Daily Archives: February 5, 2010
Tupperware Duds at New York Fashion Week
Winning designer Irina Shabayeva’s newspaper coat from Project Runway. Photo courtesy PRNewsFoto/Tupperware Brands
Project Runway winner Irina Shabayeva debuts her Fall 2010 collection at New York’s Fashion Week next Saturday with some reuse and recycling techniques. The top designer from the show’s sixth season, reveals…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Fun Times Guide to Living Green Hosts Carnival of the Green
This week marks Carnival of the Green #213, and it’s being hosted by The Fun Times Guide to Living Green, a website that believes that every little step counts. They are on a quest to find fun, simple, creative, easy, and inexpensive ways to begin (or continue) living green.
So head on over to this week’s jam-packed 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 gourmet coffee recipe…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Move Over OLEDs: Scientists Create Cheap, Fully Recyclable Lighting Material
Photo via Gizmag
Swedish and American researchers have just developed a fully recyclable lighting component with what Science Daily is terms a “new super material”: graphene. Graphene is both inexpensive to produce and is 100% recyclable, and could be used to create glowing wallpaper made out of plastic–much like )LEDs could. But graphene appears to improve on OLEDs in some very big ways . . . …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Meat-Free GOOP, Eco-Friendly Valentine’s, and More
Photo via Indian TV Today
Gwyneth Paltrow’s weirdly-named GOOP website and weekly newsletter are full of the actress’s favorite things–destinations, recipes, meditation techniques, detox plans, fashions, books, and more–for die-hard fans looking to live the Paltrow life. But this week, she enlisted one of her more famous vegetarian friends for a special guest post:…Read the full story on TreeHugger
New Bill Would Create 10 Million Solar Roofs Across US
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A great new bill was introduced to Congress yesterday (how often do you get to write a sentence like that these days?). Authored by Bernie Sanders (I-VT), it would create incentives and tax rebates for solar roofs and solar water heaters. The bill aims to get 10 million solar roofs and 200,000 solar heaters up and running–producing a total of 30,000 megawatts–over …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Laundry’s Dirty Secret: The Overdose Dilemma
Photo: Method
Guest contributor Adam Lowry is the founder of Method.
I blog here about design as intention, which is to say that if you broaden your design intention to include social and environmental factors, your designs can become transformational. Examining typical laundry packaging from this design perspective provides interesting insight. If you ask what is the intention of the design of a typical laundry package, the answer is clear: Big detergent jugs are designed to get us to use more. They are a symbol of bigger-is-better wastefulness. The laundry jug is the SUV of consumer p…Read the full story on TreeHugger
RETECH 2010: Municipal Governments Fostering a YIMBY Culture
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“Not In My Backyard” has been a rallying cry for homeowners upset with the aesthetic implications of renewable energy facilities and a distributed power grid. This attitude, combined with slow state and federal legislatures and now dwindling stimulus money…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Wind Power Boom of 2009, By the Numbers
Photo via Bigge
Despite the global recession, 2009 turned out to be a rather stellar year for wind power. Total installed wind power capacity across the globe grew an impressive 31%, as the world added 37.5 Gigawatts to bring the total to 158 GW. The mega-wattage produced by wind power leaped forward in just about every major economy in the world last year, from the US to Europe to China to India (Japan was notably absent from the list). After the jump, see the top 5 wind powered nations of 2009. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
New Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Curb Mercury, Sulfur Emissions
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Last year, the EPA proposed new stricter regulations on sulfur dioxide and mercury emissions through higher air quality standards, but their implementation has been held up due to legal challenges, Reuters reports. So in order to get the new standards upheld, a bipartisan group of senators …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Higher National Renewable Energy Standard Means Hundreds of Thousands More Jobs by 2025
A new study is out on just how many new renewable energy industry jobs could be created in the United States by enacting a national renewable energy standard. The RES Jobs Study, conducted by Navigant Consulting, says that with a 25% renewable energy standard (one quarter of all electricity coming from renewable sources) the US could generate 274,000 additional jobs as compared to not enacting the national standard. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
