Open Sailing, Drifting Lifestyle To Cope With Looming Disasters
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBeen slacking a bit with my reports on the work in progress show I saw wow! months ago at the Royal College of Art in London. As you might guess I'll keep on focusing on the ...
Bottled Water Sales Drop Off
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Rebecca Smithers Sales of bottled water are falling as more people turn to the tap at home and when eating out. The consumer backlash against expensive, bottled water is gathering momentum, according to two related studies this ...
Cool Concept: Street Ready Vintage
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffHere's a term to watch: "Street Ready Vintage" is a meme coined by Brooklyn-based seamstress Maura Dilley, who I met recently on a trip to Vancouver. Dilley scours thrift stores and closet castoffs for promising pieces ...
Tinted Windows Could Help Save Air Conditioning Costs
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffA new product may soon emerge from the race to create better materials for green building. Sage Electrochromics, based in Faribault, Minnesota, recently raised $20 million from investors to continue its development of tinted windows, which ...
Inventor’s 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world’s poorest see better
Friday, December 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffProfessor pioneers DIY adjustable glasses that do not need an optician By Esther Addley It was a chance conversation on March 23 1985 ("in the afternoon, as I recall") that first started Josh Silver on his quest to ...
London Tap Water Just Got Sexier
Friday, December 12th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffNeil Barron's winning carafe designImage source: Interior Design Leave it to Londoners to make the relatively mundane act of drinking tap water into a stylish, fabulous brand experience. London Mayor Boris Johnson and local utility Thames Water ...
Track&Trace: A New Backstory Tool
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffA Track&Trace code, and the MADE-BY button, on a clothing label MADE-BY, an Amsterdam-based organization that promotes social and environmental sustainability across the consumer fashion industry, fashion brands, has launched a new interactive system for checking ...
Tracing the carbon in your beer, jacket, shoes, and soap
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffFor household products, carbon hides in some unexpected places. Here’s a pop quiz, based on a recent Wall Street Journal article on the carbon footprint of various household goods. For each of the following products, guess their ...
Save Your Trash: An Interview With Ari Derfel
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Britt Bravo "That's the big take home. It's not just like, "Hey, make less trash, the trash guy did it," but find where meaning is for you, and believe that you can make a difference if ...
Notes on Nau’s Relaunch
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Janette Crawford In late June, less than two months after we lamented its closing, clothing manufacturer Nau announced its re-birth. It had been purchased by a socially progressive outdoors clothier in Santa Barbara, Cal., called ...
Does the Water-Powered Car Really Work?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffYes, but the water has to come from unicorn tears. By Adam Stein Unsurprisingly, inevitably, rising gas prices have brought increased interest in the water-powered car. Is there really a simple technology that can dramatically boost the efficiency ...
Extra Cheese, Hold the Methane
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffA recent innovation from scientists in Australia and New Zealand offers hope for humans to continue our love affair with meat and dairy products. The proposed solution: A genetically modified grass that is more easily digested ...
Extra Cheese, Hold the Methane
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffA recent innovation from scientists in Australia and New Zealand offers hope for humans to continue our love affair with meat and dairy products. The proposed solution: A genetically modified grass that is more easily digested ...
Proudly Made in China: NEST Collective
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffBy Erica Lee Schlaikjer A group of foreigners doing business in Shanghai recently hatched a new idea to bring "design with a conscience" to the China market. NEST, as the retail collective is called, aims to unite ...
Book Review: Seven Wonders
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffIn Sightline’s new book <a href="Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet: Everyday Things to Help Solve Global Warming, Eric Sorensen and the staff of Sightline Institute created a pithy, action-oriented book dripping with insightful Worldchanging ...
Think galactically, print locally
Friday, March 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Stuff | Comments OffRemember that groovy Saturn wallpaper they used to sell for kids' bedrooms? The Hubble Space Telescope folks are making available a very chic, grown-up, and open source, version of that same idea. In this ...