The Transport Politic; click to enlarge The Biggest Infrastructure Project in the World. Ever. It is the most extraordinary map from Transport Politic ; those yellow lines are proposed high speed rail links through India and Iran, right through to... 

American Express teams with the ‘Reluctant Businessman’, Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard. “We’re part of nature and as we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It’s a selfish thing to wanna protect nature.” So starts... 

French container ship in Vohemar, Madagascar, March 12. Photo Derek Schuurman There was a coup in Madagascar last March, and ever since there has been widespread poaching in the National Parks, for birds, lemurs and lumber. Rosewood is one of the world’s... 

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,... 

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... 

Cyclists assemble in Yerevan, Armenia, for a bike tour to Teghut Forest. Photo by Ruzanna Hovasapyan via ride-earth on Flickr. Armenian environmental activists fighting plans to build a copper mine in an endangered forest got a boost recently when... 

This photo, via The Telegraph , shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads. Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a botanical... 

photo: Kartikeya Kaul via flickr. India the world’s last major emitter to formally back the Copenhagen Accord has done so. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the decision reflected India’s contributions in shaping the Accord. Ramesh... 

TOMS Shoes has announced their third annual One Day Without Shoes campaign for Apr… Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from the original source: Go Barefoot for TOMS Annual Day Without Shoes April 8 (Video)  Read More →

Distributed generation for utilities is part of the mandate. Photo: Solar Dave via flickr . Now this is getting somewhere… Climate Progress reports that the Colorado House of Representatives has passed an increase in the state’s Go here...