photo: Lee Nachtigal Long maligned by the green community for its environmental record and perceived lack of support for renewable energy, not to mention funding climate change deniers, ExxonMobil has announced that it will be placing its money on ...

Images via DesignBoom Another amazing creation to add to our love affair with wooden computers. DesignBoom shows off this awesome desk, the final project for designer Marlies Romberg of Utrecht School of Arts. It's a diary, actually, and the old fashioned feel to modern tech doesn't stop with just the keyboard...... ...

Photo via TheBusyBrain Experts have told us that an effect of warming temperatures is heftier hurricanes and flooding. But exactly how to predict the extent of the impact so people can brace themselves is a point of concern. It could just be that cell phone towers will lend a helping hand, not only to give people a warning system, but also to pred...

Michal Czerwonka Public Space as Alternative to Law Enforcement At night, urban parks can become hives for gang activity and violence. A program in Los Angeles, the American gang capital, seeks to combat that phenomenon simply by keeping the lights on until midnight, reports the New York Times. To both locals and police, it's a bright idea. Last y...

Putting solar panels on the roof (or side) of your skyscraper is so 2008. If you really want some efficiency without all those complicated photovoltaics. If you really love renewable energy, and you also like EXTREME temperatures, you should just buckle down and put a solar power tower at the top of your skyscraper. And that's the idea of the Almei...

You wouldn’t guess that a bit of green slime could do so much. But from from food to fuel, PetroAlgae, Inc. seems to have thought of everything. This Florida-based renewable energy company has developed a technology in which algae and other microorganisms produce fuel to feed cars, animals, and even humans...and say they can do it cheaper than ...

Image from Creative Commons, Ragesoss and Wikimedia A particular chemical used in LCD display screens can also be used in medicine from pills to bandages. Researchers are hoping this is a solution not just for hospital patients but also for e-waste.... ...

The GAO says it requires 7-321 gallons of water per gallon of corn ethanol, but when it comes to second generation biofuels, we have very little good data. Photo: Don O'Brian via flickr By this point the water intensity of using first generation feedstocks such as corn to make biofuels is pretty well known. Though it does vary from region to regio...

Images via Griffith University Two Australian engineers have taken a sharp look at the problems of e-waste and have come up with a solution that could make a big difference - circuits in plastic. Professor David Thiel and MadhusudanRao Neeli at the facult of engineering and information technology at Griffith University in Brisbane have worked out ...

Neoluxiim is showing off a small, thin e-ink display panel that has an embedded solar cell that it uses as a power source. This kind of low-energy display might just be the next thing for point-of-sale advertising. But there is one really big problem. ... ...

Photo via Elevate Printing Last week Lexmark let loose a report looking at the state of printing, which included a survey of over 10,000 people in 21 countries. The results? Most people feel guilty about wasteful printing habits, but women have a guiltier conscience than men. And most people have no idea about exactly where their biggest impact fa...

Image Source: Francesca Tronchin Dear Pablo: With the energy and water used in washing and drying, isn't it actually more environmentally friendly to use paper napkins instead of cotton?... ...

Reflective transmission increase as a function of incident light angle. Image credit:Xerocoat Workers at XeroCoat certainly have a visible effect on the company's bottom line; and Xerocoat's product, a coating applied to fully assembled solar panels, benefits the customer's electricity bill. But Xerocoat, which makes solar panels 3% to 5% more ...

A man sorts e-waste in Guiyu, China. Photo courtesy of Allison Cross. Ever wonder what happens to all your old PCs, broken keyboards and ink cartridges? If you take your electronics to recyclers, you probably have visions of workers in well-ventilated buildings wearing masks and gloves as they take apart the toxic components of your electronics .....

Photo via Cliff1066 Sea turtles have a far higher chance of surviving being caught in fishing nets if those fishing nets are pulled up within 50 minutes. A 7-inch long silver cylinder attached to fishing nets that gauges how long the net has been underwater could potentially save the lives of sea turtles and easy future fishing restrictions. Or it...

image: OPK via NYT Yes, more floating nuclear power plants in Russia. The New York Times reports that United Industrial Corporation (abbreviated OPK from the Russian) has announced that the first of its floating nuclear power plants will come online in 2012 and be used to help power Vilyuchinsk on the Kamchatka peninsula:... ...

Photo by Metropolis Magazine Richard Garber and Brian Novello of GRO Architects have designed an extension to New York City's piers that would harness tidal power from the city's rivers. The design concept called Docking Stations not only captures clean tidal energy, it also provides a public green space and tidal pools for wildlife. Of course, th...

Lubchenco stressed that people really want to know how climate change will impact their lives. Photo: Andi Szilagyi via flickr Yale Environment 360 just put up a good interview with NOAA head Jane Lubchenco in which she talks about two topics close to the collective TreeHugger heart: Climate change and overfishing. Taking a page out of her book, i...

Photo via jez.atkinson Australia is hurting for water, so a new $780 million desalination facility that is planned for Western Australia, which was approved late last month and will boost water supplies for the area by 20% upon completion in 2011, is a really big deal. However, despite advances in technology, desal plants are also energy intensive...