Image via Coroflot We love smart packaging design , especially when the packaging turns into something useful once the product is opened. With a new concept for iPod packaging, designer Sverre Wiik Øberg came up with a box that no consumer in their right mind would throw out, mainly because they’d be throwing out the very thi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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iPod Packaging Doubles As Charger
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Photo via John E. Lester Arsenic is a naturally occurring toxin present in minerals and also introduced into the water by oil spills and the wastewater from oil rigs. Usually, the ocean can filter out arsenic through the sediments on the sea floor. However, researchers from Imperial College London have found that the presence of oil in seawater disrupts the ocean’s ability to filter out arsenic, which means it can build up and enter the food chain, causing anything from birth defects to changes in behavior among marine animals. That means the oi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oil Spill Could Mean Toxic Arsenic Build-Up in Gulf
photos via popup city Whenever we write about investing in bike lanes or sharing the road, drive-by commenters invariably complain that they are paying road taxes and they will share the road when cyclists and pedestrians contribute. Let’s ignore the fact that cyclists and pedestrians subsidize drivers since road taxes only cover a small portion of the cost of maintaining our highways and roads, and suggest that in these tough times, everyone has to share the load. After all, any Tea Partier would tell you that nothing in the Constitution says that i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pay & Sit Park Bench Is A Libertarian Dream
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Image via Metro Truth is certainly sometimes stranger than fiction. For instance, does this seem real? In the year 1970, a board game was created for an oil company known at the time as British Petroleum. In that game, called “BP Offshore Oil Strike”, players build oil rigs and drill off coastlines and in open water. Then, when the rig explodes, they have to pay a fine and clean it up. Sounds like a fun game, right? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Gulf Spill Predicted by a 1970s Board Game?
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the good: 1 Bryant Park. Image: Viridian Realty For decades, modern office buildings have been pretty much covered in glass curtain walls. Some are high performance and very expensive, like the super-green LEED Platinum Bank of America Building at 1 Bryant Park in New York, or they can be the standard crappy suburban office building thrown up across North America, looking the same in California or Calgary. But as Steve Mouzon points out , even the very best glazing has an R-value that is equiv… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can an All-Glass Office Building Really Be Considered Green?
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Image via Clean Technica You’ve probably at least heard mention of how climate change poses a complex threat to national security on a number of fronts. It’s often described as a threat multiplier , as it puts additional stress on already unstable nations and regions. By creating more intense weather conditions and events — droughts, flooding, more intense storms — it will disrupt societies and induce mass migration in coming decades. But don’t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How Climate Change is a Threat to National Security (Video)
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Photo credit Pieter Kers, via Gizmodo In the middle of a city, finding a semblance of the wilderness is tough to do. Sitting yourself in a park is about the closest you can get. But DUS Architects have come up with a way for you to trick yourself into thinking you’re in a forest with no beginning and no end, using strategically placed mirrors and a single tree. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Endless Urban Forest Made with Mirrors and a Single Tree
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Industrial designer Nitipak Samsen is concerned that “Global warming has been driven by capitalism, now we are trying to solve global warming through capitalism.” He has developed a sort of mini-carbon offsetting device he calls a A.T.R.E.E.M. ((Automated Tree-Rental for Emission Encaging Machine), which measures the growth of the tree and the rate of carbon dioxide absorption. You enter your activity (a flight, an electric bill), swipe your card and it measures the growth of the tree that would represent the carbon offset. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Instant Offsets: Measuring Device Calculates Carbon Dioxide Absorption
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Images by B. Alter : Ping Pong on a Skip The Union Street Urban Orchard is just that: an orchard of 85 fruit trees and more, created on an abandoned site in the east end of London. It’s a community project, with volunteers helping to build and plant. Part of the London Festival of Architecture , it’s a wonderful example of bringing urban spaces alive and bringing back nature to the inner city. Included in the orchard is a zero-carbon pod and the world’s first (?) pin… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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An Urban Orchard Appears in London
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Brothers Rinchen Samdrup, Jigme Namgyal, and Karma Samdrup (clockwise from top left) are now all in jail. Photos via the International Campaign for Tibet Picking up trash and planting trees sounds about as uncontroversial as activism can get, but an internationally recognized Tibetan environmentalist who had been organizing local villagers to do just tha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tibetan Environmentalist Jailed for Five Years
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