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Style and environmental responsibility are both achieved when you buy organic. This is some cool basic blank clothing that is organic

exploring efforts to “uninvent” suburbia in industrialized countries — and how to avoid having it be the new norm around cities in fast-growing developing countries. Experiments in the United States include turning old malls into walkable villages with housing, small retail businesses, and the like — somewhat like small-scale, less-grand variants of Masdar — the $22 billion car-free, solar-powered city for which ground was broken on Saturday next to the Abu Dhabi international airport.

“Europeans want food that is cheap, convenient, high quality, safe and more and more produced in a eco-friendly way,” says Professor Brian McKenna, at University College Dublin in Ireland. He continues, “Food is important to peoples health as it is increasingly being linked to diseases such as obesity, coronary heart disease and diabetes."

Chocolate is a guilty pleasure for some, but could soon prove highly nutritious — for your car! Thanks to a process created by British company Ecotec, it is now possible to take waste chocolate from confectionery companies and turn it into biodiesel. And to prove that it works, two British adventurers just completed a trek on a chocolate powered truck that went all the way from Europe to Timbuktu!

What would you call a skyscraper that works like a tree, makes oxygen, distills water, produces energy, and changes with the seasons? Perhaps it’s time to propose a new word: treescraper! Biomimicry - the art of drawing inspiration from nature’s designs - is a strategy often found in green architecture, and here’s a tree-inspired super structure that exemplifies healthy and high-tech design for the future.

Brought to you by Amazing Recycled Products, founded on Earth Day of 1990, distributor of, well, amazing recycled products.

Sustainability governance was measured on a 100-point scale in the study. The overall average scores were fairly low, less than 50%of the ideals RiskMetrics defined in each of the four pillars. However, Welsh pointed out that this doesn't necessarily mean that all companies are doing poorly, since so much of the measurements depend on disclosure and companies often do things they don't talk about.

Design firms, up-and-coming designers and students are encouraged to explore gadgets that address energy, carbon footprint, health and toxicity, lifecycle, social development and new materials.

Still, just how many people are willing to move beyond lip service is a pressing question.

"You have polls where people say, `Yes, we're willing to pay more to be green.' I think this is a premise that has yet to be fully tested," said Clifford Maynes, executive director of Green Communities Canada.

ComEd customers snatched up nearly 1 million discounted compact fluorescent light bulbs from the energy provider this fall, a small step in phasing out incandescent light bulbs nationwide by 2014.

Toyota said it will drive environmental performance by introducing innovative technology and improvement activities but gave no further details. The plant will use renewable energy and tree-planting activities will be promoted.

Through innovation in their paper and ink use and operational changes, Xerox reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 18 percent below 2002 levels.

“A sad day, I suppose. However, this reminds me of the fundamental question that must be asked of all ‘green’ products: Are they necessary? That is, do we NEED lip balm or is it something we simply enjoy? If the latter, then there’s nothing truly sustainable about creating superfluous products.

A helpful “Cheat Sheet” in the front of the book includes a solar panel calculator that can be used to measure the size and cost of adding solar energy to a home, as well as a “Green Cleaners Cookbook” with recipes for making homemade cleaning products.

If there must be another t-shirt company on the market, it might as well be supporting a good cause. A percentage of total sales is donated to three organizations; International Rescue Committee, Natural Resources Defense Council and ENOUGH - a project to end genocide and crimes against humanity.