golf tee and the Global Warming Rug, has teamed up with the ethical accessories label Ecoist to create this...

Rooster Stabs Man to Death at Cockfighting Match - Cruelty

Photo: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times As if the cruelty of pitting of two roosters against each other in a heinous battle to the death wasn't enough to dissuade some people from supporting cockfighting, it turns out that during such events it's not just the lives of the birds put at risk...

The Good Shopping Guide ethical shopping iPhone app

Source: www.theecologist.org

You've read the book, now try the smart phone app: the Good Shopping Guide makes choosing the greenest products a cinch...

How Fox News Debunks Global Warming and Climate Change

In case you missed it, last week, Gawker, Grist, and a number of other sites revealed the meticulous methodology employed by Fox News science and technology reporters in order to debunk climate change: They post ads in the personals calling for someone -- anyone! -- who'll do the denying, of course...

Score Tickets, a Spot Near Coachella's Stage, for Recycling & Energy Feats

Photos via Global Inheritance The Coachella 2011 music festival sold out in less than a week. Reportedly the fastest sell-out ever. Passes to the Indio, California, fest can still be had, of course. Fake ones are being sold on eBay, even though paper tickets haven't been distributed yet. Global Inheritance, a Los Angeles nonprofit, will be handing out some of the real passes, however, to the winning designers of recycling bins for...

O2 Pursuit: La Moto ad Aria Compressa

fonte: greenme.it

Chissà se un giorno l'applicazione dell'aria compressa nelle moto potrà rivelarsi una scommessa azzeccata. In questi giorni arriva, dall'Australia, la realizzazione della O2 Pursuit, una interessante applicazione del motore ad aria compressa su una moto.

Congressman Ask Salazar to Keep Solar Decathlon on the National Mall

Photo via inhabitat

Last month, the Park Service announced that the Solar Decathlon, one of the country's coolest energy and design competitions, might need to find a new home. Every two years as since 2002, the Solar Decathlon, which "challenges 20 collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive," has called the National Mall home, but the National Park Service says the event causes too...

Driving Hacks to Save the Planet (and Wallet)

Photo credit: chego101/Creative Commons This post was written by Danny Chang, Senior Product Marketing Manager at eBay and contributor to eBayGreenTeam.com. In an ideal world, everyone would be able to ditch their cars, burn some extra calories, and bond with their community on electric subways, buses, and trains. However, since not all public transportation systems are created equal, it can be hard to give up your vehic...

Restoring Food Security for Everyone Will Take Action on Many Fronts

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 02:15 PM PST

Photo credit: International Center for Tropical Agriculture/Creative Commons Today there are three sources of growing demand for food: population growth; rising affluence and the associated jump in meat, milk, and egg consumption; and the use of grain to produce fuel for cars. P...

A US Bird's Eye Lowdown On The Future Of Solar Power

Image credit: all images in this post are courtesy of Silverado Power

Have you noticed. as I have, that widely reported solar projects in the USA have spectacular or controversial attributes? Computer simulations of huge projects in desert settings were very big in 2010 - creating a stereotype, I'd say. Extra reporting points for protests by environmentalists, charges of government socialism, or a suitably-phallic central heat collection tower....

Biodegradable Plastic Venture Hits a Stumbling Block: The Recycling Industry

Image: cornell.edu Danny Clark quit his communications job a few years ago to collaborate with microbiologists and polymer chemists to establish a company, ENSO Bottles, that would make recyclable and biodegradable plastic bottles. But since launching the company in 2008, he has come up against a hurdle in a surprising place: the $400 billion recycling industry....

Tesla Store in Milan

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 03:04 AM PST

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February 1, 2011 MILAN, Italy -- Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors is celebrating the opening of its first showroom in Italy on February 11 with a VIP gala in the capital of haute couture. Italiano Tesla's first store in Italy is at Via Cerva 31 (angolo Via Borgogna) in Milan's fashion and....