Taylorville Illinois Energy Center, a proposed “clean coal” power plant. Image credit: Illinois Times Southern Illinois has vast, easily accessible coal reserves. That coal may be sulfurous and wet and salty; but ,Southern Illinois also has... 

Images by B. Alter: Would you rather shop here… Way back in 2007, TreeHugger Lloyd went to Loblaws, Canada’s largest supermarket chain, looking for fresh local food in July and he found: cherries. It’s three years later and things have... 

Credit: Rickshaw Bagworks San-Francisco based Rickshaw Bagworks , known for their Zero Messenger bag , has a new look for their line of travel accessories, a bright new Herringbone pattern called Rickshaw Performance Tweed. Made from 100-percent recycled... 

“Billy the environmentalist” .Image credit: WSJ Online Last week I wrote about the zero-emission bow-knife for vegetable garden weed control . For certain tasks the bow-knife is superior to any gasoline powered weed-wacker. It’s not... 

photo via flickr Pete Seeger is 91 years old, but he definitely still knows which way the wind blows. The legendary folk singer revealed Friday night at New York’s City Winery a new protest song that takes dead aim at the BP oil spill. Seeger rolled... 

Lakota squash just harvested from vines which had recently become overgrown with weeds. Image credit:J. Laumer This time of year, garden pathways and borders can become over-grown with weeds in a matter of days - especially if it’s been raining... 

Lakota squash just harvested from vines which had recently become overgrown with weeds. Image credit:J. Laumer This time of year, garden pathways and borders can become over-grown with weeds in a matter of days - especially if it’s been raining... 

Small vintage Las Vegas home. Image credit: VeryVintageVegas American new-built homes have been getting smaller lately; saving energy and materials. National Association of Home Builders reports, based on recent US Census data, that: “After increasing... 

In just five years of the Recovery Act stimulus, by 2015, we are now on track to produce fully 40% of the world’s batteries for electric vehicles. Currently, we make only 2%. Before The Recovery Act passage, the US was hardly a world leader in... 

Drought’s expression. Image credit: Wired In Russia, half this year’s crops are lost to drought - “Winter wheat crops are 50% of the yield, and spring crops, in some cases, are going to be virtually none.” - and hundreds of vodka...