Totally Cool and Easy to Make Recycled Plastic Bags Rain Boots
Photos: Courtesy of Louis Rigano.
We’ve seen plenty of things with fused plastic bags, one of the best being the Chilean plastic bags boots we featured last year. However, few look like something that you would wear or that can be easily done. Until now….Read the full story on TreeHugger
TrickleStar Adds New Energy-Saver Tool To Line-Up – The TrickleStrip
Images via TrickleStar
The name is questionable – I keep wanting to read it as TickleStrip, making it sound like some sort of toy we’d list in this buy guide, or something Sami would write about – but actually, it has nothing to do with that. TrickleStar is a company we first saw at <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/ces-20…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Takeoutwithout: Refuse, Retake and Reconsider
Americans toss out enough paper and plastic cups, forks and spoons every year to circle the equator 300 times, and K.B. Lee is trying to do something about it. He has founded Takeoutwithout to convince restaurants to encourage and accommodate people who bring their own containers.
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SF Green Festival 09 – More Than One Way to Rip a Shirt to Shreds
Restructured clothing was definitely at home at the San Francisco Green Festival this year. There were several fashion designers that knew how to shred old clothing and sew it into something new, creative, and stylish. Here we have Elisabethan, a line by Elisabeth Delehaunty – a clothing artist we’ve followed for years. It was fun to see her gorgeous creations at the fest, but she certainly wasn’t the only seamstress. Check out some of the other great clothing lines making something hot out of something tossed. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
The TH Interview: Frances Beinecke, President of Natural Resources Defense Council
No matter if you’re a climate activist or a firm believer in the political process, there’s no getting around that the negotiations leading up to next month’s COP15 conference have been tough of late. The need to keep pushing for strong and immediate climate action has never been greater — something which NRDC President Frances Beinecke’s just-released book Clean Energy, Common Sense does compellingly — so, when over the weekend it w…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Ed Begley’s Back with a New Season of Living With Ed
Ed and Rachelle Begley don’t have your typical Hollywood power struggle. Rachelle loves her glamorous lifestyle while Ed, well he strives for something a bit more modest. How these two can live together, let alone reconcile their opposing predilections, is a mystery.
But now, you can find the answer in the all new season of <a href=”http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv/living-with…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Segs in the City
Image via: Segs in the City
On a recent trip to Baltimore, my family decided to try something a little touristy and a little different: let’s not just take a tour of the city, let’s take a tour of the city while riding (balancing) on Segways!! The lovely folks at Segs in the City were all too happy to make that wish come true….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Organic Maternity Lingerie: Is That Even Possible?
Image via: Peau-Ethique
Looking for something soft and silky to wear to bed but feeling like there are not many options out there? And, you want it to be organic? Well, that used to be something of a challenge. Not anymore, thanks to Peau-Ethique and their pretty Babydoll collection….Read the full story on TreeHugger