Help Redesign BP’s ‘Green’ Logo and Win $200!

We’re getting kind of sick of saying this, but BP’s latest latest attempt to stop oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico has failed — yet again. The oil spill is quickly becoming the largest environmental disaster in US history and BP’s unsuccessful efforts to find any sort of solution are infuriating

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Floating States Of Maldives: 2010 Skyscraper Competition Finalist

The Maldives, a tropical island nation in the Indian Ocean, may be on the fast track to becoming the world’s first country to be submerged by rising sea levels. In response, their government has pledged to become carbon-neutral within the next decade , looked into buying land elsewhere to relocate the entire population – and to top it off,

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Red Carpet Green Dress: Catalyst For A Revolution

Suzy Amis Cameron and James Cameron reveal Jillian Granz’s winning sustainable dress at Global Green’s Pre-Oscar Party.

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Scientists Protest Proposed Ivory Auction

Image credit: marfis75 /Flickr Tanzania and Zambia, conservationists fear, may receive special permission from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to auction off a combined total of 112 tonnes of stockpiled ivory . Though such auctions are strictly monitored by international organizations and the revenue earned is required to be used for elephant conservation projects, many believe that the sale could drive market demand for ivory and

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Lithium-Sulfur Breakthrough Could Mean Safer and More Energy-Dense Batteries

Image: ACS, Yang et al. Theoretical Energy Density: 1550 kWh/KG ! A few months ago I wrote about a battery breakthrough related to silicon nanowire anodes . The researchers said that it showed great promise, but that one of the main challenges to its commercialization was finding a cathode that could handle all this extra power.

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Batman in the Bike Lanes: Guerilla Bike Activists Fight Back

Photos by Lloyd Alter With the constant rewiring of the internet, deferred maintenance and the inevitable freeze-thaw cycle, you need good teeth to ride in Toronto bike lanes; otherwise they are shaken out of your skull.

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Batman in the Bike Lanes: Guerilla Bike Activists Fight Back

Is Creating Green Jobs a "Sensible Aspiration" for Governments?

Photo via A Green Living That’s the topic of an ongoing online debate over at the Economist.com . In one corner, green jobs advocate Van Jones , who argues that governments should engage in the active practice of creating green jobs, by, for example, incentivizing clean energy projects. In the other, Andrew P.

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Greener Gadgets 2010: Yves Béhar’s Hacked Car Concept, Green Underwear project, and Top 3 Design Principles

Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch The first keynote of the day at Greener Gadgets came from Yves Behar, founder of fuseproject and one of our favorite designers around TreeHugger, dreaming up things from bike helmets to the One Laptop Per Child computer . And its no surprise why

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Greener Gadgets 2010: Yves Béhar’s Hacked Car Concept, Green Underwear project, and Top 3 Design Principles