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It's because they're un-American, obviously. Jonathan Safron Foer, the author of 'Everything is Illuminated' has been following Michael Pollan's lead as of late--his latest book is called 'Eating Animals', and it calls for, among other things, a closer examination of our nation's food system.

NASA Alex at Worldchanging makes an interesting point about this classic image from space, often used to show how poor and undeveloped Africa is compared to Europe and the USA. But Alex notes that it isn't an image of underdevelopment, it is one of waste....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Apologies for the bad Photoshop job... Photo: Zipcar Logo, Toyota Less Than 1% of Zipcar Fleet, But... I'm pretty sure that many TreeHugger readers are also Zipcar customers (car-sharing in general is booming), and chances are that with that crowd, the Prius is more popular than the SUVs. But unless you live in a cave (in which case, why are yo reading this?

Image via Unplggd Keeping dust out of your gadget's inner workings is a sure way to make them last longer. And making your gadgets last longer is a sure way to reduce the amount of e-waste heading to landfills or recycling plants. While air in a can tends to be the go-to cleaning solution for electronics among most consumers (if you clean your electronics at all!), it's not the greenest solution. Perhaps simply forcing the electronics to sneeze is a better way!

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) is the scourge of cattle farmers in the United Kingdom—costing an average of £27,000 per infected herd. Slowing bTB's spread is one of the major techniques farmers and the government use to fight the disease.

Students of recycling know that one big issue in reducing waste is human nature. We are ill-informed, inattentive, or just plain lazy when it comes to getting reusable post-consumer materials into the recycling stream. Sure, only true cretins chuck their picnic waste out of the moving car's window in this enlightened age. But recycling systems are far from optimized.

all images from patent application The Bible says "ashes to ashes and dust to dust" but that doesn't stop many people from wanting a permanent, tightly sealed container for their loved one's remains. But burying people horizontally is an extravagant use of real estate, and digging those holes is a lot of work.

Images via Fido Fashion After some debate on whether or not having a dog means a bigger carbon footprint than having an SUV, we're seeing our furry friends ramp up their contribution to the green movement. First, it was the solar powered dog sweater.

Malayan tiger photo: B_cool via Wikipedia. Here's one more on the organized crime and the illegal wildlife trade connection: Economic Times reports that Malaysia's indigenous forest p

Federal legislators should look to the states for some key lessons on cap-and-trade.

This piece is third in a series from Visiting Senior Fellow Jill Duggan: