? Whenever people ask me about a great sustainable style project, I mention the IOU Project.

Newsflash: Nobody cares about the problems climate change is causing in lands far away to people that look different. That’s an immensely crass way of parsing the findings of a new report detailed over at the Big Think that explains that climate campaigns focusing on the devastating impact of global warming in, say, Africa, will spur little solidarity with most folks here in the US. Why?

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Cadillac , Tesla Motors Cadillac Converj ELR concept – Click above for high-res image gallery General Motors has confirmed production of the Voltec -powered Cadillac ELR coupe. Though the automaker didn’t officially announce pricing for the on-again , off-again angular coupe, Bloomberg claims an unidentified source close to the project revealed the Cadillac ELR’s price will undercut the $57,400 Tesla Model S .

One of the problems with indoor carpet — other than offgassing of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in some synthetic weaves — is that they are the ideal home for mites, molds and dust.

Image credit Brompton Dock TreeHuggers will be familiar with bikeshare programs like the Vélib or the Bixi , where durable city bikes are borrowed from and returned to docking stations.

Photo Courtesy of Bike Fixtation Making cities more cycling-friendly is not just making biking desirable, it’s also about making biking safe and feasible. And that means

Photo by Aleix Cabarrocas Garcia via Flickr CC There are few places on earth with as much biodiversity as Madagascar — in fact, 615 new species have been discovered there in the last 10 years alone.

Just weeks after “urgent problems” with the Three Gorges Dam were disclosed by the Chinese government, it has awarded the Three Gorges Corporation the National Quality Investment Award. As for an explanation of the brilliantly poor timing of the award, The Guardian reports that the award had been decided weeks before the prime minister spoke of the all the problems with the massive dam. Jonathan Watts aptl..

Picnics were once fashionable social events, where guests brought elaborate potluck dishes to share. In the mid-19th century, they spawned a sub-genre of American landscape painting: the ” picnic pastoral .” They've since evolved into informal meals eaten outside and they're a sure sign of summer. But is there a biological reason we eat outside?

Images courtesy of Nils Ferber After the problems at Fukushima, concerns about radiation contaminating fish stocks jotted up. And reasonably so