One Sunday we returned to Denmark, as our boat anchored in Arhus, an attractive city university. Among the 300,000 inhabitants are 40,000 students. There was a lot of high schools on the pier to welcome you to the port in Aarhus Havn. ...READ»
Scientists around the world have been kicking around the idea of making meat from stem cells for years now--a tantalizing (yet slightly disturbing) project for anyone who abhors the state of factory farms. Denmark's In-vitro Meat ...READ»
This week in TreeHugger: check out the world's inhabited bridges, find out why the USDA classified PETA as a terrorist threat, and see if 'climategate' was orchestrated by ex-KGB operatives.READ»
Good news on the clean tech front: a report from Datamonitor claims that global investments in the sector will climb this year by an impressive 35% in the face of flailing climate change legislation. According to the report, ...READ»
After 12 days of heated wrangling, world leaders should emerge from this meeting with a new treaty to combat global warming. Or maybe not: We wouldn't be shocked if U.S. negotiators, spooked by the potential effect of carbon ...READ»
Smart companies are starting to make climate change part of their business strategies. I spoke with David Hone, Shell's Climate-Change Advisor on their approach. READ»
Passive homes are built to use as little energy as possible, but the future of green housing might be active homes -- houses designed to capture more energy than they use.
The world's first active house, located in Lystrup, ...READ»
As SpaceX completes safety tests on its potential human space capsule, and a European outfit preps its innovative rocket for a test launch, it's obvious that some of the most exciting space news at the moment is coming from folks other than NASA.READ»
Last year's Copenhagen climate conference failed to produce any sort of useful legislation, so they're tapping the crowd. So far? Four responses. READ»
In preparation to the Copenhagen climate change conference, UNDP produced a film about the reality of climate change in the Pacific island of Kiribati. The film clearly shows how people’s lives are being affected right now by rising ...READ»
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference kicks off this week in Copenhagen, Denmark, most of the media's attention is rightfully focused on what will happen--more specifically, whether a binding international climate change ...READ»
Writing from the United States, where the government seems to escape dysfunction only when blizzards shut its doors, it is tempting to look to business or NGOs for solutions to economic difficulties.And in fact, many companies are ...READ»
In preparation to the Copenhagen climate change conference, UNDP produced a film about the reality of climate change in the Pacific island of Kiribati. The film clearly shows how people's lives are being affected right now by rising sea waters.READ»
Cohousing was supposed to be the next big residential trend, but it never took off. Now the recession is reviving interest in shared living facilities. Kitchen duty, anyone?READ»
While visiting New York this week for the American publication of his latest book "Cities for People"--a kind of manual for making walkable cities--Jan Gehl invited me to sit with him in Bryant Park to observe the sidewalk ballet and discuss what he calls “the needs of the urban habitat of homo sapiens.”READ»
The firm of Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects will build what it calls "the next generation of library design" on the site of the old cargo docks in Aarhus, Denmark. Flexible-use areas will provide ample opportunity for socializing, recreation, contemplation and, yes, reading.READ»
In the second post of their seven-part series, John Elkington and Charmian Love look at how change has come to the business world, from the sustainability movement and technological innovations, and what it means for the C-Suite.READ»
