Seattle Metro Bus Cake for Bus-Obsessed 2-Year Old’s Birthday = Awesomeness
January 24, 2011 No Comment
Photo: nicolemcguire , CC Best Birthday Cake Ever! Now for something on the lighter side (though maybe not light in calories)… Most of us treehuggers like public transportation. Some even develop a certain personal fondness for it over years of use; it starts to become a familar place where you can relax, read, listen to music, etc. But there’s probably nobody who likes the bus quite as much as Max, a 2-year old boy who’s apparently “obsessed” with Seattle metro buses. So much so that his aweso… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Apple Fail: Company Scores Last in Report on Workers’ Rights and Environmental Practices
January 24, 2011 No Comment
Image: BindApple.com This hasn’t been a great month for Apple: bad publicity for waging war on the little guy and the art of self-repair with the Pentalobe screw , the unfortunate news that Steve Jobs’ health has taken a bad turn, and now a report coming out of China that puts the company last in a list of 29 tech giants ranked for their responses on pollution and workers’ rights, including occupational health hazards, at the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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In a press release, Barnes & Noble notes that digital periodical sales are way, way up, with over 650,000 total subscriptions from Nook Color customers. Also, “Since Christmas Day, Nook customers ordered 150 percent more subscriptions than the total number sold over the entire previous 12 months,” reports CNET It seems like wonderful news for dematerialization — less paper and less transportation of periodicals from publishing house to everywhere in the country. However, while we’ve seen the carbon footprint comparisons of
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Photo: PBS Humans activities now leave an impact on the natural world in just about every manner imaginable — from harvesting resources for consumption to emitting CO2 as a byproduct of generating energy to burning fossil fuels to power our transportation, the collective footprint of those various activities is massive indeed. But what about other widespread acts that humans have engaged in throughout history? What else has left a mark on the world’s climate? What, for instance, is the carbon footprint of war? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Does Protecting Endangered Rhinos Conflict With Traditional Chinese Medicine?
January 24, 2011 No Comment
10 critically endangered black rhinos were killed in South Africa in 2010. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons A report released in the first weeks of 2011 announced that in the previous year a record number of endangered rhinoceros had been killed by poachers —333 in 2010 compared to just 133 in 2009. The next day, South African police cornered a band of poachers and—after a protracted firefight— shot and… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via Punchingtrees But the real question is… If this photo submitted on Reddit by user “punchingtrees” (um, nice usename) is to be believed, Google has been sending cards that are printed not only on recycled paper (which should be a minimum), but that also contain embedded wild flower seeds. They recommend that the reader … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Vinod Khosla’s Biofuels 101 Refresher Course – Sort Out the Hype From the Hope in Liquid Renewable Fuels
January 24, 2011 No CommentAfter a good long while in the spotlight, and lots of panacea-like promises that turned out to be pandora’s boxes , biofuels have faded into the green scenery a bit. Which isn’t to say there isn’t a place for them in a future low- or no-carbon energy mix. If you want to catch up on the state of all the various methods of biofuel production, how far away from commercialization they are, what the potential yields are, wh… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It may be bitterly cold in the northeast US right now, unusually frigid along much of the East Coast, but Greenland and the Arctic are practically balmy–15-20°F above normal in December, as the New York Times points out. Going along with that is some new research showing that Greenland’s past ice melt season was exceptionally long, with some areas having an extra 50 days of melting in 2010. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Dara O’Rourke of GoodGuide posing a big question to designers. Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch Compostmodern 2011 was held this last weekend in San Francisco, CA. The relatively new conference never fails to impress with the caliber of designers it brings to the stage. This year, the audience heard from such names as Yves Behar, creator of the One Laptop Per Child project, Scott Thomas the designer behind the Obama presidential campaign, Jonah Sachs of Free Range Studios, Bruce Mau, Lisa Gansky, Julie Cordua…the list goes on. But even more impressive than the speaker lineup is the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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