Daily Archives: January 16, 2009

Image credit: Sandrine Hahn

Michelle Obama could wear one of these green gowns to the Inaugural Ball or she can really make a statement wearing one of Nancy Judd’s dresses from the Recycle Runway Collection.

Judd, a Santa Fe-based artist, has spent the last seven years transforming trash into treasure by hand sewing elegant garments from garbage. Her work has exhibited in airports across the US and will also appear at the The Green Inaugural Ball taki

Photo Credit: James Veysey/Camera Press/Retna

Leonardo DiCaprio lost the Golden Globe, but he’s always a winner on the green activist front. The eco-champ has signed on to be the celebrity face of watchmaker TAG Heuer. Replacing fellow eco-hunk Brad Pitt. But, Leo isn’t pocketing a cent of his multi-million three-year deal; instead, all the money earned is going to support major environmental initiatives. “Tag and I will be making donations to some of most influential and effective environmental organizations around. These organizations are doing important work to ensure our planet’s resources for future generations,” states Leo.
Via: <a href=”http://www.ecorazz

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Cut Hair to Go Please, I’m a Gardener
Those of us that compost know that human hair, as well as cat & dog hair, is safe to throw in the heap. But Discovery News reports on a study published in the journal HortTechnology that shows that human hair might be a better – and greener – fertilizer than we thought.

Light rail train in Tempe, Arizona. Photo: Rail Life via flickr

Most regular TreeHugger readers probably try to do as much as they can to live greener lifestyles (even if we all probably could do more

) but what do people in general do? If you’re interested in what people in the United States are doing in terms of saving energy in their homes and in their transportation choices then a new survey done by Yale University and George Mason University has the answers. It covers a lot of ground in terms of the actions pe

10 MINI Es for NYC
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that his city would get 10 electric MINIs out of the 500 that BMW will produce and lease, mostly in California (see links at the end). But some will be put to the test in fleet conditions. How will New York use its MINI Es?

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Everybody knows that restaurant portions are too large, too laden in fat and salt, too expensive. Yet look what has happened in the last 50 years, appropriately laid out in pie charts. Paul Kedrosky wonders what it will be five years from now. What do you think?

More or Less?
( surveys)

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A Closer Look at BYD’s Electric Cars
BYD, the giant Chinese-battery-company-turned-automaker, didn’t have much new to say in Detroit (F3DM in USA in 2011, E6 Electric MPV, we already knew all that), but they certainly had a lot to show. We’ve put together a s

I was recently exchanging e-mails with a dear friend, Melissa, who works in the CSR , or corporate social responsibility, department of a major US corporation. We were talking about traditional national and global economic growth rates (which, of course, may not be achieved in times such as the current global slowdown) and how improved environmental standards could go beyond previous relative standards, but still result in cumulative negative impact.

It’s just a game, right? World Without Oil brought people from all over the globe into an alternate reality, a near-future in which we’re sucking the last silted drops from the planetary oil barrel. We’ve seen in the past how games can touch critical issues like climate change, hunger, and obesity, but World Without Oil is different in that it is a “historical pre-enactment,” crowdsourced from the minds of global citizens who know this scenario is all bu