Photo: National Post (Dario Ayala/Canwest News Service) It’s been a hot, dry start to summer – and Quebec is burning. A blanket of smoke descended on Montreal early Monday morning, blown in from forest fires raging in the northwest region of Quebec. The effects of the blaze were seen today as far south as Boston, Cape Cod and other parts of New England, reducing visibility to only three miles in some places…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Local Smoke" Forecast for Quebec As Forest Fires Rage; Haze in New England

Photo via The Sydney Morning Herald In 2007, villagers captured a mysterious young woman in a remote region of Cambodia who, by all accounts, was completely isolated from human society, a feral child living in the forests. News of her discovery circulated quickly as authorities attempted to identify the girl, dubbed “Jungle Girl” by the press. Soon, a f… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Captured Feral "Jungle Girl" Flees Back Into the Wild

Image: Video still from Bill Rankin via Nicola Twilley @ Edible Geography The intensity of agricultural land use has exploded over the past 300 years. Bill Rankin at Radical Cartography synthesized data from an expansive historical land-use survey to give us a telling visual overview. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Agricultural Takes Over The World

Steve Mouzon has been a fixture on TreeHugger since I first read his thoughts on the original green, on how people designed before the the Thermostat age, and how buildings kept people warm in an era before oil, or cool before air conditioning was invented. I have come to base much of my thoughts on the sustainability of heritage buildings (I am a volunteer at a heritage preservation org ) on what I have learned from Steve, much of which is summarized in the points made above in the illustration; that good buildings (old or new) are lovable, durable, flexible and frugal. I looked forward to his new book,

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The Original Green By Steve Mouzon: A Must-Read If You Care About Sustainable Design

A couple of years ago, I went on a surf trip to Costa Rica with friends. We were all dedicated to the waves – typically, we were in bed by eight and up by 4:30 to be in the ocean at first light. We shared a comfortable, air conditioned bungalow and our days quickly became

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Taking Risks to Find La Verdad

The month of June has become synonymous with wedding celebrations, as most couples choose summertime as the sunny, idyllic backdrop to say their “I dos.” So now is a great time to discuss the fact that a wedding can be meaningful and magnificent regardless of the number of attendees or money spent. Speaking from first

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Elope! 5 Ways to Say ‘I Do’ to Preserving the Earth on Your Wedding Day

It’s amazing how many people are going to be a part of EcoSalon Shops! Zhena’s Gypsy Tea is one, and I’m so glad they are, for several reasons. One, I can’t wait to enjoy the fruity notes of Gypsy’s hot and cold tea samples that will be shared at the event. Two, I love their story. In 2000, founder

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Ecosalon Shops! Presents: Zhena’s Gypsy Tea

photo via ted On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show, GPS , Bill Gates gave a gloomy answer when asked about the prospects of the U.S. creating renewable energy projects at such a large scale that they will replace dirty fuel sources like coal and oil in the coming decade. Gates, normally sanguine on the power of technology and market forces to cause transformative change at a rapid pace, said that the technology to store energy f… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bill Gates Says Large Scale Renewable Projects Are Decades Away

All photos by Javier Callegras from CG Architectes Mocoloco shows us the CrossBox by CG Architectes , built from four shipping containers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stunning French Shipping Container House (We Think)

In January I visited Toronto’s Urban Mode for the opening of their new Blu Dot showroom, which I thought was very attractive. What I didn’t know until I was researching the new Sustain Trio MiniHome was that it was a green prefab! Blu Dot co-founder Charlie Lazor would be so proud. I visited it this weekend to catch some pictures. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Modern Green Prefab Works For Retail, Too