TreeHugger loves mobile designs that allow multiple uses of space or that fold up and go away when not needed. Mocoloco shows us Dutch designer Tim Vinke’s Kruikantoor. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Work Anywhere With Kruikantoor, a Combination of Wheelbarrow And Office
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So why should we care? Because design makes a difference. The theme this year is “Industrial Design: Humane solutions for a resilient world” According to the ICSID website, “This topic was selected to facilitate collaboration within the industrial design community with the goal of producing tangible solutions to world problems.” There are events taking place all over the world; find them here. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It’s World Industrial Design Day
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Image from Footprint It’s big and clunky and it’s revolutionary. An elevator that uses no energy at all. Designed as part of the London Festival of Architecture , the challenge was to make some historic steps accessible by wheelchair and highlight the need for accessibility across London. The designer, an architect, worked with the Royal Engineers to create the solar elevator. It had to be free-standing since it was to be in the middle of the Duke of York Steps, and it had to be temporary. A… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Revolutionary Elevator Uses Zero Energy
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Photo: Dominic Nahr/ Time via Ecouterre . Are children in Africa dying from malaria so Western children can wear organic cotton ? This is certainly what Alex Perry asserts in a recent article in Time (via
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Is Our Love for Organic Cotton Causing African Children to Die from Malaria?
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Photo: Flickr , CC Shaping Demand to Match Supply Serious discussions about renewable energy usually end up being about energy storage too. Wind and solar power are both intermittent sources of electricity, so if we want to power a significant fraction of our power grids with them, we need a way to store power for windless and cloudy days. The most talked about candidates are batteries, molten salts, pumping water uphill, compressed air, etc. All of this has to do with supply, but what about demand? “Demand response” is very u… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Smart Grid + Demand Response = Underrated Renewable Energy Storage?
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photo: Tambako the Jaguar via flickr One more piece of information supporting how important your personal dietary choices are in dealing with climate change: New research published in the journal Global Environmental Change shows that by reducing the amount of meat and dairy eaten and changing… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Meat & Dairy Matter – Changing Consumer Choices Can Cut Methane & Nitrous Oxide Emissions 84%
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Image Source: The Author Dear Pablo: My city wants to build a waste incineration plant. Should I be concerned? The “nimby” crowd is already against it, but could there be benefits? Today the word “incineration” means much more than just burning trash in a corner of the back yard. Incineration with energy recovery has become the waste disposal method of choice in several European countries where it is actually classified as a Renewable Energy Source, making it eligible for tax credits. Even in the United States electricity generation… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ask Pablo: Waste Incineration, Good Or Bad?
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Credit: Lauren Pierce Besides a brief mention in 2008 Lauren Bush’s–known for her FEED Bags and famous first family–sustainable fashion line has otherwise flown under our radar. But Lauren Pierce ‘s ready to wear collection popped up yesterday in our
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Lauren Pierce’s Ethical Tie-Dye Prints are Anything But Hippie Dippie
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Dancing at last year’s Big Tent Festival. Image Credit: The Big Tent Last year, we covered Scotland’s Big Tent Festival , a weekend-long celebration dedicated to green and sustainable lifestyles. 2009’s edition included an impressive lineup of musicians, speakers and workshops. For the festival’s fifth birthday, its organizer, the Falkland Centre for Stewardship, is breaking out some new tricks. Foremost among these is Big Tent’s first annual Summer School- a three day workshop focused on teachin… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Scotland’s Big Tent Festival Adds Summer School to Promote Green Living
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Participants get painted for their debut in the sand. Image credit: Jess Root As Matt put it, today’s Hands in the Sand event was a refreshing take action way of channeling all the BP hate and directing it toward something positive. A global cry for clean energy, clean beaches and a clean planet using the potent visual cue of thousands of linked hands stringing the world’s shores. For me, compromising my usual Saturday sleep-in-late … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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