The Scandalously Non-Comformist Life of a Car-Free Celebrity: Hot Young ‘Mad Men’ Actor Tells All!
October 6, 2010 No Comment
Mad Men actor Vincent Kartheiser is a devoted bus rider. Image via GOOD . The tendency in Hollywood to “equate carlessness to loserdom” is well-documented, but one of its young stars is bucking that trend. Mad Men actor Vincent Kartheiser not only doesn’t own a car, he’s so proud of his status, he used his night out with The New York T… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image from gallery on the green It’s iconic, a symbol of Britishness the world over: the red telephone box. But no longer, they are disappearing as fast as you can say “cell phone.” The Brit’s are huge users of mobile phones (85% of all adults own one) so no one uses the boxes anymore, except as ads for sex-shops and other dubious pleasures. Now they are being offered to communities for £1 in an ” Adopt a Kiosk ” scheme, and are being recycled for some astonishing and eccentric uses…… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via MinhaMaria While the results of Brazil’s presidential election offered no decisive victory for any of the leading candidates, it is still being hailed as a resounding success for the nation’s environmental movement. Despite being eliminated from the running, Green Party candidate Marina Silva , an Amazon-born environmental activist, garnered an impressive portion of the votes, suggesting that the
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Photo via MinhaMaria While the results of Brazil’s presidential election offered no decisive victory for any of the leading candidates, it is still being hailed as a resounding success for the nation’s environmental movement. Despite being eliminated from the running, Green Party candidate Marina Silva , an Amazon-born environmental activist, garnered an impressive portion of the votes, suggesting that the
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Unhindered by Talent via Flickr. You’ve probably heard the spin on wind: It doesn’t create greenhouse gases when creating electricity, won’t spill into a waterway like the Gulf of Mexico or Kalamazoo River , and doesn’t require wars in far-off lands to secure supplies. But wind can affect local climates, making it cooler in the day and warmer at night, according to research from the University of Illinois . … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I follow a website called Stonesoup and the writer Jules Clancy has a brilliant series of recipes that use 5 ingredients and take 10 minutes to make. It’s a site that is well worth visiting, especially if you want to cook healthy food at home but have a hectic schedule and not a lot of time. She also has quite a bit of information on the site, especially about living in a minimilist kitchen. I wrote a couple of posts earlier this ye… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Insta-Park! Our friend Clarence at StreetFilms sent us his latest cinematic masterpiece (I suck at keeping expectations low, don’t I?). It’s about a section of street in Jackson Heights, in Queens, that was closed to cars for the “time-to-play-outside” months and converted into a much-needed park/public space. As you can see in the video, it was a resounding success! It’s a good model to follow for other cities. Via
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photo: Alan Levine / Creative Commons In case you haven’t heard already, those much-touted, supposedly 100% biodegradable bioplastic bags that SunChips rolled out a while ago are no more. Apparently the issue wasn’t many of the genuine questions about the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Flickr , CC This Would Mean Doubling in Size Every 2 Years… The solar industry has grown quite fast in the past few years, and it looks like this will continue in 2011, at least according to a market research by iSuppli. “iSuppli forecasts that worldwide solar installations will reach 20.2 Gigawatts (GW) next year, up from 14.2GW at the end of 2010.” This would be a growth of 42.3%. At that rate, the industry would double every two years…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Hungary Declares State of Emergency As Toxic Industrial Sludge Covers Villages (Photos)
October 5, 2010 No Comment
photo: AP/Bela Szandelszky Four people are dead, 120 injured and six missing in Hungary as torrents of red toxic sludge , the byproduct of bauxite refining for aluminum, burst from a containment pond and poured through six villages in three counties. A state of emergency has been declared. Check out the photos and more details below:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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