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• Lifestyle Adjustments, As Poverty Comes To The American Suburbs March 12, 2010
  Food pantry. Image credit: St. Louis Post Dispatch, (Laurie Skrivan/P-D) The era in which increasing numbers of people were willing to pay a premium for locally grown food or for 'organic' clothing appears to be ending. Poverty has become common in many US suburbs, triggered by 'the economy,' and in particular by the preceding fad of havi […]
• Scientists Aim to Learn More About Tiny Anteaters March 12, 2010
  Photos: Projeto Tamanduá Very little is know about Silky anteaters, which make their home in the Amazon rainforest, other than the fact that they're tiny, nocturnal, ant-loving, and of course, incredibly cute. But, in hopes of learning more about these fascinating little creatures, soon scientists will be venturing out into the jungles of Brazil to obse […]
• Today on Planet 100: Arctic Methane Leak (Video) March 11, 2010
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• All Together Now: Green Modern Cooperative Living in Australia March 11, 2010
  Images from Sanctuary Magazine, Rachel Pilgrim & Andrew Lecky So many of the green houses we see are single family, alone in the country, but there are more and more developers and builders trying to build green communities. On Munro court in the mining town of Castlemaine, outside of Victoria, Australia, eight lovely little modern houses have been desig […]
• Pig Business Exposes the Grisly Inner Workings of the Pork Industry March 11, 2010
  Image credit: Grist Pig business is not an easy documentary to watch. First of all, the images of the inner workings of pig farms and slaughterhouses can turn the stomach of even the most steadfast meat-eater. Second, and more significantly, the film has not been—and likely never will be—released in the United States. This means that American viewers are rel […]
• Rarest Flower in the World Blooms in the UK (PICS) March 11, 2010
  Photos via the BBC It's one of the (if not the) rarest flower in the world: the Middlemist's Red exists in only two known locations: a greenhouse in the UK, and a garden in New Zealand. Imported to Britain two hundred years ago from China, back when flowers where a luxury item, it has since been exterminated in its original homeland. And now the Mi […]
• Riding in New York with Village Voice Columnist Michael Musto (Video) March 11, 2010
  "Nobody used to ride a bike in New York, but now it's becoming mainstream" Our friend Clarence at Streetfilms rode around NYC with Village Voice entertainment columnist […]
• After Smart Grids, Smart Sewage? Urine-Separating NoMix Toilet Gets Thumbs-Up in 7 European Countries March 11, 2010
  NoMix Toilet. Photo: Flickr Technological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet! Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there's such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had "NoMix" toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a […]
• Young Farmers are Combining Politics with Pitchforks March 11, 2010
  Image credit: Good The life of a farmer is a difficult one—meaning, for most, years of hard work, little money, and even less appreciation. Maybe it is this reason that passing down the family farm has become an increasingly difficult proposition....Read the full story on TreeHugger […]
• Unilever & Solazyme Working On Algae Oil Process For Soaps And Other Personal Care Products March 11, 2010
  World consumption of most common commodity triglyceride vegetable oils. Image credit:Wikipedia Certain plant oils, especially palm oil, have a reputation of being produced unsustainably. Many plant oils are low-cost commodities (see table above for recent global volumes). Certain of the commodity plant oils are used extensively in soap and personal care prod […]