Its the Candyfab 6000 , 3D printing in sugar. The Revolution Shall be Caramelized. In 2007, TreeHugger built a special website that looked at the future of 3d Printing and Downloadable Designs. I wrote: With digital designs we decide what we want from the best in the world, not what Mr. Store Manager picks out. The Long Tail is at our fingertips as we cruise from Korea to Kansas for the design that suits our taste. Malcolm Harris at Sharable write… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …2010 Ties For Hottest Year On Record, Redux – World Meteorological Association Confirms It
January 21, 2011 No Comment
photo: Andrew Booth / Creative Commons Recently released NOAA data showed that 2010 tied with 2005 as the hottest year on record (that’s since 1880, when records began in the US); and now the World Meteorological Association agrees, with a slight amendment. The WMO considers the data coming from NASA, the Nat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: foto.bulle , used under Creative Commons license. Yesterday, I questioned some assumptions made in a Guardian article about why eating sustainable meat fights animal cruelty more effectively than vegetarianism . Predictably, it sparked off an interesting and far reaching debate. From those who believe that “sustainable meat” is an oxymoron, to others who felt vindicated for their choice to still eat flesh&md… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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If you’ve ever wondered exactly how best to deep fry a scorpion, or make a taco out of wax worms, Daniella Martin is your woman. Not only are insects scrumptious, says the host of Girl Meets Bug , but our six-legged friends have a much lighter environmental footprint than livestock. And don’t worry about variety: the UN estimates over 1,000 species of edible insects. Daniella tells us… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All images via One Tonne Life This week in Sweden an unprecedented low carbon lifestyle experiment has begun. The Lindell family have moved into a solar powered prefab house in the suburbs of Stockholm that is specially designed to minimise energy consumption. The family’s aim is to see if they can radically reduce their average carbon footprint of 7 tonnes per year, down to 1 tonne. TreeHugger was in Stockholm this week to meet them and hear the
Continue reading …The Week in Pictures: LEDs Illuminate Medieval Cathedral, Golden Globe Green Fashion, and More (Slideshow)
January 21, 2011 No Comment
The cloisters of the medieval Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England have been transformed into a stunning technicolor maze of 69 towers, thanks to 15,000 water bottles that change color in sync with choral music. We also have photos of Colin Firth’s wife, Livia Firth, who wore a gorgeous, green gown to the Golden Globes on Sunday night; towering monadnocks; a fresh look at a biodynamic winery, and more in our roundup of the best photos on TreeHugger this week.
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Image Credit iFixit Consumerist tells us that Apple is switching to a special new screw called by some a Pentalobe, by iFixit an ” Evil Proprietary Tamper Proof Five Point Screw ” (or the EPTP5PS). It is designed to make it impossible for anyone but Apple to service your iPhone or computer. Consumerist also notes that if you take your iPhone in for repairs, they will replace all the screws wi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Peak Moment / How to Boil a Frog From the Findhorn film’s warning that consumer society is impossible without oil , to Escape from Suburbia’s search for a life after fossil fuels , we’re not short of movies that give a sobering account of the status quo, and a compelling case for doing things differently. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Tim Lenz under a Creative Commons license . In a series of rescue operations in the past few months, Animal Defenders International (ADI) , an animal protection group, and Bolivian authorities have freed 25 lions from circuses throughout the South American country. The removals of the lions from the circuses were in accordance with Bolvia’s Law 4040, signed last January by President Evo Morales, banning the use of wild and domestic animals in the country’s travelling circuses. Now… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …While the prospect of high-speed rail being taken seriously in the US gets many folks excited, these schemes aren’t without their detractors—even within the environmental community. George Monbiot’s book Heat famously panned high-speed rail for the emissions involved, and most new projects also face opposition from local NIMBY groups and conservationists. Just such a battle is heating up in the UK, where campaigners are calling for the
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