published September 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Borders and Frontiers SS11 - Images via Centre For Sustainable Fashion The brand new talent on show at this season's Estethica show weren't shy in coming forward. Bold, eye catching digital artworks, printed on gorgeous sustainable fabrics, seemed to be the thing, announcing the new arrivals with grand visual fanfare. But the new kids on the fashion block weren't ...
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published September 27, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Grace Smith via flickr Some encouraging straight-talking ambition here: In a new policy document Northern Ireland has laid out a good renewable energy target of 40% by 2020. Which would be news enough, but in the text of Strategic Energy Framework for Northern Ireland there's some frank language worth paying attention to no matter where you live.... Read ...
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published September 24, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Steve Gibson/photohome.co.uk via flickr There've been lots of attempt to calculate the true climate change cost of globalized shipping of goods on a nation-by-nation basis, with divergent results based upon where the boundaries are drawn. A new attempt at that from the University of Manchester says that carbon emission... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published September 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Tony the Misfit Think of the British countryside and your brain will most likely conjure up images of hedgerows, rolling hillsides, and small(ish) family farms. While Britain too has seen its fair share of "get big or get out" type pressure on farming, it has so far resisted the worst excesses of concentrated feedlot operations and mega-ranches. ...
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published September 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Tony the Misfit Think of the British countryside and your brain will most likely conjure up images of hedgerows, rolling hillsides, and small(ish) family farms. While Britain too has seen its fair share of "get big or get out" type pressure on farming, it has so far resisted the worst excesses of concentrated feedlot operations and mega-ranches. ...
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published September 21, 2010 and has No Comments
Images by Paul Perksy via Ecover Ada Zanditon , winner of this year's Ethical Fashion Forum innovation award and ethical fashion's fastest rising star, wowed the fashionistas at London Fashion Week yesterday with the presentation of her Pyramora collection for Spring Summer 2011. Held at the On... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published September 13, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: EcoHouseAgent Back in 2008 Lloyd stirred up controversy with his post blowing hot and cold on ground source heat pumps , and his stance was later validated when Green Building Adviser concluded that groundsource heat pumps were not as efficient as claimed , and way too expensive to be a sensible response to climate change. Now a ...
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
Images: Littlefly Jewelry Forget what the glossy magazines say -- even bookworms have their own sense of irrepressible style. That's what British designer Jeremy May seems to be hinting with his lovely, handcrafted jewelry pieces made from the laminated pages of recycled books. Each holds a trace of their unique literary pedigree, which is impossible to replicate. According to ...
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published September 10, 2010 and has No Comments
There's a growing body of evidence that land-use conversion in the tropics, driven in part by biofuels, negates many of their benefits. Photo: Craig Morey via flickr. The UK government's own climate advisors have recommended that current biofuel targets for transport of 10% by 2020 are too high, given concerns about their impact on tropical forests. Currently the nation ...
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published September 6, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Roddas From the very beginning, TreeHugger has been a huge advocate for local food . Ever since Time Magazine declared that local food was going mainstream back in 2007, there's been a steady stream of retailers and restaurateurs getting in on the locavore bandwagon . Heck, we even have
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