Green adventure-seeker Andy Pag used to wake up in the cozy confines of the vegetable oil powered bus that he has been attempting to drive around the world. Now the eco-activist, who is being held in India under ‘suspicion of terrorism’ charges because he carried an unlicensed satellite… Read the rest

When U.K. engineers were challenged with designing the Lotus Eco Elise, arguably the first green high-performance sports car, they knew just where to turn for sustainable materials: their backyards. The English countryside, like the North American Midwest, is a veritable petri dish for growing hemp, a multi-purpose industrial crop… Read the rest

This week we tackle the issue of helping a coworker lead a more conscious lifestyle. Dear Sex and the Woods, I've got this pretty cool co-worker. He's fun around the office, ultra reliable and competent (unlike pretty much everyone else I work with). However he just doesn't get the whole I-should-care-about-the-environment thing. Well he cares, he just doesn't DO anything about the fact that he cares. Like he brings bottled water to work everyday. How can I get him to start manning up and ditch the wastefulness?

I’ve always said, if I were the czar of the southern US, I would invest in a comprehensive light rail system, outlaw future construction of strip malls and tract homes, and use LEGO houses to plan out the next round of growth. Looks like South Carolina is… Read the rest

Electrolyzed water, a powerful green cleaning agent already in use in Russia and Japan, is coming to America. The environmentally-friendly sanitizer, which is so powerful that scientists use it to kill anthrax spores, poultry processors use it to kill salmonella on chicken carcasses and Doctors use it… Read the rest

Those who want to go ice skating at the new Eco Rink in Toyama, Japan will notice one important element missing – the ice. Instead of jumping and spinning across ice, skaters at the temporary Eco Rink will instead find themselves gliding over the eighty snugly-fit pieces… Read the rest

Not long ago, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Central Asia. I spent several years living in a small, mountain village on the Kyrgyz side of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. I experienced a lot of new things while living in the village: there… Read the rest

Green companies, green clothes, green travel… the colorful word that has come to synonymous with the environment is everywhere. And that’s not always a good thing. As consumers become more eco-concious more and more companies strive to tout their environmentally friendly ways. And with more and more… Read the rest

When it came time to study the frozen innards of Greenland’s fastest-moving glacier, NASA scientists didn’t go to the drawing board. They went to the bathtub. In order to better understand why glaciers speed up as they move out to sea a U.S. rocket scientist unleashed… Read the rest

What’s cooler and more eco-friendly than riding a bike? Riding a cardboard bike. It doesn’t exist yet, but Phil Bridge, a Sheffield Hallam student, designed the cardboard set of two wheels that went on display this week. OK, so the whole thing isn’t made of cardboard, but the… Read the rest