Tubeless Toilet Paper Isn’t the Answer to Waste, Not Using Toilet Paper Is
October 28, 2010 No Comment
photo: Rhys Alton / Creative Commons Yesterday we learned that Kimberly-Clark will be soon testing toilet paper that doesn’t need an inner cardboard tube , all with the entirely admirable goal of cutting down on the million miles worth of tube waste thrown out annually. It really is pretty cool, and as Stephen Messenger says it is indeed “oddly revolutionary.” But when yo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nestle, the world’s top-selling bottled water company, has been trying to win the right to tap between 100 and 166 million gallons of water from Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge annually, and wants to justify it as environmentally sound by simply replacing it with municipal well water. Oregon citizens are angry. More than 4,300 comments have poured in decrying the company’s plan. Local residents and environmentalists are concerned about the quantity and… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Source: Ecomii Infrastructure is getting lots of attention. One area specifically is smart grids . They are to replace the current out-of-date energy grid that supplies energy to the US. Advocates say it is necessary to modernize the electrical sy… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it “LifeEdited.” The LifeEdited open challenge is live, and I gave it a shot to see how it worked. I designed a bed that runs up and down on four pipes, spending the day up at the ceiling; the dining room table hangs on cables at the appropriate distance below. At night, when you drop the bed down, the dining room table drops down to just above floor level; you don’t even have to clear it. Result: a big tabl… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Credit: Nick Dewar, Chris Sials Neal Can a poster change the world? We’ve covered them a lot on TreeHugger: The newest batch comes from the the Canary Project , which brought together a Who’s Who of contemporary artists for their take on issues of climate change, sustainability, and energy independence. The result is Green Pa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Sociopolis, the Rurban Housing Project Brings the Campo to the City (Photos)
October 28, 2010 No Comment
Inhabiting the Huerta. Photo Credit: Guallart Architects Five years ago, we first heard about Sociopolis , a “shared habitat” in Valencia (Spain). This housing development is to trigger social interaction between inhabitants, propose a new type of housing for the family structures of our time, and offer an environment of high environmental quality. Now it’s becoming reality; roads are being build, and trees are being planted…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Milk and Honey Shoes If you invest a pretty little penny, or two, in shoes from department stores–that turn over seasonal footwear collections faster than you can ask: does the shoe fit?–there’s a slower fashion alternative. Enter Milk and Honey Shoes ; they let you design your own own shoes from your own computer, meaning you get the style, fit, and color that you want, when you want it, and you don’t have to worry about their twin siblings being
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Photo: DailyMail The magnificent red deer stag know as the Emperor of Exmoor was shot and killed three weeks ago. This happened just a few days after his photograph appeared in national newspapers across the country. Who could resist a photo of such a magnificent stag. It turns out that trophy hunters had to have it; soon after being shot locals saw the stag’s carcass being loaded into a truc… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Total Range of About 350 Miles It looks like GM has decided that the longer total range of the Chevy Volt compared to its all-electric competitors is the selling point that they want to highlight. The commercial above … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Flickr , CC Squeezing More From Every Drop in Stop-and-Go Traffic Honda is updating the stop-start system (aka anti-idling) in its Insight hybrid to allow the car’s gasoline engine to stay turned off for longer periods, allowing it to be more fuel efficient in certain situations (especially good in really bad stop-and-go traffic, but won’t affect highway driving). So far, the Insight’s stop-start only allow the engine to be turned off for 30 consecutive seconds. This has been changed to 90 seconds…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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