Popular Author Alain de Botton Waxes Philosophical About Our Changing Relationship With Nature
January 22, 2011 No Comment
Shrinking glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro are among the signs of climate change. Photo: Stig Nygaard / Creative Commons Dire warnings of the worst winter in decades, if not centuries, so far seem to have come to naught in Istanbul, where we watched the news of the European holiday “snowpocalypse” under sunny skies. Though I’m jubilant about every January day that doesn’t require a hat and gloves, there’s something disconcerting about the experience, a feeling popular writer/philosopher
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Seems we have a new chapter in Phone Book Wars. A new survey finds that a majority of Americans don’t use the White Pages anymore. A majority also don’t recycle it and don’t want it left on their doorstep. Believe it or not, people go online to get information these days…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The layering, the rich colors, the subtly patterned suits, the slim but not tight silhouette – Bottega Veneta was easily the strongest show of the Milan season. In Paris Junya was fantastic, I’ll post those shots tomorrow. Overall the shows this season have been less than stellar. Have you seen any shows that you love?
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Photo: Chloe Crespi The Christie’s Bid to Save the Earth second annual auction–don’t miss our video interviews from last year’s red carpet –to benefit environmental non-profits has an eco-fashion spin this year, Vogue reports, with new program,
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Image: Triple Pundit We’ve all heard of carbon offsets — and we’ve all no doubt formed our own sharply divided opinions about them. The principle is now being applied to a molecule that we’re running out of, not spewing out in droves: H20. We’re talking water offsets. Here’s Triple Pundit : Water offsets, or as their creator BEF calls them, Water Restoration Certificates, do the seemingly impossible: Bring water back to dead or seasonally running waterways. Four billion gal… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Legal Juice Do you get into contentious discussions with your conservative uncle over whether global warming is real or not? Or argue with your co-workers about why climate change isn’t just “natural cycles”? Or do your best to bite your tongue when your mother-in-law refers to the warming climate as “some Al Gore nonsense”? Do these debates, arguments, and spats piss you off? If so, perhaps this will offer a little solace: The fact that the topic is already entrenched… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: visualpanic / Creative Commons It may not be glamorous, but collecting an analyzing scat is one of the best ways conservationists can monitor and asses the health of individual animals and entire populations. Not only does the scat contain traces of toxins that indicate pollution levels in the habitat, it also contains hormones that provide insight into the animal’s nutritional, immune, and reproductive heal… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Flow2 from Flow 2 on Vimeo . A while back we admired the Flow2 kitchen design by Studio Gorm ; it was a “living kitchen where nature and technology are integrated in a symbiotic relationship, processes flow into one another in a natural cycle, efficiently utilizing energy, waste, water and other natural resources.” Now I learn from Leo at @zen_habits about this video, showing it in action. Nicely don… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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