TreeHugger’s Best of Green 2010: Cast Your Vote Today!

Last year, TreeHugger honored more than 170 winners across eight topics with our first annual Best of Green Awards. This year, we asked for your nominations and the response was overwhelming with hundreds of suggestions spanning dozens of categories.
Now, your suggestions, along with some of our own, have been compiled and it’s time to vote for your favorite….Read the full story on TreeHugger

Best of Ecouterre: So Long 2009, Hello 2010!

As 2009 drew to a close, Ecouterre took the opportunity to look back at some of our favorite stories of the year, including our favorite up-and-coming green designers, the coolest wearable technology, the most bizarre eco-fashions, and our <a href=”http://www.ecouterre.com/8864/7-most-popu…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Top 10 Green Tourist Destinations for 2009 (slideshow)

Image via: Anthonyko on Flickr.com
In need of somewhere to travel for New Years? Want to start planning your summer vacation? Now in it’s fifth year, National Geographic Traveler magazine has choosing the top green destinations in the world to a science. Many of the locations were chosen for their relative isolation (and thus minimal human impact), while others were major metropolitan areas that have managed to implement a successful environmental …Read the full story on TreeHugger
CO2 Emissions Rose 2% in 2008, Despite Recession – We’re On Target for 6°C Temperature Rise

photo: Steve via flickr.
Here are two sobering thoughts: 1) New research shows that despite last year’s global recession total CO2 emissions still climbed 2% in 2008; and, 2) the Global Carbon Project adds, without strong action in Copenhagen we won’t be able to stabilize temperatures in “a smooth and organized way” and that its <a href=”http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/half-all-species-extinct-in-your-life…Read the full story on TreeHugger
SF Green Festival 09 – More Than One Way to Rip a Shirt to Shreds

Restructured clothing was definitely at home at the San Francisco Green Festival this year. There were several fashion designers that knew how to shred old clothing and sew it into something new, creative, and stylish. Here we have Elisabethan, a line by Elisabeth Delehaunty – a clothing artist we’ve followed for years. It was fun to see her gorgeous creations at the fest, but she certainly wasn’t the only seamstress. Check out some of the other great clothing lines making something hot out of something tossed. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Go See Tapped Tonite and Find Out How Sacramento’s Municipal Water is Under Attack

We reported a few weeks ago that water bottling giant Nestle plants to build a water bottling plant in Sacramento by the end of this year. While building another water bottling plant seems like a waste of space and resources, after attending an initial community meeting we find out that the project is even more wicked than initially assumed. This week you can support efforts to wrestle Nestle out of Sacramento by heading to the Crest Theater to see Tapped…Read the full story on TreeHugger
75 Chipotle Restaurants Get Solar Panels – Chain Becomes Largest Solar Power Producer in Industry

Here’s one more reason to feel good about heading out to Chipotle for a burrito: The Denver-based Mexican restaurant chain has just announced that is making a big solar power push, partnering with Standard Renewable Energy to install solar panels at approximately 75 of its restaurants over the next year:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Slideshow: Green Wheels of the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show

This year’s Frankfurt Auto Show was an explosion of new green vehicles. With extravagant displays and more than 80 world-premiers, this year’s show lived up to its reputation as the auto event to watch. It was also the year of green transportation: we venture to say that no major car show has been more jam packed with electric cars, hybrids, fuel cells, low-carbon diesels, and hybrids of every imaginable species. So take a browse through our slideshow of Frankfurt highlights and pick your favorites.
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$13 Trillion Says a Global Climate Treaty’s a Good Bet

$13 trillion is a lot of dough. That’s almost equal to the entire GDP of the United States, which as you know, is the richest country in the world. In fact, $13 trillion is about 1/5th of the entire world’s GDP. $13 trillion is also the amount of money that says forging a global climate treaty this year is a good bet….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Nau For Something Completely Different: Nau Bags it.

Last year we alluded one or more times to the imminent arrival of a line of luggage-like accessories from the eco-clothier Nau. But due to the company’s untimely demise and subsequent phoenix rising those plans went into a holding pattern. Now with the release of their Fall 2009 collection those accessories have finally surfaced.
As the photos here (and more below) indicate, the clean, tailored lines of the company’s apparel have been carried through into nine differe…Read the full story on TreeHugger