Lavuk designer Natasha Gindin (center, right) with models wearing her spring 2011 collection at New York Green Fashion Week. Credit: Elisa Hyman At the GreenShows during New York Fashion Week we saw a wide range of green fashion , from elaborate gowns made from lamp shades by
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New York Green Fashion Week: Lavuk Brings Casual Eco-Chic Style from L.A. to the Runway (Slideshow)
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Photo via Todd Huffman What happens when data is available for anyone to access and use? What happens when projects are open source so people can contribute their skills to improve it? We’re now more than ever connected to a wealth of information stored literally at our fingertips — if we can access it. So the concept of sharing is useful beyond creating tool libraries or Zipcar services. Sharing, when extended to information, can do amazing things, from creating fascinating mash-ups of data to expl… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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11 Open Source Projects that Make Free Information Rock
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I’ve always been a big fan of the rainbow colours and iconic grace of the South Asian sari – which can be seen in an amazing array of textures, styles and methods of draping all over the subcontinent. Even after a sari is finished as a garment, oftentimes it can be repurposed into something else just as useful — from eye-popping scarves to cholera-preventing wa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Fair Trade Repurposed Cotton Sari Quilts From Pure Habitat
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A lot of people are trying to figure out ways to use up the vast amount of pine-beetle infested timber that is all going to rot away; (Bonnie wrote about it in Turning Beetle-Infested Wood to Good (Design) Use ). Now the University of Northern British Columbia has come up with an interesting idea: Mountain Pine Beetle Wood Concrete, or as others have called it, “Beetlecrete.” It was on display at the Green Building Festival/ IIDEX. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Beetlecrete: Another Way To Use Up Mountain Pine Beetle Wood
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photo: www.bluewaikiki.com via flickr Let’s take it as given that considering the flack dairy gets from segments of the green community for its environmental problems that this result is probably what the Innovation Center for US Dairy wanted, and move on: According to a new calculation of the carbon footprint of a gallon of milk in the United States, the emissions of the dairy industry are 2% of the nation’s total, lower than previous studies have shown,
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Dairy Industry Says Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Lower Than Previously Reported: 2% of US Total
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Photo via CGI 2010 The Clinton Global Initiative is a gathering of heads of state, businesses, activists, celebrities, and nonprofits from around the world that’s designed to foster progress through “commitments” — binding vows to back projects dedicated to the greater good. Commitments focus on everything from health to empowering women and girls. And every year, there’s a strong focus on sustainability and the environment. The often exceedingly well-funded projects announced this year… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The 7 Best Green Initiatives From Bill Clinton’s 2010 Summit
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Photo via nicogenin @ Flickr Actor Shia LaBeouf has plenty of big-time films under his belt — Transformers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , the upcoming Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps — and he’s an advocate for children’s programs, voting, and the United States Veterans Initiative, but there’s one role he hasn’t perfected yet: environmentalist…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Shia LaBeouf’s Bad Recycling Habits, Moby’s Woodstock Performance, and More
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Bahar Shahpar’s newspaper yarn dress at the ‘Do-Gooder Design Challenge.’ Image courtesy of Yesterday’s News . Fashion designers don’t hesitate when it comes to making a statement in recycled fashion: From Gary Harvey’s ‘Financial Times’ dress to Project Runway winning designer Irina Shabayeva’s newspaper coat , the little newspaper dress–or LNS, for short–is a popular trend in sho… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Samantha Pleet, Bahar Shahpar, and More Design ‘Little Newspaper Dress’ for Charity (Photos)
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Photo via Flickr For most of history, life on New Zealand was pretty easy for the island’s native bird species — until the arrival of humans and the invasive species they brought with them, that is. These birds had no natural predators on land to worry about, which may have caused some of them, like the
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Deodorant May Help Save Stinky Endangered Birds
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All photos by Will Price via KLH Three years ago I wrote about Waugh Thistleton’s Timber Tower , what was to be the tallest wood residential building in the world. It’s up now, and Craig Liddell, commercial director for KLH UK, the builder, spoke at the Green Building Festival in Toronto. The building is a remarkable mix of design and wood technology, all completely invisible to the people inside. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nine Storey Apartment Built Of Wood in Nine Weeks By Four Workers
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