21st Century Sustainable Technology

1. Chinese University Professor Predicts China Will Adopt "Toilet-to-Tap" Technology in 2010
2. Abengoa Solar to Build World's Largest Solar Plant in Arizona
3. America's Greenest Corporations: This List Goes to 11
4. Clevr: Create More Counter Space in Your Kitchen with an Oval Cutting Board
5. MPG Now Almost as important as CPV
6. The TH Interview: Edward Mazria, the Man from 2030 (Part One)
7. Germany Gets Creative with Renewables
8. Clarence: The Purple Traffic Calming Wizard
9. SmogGobs: Threat or Thrill?
10. TreeHugger + SMITH Six-Word Memoir Contest: Ends Monday
11. EPA grapples with Energy Star server spec

Chinese University Professor Predicts China Will Adopt...

2008-02-23 22:45

Science & Technology

Image courtesy of ES&T While some Chinese scientists are out advocating for hybrid vehicles and solar energy, others, like Tongji University's Siqing Xia, find themselves in the unenviable position of acting as boosters for less appealing technologies, such as "toilet-to-tap" water treatment. Yet despite the challenge of having to convince China's 1.3b strong population of its merits, it is a task Xia has willingly embraced. Tasha Eichenseher, who interviewed Xia for the

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Abengoa Solar to Build World's Largest Solar Plant in Arizona

2008-02-23 22:20

Business & Politics

Following closely on the heels of Jumilla's announcement comes the news that Abengoa Solar, a Spanish firm (what is it with the Spaniards and solar energy?), will build a 280-MW solar power plant 70 miles southwest of Phoenix. Upon completion, the Solana Generating Solution will become the world's largest solar plant. As reported by Green Wombat's Todd Woody, Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, plans on paying around $4b over the ne...

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America's Greenest Corporations: This List Goes to 11

2008-02-23 20:54

news

Getty Images Hot on the heels of Popular Science's ranking of America's 50 greenest cities, Condé Nast Portfolio gets in the act with The Green 11, "some of America's most eco-savvy corporations." Included in the list are some of the usual suspects -- Whole Foods, Organic Valley,

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Clevr: Create More Counter Space in Your Kitchen with an Oval Cutting...

2008-02-23 20:06

Design & Architecture

TreeHugger is always looking for ways to get the most from small spaces, which is why we like "less is more" and transformer furniture. While not as dramatic as Aaron Tang's wall stairs or an entire bedroom in a box, we like the Corner Cutting Board for the same reasons. In the kitchen, where space is always at a premium and there never seems...

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MPG Now Almost as important as CPV

2008-02-23 16:41

Cars & Transportation

Here at treehugger we often talk about miles per gallon, be it in the form of an efficient, sporty diesel car, a souped down 1959 Opel, a modified hybridor a plug-in hybrid, to name a few. Our interest in MPG is rooted in economic, geopolitical and environmental interests...

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The TH Interview: Edward Mazria, the Man from 2030 (Part One)

2008-02-23 14:11

TreeHugger Radio

Architect Edward Mazria was one of the first to draw major attention to the source that emits almost half of all greenhouse gas emissions: our buildings. Architecture 2030 has been his vehicle for communicating a design logic based on stemming the carbon footprint of the built environment, and his widely adopted 2030 Challenge has laid a strategy for rendering those buildings carbon neutral. Mazria was featured on PBS's e2 series on sustainable design, and his

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Germany Gets Creative with Renewables

2008-02-23 14:00

Science & Technology

Is Germany on its way to genuine energy independence and 100% reliance on renewable energy sources? An experiment conducted by the University of Kassel in cooperation with three energy companies challenges the conventional wisdom on renewable energy and suggests that nuclear and fossil fuel energy can be fazed out and replaced with renewables - without disrupting the supply of electricity to the national grid. ...