Brit Insurance Design Awards Pick the Winners
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Last week we wrote an idiosyncratic view of the candidates for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year awards. With over 100 items in seven different categories, it is an Oscar-worthy show of the international design world’s best work of the past year.
And the winners are… As predicted: the folding plug! Given the size, weight and general clunkiness of the existing UK converter plug, <a href="…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Sneak Peak: Vancouver Eco Fashion Week
Nixxi spring 2010 collection. Credit: Nixxi
While Bloomberg battles it out to reclaim New York’s title as the fashion capital of the world in 2010, lesser known cities are working towards becoming the “eco fashion” capital. From Portland fashion week to New York’s <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/the-greenshows-step-it-up-for-fall-2010-eco-fashion-week.php…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Design for a Shareable World
TreeHugger gives a lot of pixels to Product Service Systems , a dreadful name for what is basically sharing things. As Alex Steffen asked in the Worldchanging book, why buy a drill when what you really want is a hole? Why own things that you use rarely when you can borrow? Why buy a book when you can go to a library?
Neal Gorenflo and Jeremy Adam Smith don’t use the PSS words; they call it a shareable world, and are promoting it with a new website called Shareable. They write:
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Could Ecosia Be the World’s Greenest Search Engine? (Video)
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There are gads of green search engines – Green Maven, EcoSearch, Good Tree, Truevert, Ecocho… – and they all have their special qualities that make…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Top 10 Green Tourist Destinations for 2009 (slideshow)
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In need of somewhere to travel for New Years? Want to start planning your summer vacation? Now in it’s fifth year, National Geographic Traveler magazine has choosing the top green destinations in the world to a science. Many of the locations were chosen for their relative isolation (and thus minimal human impact), while others were major metropolitan areas that have managed to implement a successful environmental …Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Truth Behind the Hacked Climate Email Controversy
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When news broke that a leading climate research unit had been infiltrated by hackers last Friday, it (of course) lit up the blogosphere. Thousands of emails exchanged between a few of the top climate scientists in the world were posted online, and eagerly sifted through by those eager to find errors in judgment or evidence of great conspiracies behind global w…Read the full story on TreeHugger
The Week in Pictures: Rot-Proof Apple, Surprises at GreenBuild, Bacteria Lights Up Landmines, and More
From the news that scientists have created a bacteria that lights up around landmines to the development of a rot-proof apple–that stays fresh for 4 months–a lot happened this week in green. A new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) shows that putting money into protecting wetlands, coral reefs, and forests is a better investment than gold, Lloyd visited GreenBuild 2009 in Arizona, and readers sent in photos of the one green object they just can’t live without for our weekly slideshow. Find out what else happened in the world of green this week in our photo roundup of most popular, most important, and most oddbal…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Ways to Wine: From Bottle to Box, Back to Bottle
Photo via Yealand’s Estate.
When a winery says it is striving to become the world’s most sustainable, and then says it plans to ship its organic sauvignon blanc in PET plastic, well, it definitely needs more explanation. Are we going to have that wine bottle versus box debate all over again, with a plastic bottle added to the life cycle analysis? The answer, at least at Yealand’s Estate, seems to be yes, we are….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Terrific Treehouses You Might Be Scared To Sleep In (Slideshow)
It makes sense that we would show treehouses on TreeHugger, but surprisingly, there are none by the German firm Baumraum, who have built them around the world. Their existing oeuvre, is worth a look.
But their unbuilt works, their visions of what could be, are spectacular and sometimes scary.
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7 Weird Endangered Species Only a Mother Could Love
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When we pointed out some endangered species that are just so gosh-darn cute they’d give Knut a run for his magazine covers, we just couldn’t shake the feeling that we were doing a disservice to all the rest of the world’s endangered species–you know, the ones that aren’t so cute. Or, in these cases, the ones that are almost downright ugly. Well, we think every creature has its own type of beauty–and we know that each holds…Read the full story on TreeHugger