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Design
In China, Tricycle House Is Off-grid Home and Garden for the Land-Starved
This luminous mobile structure brings the beauty of vegetation to people used to living in cramped spaces.
- Green Building Megatrends for 2013 From Jerry Yudelson
- Office Building for Organic Farm Built Out of Shipping Containers
- Colorful Ecology Pavilion Brightens up a Neglected U.K. Park
- Robots Are Coming For My Job and Yours
- 2012: The Year in Pee and Poop
- Is Hines La Jolla Project America's Largest Net-Zero Energy Office Building? Yes, And That's A Problem.
- The Green Workplace in 2012: Standing Desks, Home Offices and The Future of Work
- It's Not Easy Being Green: Two Designers Explore Sustainability Worldwide (Book Review)
Transportation
The Average Fuel Economy of All Vehicles Sold in the U.S. in 2012 was 23.8 MPG
The Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan has been keeping track of the average fuel economy numbers of new vehicles sold in the U.S. since late 2007. This is their latest data.
- Adventurous Trio is Driving an Electric Model S from Portland to New York City
- U.S. Plug-In Vehicle Sales Tripled in 2012, U.K. Electric Car Sales to Double in 2013
- Why Norwegians Love Electric Vehicles More Than the Rest of the World
- 2013 Ford Fusion Energi Plug-in Gets EPA Rating of 108 MPGe for City Driving
- New Study Re-Confirms That 2.7% Of Drivers Are Stupid Jerks, Will Go Out of Their Way to Kill Turtles
- Avis to Acquire Car-Sharing Leader Zipcar in $500 Million Deal
- First Converted Hybrid Train with Regenerative Braking Could Be a Game Changer
- Nissan Beefs Up LEAF Battery Warranty to Cover Capacity Loss (Will Others Follow?)
Technology
20 Top Tech Stories from December
The most popular stories in technology from the last month. Catch up quick!
- Astronauts Recycling In Space: NASA Turns Trash Into New Parts
- Cleantech Stories of the Week: What to Watch for in 2013 and Don't Forget About CES!
- Our Wireless Addiction Is Creating a Big E-Waste Problem
- Robotic Hedgehogs to Explore Moons and Asteroids
- 10 Tech Resolutions You Can Make for 2013
- Vanilla Ice, Why Didn't You Think of This? Swedish Rockers Issue Record Album Made Out Of Ice
- Shape Shifting Solar Lamp Looks Like Robot Claw
- Take Pictures from Space with Kepler Space Kit
Science
Nature Blows My Mind! The Extreme Abilities of Elephant Seals
You'll be surprised to learn just what these odd looking animals are capable of.
- Surprise Discovery of Deep-Sea Corals In Great Barrier Reef
- UPDATE: Rare River Otter Found Living in San Francisco's Sutro Bath Ruins (Photos)
- Shell Oil Rig Runs Aground in Alaska with 139,000 Gallons of Fuel on Board
- Rebecca Tarbotton of Rainforest Action Network, 1973-2012
- Secrets of the Porcupine Quill Could Help Us Make Better Medical Supplies
- Wild Dolphins Observed Bringing Gifts to Humans
- Potentially Dangerous Asteroid Now Confirmed to Miss Earth in 2040, Says NASA
- Lisa Jackson to Step Down as EPA Director
Living
8 Artists Transforming Abandoned Dolls into Surreal Art
These artists reclaim and recycle orphaned dolls and their parts headed for the trash, and reincarnate them into new forms.
- We Did a Lot of Tweeting in 2012
- The Most Inspiring Art of 2012
- What Are Your Hopes, Dreams and Predictions for 2013?
- 11 Clever Mason Jar Hacks and Mods
- The Best of Christmas Past in Living
- Farewell TreeHugger Readers: Mairi Beautyman Shares Her Greatest Hits
- TreeHugger's Greatest Hits, 2004-2012 (with a Soundtrack by Bruce Springsteen)
- 5 Last-Minute Hostess Gifts from Your Pantry
Energy
Warren Buffett Buys World's Largest Solar Project from SunPower for $2.5 Billion
Warren Buffett's utility, which is part of his Berkshire Hathaway holding company, has just announced that it is buying SunPower's Antelope Valley Solar Projects, located in California, for between 2 and 2.5 billion dollars.
- New U.S. Wind Power Capacity Might Beat Natural Gas and Coal in 2012
- Nanomaterials that Split Sunlight Into Separate Colors Could Bring Solar Panels to 50% Efficiency
- Biodiesel Train Crossed US-Canada Border 24 Times to Exploit Biofuel Loophole
- Germany Still Kicking Ass on Clean Energy: 2012 Production Forecast to be 15% Above 2011
- IEA: World to Burn 1.2 Billion More Tons of Coal Per Year by 2017 (If We Don't Wake Up)
- Major UK Solar Projects Move Forward With Increased Certainty
- Plans for Gigantic 1.2GW Wind Farm Submitted
- Conservative Politician Blasts Outdated, Carbon-Intensive Energy Policy
Business
Transocean to Pay $1.4 Billion in Civil and Criminal Penalties for Deepwater Horizon Explosion
"Transocean's rig crew accepted the direction of BP well site leaders to proceed in the face of clear danger signs at a tragic cost to many of them," said assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer.
- Photo of the Day: Thank Your Lucky Tea Leaves
- Today Is Boxing Day, A Great Idea That Turned into Wretched Excess
- A TreeHugger Tradition: We'll Never Forget the Clean Coal Carolers
- 10 Environmental Victories of 2012
- We'll Never Run This Economy On Renewables (We'll Never Have To)
- Obama Says Climate Change Will be One of His Three Top Priorities in Second Term
- Protecting California Coastline as National Monuments
- End of an Era: Mat McDermott Shares His Favorite TreeHugger Moments
Top Stories
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Warren Buffet Buys Largest Solar Project
Warren Buffett's utility, which is part of his Berkshire Hathaway holding company, has ...
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The Most Inspiring Art of 2012
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Why Norwegians Love Electric Vehicles
Norway has the most per capital electric vehicles sales of any nation on ...
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Wild Dolphins Observed Bringing Gifts to Humans
While it's already well-known that dolphins rank among the most intelligent creatures on ...
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Standing Desks and the Future of Work
We are just beginning to see how changes in the way we work ...
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The Problem with Net-Zero Buildings
By these standards, my drafty old house is Net-Zero Energy. There's something wrong ...
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Study Confirms That People Are Jerks
American study comes up with exactly the same number as older Canadian research. ...
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Beautiful But Dangerous Caterpillars
These furry, colorful crawlers are fun to look at. Just don't touch them!
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Penitentes, the Strange Snow Formations
hese odd, spikey snow formations can be as tall as a person.
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2,500 Mile Monarch Butterfly Migration
The journey is so long, it takes four generations to make the whole trip!
2012 in Review
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Most Awesome Robots of 2012
We take a look back at our favorite robot stories: from the miniature ...
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The Best of the DIY Movement
Before the year ends we want to take a moment to glance back ...
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The Year in Strange Design
I really didn't know where to start, there is so much terrible stuff ...
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30 Top Stories on Animal Conservation
The good, the bad, and the we-can-fix-its of the year all gathered up ...
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