Photo: Kelly Rossiter All the stores were closed yesterday, it being a holiday, and I decided not to worry about what to eat. Usually I like to make sure that I have lots of food on hand, but this time I just decided to use whatever I had in the pantry. Spring cleaning is about to commence in my house, so I figured I could get a jump on it and start cleaning out my kitchen cupboards. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …New York Fashion Week: Costello Tagliapietra Slashes Water Consumption For Fall 2011 (Slideshow)
February 22, 2011 No Comment
Costello Tagliapietra, New York Fashion Week Fall 2011. Photo: Getty Images Next up in our on-site coverage of the best green fashion emerging from New York Fashion Week Fall 2011 is Costello Tagliapietra . The brand debuted their 4th collection employing AirDye technology — a dyeing and printing process that uses 88-95% less water than typical textile production — … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Student brigades collect hard-to-recycle trash for TerraCycle. Photo credit: TerraCycle 2010 may have been a rocky year in many ways for a lot of us out there, but something amazing happened in the last three months of the year: Public schools in New Jersey on average doubled how much waste packaging they collected and sent to TerraCycle! What was the catalyst, you say? A surplus of Halloween candy wrappers perhaps? All the packaging from holiday parties and gifts? Nice guesses, but no. It was cash…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Kate Bosworth, Rachel Bilson and Ellie Goulding were among the stars at Burberry Prorsum’s Autumn Winter 2011 Collection show at London Fashion Week. (Feb.22)
Continue reading …Creature Preserved from 1901 Antarctic Expedition Reveals Climate Clues
February 22, 2011 No Comment
Image: Mike Shortt It’s not like there’s a shortage of evidence supporting the scientific consensus that greenhouse gases are warming the planet, but further support for climate change keeps rolling in anyways. And sometimes, it comes from rather unexpected places — like from samples collected from a 1901 Antarctic expedition, for example. The turn-of-the-century explorer took marine samples from his expeditions to Antarctica, and after analyzing them, scientists have found that they provide … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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[Images via Offecct] From our friends at Fast Company , “bridging the fuzzy border between design and business.” There are countless reasons why your indoor office should look more like the great outdoors. Research has shown that vegetation can purify the air, improve employee productivity, and create a natural sound barrier between you and your neighbor’s interminable sniffling. Unfortunately, a single, sad little cactus on the receptionist’s desk isn’t going to cut it…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Kate Ter Haar , used under Creative Commons license. I must admit I have never really understood the environmentalist obsession with plastic bags. As I noted in my post on a ban plastic bags rap that went viral , I’ve always felt there are bigger issues to be tackled than what we take our groceries home in. (Not least, what groceries we actually take home!) Now one research paper is suggesting a rather scandalo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Voltaire wrote Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien , often translated as “The perfect is the enemy of the good;” he might well have been talking about residential construction. You run the gamut from the typical American 2×4 frame wall all the way to Passivhaus construction with 12″ of insulation and incredible care in detailing and construction. Proponents keep saying that Passivhaus only costs 10% more than conventional construction, but they are not talking about Pulte and KB Homes, which is what I consider conventional. How do we … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Tasman Glacier Loses 30 Million Tonnes of Ice After Devastating Earthquake
February 22, 2011 No Comment
Photo: ( AAP: Denis Callesen, via ABC ) A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck New Zealand’s South Island city of Christchurch just before 1 pm local time. Unlike the 7.1 Richter scale quake which occurred in September of 2010 this one has caused extensive property damage resulting in the loss of of least 65 lives. A figure likely to unfortunately rise as more collapsed buildings are examined for survivors. Also affected by the earthquake was the countries longest glacier, the Tasman, at Aoraki Mt Cook Nationa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It may often seem that wind power is still in its infancy, or at least its childhood, adolescence (or some other metaphor implying there’s still lots of growth and development but not nearly doing all that it could and should), but commercial wind farms have been around a good long while. An example: As BBC News reports a 20 year old wind farm off the coast of Cornwall, UK has just gotten a refurbishment and relaunch. The Delabole wind farm , originally launched in 1991 with ten 50′ tall turbines, was the U… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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