Photos via the BBC It’s one of the (if not the ) rarest flower in the world: the Middlemist’s Red exists in only two known locations: a greenhouse in the UK, and a garden in New Zealand. Imported to Britain two hundred years ago from China, back when flowers where a luxury item, it has since been exterminated... More »

“Nobody used to ride a bike in New York, but now it’s becoming mainstream” Our friend Clarence at Streetfilms rode around NYC with Village Voice entertainment columnist Go here to read the rest: Riding in New York with Village Voice Columnist Michael Musto (Video)  Read More →

NoMix Toilet. Photo: Flickr Technological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet! Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there’s such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had “NoMix” toilets that separate urine from solid waste,... More »

Image credit: Good The life of a farmer is a difficult one—meaning, for most, years of hard work, little money, and even less appreciation. Maybe it is this reason that passing down the family farm has become an increasingly difficult proposition…. Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post: Young... More »

World consumption of most common commodity triglyceride vegetable oils. Image credit: Wikipedia Certain plant oils, especially palm oil, have a reputation of being produced unsustainably. Many plant oils are low-cost commodities (see table above for recent global volumes). Certain of the commodity plant oils are used... More »

Photo via LimJunYing It’s been a couple months of seriously bad PR for climate science , both due to unfortunate errors made by scientists and (okay, mostly) a well-funded noise machine intent on preserving the status quo at any cost. So how can climate scientists dig themselves out of the negative publicity trench... More »

Photo via FreeSpeech Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from academies around the world will take part in the review, which will be headed by the... More »

Production and assembly factory producing 1,100-megawatts worth of turbines annually will create 1,000 permanent jobs for the state. Originally posted at Planetary Gear Read more:  Sen. Reid helps win wind turbine plant for Nevada  Read More →

SunEdison’s 72-megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant finds a home in Italy’s Veneto region. Originally posted here:  Italy green-lights largest PV solar plant in Europe  Read More →

photo: Wikipedia This is one you definitely don’t hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s how they are doing it:… Read the full story on... More »