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Today is the big day: London's new bicycle rental system is being launched.

Credit: Zoological Society of London/C Mahanayakage.

Behold, the Horton Plains slender loris, photographed for the first time by the Zoological Society of London's EDGE project.

Image credit: Friends of the Earth UK

What's a herd of cows doing on the London Underground? Having enlisted singing cows to help fix the food chain, Friends of the Earth UK has now launched an underground (sorry!) "Moovement" to demand rainforest free meat and dairy.

Bonnie recently covered the five shortlisted designs in the Beyond the Hive Competition.

Image credit: Transition Culture

It's so much easier to be against something than for something. In fact, I'd argue that is one of the central strategic challenges facing sustainability activists.

All images by Jim Rokos via designboom

Lehman B is a "do-tank" (which I assume is a think-tank with tools) "based on the belief that the best way to explore and embrace the opportunities the future holds is by living them and doing them." This bike-as-camper, called Supertramp, "explores the practicality of microsized living and downshifting as urban "flowmads" (another cl

The black-redstart population in Birmingham has four new chicks.

All images via www.designboom.com

This amazing pavilion designed by students at Chelsea College of Art & Design has been on show during the London Festival of Architecture for the last couple of weeks.

Image credit: The Guardian

Oh dear. I suspect I am going to reawaken the age-old "is environmentalism socialist" debate with this post.

Industrial designer Nitipak Samsen is concerned that "Global warming has been driven by capitalism, now we are trying to solve global warming through capitalism." He has developed a sort of mini-carbon offsetting device he calls a A.T.R.E.E.M. ((Automated Tree-Rental for Emission Encaging Machine), which measures the growth of the tree and the rate of carbon dioxide absorption.