Terrefugia/Promo image So it turns out that we’ll get bona fide flying cars well before the world descends into a Blade Runner-esque nocturnal urban nightmare. A company called Terrefugia has unveiled its ‘roadable light sport aircraft’ at the 2012 New York Auto Show, Inhabitat reports. They are officially on sale, …

Is it possible that the GOP’s new incarnation of its notoriously oil transportation bill is even worse than before? Maybe. The initial version crashed and burned, but Transportation Nation just broke the news that the Republican House leadership is moving forward with a smaller, 18-month plan that retains much of …

© Tim Noble & Sue Webster Sculptures made out of trash may be a dime a dozen, but British artistic duo Tim Noble and Sue Webster are taking trash art to another level of in-your-face subtlety. Using discarded wood, metal, personal trash and even taxidermy materials, Noble and Webster project …

© Renovo Here at TreeHugger we love to write about bamboo and wooden bikes. Not only are they beautiful and made from a renewable resource, but they hold out hope that the bike industry can be a budding economy for the U.S. Yet as we’ve discussed previously, using wood or …

© Disneynature –Freddy adopts Oscar in “Chimpanzee.” The upcoming film Chimpanzee stars Oscar, a 3-year-old playful and curious chimp scampering about the African forest. When his family is confronted by a rival band of chimpanzees, suddenly the toddler is left to fend for himself. But in an unexpected turn of …

ilikecheese via Wikimidia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0 Would you let corporations decide how climate science gets taught in your kids’ classroom? That is exactly what is happening—Tennessee just became the 4th state to pass corporation-written laws dictating how global warming is taught in public schools. And they did it with ALEC. …

Fabian Bromann/CC BY 2.0 “Spend your remaining days with someone that shares your instinct to prepare and survive the end of the world as we know it,” urges the Survivalist Dating Community page at Kwink.com. “Don’t use those generic dating sites that can’t cater to your core trait. The Doomsday …

Image credit: Fully Charged/Video Screen Grab When Robert Llewellyn test drove the Ford Transit Connect EV delivery van, I suggested that urban business vehicles like this might be the perfect application for early electric vehicle technology. In fact many businesses like UK retailer Tesco are already deploying EV delivery vans. …

Toyota Europe’s Flickr page/via A popular criticism of hybrid and fuel efficient cars goes like this: If your car is more fuel efficient, and you know you’re saving money on gas, you’ll be more inclined to drive more—thus negating any energy and carbon savings you had. Called the ‘Prius fallacy’, …

grcblog/Video screen capture While really cool, thermal imaging equipment has some major design flaws. But the technology is about to have a breakthrough that will make it more efficient and cheaper, and it’s all thanks to a color-changing butterfly. To make thermal imaging work, a lot of energy goes into …