Lost Baby Whale Mistakes Yacht for Its Mother, Later Put Down
This is the most heartbreaking story we've read all week, and if the idea of a baby whale trailing after a yacht and trying to suckle from it doesn't make you go "awww," then that lump of muscle you call your ticker has been
Kylie Kwong Cooks Carbon Clean
Kylie Kwong is a well known Australian celebrity chef. What is probably less well known is her passion for the environment. A commitment well demonstrated via her Sydney chinese restaurant, Billy Kwong.
Earth Hour 2008 From Sydney, Australia
Last year, for the very first Earth Hour, we bundled ourselves up a picnic supper and drove off to the parking nightmare that is the north shore of Sydney Harbour. Sitting in the gloaming of a nature reserve, with hundreds of other Earth Hour devotees.
Sydney to Green its NYE Pyrotechnic Extravaganza
Sydney claims the largest and most technologically advanced annual fireworks display on the planet, attracting more than one million people to the harbour foreshore, more than turn out for the fireworks in New York,
Happy Birthday Alfalfa House
Alfalfa House provides low-cost, ethically-produced and minimally-packaged wholefoods which are predominately organic, biodynamic, as well as
Is Zero-Carbon Farming Even Possible?
That's the question I'm scratching my head over while reading about the ambitious goals of one Douglas Jones, a 20 year old studying at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia who hopes to turn his family's 1500 acre dairy
Climate Care Heads Down Under
Australians may be world leaders in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, but with their new government signing Kyoto as one of its first acts in power, it seems change may well be in the air. So, is Australia about to go green in a big way? UK-based
International Bicycle Film Festival Comes Down Under
By some oversight we’ve missed the opportunity to alert readers to the International Bicycle Film Festival of 2007 until now. After it has already blitzed 13 cities worldwide, it finds itself skidding to a halt for a few weeks in Australia.
Australia Stepping Back From The Coal-Fired Edge
Climate change is powerfully symbolized by severe drought. Extended, widespread drought can make potable water scarce. Desalination plants are energy intensive and expensive to build and run: the several recently build or planned for Australia may
Elderly Man Killed By Neighbor for Watering Lawn in Australia
According to CNN, a 66 year-old man was beaten to death on his front lawn by his 36 year-old neighbor for watering it yesterday in Sydney, Australia. Apparently, the pair started arguing over his water usage, and the victim sprayed his neighbor with
AgScience Corporation Plants 'Extinct' Trees
Maybe you've heard of the Dinosaur Tree? We first noted it back here. The Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) was previously only known from fossil records dating back 90 millions years, give or take a day. It was considered to have gone extinct about two
Foaming Ocean Whips Beachgoers into a Frenzy
Beach-side foam party gone out of control? Not quite. A shoreline north of Sydney, Australia was transformed into the "Cappuccino Coast," as one journalist put it, with foam swallowing up an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the
People of Sydney: Tell Us About Your City
Sydney is white Australia's birthplace, settled as a penal colony in 1788. Many of its first white inhabitants would be very surprised to learn that it is now often recognized as one of the world's top ten most liveable cities. Earlier this year it was
This is why we're not furry (and may explain baldness)
Ever wonder why humans don't have hair everywhere?
Secret weakness of Zika virus exposed
Using the newest scientific tools, the time needed to find out how best to fight an evolving pandemic has been greatly shortened
Could smart phones soon be grown from 'living materials'?
How would design for obsolescence change if materials that conduct electricity or emit light could be grown and repair themselves, like bone?
Christmas Trees Given Jellyfish Genes Could Produce Their Own Light
The only downside, of course, is that your self-lit holiday centerpiece actually would be a Frankenstein tree.
Department of Justice Quietly Stops Investigating Monsanto for Antitrust Violations
All over Thanksgiving, and with only a tiny press release...
After the big Northridge earthquake, a mysterious cloud appeared above LA – here's what it was
Calls came into emergency centers and even the Griffith Observatory from LA residents who described seeing a “giant silvery cloud.”
New guide offers good advice on how to "make homes healthier for people and planet"
The World Green Building Council has some tips about ventilation, insulation and lighting.
Money can't fix circadian rhythm problems. Sunlight and freedom can.
Circadian rhythm lighting products won't fix body clock problems.
What's circadian-supportive lighting and do I need it in my home or office?
There is a lot of buzz about it, but what you really want is a window.
Big bulb manufacturers conspiring with Department of Energy and Trump to slow the LED revolution
By 2020 every light bulb is supposed to put out 45 lumens per watt. It's a Bush-era regulation that the current government wants to roll back.
Behold the revolution: LED bulbs are now as cheap as incandescents
Who would have imagined that this would happen so fast?
A second life for dead fluorescents with the Induction Wall Light
Design firm Castor once again gives new life to old dead things.
Algae could light up our cities at night
Many cities have transitioned to LED street lighting, but researchers think algae may be the illumination of the future.
On Stanley Jevons and LED lights
And why LEDs are different than other ways of improving energy efficiency- we keep finding new ways to waste energy.
After 139 years, General Electric stops making light bulbs
There will be indignation, but this is the result of one of the most successful transformations of a market in our lifetime.
Dazzling technicolor greenhouse lights up when you touch the plants (Video)
Combining touch, sound and a psychedelic array of programmed LEDs, this installation brings the people to the plants.
The world's 11 certified Dark Sky Reserves, where the stars run riot
Idaho is working hard to create an official dark sky reserve, which would make it the first in the US and the 12th in the world.
OLED lighting makes a beautiful chandelier
French lighting design company Blackbody makes the new lighting tech an object of desire.
Is walking the secret to original and creative ideas?
We should follow in the footsteps of many great thinkers and implement regular rambles into our lives.
How do we save national parks from overtourism?
Selfie culture poses a real threat to the great outdoors.
How to sharpen your 'noticing' skills when traveling
The stuff you notice that no one else does, that's the most important!
Walking is urban epoxy
It supports economic growth, social development, and environmental stewardship.
Artists bring life to Toronto's Feel Good Lane
How to make a utilitarian back lane into a wonderful public amenity.
Is there a difference between hiking in built-up areas vs. wilderness?
Researchers in Austria put this question to the test.
The new piece of outdoor gear that every woman needs
Because no one likes to pop a squat surrounded by piles of soggy toilet paper.
Why you should embrace the 'microadventure'
Don't wait for a big exotic trip to get outdoors. How about squeezing it in between 5 pm and 9 am?
American roads are dangerous by design, and more people are dying than ever before
"The time for complacency has passed. We must treat this crisis as if our lives, and the lives of our friends, families, and neighbors, depend on it. "
We need walkable, wheelable, scooterable and strollable cities, and what we are getting is more sprawl
Fewer people are walking and more people are voting with their gas pedal.
Nature can teach your kid resilience
It creates scenarios in which hardship is experienced without being cruel or unfair to the child.
Are electric cars part of the climate solution or are they actually part of the problem?
If we are really going to make a dent in emissions we have to take real estate away from people who drive and redistribute it to people who walk and bike.
Why we should lose the words "pedestrian" and "cyclist"
They are people who bike or walk, not some separate species.
Plant-based meat takes center stage at Kroger
Vegan burgers, sausage, deli slices, roasts, seitan, and even jackfruit are moving to the meat department at the nation's leading grocery retailer.
Lazivores unite: A manifesto for lazy gardening
It's time that the lazy gardeners among us rise up and take an explicit stand.
President's executive order might open national parks to logging
It is a brave new world of "reducing vegetation" and "fuel reduction" and a lotta logging.
Immigrants get a new microbiome when they come to the U.S.
Unfortunately it's not an improvement.
Angular small house is inspired by Dutch and Japanese design
Clad with reclaimed cedar, this modern and quirky house fits on a small footprint.