What Does Sustainability Look Like? Photos From Around the World (Slideshow)
A market for salvaged goods in Cairo, Egypt. Photograph by David Lazar.
What does “sustainability” mean to you? That’s the question that JPG Magazine, a publication of reader-submitted photography, posed to members of its online community, who posted hundreds of images of peaceful landscapes, freshly grown <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/green-roo…Read the full story on TreeHugger
SolidWorks Sustainability Software Helps Designers Make The Greenest Products (Video)
Images via SolidWorks
How can designers make products that they can be sure have a minimized environmental footprint? The software they use during the design phase can make all the difference. A new tool, called SolidWorks Sustainability software shows designers the air, water, carbon, energy and disposal impact of every decision they make on every part of a product. That way, they can come up with the most environmentally friendly version of their product, without having to go back to the drawing …Read the full story on TreeHugger
TreeHugger’s Best of Green 2010: Get Your Nominations in by Thursday!
Do you know of a green person, product, company, event, or concept that deserves to be lauded for the positive environmental change it has enacted? Let us know! In TreeHugger’s second annual Best of Green Awards, we’re looking to bestow top honors on the people, places, and things that are helping move sustainability into the mainstream.
Last year, we awarded more than 170 prizes across eight general themes. This year, we’re asking for your help making some of the selections. Let us know who you think should be nominated for a Best of Green Award. Then we’ll ask for your hel…Read the full story on TreeHugger
New Frontiers: Sustainable Design Innovation Initiative Launches in the UK
Image via: www.newfrontiers.uk.com
For those doubtful about how we can get out of the various sustainability crises we now find ourselves in, financial, social and environmental, I have two words for you: <a href="http://www.treehugger.com…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Lessons in Sustainability Learned from Slumburbia
Photo via All Mountain Realty
Timothy Egan has an interesting column about the fate of the foreclosed developments that now litter the nation. There are, as you’re well aware, entire neighborhoods with little residing in them but foreclosed signs, empty lots, and empty homes. Many of these developments sprung up on fertile farmland, and have now been vacated or left unfilled. So what lessons can be learned from Slumburbia? …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Good Green Design Doesn’t Have To Be Expensive: The M&M House
All photos via 100Khouse
I have not paid nearly enough attention to the work of Postgreen, the Philadelphia developers of economical and very interesting houses. Preston at Jetson Green nailed their 100K House as “the perfect trifecta of elements necessary in a green project: style, sustainability, and affordability.”
Now …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Interview With Raul Vazquez, CEO of Walmart.com
Image: Courtesy of Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart embodies truths and prejudices that reflect our consumer culture. They are a straw-man for a lot of what is wrong. But, especially in recent years, they are a powerful potential leader in trying to be right. Thanks to some networking by our fearless leader, Graham Hill, TreeHugger had an opportunity to speak at some length with Raul Vazquez, CEO of the growing eCommerce powerhouse walmart.com.
We hear from his own mouth how walmart.com will implement the sustainability index being developed in cooperation with respected Universities and N…Read the full story on TreeHugger
NY Fashion Conference Highlights Heirlooms and Sustainability
Deborah Milner’s designs for Aveda Ecoture collection. Credit: Aveda Ecoture, Via Inhabitat
The 11th annual New York Fashion Conference is taking place later this week (Dec. 4 and 5) and fashionistas are coming together to talk “Heirlooms: Style, Materials and Sustainability,” at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. The seminar, organized by Initiatives in Art and Culture , will examine traditional <a href…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Local Motors: Crowdsourcing the American Car
Image: Local Motors
Here’s how it works: designers submit their concepts online, the community votes, then Local Motors works with the winners to bring these cars to life. This process, says founder Jay Rogers, has more in common with the way Mozilla makes Firefox and American Idol picks stars than the way Detroit has traditionally made automobiles. Rogers tells TreeHugger Radio about the first crowdsourced car, the Rally Fighter, and what Local Motors can mean for sustainability.
Listen to the podcast of this interview via <a href=”http://phobos.apple.c…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Seattle City Light Is First Utility to Offer Microsoft Hohm to Customers
Microsoft’s Sustainability blog announced Hohm’s first utility partner – Seattle City Light. Customers of the utility will start to be able to use Hohm to track their energy usage and get rolling on conserving electricity. …Read the full story on TreeHugger