Photo: D’Arcy Norman , Flickr, Creative Commons As we all know, thousands of landfills around the countries are teeming with literally tons of perfectly good raw materials and otherwise usable trash. And in an era of increasing resource scarcity, there’s a corresponding demand for many of those materials. In other words, we have more and more trash, yet companies are demanding more materials for production and construction. So, there’s vast potential for a company like RecycleMatch, which does exactly what it sounds like it does — it matches companies with the res… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Tech Clarity There are a lot of great ideas floating around Poptech this year — I’ve already covered plenty of them . But I also wanted to highlight something that isn’t strictly or necessarily green, yet that could end up having some interesting implications on supply … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photos: BoomCase There’s more than meets the eye with an old-school, hardcover suitcase. This certainly rings true for the BoomCase — customized boom boxes by self-confessed “audio-nut” and designer Dominic “Mr. SiMo”, who upcycles these stylish, street-worthy vintage suitcases that are bound to make some heads turn. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: No Trick Treats For the health conscious like me, Halloween candy that can lend to ill health is as spooky as un-fairly traded choco treats. I hate sounding like the grim reaper and all, but it’s science — not this blogger — linking childhood obesity, diabetes and cancer to refined sugars . Unless you want to be the “granny” on the block handing out… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The home this week, fitted with solar panels. All photos via Matt Grocoff/ Greenovation TV If you want a super, energy-efficient home, you have to build new, right? Not necessarily. A 110-year-old Victorian home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is being touted as America’s oldest net-zero energy house, and the first of its kind in the state. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Street scene in Tehran. Photo: kamshots / Creative Commons . In the latest example of how tough life can be for would-be women cyclists around the world, the new police chief of the Iranian city of Esfahan has decreed it a crime for women to ride a bike or roller-skate in public — an infraction he said would be “severely prosecute[d.]” It’s little wonder, then, that twice as many Iranian women as men are obese…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: iStockphoto With a slew of fur-free celebrities and PETA’s racy anti-fur campaigns , sporting a fur coat is controversial. For reasons that range from the philosophical to the stylistic, Planet Green notes , thousands of old fur coats are sitting in closets, unused. Next month, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and second-hand re… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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click on image to enlarge. Credit: Dukakis Center Smart Planet points us to a report ( PDF here ) from Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University that concludes that new transit can lead to gentrification. My first response was well, duh, isn’t that the point? It has always been a rule i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Typically, a deep study of a genus or family can uncover a new species or two. But when it comes to micro mollusks, it turns out, the opportunity for discovery is much greater —if researchers are willing to do the painstaking work required. After ten years of research, two scientists commissioned by the National Museum of Natural History in Paris have uncovered 209 new species&mda… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Aza Raskin via Flickr / Creative Commons If soaring wedding costs have you wondering how you can afford it all (and yet, you couldn’t be bothered with the effort to put on a more eco-conscious wedding ) then McDonald’s may have the answer for you. In Hong Kong, where weddings are biiiig business (my own cousin’s glitzy matrimonial affair there last winter — hosted in a fancy hotel and complete with ice sculptur… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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