Image from London Undercover It’s autumn and the rain just keeps on coming. With one grey day after another, these delightfully British umbrellas will keep your spirits up. Take cover under (too) vividly coloured pictures of fish and chips (wrapped... 

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The Gulser Ana going down. Photo via Australia A ship carrying toxic waste sunk off the coast of Madagascar , and thousands of tons of refuse were emptied into the rich marine ecosystem. The wreck has had devastating effects on the sea life and the health... 

Image via: Be True to Blue Share It’s easy to harp on the big guys for creating massive big-box stores that sell massive piles of cheap products that ultimately end up in landfills. But let’s be honest, from time to time we’re still... 

The only negative thing I have to say about Ken Robinson, the first keynote at the Creative Places + Spaces Conference , is that it is pretentious to label your website ” sirkenrobinson.com .” But he is living in the USA now and I suppose... 

Bio-CNG is an Improvement on Gasoline and Diesel Compressed natural gas (CNG) is cleaner than gasoline, both in smog-forming emissions and in CO2, but CNG from bio-sources (as opposed to fossil fuels) is even cleaner and closer to carbon neutral, depending... 

Photo via Inside Catholic There’s been quite a controversy kicked up over Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner’s new book, SuperFreakonomics. The authors have battled allegations (which seem to have been proven true) that they misquoted and misrepresented... 

The Creative Places + Spaces conference was billed as “one of the world’s leading forums on creativity,” and it has certainly lived up to that. The theme was the Collaborative City, and the outcome is hoped to be “guiding principles... 

Amanda Little built a journalistic career decrying the pains and convulsions of our petrol-obsessed society, but it wasn’t until she embarked on a very personal quest did the story of oil become illuminated in human terms. Amanda tells TreeHugger... 

Images via LG After the embarrassment of being stripped of its Energy Star labels for refrigerator models last year, LG gets vetted by UL Environment for a SteamWasher and an LCD television set. LG is one of the first companies to have its products tested...