Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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For ethical fashion label Edun , founded by U2 front man Bono and his wife Ali Hewson , achieving their goal of creating more jobs in Africa, one of the company's founding principles back in 2005, has to be simultaneously developed with creating a product that is in high demand. On September 11, Edun showed their S... Read the ...
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A design by Özgür Masur from Argande 's 2010-2011 fall-winter collection. Istanbul was abuzz last week about the latest efforts to position the city as a new fashion capital and help Turkey move from manufacturer of raw materials for clothing to purveyor of style. The third Istanbul Fashion Week drew plenty of press and party-goers and even a few ...
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It's Déjà Vu all over again: An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP's massive oil spill. In other green news this week, the US Geological Survey has released a new report on the state of glacier ...
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Image via TreeHugger We've been covering eco-fashion denim brand Kuyichi since 2004 , when TreeHugger was still in its formative years. Founded in 2001, by international NGO Solidaridad , the sustainable brand -- and winner of our Best of Green Award for Non-U.S.--based Casual Brand -- has spread to more than 500 stores across Europe and now they have ...
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Loomstate's Scott Mackinlay Hahn (center) with a five-pocket jean pattern. Photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times About 15 to 20 percent of fabric used to produce clothing ends up in the nation's landfills. Pioneers behind zero-waste fashion have a solution: designing clothing patterns that uses every inch of fabric; if it sounds easy, it's not. The Continued here: Is ...
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(All images: SRD Change 2010) For the past seven year now the SRD (Society for Responsible Design) have held their Change design exhibition showing the latest graduate student thinking around environmentally and socially responsible design solutions. And this year its on again. Right now. So, if you want to know where the fresh green thinking is imagining our world ...
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TreeHugger has previously admired the Almost Invisible Mirrored Tree House Built In Sweden at the wonderful Treehotel , but it is only one of six remarkable structures. Another way of making oneself less visible and intrusive is camouflage, the approach taken by Bertil Harström of Inredningsgruppen ; He covers his suite in sticks and makes like a birds nest.... ...
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Image via Shicon . How do you interpret "Eco Fashion" style in your everyday life? Come up with the best graphic answer and you could win a piece of a €3,000-prize pot! Vogue and Fiat have launched a competition to design a bike helmet for the Fiat 500 folding bike, which fits in the truck of the 2-cylind... Read ...
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Credit: Science Museum . From the London Science Museum's "Trash Fashion" exhibit -- joining other green fashion innovations like a garment grown from a vat of green tea and an Read more: High Tech Meets Low Waste in New Computer Generated Eco-Fashion
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Daily Mail's Liz Jones and People Tree founder Safia Minney, left to right, in Bangladesh's first organic cotton farm. Image via Daily Mail . The not so sweet reality of garment workers conditions in Bangladesh is, in short, very bad . Thanks to tipster Elliot for sending us this news bit: UK-based ethical fashion label People Tree has just ...
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Save the sea creatures! Handcraft your own natural specimens using these these simple patterns, some yarn and a crochet hook. View post: 8 Enchanting Sea Creatures You Can Crochet
A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
