Photo: Kelly Rossiter I’ve been looking at street foods from around the world and found this recipe for a really tasty snack of Moroccan flat bread. We actually ate this for breakfast this morning and everybody liked it. You can whip it up in no time at all and then it fries quickly for something a little different…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Dense, walkable, resilient towns and cities are a key component of getting off oil, and viable main street retail is the key to having vibrant main streets. For historic preservationists concerned about the fabric of our main streets, successful stores are key to maintaining our main street buildings. That’s why National Trust for Historic Preservation is behind Small Business Saturday ; the big businesses are usually in the big boxes in the ‘burbs. But it isn’t just about buildings; it’s about jobs…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via Barto MAKE is one of my absolute favorite resources for inspiration and clever ideas for projects. They’ve looked through their archives and made a list of some of the best green projects they’ve seen, and we love their list. Check out these green projects by Marc de Vinck…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image courtesy of Airclad.com Need a spare room, but only for a few months? Want to make your outdoor jacuzzi an indoor one for the winter? Thanks to Airclad, by Inflate , now you can. The London based designer, which has been producing temporary inflatable structures (marketed for events and conventions) since 1995, is now going permanent and semi-permanent. The Airclad line is designed for those interested in an extra room, but want to avoid the permanence and carbon footprint that comes with building conventional structures. If you don’t like it, just deflate it…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: asla This crack garden is not what it sounds like… It’s a sustainable, simple and cheap answer to a design problem. How to make a garden out of a concrete slab without spending a fortune. Created in the small back yard of a San Francisco apartment building, it was inspired by those tenacious little plants that take hold no matter how inhospitable the space. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I was cleaning out my fridge the other day and I had two ingredients that had got pushed to the back after my Thanksgiving dinner party . One was a bag of cauliflower which had already been cleaned and cut into florets and the other was a bowl of roasted chestnuts . I hate food waste at an… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: SunEdison For billions of years the sun has been shining on a field in Rovigo, Italty — but, thanks to a new PV solar farm built on that spot, that energy will now be put to some good use. Just nine short months after being given the green-light from the government, the US based SunEdison has officially inaugurated Europe’s largest single-site solar farm, producing enough clean-energy to power around 17,000 homes…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Call for Ideas: Unreasonable Institute Seeking Applicants Who Can Save the Planet
November 25, 2010 No Comment
Image: The Unreasonable Institute The Unreasonable Institute is actually totally reasonable: they’re looking for people with great ideas, who think big, who want to change the world, and who seem like they can. No big deal, huh? If this description fits you, or someone you know, get moving on an application for the 2011 fellowship—you have until December 15 to apply, and they happen to be on the lookout this year for environment-related projects…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ponoko just keeps moving from idea to idea, creating a marketplace for CNC designs and recently into 3D printing. But just in time for the holiday season you can now see everything from 3D printed turkey to laser etched ham. You can even get laser-etched meat jerky business cards that are extremely practical: Should you find that your corporate team building dog sledding exercise through the snowy wilderness has gone awry, DO NOT eat your teamm… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Eamon Mac Mahon Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore’s Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights , “the magazine for clean capitalism”, Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes and effects of corn’s dominance, delivering “the skinny on what’s expanding our waistlines and crippling our health system” in his article ” Killer Kernel” . Food activist Wayne Roberts calls co… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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