Air-drying clothing is definitely the cheapest, and especially the most eco-friendly way of drying your clothes; no energy or machinery is needed. However, if you live in a small space, a rainy country or simply are a busy (or forgetful) person, line-drying can be a little impractical, or even, banned by the authorities depending on where you live (see video Drying for Freedom )! Levi’s wants us to come up with a solution and will launch the

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Care to Air Design Challenge by Levi’s

Bridges have long been considered testaments to mankind’s ability to overcome the most challanging geographic obstacles with engineering prowess, but a recent incident involvi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Europe’s Longest Bridge Wobbles in the Wind (Video)

I mages via Rogier Martens Streets are not just for moving, but also for living. Street furniture makes living more comfortable but can take up a lot of space. Artists Carmela Bogman and Rogier Martens solved this problem with Pop-up, street furniture that people pump up and down as required. The first unit was just installed in Utrecht in the Netherlands. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Street Furniture Pops Up When Needed

image: GDS Digital via EU Infrastructure , scroll down for full infographic. Brazil’s planned 11 gigawatt Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River (a tributary of the Amazon) has raised a lot of protest in the past few months–and some comparisons of

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Indigenous Amazonians Prepare For War to Stop Massive Hydroelectric Dam on Xingu River

Image credit: u07ch /Flickr As I was being driven through Tel Aviv from my hotel to a conference center in 1998, I could not help but note the overwhelming presence of cars and parking lots. It was obvious that Tel Aviv, expanding from a small settlement a half-century ago to a city of some 3 million today, had evolved during the automobile era. It occurred to me that the ratio of parks to parking lots may be the best indicator of the livability of a city—an indication of whether the city is designed for people or for cars…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Parking Lots to Parks: Designing Livable Cities

Ghost Parking Lot, 1978 by James Wines A few years ago, TreeHugger used to cover every interesting new green single family home is the suburbs, every off-grid technical wonder in the desert or mountains. But there was always an underlying concern: the driving needed to get to them. David Owen of the New Yorker has much the same concern; he writes in Green Metropolis:Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability that trading a Hummer for a Prius (or even a new electric Nissan Leaf) is pointless; It’s not the miles per gallon that matter, it’s the mil… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Metropolis: If You Want To Be Green, Live In New York City (Book Review)

Photo: Flickr , CC A Better Bike-Sharing Program for Washington DC Washington DC’s SmartBike, the first bike-sharing program in the USA , is about to be supplanted by a much bigger and better bike-share. It will be based on Montréal’s Bixi and grow the number of bikes and stations almost ten-fold!… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Washington DC Bike-Sharing Program Getting 10x Bigger!

Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch Just Fine Design/Build showed off their beautiful design for a chicken coop at this weekend’s Maker Faire . The creators, Kevin McElroy and Matt Wolpe, say that the Chick-in-a-Box is both a statement on food security and access as well as that nothing – even chicken coops – need to be ugly. The design is perfect for even small yards in urban areas, so that anyone can raise chickens without making their yard look like a farm. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Maker Faire 2010: Chick-in-a-Box Makes Hen Houses Classy

The outside of the European Environment Agency office in Copenhagen. Photo via EEA . A display of vertical greenery in the shape of the European continent has been added to the outside wall of the European Environment Agency ‘s centrally located headquarters in Copenhagen to provide an example of the ways in which cities can be redesigned to enhance green spaces and

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Living Map of Europe Grows on Copenhagen Wall

Photo: Public domain . Trying to Avoid a Repeat of the BP Oil Spill The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is already having repercussions up North, not because the oil got caught into the loop current and floated around Florida and all the way up the Atlantic, but because Canadian regulators have decided to keep a closer… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Canada Increases Scrutiny of Offshore Drilling