Photo: Intimissimi We’ve heard of jeans being recycled into building insulation, but bras into soundproof insulation? That’s a new one. Italian intimate company Intimissimi has launched a six-week multimedia campaign to encourage women to drop off their used bras at its stores across Italy, Ecouterre reports (via New York Times ). For every used bra brought into Intermissimi’s s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: the artsdesk It’s been a tough year and many holiday celebrations this year are being kept simple. For example, the Tate Britain Art Gallery . It has a long tradition of commissioning famous artists to decorate the Christmas tree in its lobby. This year’s tree has: no decoration. No funny colours, no gimmicks, no avant garde baubles, just 30 ft. of natural beauty. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: O Globo For most of his 27 years, Jimmy the chimpanzee has been kept under lock and key, allowed only to dream of the world beyond the confines of his enclosure at a small zoo in Rio de Janeiro. With no companion and little to do to pass the time, Jimmy had become understandably depressed — that is, until he discovered the joy of painting. But despite receiving national acclaim for his artistic ability, and becoming a household name in Brazil, the results of Jimmy’s latest … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday
December 13, 2010 No Comment
Photo: David de Rothschild Planning your holiday party schedule in New York City can be calendar jujitsu, what with work parties, friends parties, family parties, but there are also a few green themed parties that the sustainably minded New Yorker shouldn’t miss, and are also just plain fun. One of these parties, this upcoming Tuesday, December 14th, is the annual Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party . The party will be held at MI-5 bar in T… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image via Reflex Déco From Dutch designers Overtreders W comes “Het dak dat opgaat in rook,” or the “roof that goes up in smoke.” It’s a fitting name, since this innovative picnic pavilion consists not only of the usual tables and chairs, but also of an inflatable roof, filled with hot air heated by a wooden stove in the center of the pavilion and kept in place by wooded stilts…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Prince William and Kate Middleton look relaxed, poised and very much in love in official photos released to mark their engagement. The pictures were taken by fashion photographer Mario Testino late last month. (Dec. 12)
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Photo: Taunting Panda According to a story on Reuters , trees throughout the Amazon rainforest will be equipped with microchips to gather data in the event they are illegally cut down. Now when a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one there to hear it, we’ll still know its story…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images Courtesy of Yeta Here at TreeHugger, we love architecture and design that makes outdoor life more enjoyable, especially when it keeps things simple. And here’s a great example of exactly that, from Italian architect Flavio Galvagni and the firm Lab Zero : Yeta, the wooden micro-architectural structure that shows us just how far log cabins have come since the time of honest Abe…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come
December 11, 2010 No Comment
“The Last of the Spirits, from Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition. ” Image credit: Wikipedia (copyright expired) – an excerpt. I am not suggesting that Dickens was prescient about climate change, in the fashion of the absurd claims made for Nostradamus. Nor do I think you should wear a “hoodie” (the modern equivalent of Grim Reaper garb) to the Chr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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In the plenary hall at COP16 last night… video: Adopt a Negotiator That title is a paraphrase of Greenpeace International’s climate policy director Wendel T… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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