Nobody likes being beaten about the head with the eco-stick. As many of us have experienced, railing against friends and family about the state of the planet rarely produces favourable results, or in fact any result at all. That’s why TreeHugger is a fan of the beautiful, engaging and well designed message – we find these are the ones that get through. It’s no surprise then that TreeHugger’s very own Petz Scholtus has created a series of products which … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cute Animal Bulletin Boards Deliver a Serious Reminder

Other Cities Should Take Notes… About a year ago, we wrote about the trial of new physically separated bike lanes on Vancouver’s Burrard bridge . Time has passed, wheels hav… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Protected Bike Lanes Increase Cycling by 30% on Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge (Video)

Screen shot from sketchup video here ; I do hope they hire an architect. The Reverend Kenneth Dupin just wants to make it easier for people to take care of aging adults and keep them close to home; he has developed what is essentially a hospital room in a garden shed. But in Fairfax county, Virginia, it is controversial and the NIMBY’s are out. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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MEDcottage: A Hospital Room in a Shed for Your Backyard

Talk about planning ahead. I love this story: “In the late 14th century, England’s King Richard II commissioned a new building, College Hall, at Oxford University. The carpenters who built College Hall knew that the massive oak beams spanning the great hall’s ceiling would probably need to be replaced in a few hundred years, so next to the building, they planted a row of oak seedlings from the trees they used for the beams. Sure enough, the beams needed to be replaced about 300 years later, and the new carpenters had mature oaks right there, ready to be milled and turned into new beams.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Old is the New Green" According to National Trust For Historic Preservation

photos by Lloyd Alter When Andy Thomson designed the first MiniHome, I was in love . So in love that I bought it, thinking that I could build a business out of it pre-TreeHugger. That never quite worked out, and the design was not without its problems. Sustain , which is now part of Altius Architecture , has built a second prototype, the Trio, that addresses most of the problems with the Solo, and it has a lot to offer. I visited it at

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Today on Planet 100: How to Clean Up an Oil Spill (Video)

Called the Hydrogenase and designed by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut, the semi-rigid airship is powered by an algal-based bio-hydrogen in conjunction with inflatable photovoltaic cells and wind propellers that double as turbines. W… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Organic Seaweed Farm Powers Bio-Hydrogen Airship

Images: Paisajismo Urbano Inspired by the legendary hanging gardens of Babylon, a Spanish company specializing in vertical and roof gardens has created a new spectacular “plant cube” out of a humdrum cooling tower on top of a mall in Getafe, Spain. According to the company Paisajismo Urbano (Urban Landscaping in English), the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ugly Cooling Tower Gets Vertical Garden Makeover in Spain

A couple of years ago Paul Stankey built a little cabin in the woods outside of Duluth, Minnesota, out of a couple of shipping containers. It is all over the web these days and all over the country too; Analee Newitz at i09 puts it in Massachusetts. Now, after building a great reputation in modern prefab with Hive Modular, Paul and partners have started Intermodal Design to take their shipping container ideas to market. And these guys know what they are doing…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Shipping Container Housing by Intermodal Design: These Guys Are Good

Image credit: The Earth Awards Right now, The Earth Awards are accepting submissions but this opportunity for innovative designers to win between $10,000 and $50,000 is ending soon. The deadline is May 10 , 2010…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Deadline for The Earth Awards is Fast Approaching