

Nothing new about this; shopping mall parking in 1958. Library of Virginia.
Alex recently asked Can Great Design Redeem the Parking Garage? He was talking about a new parking structure by Herzog and de Meuron on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, which is a pedestrian street de

photo: Stuart Caie via flickr
In case you needed more convincing that developing the United States' oil shale deposits into liquid fuel is an environmental nightmare and a complete non-starter from an energy perspective,

Soot from vehicle exhaust, power generation and burning biomass is the second most important contributor to global warming.

photo: Eyes on the Forest
Echoing a recent Greenpeace report on the deforestation in Indonesia by the paper industry, Eyes on the Forest is highlighting the actions of Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL in illegally clearing forests and undermining governm
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It's almost quaint to think that our ancient ancestors, living some 10,000 years ago, may have altered the planet's climate, just like us.

Image: Shefaet, Flickr
This one goes out to mig. Mig wrote us and explained that yesterday a distant facebook friend posted this:
"Oceans are the single largest CO2 reduction system in the world.

all images: Gallup.com
There have been a number of surveys released in the past few months about shifting attitudes of the American public regarding global warming.

Scientists took sonar measurements to record clouds of methane bubbles rising from the seafloor.

photo: Mark Woodbury via flickr.
A new study coming out of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that when it comes to the