Climate Change
Sustainable Cities Collective
Sustainable Cities Collective is an editorially independent, moderated community for leaders of major metropolitan areas, urban planning and sustainability professionals. We look to aggregate content and provide resources for all who work in or are interested in urban planning, sustainable [...]
The Geotourism Challenge 2010: Places on the Edge – Saving Coastal and Freshwater Destinations
Ashoka’s Changemakers, National Geographic, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are launching an online competition to search for innovative solutions for coastal, waterway, and island destinations that protect the environment and strengthen the heritage and livelihoods of local residents. The [...]
Zero race
Four teams are competing in a race around the world in 80 days as we speak. The fabulous thing about this race is that the teams are actually racing in vehicles powered by electricity from renewable energy, hence the name [...]
World Tap Water Week
A special week has been selected by Green Thing to be the annual World Tap Water Week. From this year on, on the third week of August we will be celebrating how great our pure, simple tap water is. The [...]
A boat made of plastic bottles crosses the Pacific in a 8,000 miles journey
Think twice when you are about to recycle (we can’t think of throwing it away at all) your plastic bottle. If you gather 12,500 you can reuse them building up your own boat and then travel around the world on [...]
BP attempts to control scientific research on oil disaster
U$S 250 is the amount of money that BP has spent for every 46,5 litters oil cleaned up. But U$S 250 is also the money that BP is spending for one hour of scientific silence. The latter is what Robert [...]
And the winner of the 2010 European Solar decathlon is…
Virginia Tech for the Lumenhaus! Among the 17 great solar-powered prefab homes that were participating in the contest, showing that completely self-sustaining shelters can easily become a reality, the American project was the winner. The 17 houses were probed, prodded, [...]
The telepresence revolution saves emissions and money
It’s a simple decision for your boss. Staying at the office instead of traveling is a good choice for his business budget, but it’s a better choice for our planet. A new study has unveiled the numbers that are behind [...]
TEDxOilSpill conference: tackling the post oil spill era
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is becoming one of the worst ecological disasters in our history. So, let’s be constructive and focus it as a perfect chance to educate the public about the negative side effects of [...]
A great wall of trees will link Africa and help reforest the continent
Last June 17, the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) made a unique announcement: they will fund the Great Green Wall, a 4,400 mile long wall, nine miles thick, made completely of trees. The Great Green Wall will cost U$S 119 million [...]
Green festivals and ways to rock more sustainably
We already told you about Jack Johnson´s initiative. Thinking in the UK means thinking in terms of music. Dozens of festivals take place every year in the country, attracting a huge audience, a factor which inevitably impacts the environment. A [...]
June 28: TED conference on Oil Spill
TED started out as a conference in 1984 bringing experts in different fields such as technology entertainment and design together. Since that day, the small nonprofit organization, has been evolving and growing. They are devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, and [...]
