Image from Mail Online This is England, the parks and gardens and countryside are supposed to be filled with golden daffodils by now. This is why we live here. But where are they? With this year's never ending winter and the long cold spell just beginning to end, the flowers haven't bloomed yet. The village of Thriplow has been holding their daffodil festival on the same weekend for 41 years and this is the first time that this has ever happened. It is also the coldest winter in 30 years and t...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image via Google PowerMeter A significant component to making home energy monitoring really catch on is the idea of making it into a competition. Manufacturers of dashboards and devices fro power monitors note that when people can see not only their own data, but that of others, it strikes up a competitive spirit and turns sa...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image from Wallpaper It's a David and Goliath win. The folding plug, designed by a humble student from the Royal College of Art in London, has won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010 overall prize at the Brit Insurance Design Awards this year. And TreeHugger called it, right from the st...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image via Wikipedia It's a sad day for Michigan, which lost its only known wolverine. The species has been on the decline, especially as snowpacks have shrunk. And now the wolverine state now really has no reason to call itself that. The last known wolverine - a 28-pound female that was first spotted in 2004 - was found by hikers over the weekend, dead from natural causes. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image from doh.sd.gov This is not a yolk. It's something many of us may have thought about: how do we know that the eggs we are buying really are organic or free range? The answer is: we don't. Last week a man was jailed for selling more than 100 million eggs that were su...Read the full story on TreeHugger