Photos: FareShare “Approximately 28,000 supermarkets worth of food goes to landfill every year in Victoria,” suggests FareShare CEO Marcus Godinho. FareShare is a food rescue service in Melbourne, Australia, who were a joint winners of the 2010 Premier’s Sustainability Awards. So far this year they’ve saved 468 tonnes of food that would’ve otherwise been sent to landfill. Then 3,000 volunteers have cooked 1,114,461 meals for the needy, and doing so FareShare has supported 130 charities. As those impressive figures suggest, this is no ordinary do-gooder group, but a well-oiled, switched-on, dynamic organisation…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: The Post Carbon Institute The Post Carbon Institute see their task as “leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world.” And one of their current projects is the upcoming publication of a 540 page book, The Post Carbon Reader. Containing essays on renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and community resilience from a who’s-who of provocative thinkers, the book is available for pre-ordering with a 20% discount. Or as a free, part download…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: letsgo Two years ago TreeHugger commented, not too positively, on the bicycle rental scheme in Brussels. Calling the post ” Free Bikes Flop in Brussels “, lack of bicycles, lack of docking stations and lack of commitment were all issues. Now a new group has sprung up: ” Where’s my Villo? ” and things are changing dramatically. It’s called citizen, or should that be cyclist,
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Electrobonsai effect on trees : They move away from EMF sources. Image Credit Lloyd Alter The TreeHugger Team proved it three years ago: Trees do not like WiFi. Now other scientists are catching up. A recent Dutch study was quoted in PC World : The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months. Trees placed closest to the Wi-Fi radio demonstrated a “lead-like shine” on their leaves that… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Water Supply in CA Town Contaminated with Toxic Chemical Used to Make Explosives
November 22, 2010 No Comment
Photo: Bobak Ha’Eri , Wikipedia, CC The vast majority of the time, tap water is your best bet for clean, cheap water in the US. Not so in Barstow, CA. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently declared a state of emergency in San Bernadino County when it was discovered that the water supply was contaminated with the toxic chemical perchlorate. Perchlorate is commonly used to make explosives and rocket fuel. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Green Manufacturer Far From Running Out of Low-Hanging Fruits I love green success-stories! This one comes from Cambridge, Ontario, and is about Paul Rak, the owner of VeriForm, a manufacturing company with about 60 employees. In 2006, his life changed after his daughter was born and he saw An Inconvenient Truth . This made him more aware of the environmental footprint of his business, and he decided to do something about it; after making a few simple and relatively inexpensive changes, Mr. Rak reduced VeriForm’s energy consumption dramatically, made his products more efficient and competi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: NASA Goddard Photo and Video , Flickr, CC The scene is set in a dark, foreboding world. A full 50% of the incoming Congressmen have made public comments asserting that global warming is not caused by man — if it’s even happening at all. Large swaths of the public continue to believe that humans have nothing to do with climate change. News outlets parrot information from sources that deny climate science. All seems to be lost. But fear not. Enter the
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Images credit Dezeen Dezeen , the wonderful design blog that is the source of so many TreeHugger posts, redefines blogging with Food and Design: a report by Dezeen for Scholtès . Editor Marcus Fairs “investigates a fascinating trend: the cross-pollination between the worlds of food and design….We then undertook an extensive survey of activity over the last couple of years and distilled it into this report, which we have called Food and Design. It aims to capture the whirlwind of activity in this… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …And One Of The Biggest Influences On A Generation Of Designers is: TRON
November 22, 2010 No Comment
After they graciously promoted LifeEdited , we learned from DesignSpotter that the Disney movie TRON “influenced whole generations of later-on designers, architects, technicians and developers worldwide.” So they are having their own competition. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: brownpau , Flickr, CC Worldwide carbon emissions sank to their lowest levels since 1999 last year, due to the global economic recession. Emissions dipped 1.3%, which is actually a smaller decline than many experts had anticipated. And alas, the respite is to be short lived: 2010 is already on track to break new world records for carbon emissions. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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