Attention green business gurus, product development pros, supply chain experts and product designers and engineers: the Greener by Design conference is coming to Alexandria, VA (just across the river from Washington, D.C.). On June 12 & 13, the conference will combine opportunities to network with companies of all sizes...

When we last looked at a modern prefab from Resolution 4, we got a particularly loud round complaints about it being a big second home and therefore not very green. Visiting Joe Tanney in his New York office, I asked if he had anything small, green and urban that I could show and not take so much abuse? Joe explained...

Making Paper from Waste Wheat Straw Some talk the talk and walk the walk. The June issue of Canadian Geographic is their annual 'environmental' issue, and it will be completely printed on paper made from wheat straw. The are the first magazine in North-America to do that. They call the resulting paper the 'wheat...

Designer and occasional TreeHugger contributor Joey Roth brought his Sorapot to ICFF; we love it because it turns tea time into showtime. As Joey said in an earlier post: "I’ve always been entranced by small, beautiful things that are so detailed, they seem like miniature worlds, yet so ordinary they’re often left...

Tongue-in-cheek headline aside, we really like this idea of IBM's. Here's why. A progressive business generally initiates climate action in the following steps: making a corporate commitment and stating it to stockholders and the public; measuring the baseline GHG footprint at company-controlled sites; setting reduction...

Commuting on a Scooter With gas prices rising, we're bound to see more stories like this in the mainstream media. Stories about people using their bicycles to *gasp* commut...

TreeHugger is fascinated by the objects that good designers create from old objects. This often ad hocist-like approach has been exemplified in the work of Uhuru Design before -- we liked their "stoolen" and "love somebody" table designs from previous collections -- as they've found a great balance between showcasing...

Welcome to SustainStyle, a weekly digest from the writers at 1plus1, a blog dedicated to eco-friendly fashion. Super hip bamboo home/office accessories with an affordable price tag. Eco-Chick and Under The Canopy want to give you free organic bedding. Rising Tide Fair Trade makes the perfect weekend bag for...

TreeHugger loves Ed Begley Jr. We've covered his eco-shenanigans, interviewed him, and asked him to judge our Convenient Truths contest. Now, his reality show, Living With Ed—which formerly aired on HGTV—will live on Planet Green, officially making him part of the TH family. We're stoked and thankfully, so is Ed: "I...

Image courtesy of http2007 via flickr Despite widespread national ambivalence about its merits, air pollution regulators in the Bay Area have overwhelmingly approved the nation's first ever carbon tax -- voting 15-1 to require companies to pay 4.4 cents per ton of carbon emitted. The tax will cover 9 counties in the Bay...