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This is a great perk. The newest thing to hit business, according to WSJ (apologies for going back on my word, but this is a nice little article), is the community garden at work. Your company invests the money in the landscaping, the employees help to tend it and get to take home the produce. [...]

It’s Summer. The fair’s in town.  It’s going green and Minnesota is leading the charge with The Eco Experience Exhibit.  Why make a big to-do about a seemingly small feat?  Because in one turn-o-the-wheel, nearly 500,000 people will be exposed to a varied and diverse weekend event calendar, addressing everything from alternative energies, personal diet, [...]

Surya in London and Greenhouse in New York both vie for worlds 1st “sustainable nightclub” status.  With green mania being exposed in all its verdant vibrancy, the future is now as eco-conscious party goers power the clubs’ electricity on piezoelectric flooring, along with commercial wind and solar elements.  Over at House Stuff Works, they diligently [...]

This is my office home for the next month or so: The City Of Pittsburgh Sustainability Department. It sits right in dahntahn (listen to the link…hilarious…”downtown”, for you non-natives) Pittsburgh, across the street from the much heralded PNC Firstside Center (PNC has more LEED buildings than any other company in the world), next to the [...]

I got very excited when I heard about green things happening in my former home of NY.  The new High Line Park just opened and I had the chance to beat the crowds and see it last week. Very cool, and will just get better. Today I checked out what I heard was a new [...]

Sustainy recently took a trip to New York and took the opportunity to visit the brand spankin’ new High Line Park, the first phase of which opened on the 9th and is the city’s newest green space next to the Times Square pedestrian mall.  I bought myself a delicious piece of organic leek and mint [...]

Lately, Audi has been doing really big things with clean diesel engines.  Similarly, a German auto-nerd has just set a world record for the fastest car driven by bio-gas using… an Audi sedan.  This story over at autoblog.com tells a little more as to how Jürgen Hohenester, a German race car drive, tweaked his Audi [...]

The EPA recently launched a new section to their site with more info than any sustainy reader could ever want. MyEnvironment takes an up close look at local areas around the country.  Simply plug in an address, zip code, city and it will populate a plethora of info on the environmental statistics available for that [...]

What’s up with waves man?  I’ve always been obsessed with the idea of lights’ wave/particle duality (hint: it’s both); And now it’s all about waves wherever I turn, from the idea of wave power to the new Google Wave email system (I watched the video for this btw, and can’t quite tell why people are [...]

The City of New York just gave the boot to cars. Times Square is now a pedestrian mall, in addition to another section further down Broadway between 33rd and 35th. Pretty amazing. Though it’s just considered a pilot program, the city is studying the effect to traffic surrounding the area and, if successful, word [...]