Photos: AirDye, Tristar. We're all familiar with green fabrics like organic cotton, bamboo and hemp, but which new materials and practices are moving fashion forward to a greener, brighter future? Here are eight processes and fabrics paving the way....Read the full story on TreeHugger

The cusk eel, pictured here, was one of the fish seen eating floating plant matter. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Most research has shown that deep sea fish sit at the top of their food chains—hunting as predators and scavenging the carcasses of dead animals. Recent tests, however, have demonstrated that these denizens of the deep preserve a more generalist diet and even eat plant matter as it sinks from the surface. The discovery, researchers say, has serious implications for our understanding of Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo: Public domain Get Ready for Lots of Acronyms At the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit (ARPA-E means Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy), the U.S. secretary of energy Steven Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funds for clean tech research in fields related to energy. The three main areas that are getting funded are: 1) Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS -- The DOE really loves acronyms), or ways to store energy on a very large scale, 2) Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT), or better ways to convert and switch power around, and 3) Building Energy E...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image: StreetFilms Stress-Free Green Commuting We write a lot about how to reduce the impact of transportation and make our society less car-centric. Well, here's a good example: Seattle's relatively new Link light-rail. It currently has 13 stations that are all bike-accessible (with covered racks or lockers), and you can put at least 4 bikes in each train car. "Service is frequent, with headways as short as 7 minutes during rush hour, and never longer than 15 minutes. And like...Read the full story on TreeHugger