From rising food prices contributing to unrest in Egypt and Tunisia to the role of peak oil and poverty in sparking the Egyptian revolution , there’s been plenty of discussion here on TreeHugger about what all the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East means for sustainability. But we’re not the only ones. I’ve just come across a powerful Leader article over at The Independent that exposes
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From our friends at Fast Company , “bridging the fuzzy border between design and business.” The accelerating role social media played in the recent uprising in Egypt has gotten a lot of people talking, but urban planning was just as vital in fanning the flames of revolution. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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TreeHugger drank the press-release Kool-aid when we wrote Seventh Generation Changes CEOs ; in fact, the New York Times tells us that he resigned in a power struggle over the company’s direction. But he has moved on; Mr. Hollender is trying to make (organic) lemonade of his break with Seventh Generation, spending less time at his home near Burlington, Vt., where the company is, and more back in New York, where, he said, it will be… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …One Tonne Life: Test Driving the Volvo C30 Electric Family Car (Interview)
February 25, 2011 No Comment
All images via One Tonne Life Last month I was lucky enough to visit the One Tonne Life project in Stockholm to meet the Lindell family , who’ve embarked on a low carbon lifestyle experiment to radically reduce their carbon footprints from an average of seven tonnes per year to just one tonne. It’s an ambitious project, but there’s amazing technolo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What do you eat for breakfast? A recent TreeHugger survey revealed that 52% of readers eat a high fibre cereal. What could be healthier than to start the day with a bowl of hot steaming porridge. Unfortunately many of us envision grey, lumpy glop when we think of it…that’s what my grandmother made. But the Porridge Lady has appeared to set us straight. She calls herself the premiere freestyle Porridge maker and ‘first lady of Porridge’ and she is the real deal, having won the
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Photo: mikebaird / cc It’s a rare thing for a pelican to have a name, and rarer still that that name would be inspired by a strip club — but Ralph’s life has been full of such unlikelihoods in recent months. Last August, the brown pelican from Florida was going about his business when he was swept up by hurricane Earl and blown some 1400 miles to the north, finally settling on the roof of Ralph’s Place, an adul… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …New ClimateGate Investigation Clears Scientists for Like, the Gabillionth Time
February 24, 2011 No CommentDo I even need to report this anymore? Guess so, because we have a witch-hunting Attorney General still trying to charge climate scientists with fraud on the loose. So, here goes: for about the gabillionth time (okay, so like 6th or 7th), an investigation has cleared the ClimateGate scientists of any wrongdoing. This investigation was carried out by the US General Department of Commerc… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Lance Cheung , Flickr, CC Who’s missing from the lede of this Reuters story ? It begins: “Brazil, China and India are expected to fuel global investments in clean energy in 2011 that are expected to reach $240 billion, the head of a United Nation’s green economy initiative said on Wednesday.” Three of the world’s fastest-growing nations are doubling down on clean energy while the world’s richest nation, well, isn’t. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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