Seeding Education, and Environmental Awareness, in Guatemala with Plastic Bottle Schools
January 13, 2011 No Comment
Image: hugitforward.com Here’s some news that’s impossible not to love: schools made from plastic bottles are being built—by students—across Guatemala. We showcased the first one last year, built in 2009 with 2,053 pounds of trash and now serving 297 children, and it’s grown into a whole movement. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via pair Networks A hat tip goes to pair Networks today as they’re celebrating their 15th year as a company. They’re the host of your beloved TreeHugger, and it’s a good fit because they have a great environmental stance. pair Networks runs carbon neutral datacenters, support operations and administrative facilities through carbon offsetting, reduces as much as possible the amount of electricity they use to run things, has a company-wide recycling program, offers free membership to the Audubon Society to its employees to help keep them closer to … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Flipper bands, the kind that wrap around the vestigial wings of penguins, are commonly used by scientists to track the birds as they migrate from colony to colony and travel across the ocean. This data is essential to understanding the impact of warming oceans, melting ice, and changing prey populations. According to new research, however, the bands themselves may hinder the penguins’ ability to find food, mate, and escape predators. These impac… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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After writing The Builder Concept Home 2011: Time To Redefine What We Mean By Green I received a lot of thoughtful but very critical comments where the consensus seemed to be that a) I was mad that they didn’t consult me ; b) Like it or not, this is what Americans want , c) what do I have against concrete in Florida? d) this is a horrendously poor piece , or my favourite, e) “I personally think the author wouldn’t be happy unless we all either lived in a cave, igloo or reused some unused section of the nyc sewer sys… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Honda Shows 2012 Civic Concept, Expands Natural Gas Availability (2011 Detroit Auto Show)
January 13, 2011 No Comment
Photo: Michael Graham Richard Evolution Rather than Revolution Honda is overdue for a redesign of its ever-popular Civic, and the Civic concept cars unveiled in Detroit this year give us a good idea of what direction Honda is taking, and that seems to be pretty much the same as for the last generation. But what what I really want to know is if this new Civic will be greener than the one that it will replace. Read on for more details and photos…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sometimes the simplest recipes can be the most sublime. Combining just three kitchen staples of lentils , rice and onions with a dollop of spiced yogurt with lemon juice transported me to the Middle East. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: International Center for Tropical Agriculture / Creative Commons Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble —one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photos: Gerardo Montes de Oca Do It Yourself Bike Lanes in Mexico A group of citizens in Guadalajara , Mexico, was fed up with the inaction of the local authorities. Their city has a big traffic problem (350 new cars are added to the city’s roads every day, average traffic speed has fallen to 18 km/h, and the quality of our air reaches alarming levels during several days of winter), and those who want to bike have to deal with dangerous roads that don’t have bike lanes. So these citizens, led by local teachers and students, decided to fi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Action for our planet It is de rigueur for Canadian politicians to eat seal meat, in solidarity with the Inuit hunters who have been doing it for centuries. Here’s Prime Minister Harper and much of his cabinet partaking. But centuries ago, the Inuit used to use the seal themselves; then they started exporting it, until the European Union banned the import of seal products and the market disappeared. So Canada just signed a trade deal with China, to export seal me… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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