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Got three million and change? Get in line. The hottest eco-friendly home on the market is a $3.5 million, LEED Platinum, 1920s Spanish stunner recently renovated by Adrian Grenier's go-to green expert Richard Byrd of

How many plastic water bottles would you think are disposed of at wine festivals? Couple thousand? (Event that seems like a ton of plastic for just one event). Well, three events - the Winter Wineland, Barrel

As a native of Iran who grew up in Boston, Mona Miri's life has always been defined by a constant state of change and development. No wonder, then, that "Modified Landscapes," Miri's first solo exhibition, sets out to explore this theme as it relates

Jeremy previously wrote about how half of all the food produced in the world is wasted; now a new report from the Stockholm International Water Institute says that water waste is just as extreme. To

The Acme Climate Action: Introducing The Unique Acme Climate Action Method book, by Provokateur, is more than just a book, its a climate change activist into kit for the budding climate change activist in all of us. The cover

In Ontario, Canada, the government-owned Liquor stores have been pushing Tetra Paks as eco-packaging, claiming a much lower carbon footprint in manufacture and transport than the traditional glass bottle. They

That's the Kathleen and May, pulling into Dublin with 22 pallets--that's 21,000 bottles of Fair Wind Wine--from Languedoc, carried by the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV). They are the "owners and operators of the first European

Nalgene is working with the City of Davis, CA to reduce its carbon footprint, starting with reducing its use of bottled water. Nalgene plans to donate reusable water bottles to all city employees and community members and is

A new report from the University of New South Wales says that Australia should be farming kangaroos instead of sheep and cattle if it wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. According to the study, if Australia replaced its

Last week I pointed out a piece that Yale Environment 360 had about the great elephant in the environmental room otherwise known as population growth and resource overconsumption. In the broadstroke I agree with Ehrlich regarding

It seems like every day there is a new article on something innovative and GREEN that San Francisco is doing. Well the SF Convention and Visitors Bureau (SFCVB) is grouping all of those ideas together under one roof to

Colin Finlay, a former photocopy machine salesman turned world class photographer may represent the tip of the spear when it comes to the public consciousness of climate change. And he's done far more than his fair share

The folks over at Earth First are pointing out a cool chart showing just how much more stuff we have acquired, and increasingly consider to be a base standard of living, over the past century. The image is from Visualizing Economics and you'll

This post is about something which I've found many environmentalists, and even more people who don't consider themselves environmentalists, find very hard to discuss.

As I'm sure most TreeHugger readers are aware, Al Gore recently articulated his vision of how the United States can combat climate change, help national security and reinvigorate the economy through an ambitious plan to generate

Grab the latest article of US Weekly for an exclusive green scoop with Maroon 5's Adam Levine, Alanis Morisette, Cameron Diaz and Adrien Grenier, among others. Adrien, you might know, is also a host of Alter Eco on Planet

Just a brief break for discussion: China Dialogue has posted a piece where a Chinese journalist of 'a certain age' comments upon how her, and society's, 'default settings' have changed in regards to what is

As a dedicated Treehugger you knew it, but…in case you needed more proof: