Monthly Archives: April 2009

Image via: Camper

Needless to say eco shoes have improved by leaps and bounds over the years. This spring, shoe company Camper & designer Bernhard Willhelm are launching their ready to wear Eco shoe line, made with recycled fibers & tire tread soles, as well as, “refurbished” leather and wood. Sounds sort of crunchy? Well, they’re not.

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Image via: Mills College

You know how every end-of-semester when students just toss everything big and small that they purchased over the year but can’t take with them, as they backpack across Europe? Know a few seniors who just ditch their toys (stereos, skis, futons, you know what I’m talking about) as they leave for the real world with real jobs and real, adult apartments? Well Mills College, among the other gre

Image credit:US Dept of Energy; Energy In Brief

What is the most overlooked energy consuming sector in the USA? Industry. The industrial sector, consuming an estimated 21.4 quads of energy in 2007, uses energy to heat, cool, and light process equipment, warm buildings, run fork lifts, and so on. Strikingly, by these estimates, twice as much energy is consumed by industry in 2007 as all residential and commercial entities combined in that same period. Until now, industry has been the relatively silent player at the Washington DC climate game. Soon to ch

Photo via NY Mag

Yesterday marked Obama’s 100th day in office, but if you were within 50 feet of any sort of media yesterday, you already knew that. We marked the occasion with an Obama Timeline of his first 100 days in green. But those 100 days, while certainly filled with a slew of good first steps, are far from definitive in terms of judging Obama’s green agenda. What really matters, of course, is what comes next. And so, in celebration of the first day of Obama’s Next 100 Days, here are a few ideas of what he could and shoul

Photo credit: Anvil Knitwear

Anvil Knitwear has just launched a T-shirt that’s a complete zero. Zip, zilch, nada. Not only is the underachieving tee made from 69 percent pre-consumer recycled cotton, but it also has a net zero carbon footprint.

Earning Carbonfund.org’s CarbonFree certification wasn’t a slam dunk—the sixth-largest purchaser of organic cotton worldwide had to put its recycled tee th

TreeHugger is starting to round up its favorite Twitterers for each of the various green categories. We’re starting with green tech (only because I have a soft spot for it

). Check out who you will want to follow to stay up on all the latest green tech news.

Photo: via Nendo.

The best thing about the world’s biggest contemporary furniture fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, which wrapped up last week in Milan, is arguably not the fair itself, but SaloneSatellite, highlighting young talent, and all of the events and exhibitions held simultaneously throughout the city packed to the rafters with design-enthusiasts. Often, Milan is where it begins, where the best-of-the-best showcase their talent, and where the manufacturers discover the new green ideas and send them to your living room. Stroll down a small via