Designer Lee Leong Chye of the Little Thoughts Group has designed this homage to the humble kerosene lantern, beautifully made of wood and powered by cranking the pump in and out. Hopefully the light from the LED is kinder than what comes out of the real thing, a harsh bright light that Yanko describes as “loving glowing glowing love”- clearly the writer has never seen one. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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December 20, 2010 No Comment
Image credit: Fugue State Films From a $50,000 portable recycled house to a tiny green egg house for Chinese students , TreeHugger has already offered plenty of posts that prove that green living doesn’t have to mean high-end LEED certified luxury. Rollo, from Knoxville, Tennessee, is another such example. On 7 acres of … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image Credit Nickgraywfu Creative Commons Via Calorielab we learn of yet another thing that makes you fat: eating at your desk. It appears that when you are not paying attention to your food, you eat more and remember less…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bruce McCall in New York Times; See full cartoon here Bruce McCall lives in New York City and evidently drives everywhere. His volley in the War on the Car was in the Sunday New York Times and although he may be the funniest thing to come out of Canada since Wayne and Shuster , he did not amuse everyone. @tombvanderbilt tweeted “Bruce McCall is 75… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo courtesy Sabine Bungert via Beauty and the Bike project. Girls who walked or biked to school in a recent Spanish study performed better at school in verbal and math skills then their cohorts who rode the bus or rode a car, according to this story from Reuters News . And the longer the girls in the study commuted, the better they performed – regardless of how much other exercise and sports activity they reported. What is interesting is that improved test results didn’t hold… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Thinkstock If you live in a town where Big Box retailers are the go-to destination for holiday shopping, Greenopia’s 2010 Guide to the Greenest Retailers is for you. The online directory has released their annual research-based list of the greenest retailers, ranking Walmart , Best Buy, Office Depot ,
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Photo: all lovely stuff The best of British design has a quirkiness and sense of humour about it that seems to be unique in the design world. As in British humour, they don’t take themselves too seriously and an ironic edge is always present. Hence the wit and joy of All Lovely Stuff. Designed by a duo, these house and kitchen accessories add a jaunty note to the mundane…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via picocool A new form of street art has been gaining popularity throughout the US — and, while it may not be taking the world by storm just yet, it’s certainly helping to keep things cozy just in case. Quite often, graffiti is cited as making neighborhoods seem rundown or unwelcoming, but it seems that some vigilante artisans have been putting down the spray-paint and picking up a needle and thread. “Yarn bombing” — as its been dubbed — isn’t just about unbridled self-expression; it’s about bringing a little warmth to a cold urban ci… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via Dmitry Noskoff Poultry workers reportedly wept as they carried out their grim task — overseeing the death of about 400 thousand newborn chicks by drowning them in water or simply dumping them in rusty barrels outside where they would succumb to the freezing winter air. Around 600,000 more birds, housed at Russia’s Krasnaya Polyana poultry farm ha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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