Long Before Banksy, Guerilla Artist John Fekner Tagged Environmental Woes (Slideshow)
October 12, 2010 No Comment
Image credit: John Fekner /Flickr In the 1970s, single words and short phrases began appearing on dilapidated buildings, highway overpasses, abandoned vehicles, and piles of refuse across New York City. Looking back today, the strong messages and style have a lot in common with street artist Banksy , who appeared on the scene a decade later. The man behind the initially anonymous work was John Fekner , an artist who—for the last s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image Credit: Ryohei Hamda via Yuko Shibata Office Making a space work as both a home and an office can be hard, which is why so many home offices are in bedrooms, basements or sheds. Japanese designer Yuko Shibata shows an approach that might work in Graham Hill’s LifeEdited project: Moving walls that change the character of the space from home to office. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: FAO Studies may have shown that meat and dairy production create huge carbon emissions , and even Bill Clinton is going vegan these days. But dairy is not all bad news. In fact, a new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) claims that small-scale dairy production could play a significant role in fighting hunger. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Summer Rayne Oakes Officially Launches Premier Sustainable Sourcing Marketplace for Fashion Designers (Video)
October 12, 2010 No Comment
Source4Style , an online marketing platform to help fashion and interior designers source sustainable textiles by connecting them directly with suppliers, has officially launched in public beta. Co-founders Summer Rayne Oakes and Benita Singh announced the news at the House of Lords on October 5th and at the RITE Conference the next day. In
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All Images by James Bowden via: www.dolectures.com Since The Do Lectures wound up its fourth year of blowing minds in a Welsh Field last month we’ve been hearing extraordinary tales of sun-rise canoe trips, wild disco dancing in a mobile library and Tim Berners-Lee turning up as the surprise guest. Now
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Photo: Ralf Nau/Thinkstock Is your ‘do’ getting a pretty douse of formaldehyde? If your favorite hair treatment is the Brazilian Blowout –favored by celebs like Jennifer Aniston and others willing to drop up to $500 for shiny, frizz-free hair–then it may be so. Last week, the Oregon Health & Science University’s Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology released
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Photo: Screen capture from video. Sometimes it takes a heartbreaking video to fully grasp the scale to which some human activities are jeopardizing habitats of crucial species around the world. When the World Wildlife Fund installed a camera on the grounds of a forest in Indonesia’s Riau Province, they were hoping to better understand the movement of the highly endangered Sumatran tigers that live there — but what they captured instead was devastation…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: im.no.hero Having electric light available at all times during the night is one of those luxuries we have taken for granted in our modern age — but the results of a new study suggest that a well-lit house at night might actually be making you fatter. Working with mice, researchers from Ohio State University found that subjects gained more weight when exposed to persistent light at night compared to t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via AsianCarp.org The Obama administration loves its czars almost as much as the media loves using the title. So here goes: The U.S. Asian Carp Czar, also known as John Goss, says he has a multi-pronged strategy to help keep Asian carp from colonizing the Great Lakes. The czar, officially Asian Carp Director , lists poison and genetic engineering among possible solutions. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Why Have Republicans Become The World’s Only Major Political Party Denying Climate Change?
October 11, 2010 No Comment
Image: GOP “It is difficult to identify another major political party in any democracy as thoroughly dismissive of climate science as is the GOP here.” That’s the pull quote from an important column in the National Journal today and it reveals an ugly, under-reported truth about American politics. Conservatives and conservative leaders the world over — David Cameron’s Tories in Britain, Nicolas Sarkozy in France, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union in Germany, and so on — do not shy from the science of climate change. In fact, there’s only one … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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