Turntable Reads Tree-Rings as Music

Aside from the gentle rustling of leaves in the breeze, or the creaking of a bough in a winter gale, a tree's character may best be described as 'the strong and silent type' -- but, as so often is the case with such personalities, they just might have the most hauntingly beautiful stories to tell.

What Does Green Party Win Mean for Germany?

Image: German Green Party leaders Eveline Lemke und Winfried Kretschmann Gruene.de 

"A historic change," Winfried Kretschmann of the German Green Party says. He is not kidding. The results of elections this week in two German states has sent a strong message to the incumbent parties, and makes a Green Party member governor of a German state for the first time...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....