Alternet has an interesting roundup of four places where you should avoid purchasing seafood if you want it to be sustainable. Find out why Costco, Legal Seafood, Nobu and H.E.B. should be on your no-shop list. For what seafood you can buy guilt-free, check out our sustainable seafood selections and 10 tips on being a sustainable sushi addict . … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Karl Chu knows he is a man way ahead of his time. It’s a time when, he posits, humans have transcended their bodies to exist on multiple planes, contribute to a global brain, and write apps with their genomes . But it’s the implications for architecture that are really exciting, says Chu. The founder of the innovative architectural firm metaxy , he imagines “genetic architects” creating buildings and othe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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E is for Environment Plants Green Seeds for the Next Generation (Book Review)
January 27, 2011 No Comment
Photo: Sara Novak When I think back to the days of elementary school a few books remain crystal clear above the other hazy recollections. There’s that book report on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and who could forget the Secret Garden ? But from kindergarten on up through high school, barely a moment was spent on environmental education. Now, a modern interpretation of these ethical ideals has begun molding the next generation into eco-savvy adults. E Is For Environment by Ian Ja… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …When Your Dress Transports You, Fashion Design Morphed With Mobility (Photos)
January 27, 2011 No Comment
Photo credit: Daniel Loewe. Project: Svala Imagine your dress becomes your means of transportation! This was the briefing the students at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Barcelona received from BMW . The result are 5 concepts for future mobility in cities like Barcelona , that result from morphing fashion with transport design. Great to see that all designs are
Continue reading …One Tonne Life: Interview with Project Architect Gert Wingårdh on His Energy Efficient Building (Video)
January 27, 2011 No Comment
Image via One Tonne Life – Portrait of Gert Wingårdh Last week the One Tonne Life project began in Stockholm and TreeHugger was there to meet the key players in this fascinating low carbon lifestyle experiment. To recap, the Lindell family have moved into a solar powered prefab house, designed b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones : Parliament Square Time Out , London’s weekly events-listing magazine, has asked experts to describe the impact of great catastrophes on the capital city. Many are related to climate change and the outlook is not good. A scientist outlined the effect of global temperatures rising by 4C, something that has been predicted as a worst case scenario. Another wrote about technology melt down and another of energy supplies dwindling. In a word: we are doomed…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …If You Ever Find Yourself In Calgary, Check Out the Bike Bike Cycle Store
January 26, 2011 No CommentMikeal at Copenhagenize has a nice write up about Bike Bike , a new cycle shop in Calgary, Alberta. It’s a great thing because Calgary’s not exactly bike central: In a city like Calgary, Sean [the owner of Bike Bike] is an ambassador for a virtually unknown land. This is Calgary – Cowtown, SUV-central, drive-600-metres-in-a-one-tonne-pickup-for-a-litre-of-milk Calgary. A shop like Bike Bike in Calgary is like a cricket equipment shop in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kudos to Sean. Check out the
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Photo credit: Saint Louis Zoo It’s thought that in the 1970s, 65,000 black rhinos roamed Africa. By the mid-1990s, only an estimated 2,300 survived. This dramatic loss is the largest among any rhino species and protecting those that remain against increasingly well financed and organize poachers is difficult . As bleak as the situation for black rhinos may be, there is still some opportunity for hope. The birth of a black rhino calf at the Saint Louis Zoo —ju… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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