Christopher Raeburn’s bunny making production line using up scrap fabrics at London Fashion Week SS11. Photo: Leonora Oppenheim As London Fashion Week’s Estethica continues to grow–and garner more attention from the mainstream industry–so, too, does their attempt to pinpoint a finer definition of green fashion : the sustainable platform is putting its applicants through an 18-question applicat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: en.Load.tr It’s that time of the year again: set the clocks back an hour and walk around in darkness and misery after 4 p.m. every day for a few months. It’s time for the annual debate on the subject too. A number of different groups are waking up to the fact that keeping the time the same all year ’round could save money and be better for the environment. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via The NY Daily News As everybody knows, one of the greatest pitfalls of living a carnivorous lifestyle has always been the limited selection of meat-based beverages available to consumers — but that hasn’t stopped folks from trying to come up with the perfect meat-based drink. Although the cup or glass is generally thought of as
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Image: Author I enjoy cooking with olive oil, and I have heard the rumors that it is the secret to the ageless beauty of Italian women, but come on! Could you imaging rubbing oil from the bottle on your skin and hair? It was Siobhan O’Connor and Alexandra Spunt of No More Dirty Looks fame that really gave me the guts, with their No Make-up Challenge . So after ditching conditioner and lotion for a full month in favor of the nectar of the humble olive, I have learned a few… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Native Amazonian children– not from the Yanomami tribe but still critical in protecting our planet’s lungs, the Amazon. Photo: Jess Root When I traveled to the Amazon Rainforest in 2008, scoping out the work of non-profit Projeto Saude e Alegria , I came home with one of those “Duh!” lightbulb moments. A large part of protecting the Amazon Rainforest and its rich biodiversity lies within protecting its inhabitants–the people who live there. It’s less likel… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit:via University of Missouri -Kansas City School of Law . Excerpted from the work by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. “Galileo before the Holy Office”, 1847. Musee Luxembourg. Due mainly to habitat loss, well-known and loved animals are perishing at astonishing rates. Nothing proposed by the UN has appreciably curbed the modern extreme ‘loss of biodiversity.’ (In other words: animals that Disney made billions animating are disappearing rapidly because there are way too many humans and because resource extraction operates at full throttle to sat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …İkizdere Valley’s Designation as a ‘Dam-Free Zone’ Threatened by Proposed Turkish Law
October 30, 2010 No Comment
People protest the planned construction of a dam in Turkey’s İkizdere Valley. Photo: İkizdere Derneği (İkizdere Association). Turkish environmentalists cheered earlier this month when a cultural and natural heritage protection board declared a valley in the Black Sea province of Rize a protected zone, thwarting the construction of 22
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Photo: Less and More Is your unorganized cosmetic case slowing down you daily beauty routine? From a single piece of solid poplar–made entirely without glue–comes a simple way to organize your cosmetic case: Etsy’s Less & More offers the Scarlet Makeup Holder which holds lipsticks, mascaras, makeup brushes, and other makeup items–meaning your morning routine can be free of rummaging through rose-, carmine- an… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: johanferreira15 / Creative Commons The Lorax , a timeless environmental story from Dr. Seuss, is set to hit movie theaters in 2012 with a 3-D animated update to the classic cartoon — and with Zac Efron voicing the role of Ted while Betty White plays his grandmother. But which actor nabbed the title role?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Ford to Invest $850M to Retool Factories for More Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
October 29, 2010 No CommentPhoto: Ford Creating 1,200 Jobs Making more fuel efficient vehicles doesn’t happen by magic. It requires lots of R&D, and once you’ve come up with a new engine or transmission or whatever, it requires big capital investments to retool factories. That’s exactly what Ford (among others) is doing. The blue oval company has announced investments of $850 million in Michigan plants (including Van Dyke Transmission, Sterling Axle, Livonia Transmission and Dearborn Truck Plant) between 2011 and 2013 as part of its “competitive plan to engineer and manufacture even more fuel-efficient vehicles and fuel-saving techno… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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