published October 6, 2010 and has No Comments
Images courtesy of ecostiletto This guest post was written by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff of ecostiletto . Seeing pink? It must be October, when the beauty industry slaps a whole bunch of pink ribbons on products that donate to breast cancer research. Sounds great, right? Not exactly, when many of these companies formulate their products with petro-chemically derived ingredients that ...
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published October 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via Press Release , credit Lisa Ventre, U. of Cincinnati We love our fancy screens -- the bright, colorful displays on our cell phones and other devices that make using them a lot more fun. However, those brighter, bolder screens use up a lot of energy. Researchers are working on ways to create displays that can sport vivid ...
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published October 5, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Beatrice Murch / Creative Commons The positive effect of vegetarian diets on the environment is pretty well documented at this point, but here's another new study detailing the high environmental costs of meat: It concludes that because of increases in population and per capita consumption we will have to cut back on meat between 19-42% by 2050 just ...
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published September 24, 2010 and has No Comments
Images via Yanko Design We have a soft spot for anything that makes cycling a little safer, and this concept design by Lee Myung Su, Park Geun Wan & Park Okhee pegs it. The backpack lights up with messages for traffic behind the cyclist, from turn signals to emergency signals, to thanking drivers for keeping their distance. ... Read ...
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published September 2, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via Elephant Journal We've had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill , and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It's still an app about the life post oil disaster and it donates 30% of net proceeds to ecosystem restoration in ...
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published August 31, 2010 and has No Comments
Nothing wards off vampire power better than a crucifix powerstrip. Alexander Pincus of Means of Production delivers with a 12 outlet cruciform surge protector that accommodates oversize adapters and provides comprehensive protection from evil, power surges, and AC contamination. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ward off Evil Vampire Power With Crucifix Power Bar
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published August 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Designboom Japanese artist Akira Nakayasu's specialty is robotic plants. He creates things like sunflowers that react to human movement, making the flower seem to communicate with the people around it. His latest work is called "Plant," an interactive piece that was inspired by grass blowing in the wind. With 169 artificial leaves that react independently to the ...
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published August 25, 2010 and has No Comments
I am B Artists do amazing things with garbage; we have shown whole exhibitions of it. I am B ink and media blog gave artist Faith Pearson their empty ink cartridges (do people at media blogs still print?)... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Creative Recycling: Artist Turns Ink Cartridges Into Sci-Fi Art
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published August 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo by Gonzalo Baeza Hernández The UK has started up its own green ranking system for mobile handsets , but Apple wants no part of it. The company has refused to allow the iPhone to be included in the system by O2, but its reasons for declining the opportunity aren't exactly clear. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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published August 19, 2010 and has No Comments
Image of toothbrush via ingridtaylor ; image of solar powered brush via Canada.com It's one thing to have an electric toothbrush that charges with solar power. It's another thing altogether to have an electric toothbrush that charges with solar power and eliminates the need for you to ever buy toothpaste again. Sound too good to be true? It might ...
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