Daily Archives: February 7, 2010
Global Warming Makes Trees Grow Faster
Photo via StoryCorps
A report published last week offers a peek into the effects of global warming on the world’s trees. As it turns out, early indications hint that rising temperatures and increases in CO2 em…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Make It Right: The Saints Come Marching In
Future Saints tossing the ball in front of a Make It Right green house. Photo courtesy of Make It Right Foundation
The New Orleans Saints not only made it to the Super Bowl XLIV, they took the championship for the first time in its history! In honor of the winning team, the Make It Right Foundation makes it easy for fans to donate to Brad Pitt’s efforts to rebuild the city’s 9th Ward with new green, storm…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Boat Concept Produces More Energy than it Uses
Last year, we told you about Vincent Callebaut’s amazing 128-floor vertical farm concept to green the New York City skyline. Now, he’s moved his eco-friendly designs to the waterways with the Physalia–a floating garden transport vessel that not only produces enough energy to sustain itself, but generates a bit to spare. In addition to being carbon-neutral, the boat is…Read the full story on TreeHugger
‘Aesthetic Power Plants’ to Make Energy from Art
Ready for some art. The end of Dubai Creek is site #1 for the Land Art Generator Initiative competition.
The United Arab Emirates have made their wealth from oil, a fossil fuel environmentalists are trying to consign to the past, but if two American artists have their way, these Persian Gulf states will become pioneers of a new source of power: art installations that generate…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Forget the Iron Curtain: Berlin Film Festival Raises Recycled Curtain on Metropolis
Image: Metropolis, Original Film Poster, UFA
Do you know which film inspired C-3PO in Star Wars? Or gave Superman’s home its name? It is Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Lang produced his epic silent film in the brief period of stability and astounding intellectual productivity between the two world wars known as the Weimar Culture. With a budget equivalent to over $200 million in modern currency, Metropolis was the mega-blockbuster of 1927. But the film was to…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Out of the Ruins, A More Sustainable Haiti?
Photo credit: Getty Images.
With over a million left homeless and its capital city all but destroyed, Haiti is set to become the focus of an enormous rebuilding effort. Internationally, many are calling for a full-fledged “Marshall Plan” to rebuild the country, lasting at least a decade and costing billions of dollars. Moves this weekend to cancel its debts, while funding rebuilding efforts with grants, instead of more loans, are a positive…Read the full story on TreeHugger
American Pika Denied Endangered Species Protection
courtesy via www.americanpika.org
A woman I work with has the sound of an American Pika as her ringtone. It’s a high-pitch squeal recognizable to anyone who has heard it before, and she has it on her phone to draw attention to the plight of the Pika, a small furry creature under threat from climate change. The Pika needs help, but it won’t be getting it from the Fish and Wildlife Service, which Friday rejected a …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Rural North Carolinians Adapting To Landfill Plastic Bottle Ban
Image credit:Concord, North Carolina
North Carolina now bans the landfilling of plastic bottles of all types – more information here – and this has become a practical issue in rural towns where curbside recycling is not offered. Winston-Salem Journal reports on how the problem was solved in one County. The president of Rural Garbage Services Inc. offered to pick them up for f…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Canada’s Top Ten Cleantech Firms
Tom Konrad, CFA Given the small size of its economy and rather lackluster approach to climate change, Canada has many of the Cleantech stocks with the best prospects. Canadian listed firms come from a broad range of sustainable sectors, and…
NY Fashion Week: Independent Designers to Show Fall 2010 Collections at Nolcha
Elena Garcia’s fall/winter 2008 collection. Credit: Elena Garcia
Independent apparel and accessory designers from around the world will showcase sustainable fashion at Nolcha during New York Fashion Week (we caught their spring 2010 exhibit last season). Creative Director, Lynn Furge predicts “elements of light (iridescent fabrics, loose weaves), painterly colors and multiple layers of assorted textures,” for the upcoming seas…Read the full story on TreeHugger
