"Park Here" Offers A Verdant Escape From Winter Doldrums Inside A Nolita Gallery
January 24, 2011 No Comment
Park Ranger Mike Photo: openhouse nyc Weekend temperatures in the twenties and an article in the New York Times drove many New Yorkers seeking a patch of green and a break from the bitter cold to a pop-up park on Mulberry Street in Nolita. The indoor pop-up park is located in Openhouse Gallery’s 4,500 square foot art and exhibition space, and is simply called “ParkHere”. Despite my doubts that… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Michael Woodruff / CC The most influential artists behind music as we know it might not be Beethoven or the Beatles — but rather, birds. For ages those feathered crooners have been belting out their unique songs and calls in genres reminiscent of classical and baroque to noise rock and electro-pop, and everything in between. In fact, many musicologists believe that bird sounds inspired our very conception of music itself — so it was only a matter of time before … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via link2lando at flickr and Creative Commons license. They are getting older, drunker, and they are also getting fatter, as this nation now drinks 70 to 80 percent more beer and wine than they did twenty years ago and has far more sedentary-making computers at home. Fifty-three percent of the men are too fat, and 37 percent of the women are also. Ninety percent of homes have a computer. Who do we mean? Well, it’s not Americans, though of course they top any global obesity stats. It is, in fact, the Swedes. While the population doesn’t seem to be aging healthi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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JoAnn Berman Turns Housewife Attire On Its Head for Pre-Fall 2011 (Photos)
January 23, 2011 No Comment
Photo: JoAnn Berman Before New York City is in a frenzy over Fall 2011 collections at Fashion Week next month, we’re taking a fresh look at local Brooklyn designer JoAnn Berman ‘s Pre-Fall 2011 collection, the “Real Housewives of Bushwick,” named after her beloved ‘hood. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photos: © Simon Devitt, via Blog Reflex Deco On Great Barrier Island, off the northern coast of New Zealand, surrounded by a remarkable natural landscape and by Puriri trees, Blackwoods and other natives, sits the newly built and aptly named Great Barrier Island House . The work of Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects , the family house is elevated to protect against flooding, and is built of timber from
Continue reading …The President Previews His State of the Union, No Mention of Climate and Energy (Video)
January 23, 2011 No Comment
photo via flickr President Obama has sent a special video message to his Obama for American supporters, with a preview of his State of the Union speech, which he will deliver on Tuesday evening. In the 4 minute video, there is plenty of talk about growing the economy and securing a better future for the “American family,” but there is no mention of climate and energy reform. Granted, this is a sneak peak for a very specialized audience, but the lack of any signal about how hard he will push for energy reform is an ominous sign. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Flickr/ heidarewitsch We ‘Huggers with our aspiring clean, fiber-rich diets probably aren’t as likely to experience the daily (yikes!) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) that some millions of Americans do, according to The New York Times . But who hasn’t had the occasional aggravation from one too many cups of
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