The ‘Mustafá’ table. Photo: Sanserif Creatius . The Valencia -based design studio Sanserif Creatius has graced TreeHugger’s virtual pages before, with its “d”-shaped ” Bold Chair ” and an entire suite of classical furniture in styles dating back to the 18th century… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Interview with William Becker A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting down with William Becker, the Executive Director Presidential Climate Action Project , to talk about the Obama administration’s toolkit for addressing global warming. Clearly, that toolkit is now missing some of its most essential components — there will be no Congressional support for climate anytime soon, and the EPA is under fire — but that doesn’t mean that Obama doesn’t have some strong executive authority to address climate. Becker illuminates those options in the continued interview belo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter One of my favourite flavour combinations is olive and lemon . There is something about the mixture of salty and tart that I find endlessly appealing. We have had record high temperatures in Toronto for the past two days and the snow has almost all melted. With the bright sunshine I could almost envision myself sitting outside a Greek taverna with this salad in front of me. Well, if I look straight up at the blue sky, that is…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Earlier this week, Dr. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment, released the first-ever full life cycle analysis of the devastating costs of coal in the United States. His team’s finding? That coal — with its deadly health costs, its toll on land use, and climate impacts — costs the nation up to $500 billion a year . I was fortunate enough to grab an interview with Dr. Epstein after he announced the study on the
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Image: La Nueva Salamanca If you’re in the market for tortillas, buying from a local factory might sound like the most responsible choice, right? What if you knew that a worker (a 22-year-old new father) there had been killed by a dough-mixing machine, potentially because of unsafe factory-wide practices? Unless we’re buying directly from a local farmer, we don’t know any more about who … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo Credit: Kristine Paulus via Flickr Creative Commons Attribution License . The Dervaes family of Pasadena is well-known for practicing self-sufficiency on their urban lot. They grow over 7000 pounds of food. They use very little power from the grid. They have been an inspiration to many in the urban homesteading movement. So, the news that they had trademarked the terms “urban homestead” and “urban homes… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Rosa Perea spends many days struggling to help her five-year old son, Yousef Abdallah, control his severe asthma . Her Chicago neighborhood is home to numerous polluting industries—most of which emit soot and smog pollution . “It’s so hard,” Perea says, “before this I’ve never been close or had anybody in my family who had asthma, but now I realized how difficult it is to control it, and make sure he takes medicine and stays well. I’ve had to ta… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: The Cooperative Group From Wal-Mart’s controversial sustainability efforts to Marks & Spencer’s aggressive Plan A program , there have been some major top-down green strategies revealed in the business world. But one chain of supermarkets, banks, pharmacies and more is setting out on an incredible effort to embrace green business. From cutting carbon emissions 35% by 2017, through tackling poverty, to purchasing 90% of its developing… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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