Singapore is known for it’s clean streets, argi-design and forward thinking city planners. Yet this takes the cake. The building of the EDITT Tower by the University of Signapore is so green, you’ld think you’ld died and gone to a huge lettuce patch in the sky.

Currently slated for construction in Singapore, the EDITT Tower [...]

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by Matthew McDermott, Brooklyn, NY on 10.24.08

In the same week that it was announced that the UK overtook Denmark to be the world’s foremost producer of electricity from offshore wind farms, the Crown Estate (which holds all of the Queen’s property, but is independent of the monarchy or government) has said that it will be [...]

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As the world market flails widely like an excited octopus, the US ‘Bailout Bill’ that passed last week includes some interesting green ideolody. According to the Bill, Cyclists will receive a tax reimbursement of up to $20.00 / month from employers for the costs incured in maintaining a bicycle. Power to the pedal.

According to: Sec. 211. Transportation fringe [...]

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by Xan Rice from the Gaurdian, UK

 Victor Matioli’s organic pumpkins are plump, his coriander aromatic and his spinach “very soft, sweet, and tasty”. His half-acre farm is a former rubbish dump in the heart of east Africa’s biggest slum.

So arresting is the sight of tall sunflowers growing amid the rust-coloured shacks and dirt paths of [...]

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For a fortnight now the United States and Canada have been testing out North America’s first fledgling carbon trade.  Two other regional programs are to follow, assuring that nearly half of the United States will be covered by carbon trading programs — with or without leadership from Congress and the White House. 

 
      
“Twenty-four states are working [...]

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by Matthew McDermott, Brooklyn, NY on 10. 6.08
It may not be nearly the ridiculously large potential claimed by geothermal power in Australia, but a new report commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation indicates that one-third of Australia’s power needs could be met through wave power installation. Oh, did I mention that Carnegie Corp manufactures wave power-cum-desalination [...]

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This is Samuel’s first clean drink.
Manna Energy Foundation: providing clean Water & Biogas in Rwanda
The Manna Energy Foundation is a Houston-based company aiming to install 500 water treatment systems for secondary school in Rwanda. The doubly interesting aspect of the program is that in addition to supplying clean water to some 236,000 students, it will also [...]

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A Canadian fossil park, an Icelandic volcanic island and an archipelago in Yemen are among the latest sites to be added to the World Heritage list of natural wonders. Each year the IUCN World Conservation Union evaluates hundreds of nominated sites for the list in a bid to protect and preserve natural heritage around the [...]

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