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Swap Your Shop: Like House Swapping With Your Desk Thrown In

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

TreeHugger has noted before that swapping is good for your budget and for the environment . House-swapping and home exchanges are not new; one company facilitating swaps has been doing it since 1953. It was developed as a way of getting low-cost vacation accommodations, but who takes long vacations anymore? Everybody is too busy working. But the problem of the quick, short vacation is the carbon footprint of the travel, the inability to settle in and get to know a place and its people, and the high cost per day. That’s why

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Motorists Versus Cyclists: A False War Based on a False Premise

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: StreetsBlog From a cyclist getting shot for riding with their child in a busy street to a motorist laughing about the “gay frenchman” he killed , there’s no doubt that cyclists and car drivers do not always see eye-to-eye. Nevertheless, when I wrote about a campaign to end truck blind spots , I was (rightly) chastised by comme… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bicycle-Based Compost Collection Turns Town Toward Smarter Sanitation

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Star Tribune Composting is catching on nationwide as more cities provide services to residents for collecting food, landscape clippings and other compostable separate from recylables and landfill waste. But to test out if the St. Paul’s Macalester-Groveland neighborhood is ready for such a program, Sonya Ewert is hopping on a 27-gear bike with a custom-made trailer and going door to door to collect compostables from residents. The bike-powered composting service is part of an experiment — if enough residents like having their … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Recycled Jewelry Funds Gulf Coast Cleanup

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image courtesy of Real Jewels. Eco-friendly and philanthropic jewelry that looks good and aids Gulf Coast cleanup? Enter New York City-based Real Jewels . The makers of fine jewelry, from 100% recycled precious metals, fair trade stones, and conflict-free diamonds, have created the Save our Shores (SOS) collection comprised of a recycled sterling silver charm necklace and bracelet, featuring the iconic image of… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vogue Fashion’s Night Out Takes an Eco-Friendly Spin with Bike Helmet Design Contest, Win €3.000!

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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 the full story on TreeHugger

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Russian Heatwave Worst in 1000 Years – Moscow’s Daily Death Rate Doubles From Smog & Heat

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Smog from ongoing forest fires, plus temperatures 25°F higher than normal have engulfed Moscow for over a week. Alexandr Solo via flickr via flickr. When the heatwave/forest fire/drought in Russia started a few weeks ago things were bad enough, with Moscow engulfed in smog the likes of which it had never seen and drought stunting crops in the countryside. Well, things have only gotten worse since then–the

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Bottle Opener For Bikes Is Printed To Order

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Designboom showed this silly little thing, a bottle opener that fastens to the rails on the underside of a bike saddle. Designed by Jonathan Sabine and Adam Pickard of Chromoly in Montreal, it is also an eye-opener when you hear the price, forty bucks. But another eye-opener is the way it is made and sold: 3D printed out of metal to order…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Full-Sized Urban Bicycle Folds Flat, Nearly Disappears: The ThinBike (Interview, Slideshow)

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

All images courtesy Graham Hill. Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is an insatiable tinkerer/designer who strives for elegant design solutions. His latest foray into problem-solving, a collaboration with bike manufacturer Schindelhauer bikes , has resulted in what he calls the ThinBike — a full-sized urban bicycle that all but disappears when brought indoors. Graham shares with us some of the thinking behind his idea. Love it? Pick up your own via special order through Schindelhauer. TreeHugger: What is about that living in inner city apartments that has focuse… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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iPhones Replacing Specialized Equipment, Doing More With Less

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Wired and Gizmodo are showing an interesting iPhone application and accessory: the LiveRider. Wired describes the hardware: “It comprises a frame-mounted sensor which cable-ties onto the chainstay (the bottom tube) and senses speed and cadence (cranks per minute) via magnets attached to the wheel and crank. This beams its info via 2.4 GHz RF to … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekend Without Oil To Help Teens Reduce Consumption

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

We’ve been focused on educating people about reducing their oil consumption (see our Minus Oil series), so when we heard from DoSomething about their Weekend Without Oil it was as if the idea had been plucked straight from our heads. With a goal of getting teens to reduce their oil consumption, the Weekend Without Oil will be held August 21 & 22nd , so mark your calendar! Find out more about the Weekend Wit… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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