Image credit: Richmond Grows Last week I wrote about a community-run seed library and suggested that public libraries could get in on the act—offering regional and heirloom varieties of seeds for sharing alongside more traditional lending materials like books and CDs. It turns out this wasn’t such a crazy idea. In fact, one public library in California is already doing just that…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All images: Finisterre As we’ve said before, Finisterre is an outdoor apparel company we’ve a great deal of respect for. They go from strength to strength. Aside from winning one award after the other, and garnering positive magazine gear reviews, they keep putting out the product they want to wear, sourced and manufactured so they can sleep easy at night. Clean, lean, functional, (and funky) eco and ethically minded clothing for those who spend their days outside, whatever the weather. This northern winter they’ve added, in addition to colour and style revisions to signature products, a number of new products, with back-st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All images: Finisterre As we’ve said before, Finisterre is an outdoor apparel company we’ve a great deal of respect for. They go from strength to strength. Aside from winning one award after the other, and garnering positive magazine gear reviews, they keep putting out the product they want to wear, sourced and manufactured so they can sleep easy at night. Clean, lean, functional, (and funky) eco and ethically minded clothing for those who spend their days outside, whatever the weather. This northern winter they’ve added, in addition to colour and style revisions to signature products, a number of new products, with back-st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …All images: Finisterre As we’ve said before, Finisterre is an outdoor apparel company we’ve a great deal of respect for. They go from strength to strength. Aside from winning one award after the other, and garnering positive magazine gear reviews, they keep putting out the product they want to wear, sourced and manufactured so they can sleep easy at night. Clean, lean, functional, (and funky) eco and ethically minded clothing for those who spend their days outside, whatever the weather. This northern winter they’ve added, in addition to colour and style revisions to signature products, a number of new products, with back-st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All images: Finisterre As we’ve said before, Finisterre is an outdoor apparel company we’ve a great deal of respect for. They go from strength to strength. Aside from winning one award after the other, and garnering positive magazine gear reviews, they keep putting out the product they want to wear, sourced and manufactured so they can sleep easy at night. Clean, lean, functional, (and funky) eco and ethically minded clothing for those who spend their days outside, whatever the weather. This northern winter they’ve added, in addition to colour and style revisions to signature products, a number of new products, with back-st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …All images: Finisterre As we’ve said before, Finisterre is an outdoor apparel company we’ve a great deal of respect for. They go from strength to strength. Aside from winning one award after the other, and garnering positive magazine gear reviews, they keep putting out the product they want to wear, sourced and manufactured so they can sleep easy at night. Clean, lean, functional, (and funky) eco and ethically minded clothing for those who spend their days outside, whatever the weather. This northern winter they’ve added, in addition to colour and style revisions to signature products, a number of new products, with back-st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Makedo kit. Photo credit: Makedo The Makedo connector set. TreeHugger’s Roberta picked it as one of her 10 Best Green Toys at last years international toy fair. Then when readers selected it as their top Industrial Design or Design Idea for TreeHugger’s Best of Green 2010 Awards , Lloyd felt under pressure to reconsider his own Editors Choice. Could this be the Meccano ,
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Photo Credit: Jon Dee The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra announced on Friday 21 January that its campus will discontinue the sale of bottled water by World Water Day (22 March 201). The initiative started by students, assisted by environment action group Do Something! and supported by University administration and campus businesses is thought to make Canberra Uni the first Australian university to eradicate single use bottled water. Representative of the UC Environment and Sustainability Socie… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: B. Alter: Stadium, December, 2010 The London 2012 Olympics’ claim to be the greenest ever is coming under threat almost daily. The plans for recycling and re-using the new buildings were impressive but a huge controversy has developed over the future of the 80,000 seat Olympic stadium. The original commitment was that it would be retained and used as a football (soccer) club’s new home with community facilities provided. Instead, two teams are bidding for it and one wants to knock it down and build a new stadium in its place. What kind of waste is this…… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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