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Backfire: Constitutional Forest Protection in Greece May Promote Arson to...
While the Greek Church may be home to one of the greenest religious leaders, forest conservation measures provided for in the Greek Constitution may be backfiring. Earlier this month, before last...
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Kate Humble Supports Endangered Mediterranean Sea Turtles
Earlier this year, British TV broadcaster Kate Humble teamed up with the Travel Foundation and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) to urge UK tour operator representatives to encourage...
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Drought Around The World: Atlanta In Perspective
It's been raining a bit in the US Southeast, adding a few feet of depth to Atlanta Georgia's severely depleted drinking water reservoir, Lake Lanier, and pulling the region out of the very worst...
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Two Small Renewable Energy Firsts: Offshore Wind Power in Germany, Solar...
Recently when I presented the news of the world’s largest thin-film solar power plant and commented that, at 10 MW, it wasn’t really all that big and sometimes we watchers of the renewable energy...
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Head Lice: The Latest Superbug to Become Resistant to Pesticides
While drug companies continue to say its not happening, school nurses around the country are saying more and more parents are at a loss for solutions, reports MSNBC. One nurse even reported a parent,...
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Two on Poo Power: Netherlands and Greece Do Wonders With Waste
It's safe to say that TreeHugger loves poo power. Not just because of the nice alliteration and an excrement reference that draws your eye, but because it completes a waste cycle, creating energy from...
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A Green Retreat on a Greek Island
When you live in a place where three-fourths of the population makes its living from tourism, it only makes sense to try to preserve what people come to enjoy. At the popular beach destination of Kos,...
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Eco Films to Screen in Greece: Submit By March 1
Once famed as the home of a 100-foot-tall statue of the Greek god Helios, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the island of Rhodes is these days
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7 Popular Tourist Destinations to See Before it's Too Late
There's a new kind of eco-tourist on the prowl, one who seeks out the places and experiences threatened by global warming: the climate tourist. The following seven popular tourist destinations may not...
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Cement Makers, Worldwide, Volunteer 25% Cutback in CO2 Emissions
In the back and forth of setting emission cut-back 'best practices,' it's a common response for industry, sensing stingent regulations are just around the corner, to 'volunteer'
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Preview: Rhodes Ecofilms Festival Begins This Week
New films about Canada's tar sands, the damage caused by extractive industries in the Amazon rainforest, and Aristotle's philosophy on nature will be among the opening-day fare
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Artists Turn Water Into Masterpieces (Slideshow)
The myriad and sometimes contradictory qualities of water -- both life-giving and destructive, powerful and serene, a barrier and a bond between people -- make it a fertile subject for fine art, as...
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Greece Gets Grief for its Environmental Neglect
Already in the doghouse with the rest of the European Union over its massive debt and financial instability, Greece is now coming in
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Architects Build A Half-Scale Room Inside A Full-Scale Room: "It's Like Alice...
Real estate developers often trick purchasers by filling model suites with special 7/8 full size furniture to make rooms look bigger. Now Point Supreme Architects are tricking art gallery patrons by...
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Almost Underground House Blends In With Landscape
Perhaps we have to rethink the term "green roof", because in many climates it might be mostly other colours, like this one in Greece by Deca Architecture and shown on Designboom.
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Biologists Find Endangered Seals' Secret Island Getaway
It's never been easy being an endangered species -- particularly nowadays, what with all the people encroaching upon their native hangouts or clamoring for a rare peek at them. But despite all that,...
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Eco-Etsy for Recycled Goods Debuts in Greece
The website Etsy has become wildly popular by connecting consumers with small-scale craftspeople making original jewelry, artwork, home-décor
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Couple Denied Adoption Because They're Vegetarian
Adopting a child that's in need of a home is one of the most selfless and loving decisions a person can make -- but in Greece, having a big heart means nothing if you don't eat meat. A vegetarian...
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As Greeks Abandon Troubled Athens, Are Cities Really Sustainable?
There's been much talk about the relative sustainability of urban versus rural living. What with the small carbon footprint of New Yorkers, and the tiny fridges of Copenhagen, many
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Reaching Past Borders to Protect the Mediterranean
Countries around the Mediterranean have been abuzz in recent weeks over currently thwarted plans to sail a flotilla of ships to run Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip -- an
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