Meet Zip Cup, the reusable coffee mug that shrinks once the drink is gone.
Green Living
Smart Car & Camper Combined To Create Super Efficient RV
An RV concept morphs between car and house within minutes, making exploration more efficient.
4 Plant-Based Designs That Reinvent The Indoor Garden
What if plants could be more than just decorations or source of nourishment? New, plant-based concepts are cropping up in the interior design word, and we’ve rounded up some of the best.
Sustainable Development: Al Gore, Meet The Garbage Man
Dr. Mike Biddle — the founder of a company that extracts and recycles hard-to-sort plastics from the world’s waste stream — has won the 2012 Gothenberg Award.
PLANT System Would Give Astronauts Fresh Food In Space
No want wants to eat dehydrated food during a six month trip to Mars. In the future, systems like this might make space feel more like home.
Outdoor Gym Turns Your Extra Calories Into Electricity
Why chug away on the treadmill and eliptical machine, totally oblivious to the energy that’s being wasted with every step? This outdoor gym concept puts all those calories to better use.
Extreme Recycling, PDX: Ultimate Remodel
A Portland, Ore., couple managed their high-end green renovation for just $134/sq. ft., courtesy of local recycled materials and a whole lot of sweat equity.
Melancholia: The Psychology Of Climate Change Awareness
Just as the planet Melancholia moves inexorably closer to Earth, writes EarthTechling’s Susan Kraemer, a similar unprecedented calamity moves inexorably closer to us, through time.
Cook It Clean: NYC Greenmarket Gets Solar
The Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan will use a $16,500 Sun Club donation for solar panels that will power cooking demonstrations from its educational van.
Why An Iraq War Veteran Fights The Green Fight
There are many reasons why someone takes up the cause for renewable energy, but few can have a more personal one than former U.S. Army Captain Jon Gensler.
US Tallies 3.1M Green Jobs In First Such Survey
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics takes a stab at defining and totaling green jobs, and says there were 3.1 million of them in 2010.
Emissions Cut The Right Medicine For Kaiser
Health plan provider Kaiser Permanente has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent of its 2008 levels through renewables and energy savings.
Obama Plans Paint Aggressive Clean Energy Push
The White House has spelled out more in depth the clean energy action items called for by the president in his State of the Union, and they are some hefty goals indeed.
Are We On Track To Stop Climate Change?
Fret not, dear reader; EarthTechling columnist Susan Kraemer crunches the numbers and finds the scale-up needed to tackle climate change might be within reach.