Tag: London - Page 10
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Great Designs For Storing Your Bike In Small Apartments
British designers "looking to bridge the divide between furniture and interior design and the reality of everyday life on two wheels."
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First People Powered Christmas Tree in UK
Trivia challenge: how many years can you run London with the power used on Christmas lights?
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Ever Seen a Walking Onion? How Unusual Plants Promote Greener Gardening (Video)
Growing your own food is good. But why limit yourself to grocery store staples. One London project encourages gardeners to think outside the box.
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Gisele Bünchen, Wangari Maathai & Unilever Are Big Winners at The International Green Awards 2011
The inspriation filled International Green Awards 2011 take place in London celebrating the best creative work in sustainability.
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Transition Movement Founder Visits Occupy LSX. His Reaction is Mixed.
What happens when the community-focused Transition movement meets the Occupy protests?
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The Week in Pictures: Pulling Fresh Water from Thin Air, Personal "Multicopters," and More
Find a brilliant design to produce fresh water, a personal, electric "multicopter," and more.
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Coca Cola to Launch Major Recycling Initiative At London Olympics
Coca Cola has announced plans to collect all clear PET plastic bottles at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and recycle them into 80 million new plastic bottles.
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Bike Tour Will Visit London's 10 Most Dangerous Intersections to Call for Cyclist Safety
A bike tour this weekend will stop at all ten of London's most dangerous intersections to call for measures to promote cyclist and pedestrian safety.
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Meet The Best in Green Business, Product Innovation + Celebrity Campaigners at The International Green Awards 2011
This November the glittering Gala Ceremony for the International Green Awards will take place in London and you can be there.
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Guerrilla Artist Catapults LEDs into the Air to Bring Stars Back to London
By catapulting LEDs into the air, an artist is creating new constellations, so Londoners can see the stars again.
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Penny Farthing Racing is Surprisingly Intense (Video)
This summer, the IG Markets London Nocturne, perhaps the premier urban cycling competition, featured a variety of challenges that included straight-forward races, folding bike races and longest skid contests. But the most awesome, in my opinion, was
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The Week in Pictures: New Zealand Oil Spill, How Steve Jobs Changed the World, and More (Slideshow)
Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore.
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Velodrome Misses the Gold in Architecture Olympics
The Velodrome, the jewel of London's 2012 Olympic buildings, did not win the gold in the architecture Olympics. Aka the RIBA Stirling Prize, it's the big architecture prize in the UK.
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Solar, Economics and the Business of Peak Oil: Join Solarcentury's Jeremy Leggett for Live Chat Thursday, 13th October at 10am EDT
From developing the world's largest solar bridge currently under construction in London to founding a charity that's bringing solar to Africa, Jeremy Leggett—founder and has done more than most to promote a clean
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The Week in Pictures: Solar London Bridge, Translucent 'Chicken Chapel,' and More (Slideshow)
London has announced grand plans to build the world's largest solar bridge, which will generate 900,000 kilowatts of electricity every year and provide nearly 50 percent of the energy needed to power the central London railway
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Rooftop Supermarket Garden Delivers Zero Food Miles Produce (Video)
When I last wrote about Food From the Sky's rooftop supermarket garden, they had just picked up an award for their zero food miles produce. It seems the project is still going strong, and I've just come across a great video
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World's Largest Solar Bridge Under Construction in London
I've said it before, but symbolism is hugely important as we transition from the fossil fuel age to a clean energy economy. So the announcement that an iconic steam-era railway bridge is to become the world's largest solar
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The Week in Pictures: Living Map of Central Park, a Bike with Metal Tires, and More (Slideshow)
We've featured a lot of vertical gardens on TreeHugger, many of them superb but none quite like this one, grown as a living map of New York's Central Park.
