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Higher Fuel Prices Increase Bicycle Sales (And Bike Sharing?)

At least this seems to the evidence gathered by the Bikes Belong Coalition, a U.S. bicycle industry organisation dedicated to putting more people on bicycles more often. After surveying 150 bicycle...

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Bike-Sharing Program at DNC Helps Convention Goers Get Around Carbon-Free

Guest blogger Jesse McDougall delivers the eco-scoop, straight from the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The Democratic National Convention Goes Green One of the very best aspects of the...

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Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff: the Gulf Coast, Katrina and the DNC

Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff looks at US environmental challenges of the past and what we can hope for in the future. With tropical storm Gustav on a collision course for the Gulf of Mexico, is New...

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The Alternative Energy Comedy Show

Comedy Show Tackles Clean Energy From the Earth to America environmental comedy show, through National Energy Wasting Day to our coverage of The Onion's "Obligatory Green Issue", we TreeHuggers are...

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Martin Drake Power Plant In Colorado Tests New Coal-Plant Emissions Scrubber

End-of-pipe pollution control add-ons are what most coal-fired plant owners in the USA are planning for these days.

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More Power to Poop in Colorado's Zoos

Photo via: J Hull Poop power, err otherwise known as biomass energy, has been a part of the Treehugger vocabulary for awhile now, but especially over the past couple months. Renewable energy comes in...

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B-Cycle Bike Sharing Has Plans for Denver...and A U.S. City Near You?

B-Cycle's web site, with its video of shiny red-white-and-blue bikes with cute GPS systems and its solar-powered stations, is nearly too slick and pretty. This bike sharing program is the business...

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Women's Bean Project Teaches Job Skills to Help Women Overcome Poverty

It all started with $500 worth of beans and a desire to help disenfranchised women break out of the cycle of poverty. Two decades later, the Women's Bean Project employs 40 chronically unemployed and...

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KPMB Make the Old Work With the New in Denver

George Bush once said "I don't do nuance" and most big name architects don't either, subtlety not being a virtue among the stars of the profession. This was never true of Kuwabara Payne McKenna...

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Denver Green Apple Festival Snowed Out, But Thank You Concert Rocked! (video)

This year for the Denver Green Apple Festival, volunteers were set to xeriscape, plant gardens, restore the woodlands of Boulder County Parks, protect trees from beavers at the South Suburban Parks,...

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Bicycles for Humanity: Donate Bikes, Change Lives

An inexpensive, environmentally friendly form of transportation anywhere, bicycles are a true lifeline in Africa, where they allow health-care

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Medicos Find Bike Injuries Are Increasing in Severity

The other day Lloyd highlighted the ways in which cyclists are most often killed in altercations with motor vehicles. But not everyone shakes off this mortal coil after a bike accident. Many folk are...

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Top 10 U.S. Cities For Green Job Seekers

Recently, friends and new college graduates have been asking me how they can get into the field of sustainability. When the question has arisen, I have found myself wondering where the green jobs are...

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Aveda Aims for Zero Waste: Pilots Packaging Take-Back Program in Colorado

As of yesterday, Coloradoans have a way to recycle packaging items that are not accepted by their curbside collection program. With the support of the city of Denver, Aveda launched its take-back...

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Urban Truck Farms Take Local Food to a New Level

I saw the truck as we entered the Old South Pearl Street farmer's market on Sunday, but what I thought was an awesome old truck selling greens out of the back was even better—it was growing them....

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Nature Takes Over the Office in Downtown Denver

In this wired era, it's easy to let the office creep into every part of life, even time spent in nature, by checking email from the beach or taking a work call while out on the trail. But what if the...

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From Nothing Into Something, Sprout City Farms Grows a Thriving Urban School...

School gardens are becoming more and more popular around the country, but they're harder to establish in some places than in others—in the middle of a city, for example, where the soil is deficient...

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From Nothing Into Something, Sprout City Farms Grows a Thriving Urban School...

School gardens are becoming more and more popular around the country, but they're harder to establish in some places than in others—in the middle of a city, for example, where the soil is deficient...

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Colorado Works to Fix Major Loophole in Tire Recycling Program

Advisory committee tries to eliminate loophole that allows company to be paid to dump tires.

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Tar Sands Crude Spills Into Denver's Water Supply

"High levels of benzene and volatile organic compounds at the nearby Denver Metro Wastewater plant made closure of a technical services building necessary and have forced employees to wear respirators."

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