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1. Tesla Motors May Go Public in 2008 or 2009
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2. Hairy Solar Panels Could Result From Nanowire Breakthrough
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3. Are You a Green Giant? Tell Your Story to Steelcase
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4. The PGO Cévennes Turbo-CNG Roadster
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5. The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part One)
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6. Must See: China's Driving Dream and Its $6000 Car
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7. Revolving Door Generates Energy, Maybe.
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8. Taking a Closer Look at Toyota's 1/X Plug-in Hybrid Concept
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9. Do Something Good for the Planet: Take the Afternoon Off
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10. TreeHugger + SMITH Six-Word Memoir Contest
Tesla Motors May Go Public in 2008 or 2009
2008-02-07 19:43
Business & Politics
Can't afford a Tesla Roadster? Maybe you can afford a piece of the electric car company. Yesterday, Tesla chairman Elon Musk said: "I would say within end of this year or next year there is a good chance we would go public". He even let the door open to cooperation with other companies. "We occasionally have short conversations with other automakers," he said. This potential partner could be a U.S. company, "but there's a good chance it's not." None of this is very surprising. Tesla will need lots of money to bring to market its second and third models, the White Star and Blue Star (code names). Each succes... 
Hairy Solar Panels Could Result From Nanowire Breakthrough
2008-02-07 18:55
Science & Technology
Solar panels are constantly improving and breaking records. We often hear about new exotic materials and strange shapes, but this could be the weirdest announcement yet: Researchers at McMaster University (coolest name ever) have succeeded in 'growing' light-absorbing nanowires made of high-performance photovoltaic materials on carbon-nanotube fabric. The nanowires are made from exotic materials like gallium arsenide, indium gallium phosphide, etc, and they can absorb more energy from the sun than silicon, allowing the creation of both efficient and flexible solar panels .... 
Are You a Green Giant? Tell Your Story to Steelcase
2008-02-07 18:49
Design & Architecture
The good people at Steelcase have launched a new site, called GreenGiants, dedicated to highlighting those who are taking big steps in sustainability. Designed for equal parts inspiration and information, the site spotlights those who have attained GreenGiant status -- so far, it's Architecture for Humanity's Cameron Sinclair, Public Architecture's Elizabeth O... 
The PGO Cévennes Turbo-CNG Roadster
2008-02-07 18:11
Cars & Transportation
Wind in your hair, methane in your gas tank. After the biogas-powered train, paint-shop and prison, here comes the biogas roadster! The PGO Cévennes Turbo-CNG roadster will be introduced at the International Auto Salon in Geneva (March 6 to 16). From what we can see so far, it looks quite stylish, mixing old-school with modern. Lets look under the hood to see what makes it green(er)...... 
The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part One)
2008-02-07 18:10
TreeHugger Radio
The founder of Patagonia started out when he was little more than a teenager, selling his home-forged climbing hardware to "dirtbagger" mountaineers like himself. Although all he really wanted to do was travel and climb, he had a knack for innovation and invention, and Chouinard Equipment Co. evolved into Patagonia, arguably the most successful outdoor clothing company in history. In his fifty-something years of experimentation, Yvon Chouinard has racked up a list of industry firsts that defies enumeration, yet he describes himself as a reluctant entrepreneur who really just loves to climb, surf, and kayak the wilds of the world, and hopefully save them along the way. Listen to t...
Must See: China's Driving Dream and Its $6000 Car
2008-02-07 17:32
Cars & Transportation
As this recent must-see National Geographic documentary on driving in China reminds us (part 1 is above, the rest below), China has fallen head over heels for the car. Attached though I am to my Forever bike, I can almost see why: A bustling Chinese metropolis like Beijing is increasingly less conducive to walking or biking, with pedestrian-unfriendly streets, crowded and inconvenient public transportation and enormous distances. (As a friend told me last night, getting home wou... 
Revolving Door Generates Energy, Maybe.
2008-02-07 17:31
Design & Architecture
Inhabitat shows the Revolution Door from Fluxlab and describes it as "an ingenious sustainable energy harvesting idea that makes you wonder why no one else has thought of it before." Perhaps because a) lots of people have, it was up on halfbakery three years ago, b) more importantly, revolving doors are already hard for some people to use because of the resistance caused by the seals against... 
Taking a Closer Look at Toyota's 1/X Plug-in Hybrid Concept
2008-02-07 17:00
Cars & Transportation
Image courtesy of Green Car Congress After making a splash at last year's Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota's 1/X plug-in hybrid concept will be making its way to the upcoming Chicago Auto Show for its North American debut. Courtesy of Green Car Congress, we now have some more figures and features to chew over in anticipation of its official unveiling: "The ... 
Do Something Good for the Planet: Take the Afternoon Off
2008-02-07 16:57
Take Action
Photo credit: much ado about nothign Want to do something good for the planet? Punch out a little early. Take the afternoon off. Work less. This is the argument of Juliet Schor, a sociologist at Boston College, in "Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction," a paper published in MIT's Journal of Industrial Ecology. So, how does less work equal more sustainable consumption patterns? Professor Schor argues that as the global economy has increased its productivity rates, its workers have just continued to make m... 
TreeHugger + SMITH Six-Word Memoir Contest
2008-02-07 16:55
contests
Can you tell your life's story in only six words? In SMITH Magazine's new book, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure, hundreds of people managed to. Now it's your turn. We've teamed up with SMITH--the online magazine that's best described as People meets the New Yorker--to bring you the green version of the Six-Word Memoir Contest. Got a smart philosophy? Traveled a strange path? Fall off the eco-wagon frequently? Tell us about it. You could win one of several spiffy prizes. TreeHugger is one of six sites hosting a Six-Word Memoirs contest (though we're certain that our readers will prove to be th... 
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