Images Credit: Lloyd Alter Jevons Paradox would suggest that as energy efficiency increases, then people will respond by using more of it. It is a controversial issue in a world where people are working hard to increase efficiency so that we will use less of it. It even hit the New Yorker recently, with David Owen’s article The Efficiency Dilemma. I personally was skeptical (and wrote so in Jevons Paradox and Energy Efficiency ) but have changed my mind since I saw IKEA’s mode… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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From watercolors to petals, flowers were the fashion forward trend at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. AP’s Natalie Rotman checks out fashion choices of Mila Kunis, Claire Danes and other best-dressed ladies. (Jan. 3)
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Photo via Last Days of the Incas Five hundred years ago, three Inca children were left to freeze high in the cold Argentinian Andes as a religious sacrifice. In time, their bodies mummified, having been swallowed in snow and entombed within the glacier, lost to time. But centuries later, in a warmer world, their perfectly-preserved corpses were discovered beneath the melting snow — an increasingly common sight. Experts say that as glaciers continue to recede throughout the world, more of their long-guarded secrets will be revealed in the w… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …100-1000 And Restore Coastal Alabama Partnership’s Inaugural Massive Oyster Reef Restoration
January 31, 2011 No Comment
Prepping the Park for the Restoration Event Photo: 100-1000 Last weekend , January 22nd – 23rd , over 500 volunteers from Alabama and across the country came together in Mobile Bay to lay the beginnings of oyster reefs. The volunteers strapped on boots and gloves to place 16,000 bags of oyster shells along the shore – the first step to building 100 miles of o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Yeniçağa Lake. Photo: Yeniçağa Belediyesi (Municipality). Once a popular swimming spot, Yeniçağa Lake in the northwestern Turkish province of Bolu has become too polluted even to sustain the healthy fish populations once found there. But thanks to an international restoration effort, the lake is slowly recovering, to the benefit not just of the local environment, but the global fight against
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Cluster of mango trees pre-harvest. Photo by Sapiens Solutions via Flickr From bikes and floors to sheets and t-shirts, bamboo is well-known as a popular green choice because as a fast-growing grass, it’s a renewable material. Hemp is also considered environmentally smart for a variety of products including its wood. Mango trees are also fast-growing and another
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Image: Slideshare , Timmy Plante If you are still wondering just exactly where antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” come from, and how we have contributed to creating them, then this story-book slideshow will provide enlightenment. Timmy Plante, aka Implante, who created the story of antibiotic resistant bacteria, tells
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One Plastic Beach from Tess Thackara on Vimeo . For artists Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang, visiting their favorite stretch of Northern Californian coastline is a like taking a trip to an art-supply store. For the over 10 years, the couple has been collecting bits of plastic debris, washed-up remnants of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , and transforming them into works of art which highlight the perilous state of our oceans — while at the same time making somethi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: SFD National Association of Sustainable Fashion Designers ( SFD ), a non-profit founded by Jamila Payne in 2008, is launching a year-long webinar series with Fair Trade USA and Eco Fashion World , called “Fashion Ideas,” dedicated to helping fashion entrepreneurs flourish in the sustainable fashion sector. The upcoming session, taking pace on February 9, 2011 at 6pm (EST), will focus on how to produce fair trade clothing. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Photo: Alex Davies At the Meet My Project design exposition in Paris this week, simplicity was a major theme: boiling down products to their basics to get the most out of the materials used to make them. That’s especially true of the work presented by Naruse Inokuma Architects , a young Japanese design office. The group created the From One Sheet chair (even the name is simple and straightforward): an armchair made from a single sheet of plywood, cut, bent, and held together by a single steel rod. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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