Study NY by Tara St. James, New York Fashion Week Fall 2011. Photo: Emma Grady Next up in our on-site coverage of the best of green couture at New York Fashion Week is 2011 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation winner Study NY by Tara St. James , who schools us in zero-waste pa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …photo: Franz Drewniak / Creative Commons Sometime later this year the human population will pass the 7 billion mark. As I write this we’re at 6.9 billion and ticking upwards by about one person a second, or so the population clock at Global Population Speak Out tells me. Even with the widely (widely) disparate levels of natural resource consumption across nations by the end of August each year our collective e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Photos by ALRDesign This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in awhile. Private First Class Rupert Valero is currently stationed at Khandahar, Afghanistan, and to fill his spare time, he builds toys out of recycled materials. They capture a wonderful mix of imagination, whimsy, and craftiness, and they rank way up there with awesome upcycled goods…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Unusually warm weather in New York this week, but very windy
Continue reading …From touting his “wind-powered electric sports car” to becoming a renewable energy millionaire , Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince is no stranger to putting his beliefs in the public spotlight. His latest exploits may be braver than many, however, as PETA reports he is banning red meat from an entire soccer stadium ! As a committed vegan and chairman o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Another great collection from Marc Jacobs. However, this collection feels like it should be a Louis Vuitton collection in the sense that it’s so refined and dressed up. I guess I’ve always thought of Marc Jacobs collection as sportier and LV as almost couture. This collection makes me even more curious about what the LV show will bring in Paris.
Continue reading …Image credit: Chow From Seedy Sunday’s massive seed swap to the celebration of potato day , now is definitely the time of year we turn our thoughts to biodiversity in the garden. And while we continue to get excited about seed libraries as works of art , and even a
Continue reading …Photo Credit: Auto Express Porche definitely has a way with making electric cars look sexy. We’ve known since last summer that the company was planning to test three electric cars . The 918 Spyder hybrid has been a hot topic among TreeHugger’s EV enthusiasts, so the first of the trio of 100% electric cars to be unveiled is the Boxster E is sure to be create a buzz. This is one prototype that will undergo testing before making it to the manufacturing line, but with … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Photo credit: Martin Ruegner/Getty Images Just like disturbances wake you up, they wake up the animal kingdom — often with dire results. Hibernation, simply, is a state of inactivity in animals. It is typically characterized by a drop in metabolic activity—a physical slowing of the body—in addition to lower body temperature and slower breathing. Indeed, hibernation is a sleep deeper than most humans could imagine, but it is not impervious to interruption. Increasingly, changes brought into nature by the modern world are unsettling hibernating animals during a time of the year when they are most vulnerable.
Continue reading …“Reformed” vegetarian Lierre Keith always said that vegetarianism and veganism is not always the “kind to the earth, don’t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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