Photo via EHP This might be the most depressing story I’ve read all day (and that’s saying something when your job description includes reading depressing stories all day): a recent survey found that most Africans ‘blame themselves’... 

Image via Google PowerMeter A significant component to making home energy monitoring really catch on is the idea of making it into a competition . Manufacturers of dashboards and devices fro power monitors note that when people can see not only their... 

photo: Doug Wheller via flickr. Indonesia and protecting forests haven’t really played well together in recent years. Due to high deforestation rates , the nation ranks among the top tier of greenhouse gas emitters–not to mention the effect... 

The indispensable Peter Sinclair is back with another one of his fine video segments from the Climate Denier Crock of the Week series. This one tackles the subject of exactly how anti-climate science stories get framed and repackaged, and proliferate... 

Image credit: Hester Street Market /Craigslist An empty lot in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is slowly being transformed into a vibrant flea market. Founded by SuChin Pak and Ron Castellano, the Hester Street Fair will house up to 60 local vendors... 

We often roll our eyes at some of the impractical or impossible design ideas seen on Yanko, but there are always some that are provocative. Yoon Kisang’s Mr. Klein is designed for underwear, and perhaps it makes some sense to have a tiny machine... 

Facebook has been getting a lot of flack from the green community since it became well known that they’re purchasing power from coal-powered plants rather than from renewable energy sources. That’s why it’s a little ironic - or perhaps... 

PSFK shows us Pocket Wall, a storage system from Polish Designer Maja Ganszyniec . She describes it: Look at the house as if it were a package: the room is like a package and the wallpaper is like wrapping paper. The project turns the purely decorative... 

photo: Traffic As if you needed another reason to not like the military junta in Burma, wildlife trade monitor group Traffic has just released a new report showing how a porous border with China allows for a “door-to-door delivery service for illegal... 

The Transport Politic; click to enlarge The Biggest Infrastructure Project in the World. Ever. It is the most extraordinary map from Transport Politic ; those yellow lines are proposed high speed rail links through India and Iran, right through to the...