Credit: Cecilia Cassini Ten-year old Cecilia Cassini might just be the youngest fashion designer in the world. The California-based fifth grader has been sewing since she received her first sewing machine at the age of six. She now makes a profit from... 

Just in time for South Africa to host the World Cup, a group of Harvard students have created a way to provide energy from a soccer ball. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the sOccket . The Caribbean nation of Anguilla may be lush with tropical forests... 

Images via SolidWorks How can designers make products that they can be sure have a minimized environmental footprint? The software they use during the design phase can make all the difference. A new tool, called SolidWorks Sustainability software shows... 

Photo via Whitepod . Consumer demand for greener hotels has been on the rise over the last few years — and as a result, many hotels now use green practices as marketing messages , not always truthfully. When it comes down to it, most ‘eco’... 

Photo via Pink Sherbet Photography World Water Day is approaching (March 22, 2010 if you’d like to mark your calendar) and there’s no better time than now to start focusing more on the importance of water footprints. We’re already... 

From the recent discovery of a species of wasp that enslave unsuspecting spiders to a new report from the United Nations that estimates a 500% growth over the next 10 years in computer waste in India alone, a lot happened this week in green. Mechanical... 

photo: Chris via flickr. One more on the connection between whales and carbon sequestration : Scientists from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute have determined that 100 years of whaling has released the same amount of carbon as burning 50,000 square... 

Image credit: Chaffin Family Orchards While I can see the appeal of vegan organic agriculture , I am a firm believer that integrating animals into a mixed sustainable food production system can be an efficient way to farm. One family farm in Sacramento... 

Photo: Caltech The Return of the Hairy Solar Panel The big brains at the California Institute of Technology (every time I hear about Caltech I think of Richard Feynman …) have figured out a way to create solar panels that have at least three... 

Termite Mounds and Colonies If only human architects could build so well. Philip Ball in the New Scientist describes how green and sophisticated it is:… Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here:  Architects Could Learn A Lot From Termites  Read More →