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7 Must-Read New Eco Travel Books

Photo via joiseyshowaa @ Flickr Tired of the same old trips — beach in the summer, mountains in the winter — and longing to put a little more green in your next big vacation? These seven new eco travel books are the best new resources on the market for the perfect eco-vacation, from volunteering on game reserves or tracking gorillas to staying in the poshest green hotels…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Counter Space: How The Modern Kitchen Evolved

Snaidero folding kitchen, 1968 Suzanne Labarre of Fast Company’s Co.Design writes a wonderful article about the new show opening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York: Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen . The show traces the development of the kitchen as a modern, efficient “domestic conveyor belt” post WW1, into the modern age where “kitchens kept expanding — and so did the amount of junk inside them. New products were supposed to make life easier on housewives, but… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Counter Space: How The Modern Kitchen Evolved