China Subsidizes Food As Inflation Tops 10% + Diesel Shortages to Last Until End of Year
November 18, 2010 No Comment
photo: Dan Zen / Creative Commons Two stories offering a glimpse at the future in China, and likely elsewhere too: Diesel fuel shortages hit as the government rations electricity to factories and generators attempt to take up the slack; as the same time poor households begin receiving subsidies as food price inflation hits 10.1%…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Lisamarie Babik , used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote about Tom Philpott’s assertion that locavores can be snobby , I was roundly derided by commenters who chided me for contributing to a false stereotype. While I would maintain that there is a problem with snobbery and judgmentalism in the sustainable food movement, and environmentalism in general, I must also concede that these commenters ma… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit Lloyd Alter One of the simplest technologies for getting more natural light into an interior is the lightshelf; it bounces light off the ceiling instead of carelessly wasting it on the floor. I have thought that it might be a great thing in Graham Hill’s apartment in the LifeEdited project. Brightshelf throws a curve at the traditional flat lightshelf; this wave form on the top spreads the light out a lot farther, making a dramatic difference in the light penetration…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Yeo Valley We’ve seen rapping physicians railing against speeding , and even a hip-hop take on bike sharing schemes . But this might be the first time we’ve seen rapping organic farmers from the West of England. The resulting video is a pretty strange beast…… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images Credit: Lloyd Alter So much on show at Greenbuild, the huge green building convention put on by the US Green Building Council, has been seen on TreeHugger; one has to set some standards. So no products with LEEDING The Way or any other bad punning on LEED will be seen; We want game-changers , products and ideas that are applicable and affordable, or change the way we think about building. One such product is BioPCM (Phase chan… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Yes, speed kills , and yes, we’ve heard it all before. But have we heard that excessive speed causes more deadly car crashes in New York than distracted driving and drunken driving….combined? And have we had the message delivered by a white-coated rapping… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: jacco1997/Instructables.com Alchemy Goods –makers of recycled accessories from upcycled materials–is hosting an Inner Tube Reuse Contest with Instructables.com and the submissions have already started to roll in. Among them is an innovative way to use, well, recycled bike inner tubes as shoelaces (via Craftszine ): … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: functionalfate Palermo Is this the world’s most famous chair? It is certainly the most ubiquitous; spotted everywhere from front porches to cafes to garbage dumps to beaches across the world. It’s not known who designed it but it has a name: the Monobloc, it has a website , a book and it has just had its own exhibition at the International Design Museum in Munich…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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