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1. Video: Riding Around New York With Ed Begley Jr.
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2. BuyGreen: Large Wheel Folding Bikes
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3. New Designs from Barcelona's Damaris & Marc Design
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4. Solar Powered Flash Drive Screen - Super or Superfluous?
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5. Lean, Green Sliver of a House by Luke Tozer
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6. An Oilman's Dream: It's Raining Hydrocarbons on Saturn's Moon
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7. Tesla Motors Raises $40 Million for White Star & Roadster
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8. Test your climate knowledge
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9. US Presidential Candidates' Environmental Records
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10. Wayback Machine 1936: Linoleum
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11. Wayback Machine: "Our National Flower is the Concrete Cloverleaf"
Video: Riding Around New York With Ed Begley Jr.
2008-02-22 18:17
audio video
Andrew C. Revkin from the New York Times had a chat with Ed Begley Jr., who we've interviewed on TreeHugger Radio episode 26, in a post and he also was a judge in our Convenient Truth contest. You can see the video interview here and read the blog post on Dot Earth here. Also check out Ed... 
BuyGreen: Large Wheel Folding Bikes
2008-02-22 17:46
buy green
While TreeHugger knows that using what you've got 'til it's gone is the greenest way to go, we all have to replace our old faithful with new favorites eventually. When that time comes, we want you to know some of the good green ways to go. On this list: large wheel folding bikes. Small wheels, as rule, make for a smaller folding bike, but rules are made to be broken. It's trickier, but standard-wheeled bicycles -- those with 26" rims -- can also be conjured into tiny travel or storage packages, with some imaginative design and engineering. Larger wheels provide a little extra dampening from road shock and they 'track' in a straighter line ... 
New Designs from Barcelona's Damaris & Marc Design
2008-02-22 17:25
Design & Architecture
Following their motto "Qui no s'arrisca no pisca" ("Who doesn't dare, doesn't win"), Barcelona-based Damaris & Marc Design have launched a new line of sustainable designs. They use sustainably-forested wood and non-toxic, water-based paints and finishes to create their playful, fun and functional pieces. Equal parts artistic expression and technical creation, the designers embrace social activism as a part of their work as well; they donate a portion of their profits to humanitarian projects and have partnered with Tree-nation to plant a tree for each design sold. "Cocoro" (above,... 
Solar Powered Flash Drive Screen - Super or Superfluous?
2008-02-22 17:00
Science & Technology
These days it seems companies producing electronic gadgets will go well out of their way to include "sustainable" features in their products, even if they serve no apparent purpose. The latest example of this is the Samsung U.Season Slider USB Flash Drive (pictured above), with a solar powered LCD screen which displays available storage capacity. We at TreeHugger are all for green technologies, especially when they are cool, sustainable and really clever, like this gravity powered lamp. However, despite our support for utilizing "green" technologies in any form and for any purpose, at so... 
Lean, Green Sliver of a House by Luke Tozer
2008-02-22 15:48
less is more
TreeHugger loves skinny houses; they don't take up much space and they really demonstrate the talents of the designers. Luke Tozer of Pitman Tozer Architects experiments on himself with only eight feet to work with, widening out in the rear. To top it off, as Building Design writes: "But that's not enough: the house had to have as low a carbon footprint as feasible. But setting yourself hard tasks has never provided an excuse for failure: you have to make it all work, and Tozer has come out of it all with a beautifully planned and built house — a tour de force of the architect's skills." So it has 150 foot bor... 
An Oilman's Dream: It's Raining Hydrocarbons on Saturn's Moon
2008-02-22 15:30
Science & Technology
Don't tell Exxon, but the January 29th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters contains new findings by the Cassini radar team about Titan, Saturn's moon: "[It] is just covered in carbon-bearing material -- it's a giant factory of organic chemicals. [It] has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth [...] The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes." Wow. Not exactly the best place to go on vacation, though. It's the average temperatures of around minus 179 degrees Celsius (minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit) that cause methane and ethane to be ... 
Tesla Motors Raises $40 Million for White Star & Roadster
2008-02-22 15:11
Business & Politics
Most of you are probably already familiar with Tesla's Roadster, the first model by the young electric car company. But there's also a second model coming in 2010, so far only its code name is known: "White Star". It should be even more popular than the two-seater Roadster, both because it is supposed to be less expensive (around $50k for the base model) and have enough room for a family. Now Tesla is announcing that they have completed a new round of financing and raised $40 million to continue production of the Roadster and keep developing the White Star. That's good news for... 
Test your climate knowledge
2008-02-22 14:54
I'm pretty sure this means we're doomed. Environmentally themed question halfway through:
US Presidential Candidates' Environmental Records
2008-02-22 14:53
news
Our friends at the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) released their 2007 National Environmental Scorecard today, and it reveals some good and bad news. First of all, the 110th Congress demonstrated solid movement toward a clean energy future for our country, including passing the energy bill in December (which included higher fuel-efficiency standards). We enjoyed looking at the scores of the presidential candidates. From the LCV news release: "The presidential candidates' scores all suffered from the occupational hazard of absenteeism. Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (... 
Wayback Machine 1936: Linoleum
2008-02-22 14:41
flooring
I love linoleum; it is completely natural (made from linseed oil and flax), durable and nice looking. About the only knock against it is the energy used to bake it. Modern Mechanix describes its manufacture in 1936; little has changed since. "In 1863, Fredrick Walton, a youthful inventor of Yorkshire, England, made a great discovery in an open paint pot, over the contents of which the usual scum had formed. Turning his inventive genius to the matter of a use for this tough scum, he developed the idea for a new material which brought fine floors within reach of the average family for the first time." ... 
Wayback Machine: "Our National Flower is the Concrete Cloverleaf"
2008-02-22 14:00
Design & Architecture
Wendy Waters of urban design website All about Cities dug up some zinger quotes from Lewis Mumford (1895-1990), proving as always that plus ça change, plus c'est pareil. -Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. -Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. -The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biolo... 
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