Claudia Saunders tests water bubbler. Photo: Marina Neil. Sydney Morning Herald

While no longer breaking news, the endeavours of students and staff at two different Australian schools still merits attention.

Wellington Grey on the truth about wireless devices

The tinfoil hats are out in Ontario, as teachers, parents and politicians pile on Wi-Fi.. Parents in Simcoe County, north of Toronto, are claiming that their kids are suffering from headaches, dizziness and even racing heart beats, and are blaming Wi-Fi.

Ever since Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim opened, the museum scene turned into a world of crazy starchitect one-upmanship, with lots of flash and not a lot of sustainability.

(All images: SRD Change 2010)

For the past seven years now the SRD (Society for Responsible Design) have held their Change design exhibition showing the latest graduate student thinking around environmentally and socially responsible design solutions. And this year it's on again.

Image Credit: PowerShift 2011 via Refresh Everything

In January, we told you about Pepsi's Refresh Everything initiative, giving away $20 million in grants to individuals, bu

Photo via D'Arcy Norman

Considering we're diving into Blue August -- our month of intensive focus on all things water related -- we're excited to see that Johns Hopkins University has also taken a keen interest in global water issues and created a platform for discussion.

photo: J. Novak

Whether we like it or not the food that we eat doesn't just affect our waistlines, it effects the way that we feel. If you're mindful of the way you feel after munching on a Hershey bar and a coke then you're less likely to eat junk food because the highs and the lows become too hard to bear.

Image via Greenpacks

We hear it all the time, and have heard it since Malthus: That overpopulation is the primary cause of the world's environmental ills.

Image via Barnes & Noble

While the Kindle and iPad head full speed into education as a market with serious profit potential for e-readers as a replacement for constantly re-printed text books, Barnes & Noble doesn't want to be left behind.

Image credit: Solar4Schools

The Solar4Schools Initiative has already seen hundreds of UK schools fitted with PV panels producing clean, renewable energy.