Images copyright Ambient Studios , used with permission Trevor and Larissa are partners in a photography studio and partners in life, so for their wedding invitations they kept to a photography theme and packed them into repurposed 35mm film canisters. Pulling on the film tab reveals the details. It took an assembly line of 5 to produce the forty invitations…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images via PixelThis Etsy Shop PixelThis is an artist who builds beautiful and funky clocks made from all sorts of recycled things — record players, computer parts, even bike wheels. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo courtesy Saad.Akhtar via flickr and Creative Commons license. The city of Beijing plans to issue only 20,000 car registrations per month (that’s still a whopping 240,000 new cars annually) over the next year in order to control traffic . China is the world’s hottest automobile market these days, and the restrictions, which went into place on December 24, have had the unintended effect of driving up car sales in the final month of 2010. According to
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Murray Siple’s feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver. This subculture shows that street life is much more than the stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The film takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk. Shot in high-definition and featuring tracks from Black Mountain, Ladyhawk, Vetiver, Bison, and Alan Boyd of Little Sparta.
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Parade of pink plastic snails on Miami Beach offer recycling message. Photo by Phillip Pessar via Flickr Dozens of giant pink snails have overtaken Miami Beach this December as an environmental message about recycling by the REgeneration Art Project that’s gone bad. The fanciful huge mollusks marching along the shoreline and parks are made of recycled molded plastic. But they’ve been vandalized with gr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican Orders 258 Wind Turbines for Iowa Wind Farm
December 28, 2010 No Comment
SWT-2.3-82 Wind turbine. Photo: Siemens The Oracle Seems to Like Wind Power MidAmerican , a holding company that is 80% owned by Warren Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway , will expand its wind power capacity in Iowa by almost 600 megawatts (!). This isn’t quite a direct endorsement of wind power by the greatest investor of all time (at least, not in the same way that buying a
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Image: Streetsblog, CC. Data: U.S. Census. Transit Gaining Momentum Despite Lack of Investments Looking at the latest census data in the U.S. and comparing it to the previous batch from 2000, it seems like there’s reason to rejoice when it comes to transportation in the state of New York. It was already pretty obvious that New York City would be one of the places where the most people would use transit to commute in the U.S., but in the state as a whole (in 134 out of 150 Assembly districts, and 57 out of 62 State Senate districts) there’s a significant trend away from driving to work…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Matt Brown / Creative Commons You can never have too many tip of the tongue answers when common questions about climate change come up, whether from outright climate deniers or from people who aren’t up on the science and have genuine questions about common climate skeptic claims. NRDC recently released a FAQ on this, and now
Continue reading …Hardcore Composting, Organic Growing and Sharing at Esalan Gardens (Video)
December 28, 2010 No Comment
Image credit: Benjamin Fahrer From a sneak peak at industrial-scale composting to my musings on composting as animal husbandry , I have been known to get more than a little excited about both the theory and practice of recycling our organic waste. But the video below from Esalan Gardens, featuring footage of diggers turning huge piles of steaming compost really go… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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