SOLAR BALLOONS: CoolEarth gets $21 Million in Funding

It’s easy to mistake these buoyant solar panels from CoolEarth for a child’s balloons caught in a power line, but these shiny floating photovoltaic panels are scientist’s latest attempt

SUSTAINABLE STYLE: Plastic Fantastic ‘Melissa Shoes’

Melissa Desire + Triton Red Hot Heels, $58 at Kaight NYC We generally associate plastic shoes with blister-generating sandals or galoshes that take eons to decompose in landfill, but when it comes to

SUSTAINABLE STYLE: Recycling and Upcycling Collections

FromSomewhere‘s recycled tweed remixes, Autumn/Winter 07/08 After all the hoopla from the recent New York, London, Paris, and Milan fashion shows, it is nice to get back to basics and think about

Green Modus Housing Development Grabs AZ’s 1st LEED-H

With the growing need for more dense sustainable housing, we can only hope that more developers will take a cue from Phoenix-based Modus Development and their latest residences, The Galleries at Turney.

SMIT’s GROW: Solar and Wind Photovoltaic ‘Leaves’

Our friends at Ecolect, the go-to sustainable design and materials community, have launched a monthly spotlight on sustainable design called Limelight – and the first feature is tough act to follow.