CycleTracks sf iphone bike app image Image: CycleTracks iPhone App from Apple App Store Crowdsourcing Bike Path Planning People don't always go where you think they will. You can try to predict the best places for foot paths and bike routes, but you'll never be able to know for sure if they are located ...

kampar peninsula photo The Kampar Peninsula is the last large intact area of pear swamp forest in Riau, Indonesia with some of the deepest peat (read: most stored carbon). Photo: Greenpeace. Indonesia may have deported a total of thirteen activists and two journalists over deforestation in the past ...

hermit crab with bottle photo Image via Recyclart We aren't sure if this is in the wild, or someone's pet crab to whom the owner gave an offering of a broken bottle as shelter. Either way, it's kinda cute and kinda frightening. It doesn't take much of a leap of though to figure this might be increasingly ...

waste not watt not photo Image Credit: GOOD GOOD writes: "It's been a bummer of a week for climate news." Indeed, with a bill stagnating in the Senate and some bad news regarding Copenhagen, it would be easy to get discouraged....Read the full story on TreeHugger

fc-treehugger-1116jpg.jpg This week at Fast Company, we looked at a Silicon Valley designer's green take on the little red wagon, a zoo that replaced real polar bears with electronic versions, a prosthetic leg that replaces crutches, and Joule Biotechnologies' attempt to make fuel out of thin air. Scot ...

skate extinct fishing photo The Almost-Extinct Flapper Skate. Photo via the Telegraph Everyone has no doubt heard about how fisheries around the world are in grave danger of being fished into oblivion. Countless species are currently threatened by overfishing, and environmentalists work fiercely to ...

italy wind farm photo photo: Chiara Marra via flickr. There have been an increasing number of stories coming to light detailing how organized crime syndicates around the world have been getting their dirty little fingers into the green world. The latest: 1) Italian police have arrested two businessmen ...

Eco-friendly dollhouses photo Photo credit: My Children's Gorilla This small-scale replica of Andrew Geller's iconic teepee-shaped house from the mid-1950s, is a junior modernist's dream. Do your tots' architectural tastes run more Arne Jacobsen? Here's a doll-size replica of his 1928 villa in Charlottenlund, ...

prefabcover book started it all image In 2002 Allison Arieff and Bryan Burkhart wrote Prefab and started a revolution. Architects and entrepreneurs all over America started looking at prefab differently. Early off the mark were Michelle Kaufmann, who launched her Glidehouse, and myself, launching the ...

global carbon emissions rise photo Photo via the Tech Herald I've come to dread the words 'New Report'. News items that start with those words never end up like "New Report: Puppies Making People Happier Than Ever" or "New Study: Researchers Determine All is Well in World". No, more often they bring ...