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Image credit: OnEarth Magazine When I wrote about the NRDC’s new Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops, and asked whether industrial monoculture was the real path to sustainable farming , the response from many of our readers was unsurprisingly...
Image via hollaa01 Augmented reality is here. If you’re unsure of what that is, think of the Terminator movies when they showed you what it was like to look at the world through the robot’s eyes, and all the data about whatever he was looking...
Image credit: Amanda Friedman/ NRDC Some have been wondering whether Obama is really on the side of sustainable farming or industrial agriculture . Others, however, are busy wondering whether industrial agriculture really is sustainable farming after...
All images: Saul Maret Over the past half dozen years we’ve had more folding bikes cross our screens at TreeHugger than a rear bicycle wheel has spokes. And they keep on coming. The latest one is courtesy of Saul Maret, a French designer, currently...
All photos: Reuseit.com Three years ago we ran a piece on ReusableBags.com and their cloth shopping tote bag. In a world rife with product churn (out with the old, in with the new) it’s pleasing to see they still offer the exact same bag for hauling...
The CDM can fund clean energy projects like concentrated solar farms (photo via flickr) The UN backed Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has suspended carbon credits for shady chemical manufacturers in China that were producing...
Image: C.A. Smith, casmithphotography.com During his time as President of the United States, George W. Bush’s love of mountain biking was no secret. Bush still rides with his training-team-cum-security-staff, known as Peleton 1, which includes...
Photo: Nissan Only 3,300 LEAFs in U.S. Until March 2011 One of the things that makes the Nissan LEAF electric car so promising is that Nissan was aiming for mass-production from the very beginning (f.ex. The Smyrna plant is expected to produce up to...
Image credit: Planet Green Dare to dream. When I was a little kid, I used to hear it all the time. Dare to dream. You can be a lawyer or a doctor or even the President of the United States. I dared to dream. And I became me. Hahahahahaha. Sometimes though,...
