Image credit: EcoFilms Australia With the epic fight to stop Colony Collapse Disorder and save our honeybees still continuing, there’s been a renewed interest in bee genetics. In particular, many beekeepers and gardeners are wondering whether hardier, less selectively-bred native bees may hold some clues for creating more resilient hives. Beekeepers have been looking into the aggressive na… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image Credit: Dano Have you recently had an electric bill shocker? Sure it’s been winter for weeks — but now is when you realize how much it’s squeezing your wallet. In an old, pre-1945 house, the air leaks can add up to the equivalent of a hole in your wall 21 inches in diameter! Winterize your home fast with the following 10 cheap and easy solutions. The savings — calculated by RMI — can add up to real and significant cash in your pocket.
Continue reading …Celebrate Local Gift Giving on Valentine’s Day with a Handcrafted Care Package
February 3, 2011 No Comment
The Care About You Package includes luscious lib balm by Good Fight Herb Co. Photo: Paperfinger With the commercialized holiday that is Valentine’s Day fast approaching, we’re all ears when it comes to giving a handcrafted gift with local flavor. Enter the Care About You Package, a collaboration between three friends, who all happen to own small, local businesses: Blades Natural Beauty , Good Fight Herb Co. , and Paperfinger . T… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All Photos by Kelly Rossiter In our family, Chinese meals are a pretty frequent occurance, but lots of people only know it only through take-out or visits to their local Chinese restaurant. You don’t have to find Chinese cooking daunting, especially as most grocery stores carry many of the ingredients that were previously difficult to come by. I still like to venture down to Chinatown in Toronto, but now I can get most of the things I need in my own neighbourhood. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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TechCrunch has a great opinion piece about our greatest sin as electronics consumers — that we don’t see, and therefore don’t care nearly enough, about the environmental and social conditions in which the devices are made (which are so terrible because that’s how to satisfy the marketplace and the bottom line). “The “great sin” isn’t Apple’s, or any one of the other major international corporations that use Foxconn or similar megafactories. And it isn’t Foxconn’s either. It’s clearly, inescapably, ours.” The author lines out three usual responses by consumers in dealing with the immorality of buying gadgets, and … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Free parking for EVs is still widely available, but the free ride may be coming to an end. Photo courtesy Orin Zebest via flickr and Creative Commons license. Discovering EVs was, for many of us interested in sustainable transportation, like falling in love with the wrong person. First that honeymoon period when the new love could do no wrong – no fossil fuels ! reduced carbon footprint!
Continue reading …Planetary Survivors: See The World Through Cockroach Eyes at The Science Museum
February 3, 2011 No Comment
Well this is an entertaining idea. The Science Museum in London are offering tours of their climate, energy and space galleries from the perspective of a cockroach – costume and all! Always fans of looking at our world from a new point of view we love the idea of dressing up as one of our planet’s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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This morning on the Spanish blog Resseny I came across this simple yet beautiful video called ” Little Things ” by Lawrence Chen . I like the way it gets the message across gracefully, using little resources to make the movie. It is poetic and makes you think and relate to the topic, even if it is just for a few minutes while you drink your coffee watching this…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: grough Last week the new UK government announced its plan to sell off English forests . The forests are state-owned and run by a government agency. It is proposing to sell them to charities and private companies. Now a new government report says that it will cost more to sell off the forests than to keep them. Thousands have signed petitions and joined protests. This has turned into a huge embarrassment for the government, as it alienates … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Click to enlarge Usually when talking about the world’s worst emitters of greenhouse gases , China and the United States are inevitably placed at the top the list — but such measures typically account for quantity alone. Sure, reducing carbon output among these leading nations would make the biggest impact on lessening emissions as a whole, but if we apply a new perspective on the data it paints an e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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