All images: Finisterre As we’ve said before, Finisterre is an outdoor apparel company we’ve a great deal of respect for. They go from strength to strength. Aside from winning one award after the other, and garnering positive magazine gear reviews, they keep putting out the product they want to wear, sourced and manufactured so they can sleep easy at night. Clean, lean, functional, (and funky) eco and ethically minded clothing for those who spend their days outside, whatever the weather. This northern winter they’ve added, in addition to colour and style revisions to signature products, a number of new products, with back-st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All images: Finisterre As we’ve said before, Finisterre is an outdoor apparel company we’ve a great deal of respect for. They go from strength to strength. Aside from winning one award after the other, and garnering positive magazine gear reviews, they keep putting out the product they want to wear, sourced and manufactured so they can sleep easy at night. Clean, lean, functional, (and funky) eco and ethically minded clothing for those who spend their days outside, whatever the weather. This northern winter they’ve added, in addition to colour and style revisions to signature products, a number of new products, with back-st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …All images: Finisterre As we’ve said before, Finisterre is an outdoor apparel company we’ve a great deal of respect for. They go from strength to strength. Aside from winning one award after the other, and garnering positive magazine gear reviews, they keep putting out the product they want to wear, sourced and manufactured so they can sleep easy at night. Clean, lean, functional, (and funky) eco and ethically minded clothing for those who spend their days outside, whatever the weather. This northern winter they’ve added, in addition to colour and style revisions to signature products, a number of new products, with back-st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All images: Finisterre As we’ve said before, Finisterre is an outdoor apparel company we’ve a great deal of respect for. They go from strength to strength. Aside from winning one award after the other, and garnering positive magazine gear reviews, they keep putting out the product they want to wear, sourced and manufactured so they can sleep easy at night. Clean, lean, functional, (and funky) eco and ethically minded clothing for those who spend their days outside, whatever the weather. This northern winter they’ve added, in addition to colour and style revisions to signature products, a number of new products, with back-st… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …New York Times Uses Violent Gun Metaphors: Republican Ryan A ‘Point Man’ Who ‘Draws Fire’
January 25, 2011 No Comment
What's with the New York Times and its inability to practice what it preaches when it comes to avoiding gun-filled images and rhetoric?
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Manila: A bomb on a packed bus in the Philippines’ financial hub killed four people on Tuesday, sparking a warning from President Benigno Aquino that the country faced a raised terror threat. Authorities said it was too early to say who was behind the explosion as the bus travelled along one of Manila’s busiest roads, but Aquino ordered security forces on alert. “We have asked the police and military and the intelligence services to review their threat assessment, with the end view of hardening all areas considered under threat,” Aquino said in a…
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Image Source: Preserve Dear Pablo: Does recycling your toothbrush really make a difference? Doesn’t mailing it back do more damage than the recycling avoids? It is true that mailing anyt… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Islamic Cycling, Space Tourism, Norway by Bike & Ski? Wend Magazine Has It All
January 25, 2011 No Comment
Photos credit: Brian Mohr, Ember Photography , for Wend Magazine Wend magazine continues to bring together intriguing stories about human powered adventures from around the world. In the current issue, they inform us that in 2010 officials in Isfahan, Iran announced it illegal for women to ride bicycles in the city. Wend contrasts this with a 1896 quote from Susan Anthony, who famously proclaimed that, “the bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world.” Wend is terrific tome (its digital version being available … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oprah Winfrey finds sister she didn’t know she had; Rocker Bret Michaels has successful heart surgery; Christina Aguilera to sing national anthem at Super Bowl. (Jan. 25)
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