Photo: Telegraph And I thought I’d never have to write another post about Bush again. Alas, here’s yet another revelation perfectly befitting the post-office portrait emerging of our last president — a man with perhaps the best intentions, but easily influenced by the Dicks around him. Or rather, just the one Dick. It turns out that Steven Johnson, the EPA Administrator in the Bush administration , sent a letter to the president’s off… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: Daylife via TreeHugger According to Corporate Accountability International, the House of Representatives spends at least $860,000 on bottled water a year. That’s almost $2,000 for each representative. But some are calling for change. “Congress is spending almost a million dollars annually on bottled water for itself that often carries misleading claims of purity, when water of equal or better quality is available through the public drinking water system installed here in the House,” said Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). “Let’s start cutting close to home and shifting our priorities from an enti… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter My husband may have been shocked that I had some not-so-green avocados the minute he left home for a business trip, but I know what will really make him jealous is when he finds out I had Chinese food without him. After my big blow out post for Chinese New Year’s I pulled out my copy of Fuchsia Dunlop’s wonde… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Richard Masoner , used under Creative Commons license. We already know the single most important tip for staying safe on a bike , but there are other issues too. When I asked whether biking and phoning should be banned , it unsurprisingly stirred up some pretty heated debate. Lloyd’s follow up
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Photo: idea ablaze / Creative Commons In the haze of new love, it’s hard to look objectively at what your relationship is doing to the rest of your life — and how it’s falling into line with green goals. But while pairing up has its environmental pluses (like shacking up together) it can get in the way of some of your other Earth-saving maneuvers (say your partner isn’t keen on letting it “mellow.” So which is it? With Valentine’s Day around the corner we decided to look at the greenness of Love…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Kathy McGraw / CC Does a dung beetle find love easier than us? From the humblest worm to the majestic blue whale , creatures large and small have spent hundreds of millions of years conceiving a variety of ways to impress their mates. So, with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, single guys listen up: These savvy animals understand the language of love…and might… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images credit: Fur Council of Canada Four years ago we congratulated the Fur Council of Canada for setting a new standard in greenwashing with their Fur is Green campaign. They are in the news again, with an upgraded website and downloadable brochures, all attesting that fur is green. It is a slick campaign; they take all of the green movement’s buzzwords and throw them back in our faces. But is it true?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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February 9, 2011 No Comment
Images via designboom.com A great discovery over at designboom this week is a new design from Emiliano Godoy , one of our favourite thought provoking designers. Emiliano, he of the biodegradable golf tee and the Global Warming Rug , has teamed up with the ethical accessories label Ecoist to create this… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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