Photo: cocoinzeni / Creative Commons The TreeHugger staff often gets really excited about savvy green things. Sometimes too excited. But what better day to gush our love for green initiatives, products, and lifestyle changes than Valentine’s Day? From high speed rail to aerated water, the perfect LED bulb, USB-powered bike lights, and chic recycled shoes, here are some things we get all sappy in love about.
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Photo: B.Alter What a lovely surprise: five women textile designers have taken over a local shop and turned it into a teaching and display area for two weeks. Called Bricolage , the women are all involved with the creation of sustainable textile art. Bricolage ‘s products include delicate screenprinted wallpapers; original hand-printed fabrics; hand and machine knit cushions and up cycled quilting. Their beautiful works are on display and they will also be holding one day workshops on darning, smocking and patchworks.
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Be a real sweetheart tomorrow when shopping for February 14 by supporting world artisans and hand-crafted items by small business entrepreneurs. The jewelry item above, for instance, shows the meaning of love, literally. This handmade necklace is created from recycled vintage dictionaries by Monique Sherman, redefining the word, as it’s phonetically pronounced: luv. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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I think this is the first shot I have ever done of Ms. Wintour without her giant bodyguards framing the shot.
Continue reading …Finally, a collection for fall that actually shows women dressed for fall. So many of the shows thus far have highlighted tiny “It Girl” dresses that are fine for Left Coast winter but not for the weather we have in the rest of the country.
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photo via flickr The Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual event where conservative politicians and activists get together in something akin to a pep rally, has come to an end. The event can be seen as a sort of a bellwether for the pet causes of the movement, and this year conservatives placed a target squarely on the back of the EPA. In fact, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is rumored to be a presidential candidate, doubled down on his call for shutting down and replacing the EPA altogether. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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French designer Jean-Marie Massaud’s “Green Islands.” Image: Offecct . It won’t quite replace the feeling of lying on the grass underneath a big shade tree, but office workers and others needing a respite in the middle of the day would likely welcome a Swedish design firm’s concept for a “green island” that brings a bit of the great outdoors inside…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The Guardian has an excellent report on the state of water in China when it comes to wheat production. “Local newspapers have been filled with stories of the drought’s impact on the “wheat basket” provinces of Henan, Anhui and Hunan. About 2.6 million people and 2.8 million livestock are affected. To induce precipitation, the army and metereological officials have fired cloud-seeding chemicals into the sky.” Get a better understanding of the depth and extent of the drought, and what it means for food production. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Derbyshire/Staffordshire Lately, the USDA is progressively siding with biotechnology instead of the organic food movement. Organic farming had a few wins including the decision from US District Court Judge Jeffrey White who ruled that the GMO crops be destroyed because the risk of gene contamination in Oregon’s Willamette Valley was so great. But last week a ruling made clear that things were ag… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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