Bust a Move in Uniform Project’s Versatile Little Black Dress for October
October 10, 2010 No Comment
Singer Isis Salam wears the Uniform Project dress in October. Photo: Uniform Project . With fall, comes cooler temps and seasonal trends and yet the Uniform Project’s (U.P.) little black dress is still in style. For their October pilot project, the U.P. has teamed up with solo artist Isis Salam , formerly of the Canadian duo Th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: craig forrester , under Creative Commons license News from researcher Dr. Long Que, at Louisiana Tech University , could be one of the most promising breakthrough in energy efficiency ever, as well as a powerful new tool for realizing alternative energies. Que reports designing and succe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …For BPA, Exposure Matters – Receipt Handling & Eating Canned Foods Pose Greatest Danger
October 10, 2010 No Comment
Random assemblage of receipts. Image credit: Wasteman Reports about BPA often imply that all humans are equally threatened by exposures to BPA. This is false. People whose work requires them to handle receipts all day and those who eat a lot of canned food have the highest body burdens of BPA. The rest of us not so much. The solution is about phasing out applications of BPA that create very high exposures. Example: as reported in Environmental Health News : “Those who consumed canned vegetables at … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …America Loves Big Vehicles The Best. Are Pickups The Next Economic Bubble To Pop?
October 10, 2010 No Comment
Image credit:Chart Of The Day: The Top 25 Nameplates In August And Year-To-Date, Edward Niedemeyer, The Truth About Cars What’s the first thing you thought of when you saw this chart? For me it was the stereotype of a single man, living with mom and dad or sharing a flat with online gamer-guys, flipping burgers or waiting tables for money: yet living-large with a new FD150. But then again, it was just yesterday I saw a pregnant young woman – earlier I’d seen her ending a shelf stocking shift at… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photos: via siryoga Besides shipping pallets, milk and beer crates, glass bottles are another building material that can be cheap, easily collected and reused, like in this house of 5,000 glass bottles built by a woman in Novoshakhtinsk, Russia…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A dinosaur skeleton at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York. This animal lived tens of millions of years after its recently discovered predecessor. Photo: arabani under a Creative Commons license . 250 million years ago, a dinosaur, walking on four legs and about the size of a house cat, walked through a quarry in what is now Poland. On Wednesday, the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B published the findings of it… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Water displacement objects.’ Images: Rochus Jacob via designboom . Putting a brick or a bottle filled with pebbles in your toilet tank is well known as an easy way to save water — about a half a gallon with each flush. But sometimes a little style is needed to entice people to take such basic measures — something designer
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A map turtle ready for release into the wild. Photo via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Maybe it’s the shell. Turtles are tough when it comes to oil spills. While most birds covered in crude don’t survive , turtles seem to be doing pretty good following the Enbridge oil spill in July near Marshall, Michigan …. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Jimmy Fallon Belts Out a Tune For Ben & Jerry’s in Honor of Fair Trade Month
October 9, 2010 No Comment
photo: Ben and Jerry’s October is Fair Trade Month and we should all be singing its praises. Buying Fair Trade not only helps protect the environment, it promotes fair wages, fights poverty, promotes education, and builds sustainable businesses. And as the message spreads, so too do the available products. Recently, Jimmy Fallon announced Fair Trade Month and followed wit… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Marilynn K. Yee/ The New York Times Authentic Hatha yoga is already pretty minimalist. Spotted in The New York Times style section, a small group of yogins is taking it further–opting to sun salute on straight up floor rather than on their sticky mat. … They argue that yoga mats are over commercialized, bad for the environment and less hygienic. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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