Teddylux Recycled Cashmere Soft Toys
Abandon not all ye moth-eaten and shrunken cashmere sweaters—designer Brooke Serson Cernonok of Teddylux can sprout an entire menagerie from your castoffs.
View ArticleEmory U Students Pledge to Do 3 Green Things
As part of their larger Campus Sustainability Initiative, Emory University (GA) students are being asked to commit to each doing three green things in their personal life and on campus. While the...
View ArticleWhat Does Al Gore Have to Do With Football?
This week former Vice-President Al Gore made a stop by Atlanta last week to talk about...well, climate change. But while he was there, he took the time out to talk to one of the NFLs most green...
View Article7 Short and Senseless Flights We'd Love to Ban
Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane....
View ArticleHow Smart (or Dumb) is your City on the Sun?
You won't find Lobster Boy in Hartford, Connecticut. Or Salt Lake City, Utah, or Denver, Colorado, for that matter. Those are the top three most "Suntelligent" big cities in the U.S., according to a...
View ArticleSlow Food Pop-Tarts, Made with Serious Love (A Foodie Gift Find!)
With science pointing to all the pitfalls of sugar on human health and longevity, I have ever more reason to curb desserts and hidden sugars. Sadly, "reason" lacks in my vocabulary during the...
View ArticleTreeHugger Staff Meets in Atlanta, Gets Overtaken by Beards (Pics)
This week, the full-time TreeHugger crew met up in Atlanta to pow-wow over the blog we all know and love. We are serious subscribers to the working-from-home-is-green ethic, but about every 18 months...
View ArticleThe Hub, a Shared Work Space for People Who Care. In a City near You!
Working in shared office spaces is an attractive solution for creative start-ups, and has become more and more sought-after in many of the bigger cities. Green Spaces in Manhattan has turned into a...
View ArticleHow Old Hotel Soap Can Save Thousands of Lives
I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are
View ArticleMom Charged With Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street After Kid Killed By...
I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current...
View ArticleWalkscore Rates the Most Walkable Cities In America. Is It A Useful Metric?
Yesterday I wrote about a mom who was convicted of vehicular homicide after her son was killed by a drunk hit-and-run, because she crossed the street from a bus stop without walking almost half a mile...
View ArticleHundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Have No Car, No Access To Transit
Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America: In...
View ArticlePorsche American Headquarters Has Green Roof, Natural Ventilation
There is something contradictory about building a Green Porsche Headquarters at an Aeropolis, but whatever.
View ArticleLloyd Alter's Favourite Stories of 2011: July
It's summertime, and the living is easy, and we are talking about air conditioning.
View ArticleHow Refugees are Cultivating a Garden and Growing Community
A community garden in Atlanta proviudes refugees from around the Globe a space to grow food, share their culture and to build community as a result.
View ArticlePerkins + Will Retrofits 25 Year Old Office Building to LEED Platinum
Proof that buildings from the 70s and 80s can be fixed well instead of demolished: Perkins + WIll gets the highest LEED score in America.
View ArticleTom Vanderbilt On The Importance Of Walking, Both For Our Health and For Our...
St. Augustine said "Solvitur Ambulando": It is solved by walking. So does Tom Vanderbilt in this great series in Slate.
View ArticleMore on the Trick or Treat Test: Calculating the "Candy Density."
Planner Paul Knight shows how to do the math and figure out where to go for maximum candy
View ArticleBiodegradable Toothbrush Gives a Smile to the Needy
Bogobrush is socially-minded, biodegradable toothbrush that gives back to the community.
View ArticleAre sidewalks a civic responsibility? Not in Atlanta
One might think that promoting walking as an alternative to driving might be good for cities clogged with cars full of overweight people.
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