StudioMobile: Vertical farm in Dubai George Monbiot is one of the better environmental writers around, and also one of the most controversial. He acknowledges the fact and says "I find myself at odds with other greens almost as often as I find myself fighting our common enemies. I've had bruising battles over a long series of miracle solutions supported by my friends." And now he is ready to rumble once again, on that issue that is front of mind for every environmentalist: Vertical farms. He writesRead the full story on TreeHugger

Photo via the Guardian It's been a hot, hot summer -- as if you needed me to tell you that. Dramatic heat-related stories grabbed headlines around the globe: The worst heat waves to hit Russia in a thousand years, the flooding in Pakistan, and 17 countries set or tied temperature records. Here's another interesting record that was set over the summer, one that's a little harder to fit into a sensational soundbite, but certainly no...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Mauricio Alejo in Wired Phil Daoust of the Guardian questions the traditional home-to-office commute, First there is the actual getting to work, with the unreliable bus or overcrowded train and the time it takes to get there. He asks: " Do you arrive stressed, exhausted, ripped off, degraded, suicidal, homicidal or all of the above?" Once you get there, being in the office isn't always a joy either. Shirley Borrett, head of the Telework Associ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Oliver Foster's O2 Vertical Farm Duncan Graham-Rowe of the Guardian looks at the issue of vertical farms and finds that it grows on him. He calls it a "beguilingly simple idea: make maximum use of a small amount of space by filling glass houses with plant beds stacked high one above the other." In fact it is anything but. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo credit christophercarfi @ flickr. Move over kangaroo, horse, and nutria - there's a new meat on the supermarket shelves at Budgens in the UK - it's squirrel. Squirrel has been eaten in the U.S. south for ages, and Budgens owner Andrew Thornton told the Guardian that he sells as many as 15 squirrels a week. Rather than ...Read the full story on TreeHugger