The Graduation Pledge January 21st, 2008 RiverWired's Green College Report Last year, I served as the Sustainability Chair for the Student Government Association at my college. We came up with all sorts of really cool ideas to implement on our campus that semester, but the...

Full Circle January 21st, 2008 The State of the Food Industry in 2008 Breaking News: starting soon, if you want, you really can have the exact same steak two days in a row, from two different animals. On January 15, the Washington Post reported that the FDA “concludes...

The Words and the Bees January 18th, 2008 Is Clorox Going Natural? Clorox bought Burt’s Bees natural cosmetics last fall. Doesit seem like a good match? Uh, no. It seems like strange bedfellows. Burt of Burt’s Bees lives in a turkey coop with no electricity. It would...

Local GT: Vancouver's M-Design January 18th, 2008 While watching a recent episode of CBC’s new daytime talk show Steven & Chris, we were reminded of a store we visited in Vancouver a while ago. The store is m.m-smart design is a home...

EU wants Formula One to get more environmentally relevant January 18th, 2008 Up through the mid-nineties, Formula One racing was a bastion of technological innovation. Cars ran with 4-, 6-, 8-, 10- and 12-cylinder engines. There were naturally aspirated and turbocharged engines. They had active suspension systems....

Get Discounted Tickets to the Greener Gadgets Conference January 18th, 2008 New York TreeHuggers, mark your calendars: the Green Gadgets Conference is coming! Friday, February 1, our pals at Inhabitat along with Marc + Alt Partners will present the one day conference all about the greening...

Detroit 2008: Peeking inside the three Chrysler eco-concepts January 18th, 2008 While Sam took some amazing photos of the three Chrysler concepts - the Jeep Renegade diesel RE-EV, the ecoVoyager and the Dodge ZEO BEV - during their respective live reveals at the Detroit Auto Show,...

Bacteria: Good Eats? January 17th, 2008 Eat Good Bacteria. Might be the take away message of a recent study published in the journal of Molecular Systems Biology. The scientific team, including Jeremy Nicholson a biochemist at Imperial College London, found that...

Composting Toilets, Homebuilt Generators, and more January 17th, 2008 We are working on a number of projects today. It's -25F outside, so it's a good day to stay indoors near the wood stoves. Even the generator wouldn't turn over, even with the recoil start....

Air pollution linked to genetic mutations in mice January 17th, 2008 Okay, so you know that breathing polluted air is bad for your heart and, of course, your lungs. But did you know it might be bad for your swimmers, too?In a study performed in an...