The
Unclutterer calls them Unitaskers; things that do just one thing and take up space the rest of the time.
Mark Bittman says that all you need to cook is "A stove, a sink, a refrigerator, some pots and pans, a knife and some serving spoons, all else is optional."
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+ Is
Lady Gaga a stealth refashionista? The empty soda cans in her hair could be the next haute hair accessory.
+ Woody Harrelson, Food Inc.'s Robert Kenner,
Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of James), and Livia Firth (wife of Colin) were just some of the
Oscar red-carpet attendees decked in sustainable style.
+ How our little Herminone has grown! British starlet Emma Watson and People Tree recently launched
"Love From Emma," a collection of fair-trade, eco-friendly clothes for the tween and teen set.
+ Lily Allen is quitting the music scene and opening up a boutique that will
rent high-end fashions to the common folk.
Ecouterre is a website devoted to the future of clothing and textile design. We're dedicated to showcasing and supporting designers who not only contemplate cut, form, and drape, but also a garment's social and environmental impact, from the cultivation of its fibers to its use and disposal. Follow us on Twitter @ecouterre or join us on Facebook....
Photo: Freaking News' Unicycle Racer (PhotoShopped Image)
Fixie, Softtail, 700c, 29 inch, internal hub, cogset, lugs, nipple, cassette, folder, freeride, dropouts, Ti: Just the jargon associated with cycling can be off-putting to those keen to embrace this non-polluting, human-powered, transportation option. Stand in a bike store for 15 minutes listening to a bike fanatic talking to the shop staff, and the terminology will have you thinking about night school just to learn the strange language.
We won't attempt to explain bikespeak here, but this crash course on some of the more common types of bikes will at the very least make bike stores less like foreign lands.
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Survivalism may be
going mainstream, what will all the new
cave men and
off-gridders. But for Heimo and Edna Korth, survival in the wild has been a way of life for three decades. The last humans to be living in the 19.5-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and living 130 miles above the Arctic Circle, they are quite possibly the most remote Americans. ...
This week marks
Carnival of the Green #216, and it's being hosted by Ethical Superstore, a site based in the UK that's committed to helping the ethical consumer "buy what you believe in." Through the
Ethical Superstore website, you can purchase the finest quality fair trade, organic, and eco friendly products.
So head on over to
this week's Carnival which includes a round up of green news and events from the past week and your best green tweets, submitted by other bloggers and green sites.
From 8 simple ways to save a thousand bucks to hiking in Norway to planting a garden for healthier children - enjoy!
We are now accepting host requests for 2010! Read on to find out how to host....
Photo:
longjohn.org
Work Bikes, Freight Bicycles, Cargo Trikes, Utility Bicycles, Industrial Bikes -- or whatever you want to call them -- have been been with us for almost as long as the original safety bicycle itself. Though not conceived for recreation or racing, they have often been conscripted into those rolls too. But primarily their role has been utilitarian. Moving materials, goods, animals and people from place to place. Human propelled mules. Pedal powered trucks.
This visual teaser showcases the capabilities of these uber-efficient beasts of burden.
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From the news that state legislators in South Dakota have passed a resolution that "urges" schools to stop teaching global climate change as hard science--and instead pair it with "astrological" and "cosmological" theories--to the unveiling of the 918 Spyder, a new plug-in electric hybrid Porsche concept car from Volkswagen, a lot happened this week in green. Find out what else happened in the world of green this week in our photo roundup of most popular, most important, and most oddball stories.
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Image via NPR, credit Phase One Photography
Sometimes the whole "zero calorie" thing goes too far, like when it comes to enjoying chocolate. The latest thing is a chocolate inhaler called Le Whif. Yep, you read that right. Inhaling - and not in the figurative sense - is actually a way to consume chocolate now, thanks to a disposable tube good for ten hits. Er, puffs. Er, whifs. ...
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Sakol's velcro-equipped blocks, made from Forestry Stewardship Council-certified birch, break out of the mold by allowing more organic means of construction.
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Green Toys' Lego-like blocks are made from recycled milk jugs and are suitable for tykes as young as 6 months.
+ These Ponderosa pine
Beetle Blocks from Western Canada get their subtle blue color from a local species of bark beetle that kills and tints tree rings. ...
Magda Rod is an ecopreneur based in Los Angeles, CA. Magda is the founder of Visionary Boutique, activist, photographer, designer, stylist, writer, blogger, publicist, eco-maniac, eco-warrior, and mom. Magda writes about green topics that move her soul for TreeHugger. Eco fashion is her passion. Assisting social and environmental transformation to help create a world that works for everyone is her mission. "Once you go green, you can't go back."...
Behold:
glow in the dark toilet paper! No need to turn on the light for those late-night ventures to the bathroom,.
Toilet paper has been the subject of considerable drama here on the ole' TreeHugger. Sadly, the softer it is,
the worse it is for old growth forests. We've heard calls to ditch the TP entirely and
go with a bidet, and we now know that
toilet-paper themed poetry can reduce use. But unless we all do like
No Impact Man, or find the gospel after a
trip to Thailand, we of the Western World are unlikely to ditch the roll terribly soon. So we might as well save some energy while we're at it, right?...
This week marks
Carnival of the Green #215, and it's being hosted by
Project Earth, a blog for environmental information and discussion, but also one for curriculum ideas by and for high school teachers and students.
So head on over to
this week's Carnival which includes a round up of green news and events from the past week and your best green tweets, submitted by other bloggers and green sites.
From 8 simple ways to save a thousand bucks to hiking in Norway to planting a garden for healthier children - enjoy!
We are now accepting host requests for 2010! Read on to find out how to host....
From the recent discovery of a species of wasp that enslave unsuspecting spiders to a new report from the United Nations that estimates a 500% growth over the next 10 years in computer waste in India alone, a lot happened this week in green. Mechanical engineering students from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo have developed an eco supercar that gets 2,752 MPG and the California Institute of Technology has developed a solar cell that is 98% plastic and catches a record-breaking 96% of incident light. Find out what else happened in the world of green this week in our photo roundup of most popular, most important, and most oddball stories.
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Leather packaging design by Sebastian Vecchio and Guillem Ferran.
Leather might not seem the most treehugger-liked material, but like with any material, it depends how you use it, where it comes from and what processes it has undergone. A few craftsmen and designers in Catalonia, Spain, got together and created some beautiful pieces to promote certain local trades (in this case the leather production) to prevent them from disappearing in the region due to the pressure of cheaper products from China or elsewhere. The project is called
La Pell, which means
the skin and
the leather in Catalan. The local production and material sourcing is essential to this project, and guarantees its quality and responsibility. Leather products include objects from packaging for bottles and cameras to toys, confetti (leather off-cuts) and puffs.
(more images below)...
Do you know of a green person, product, company, event, or concept that deserves to be lauded for the positive environmental change it has enacted? Let us know! In TreeHugger's second annual
Best of Green Awards, we're looking to bestow top honors on the people, places, and things that are helping move sustainability into the mainstream.
Last year, we awarded more than 170 prizes across eight general themes. This year, we're asking for your help making some of the selections. Let us know who you think should be nominated for a Best of Green Award. Then we'll ask for your help picking the cream of the crop in dozens of specific categories in our new-this-year Readers' Choice Awards. Click the link below for nomination instructions.
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From the news that Sanaa, Yemen may be the world's first capital to run out of water to the small twin-engine Cessna 310 plane that crashed in Palo Alto, California, killing 3 Tesla Motors employees, a lot happened this week in green. Norway plans to build the world's largest turbine standing 533 feet tall with a rotor diameter of 475 feet, a UK teen driver tried to kill a cyclist, who turned out to be a police officer, and Obama announced that his administration has approved an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the US. Find out what else happened in the world of green this week in our photo roundup of most popular, most important, and most oddball stories.
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This week marks
Carnival of the Green #214, and it's being hosted by
EcoStreet, a website that ecompasses both a green blog and a green directory. At EcoStreet, they've jumped into the green life and are eager to pass along to their experience and knowledge to readers. Going green doesn't have to be complicated, so EcoStreet has dismantled it into smaller pieces to make green more accessible to regular people.
So head on over to
this week's Carnival, which includes a round up of green news and events from the past week and your best green tweets, submitted by other bloggers and green sites.
From teaching green in the classroom to growing your own blueberries this year (yum)- enjoy!
We are now accepting host requests for 2010! Read on to find out how to host....
With New York Fashion Week at full throttle,
Ecouterre HQ has been a nonstop gravy train of eco-fashion goodness. From
medieval eco-warriors to a new brand of
"dumpster couture," here are the show-by-show breakdowns of some of the hottest tickets in town outside the tents thus far. (Psst...need a couple of dinner-party sound bites to impress your pals? We've boiled down the sartorial green scene into a
handy cheat sheet.)...
At TreeHugger, where we have almost 50 writers around the world, everyone has their own choices of people, themes, memes and ideas that they love; We asked around for everyone's favourites.
Read Part 1 here. Kelly writes occasionally on TreeHugger and every day on Planet Green about food; She writes:
Other TreeHugger comments:
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Attention all gadget geeks! The 2010 
