To shed light on the plight of our plastic-laden oceans, David de Rothschild built a sailboat from 12,000 soda bottles and took it clear across the Pacific. With TreeHugger-founder Graham Hill as a crew member, the Plastiki charted a death-defying course to draw attention to one of the planet’s great ” plastic gyres ,” swirling accumulatio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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David de Rothschild on Crossing the Pacific in the Plastiki (Podcast)
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A lot of Torontonians are wondering where they will move after the election in October, as the candidates race to the bottom to outdo each other in slashing services, getting rid of bike lanes, building underground highways that make Boston’s Big Dig look small and cheap, and where the formerly leading candidate lost my vote with his rallying cry “Scarborough, not Copenhagen”! (Scarborough is a troubled, car-dominated suburb) That rallying cry was particularly troubling because Toronto could use a little Copenhagen, and even more Jönköping
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They Make No Small Plans In Jönköping, Sweden: A City Designed For Bikes
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Photo credit foxypar4 via flickr. You weren’t one of those teenagers that tried to smoke oregano straight from your mom’s spice rack, were you? The urban lore of the 70’s held that smoking oregano would get you high, and yes, I tried it. It definitely didn’t work. But though oregano may not be a great high, it turns out that this common herb has a lot of other medicinal properties, including curbing cows methane production by as much 40%. As cows are such a potent contributor to CO2 emissions, this is good news…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oregano Is New CO2-Cutting Drug of Choice (For Cows)
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Image from Aquatina Let’s face it; sometimes a person needs a bottle of water. In your handbag, briefcase, while hiking, or for a thirsty child. Here’s one answer. Called Aquatina , its inventor claims that it is the world’s first collapsible pocket water bottle. Challenged by his mother to find an alternative to carrying big bottles of water on hikes, after a long road, it was first seen on the Dragon’s Den t.v. show. Now, two years later,
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Collapsible Water Bottle Invention Helps Save the Environment
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Farmers in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang have been facing a wild boar problem — and they’ve found a novel way of combating it. In the last 10 years, the animals’ numbers have skyrocketed, to the point where they are devastating crops and encroaching on tourist spots . Locals have tried hunting them. They’ve tried scaring them off with … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Luis Valenzuala Spring 2011 at New York Fashion Week. Credit: Emma Grady If Marie Antoinette were into eco-couture her gowns would look something like Luis Valenzuela ‘s 18th century-style collection. On Sunday, the Miami-based fashion designer showed his vision for spring 2011 during New York Fashion Week at
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New York Fashion Week: Luis Valenzuela Crafts Romantic Eco-Couture from Lampshades and Chandeliers (Slideshow)
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Philip Proefrock at Inhabitat discovers vacuum elevators , a slow but energy-efficient way of building an elevator that will rise one atmosphere, or about 33 feet. He notes that they have no nasty hydraulic fluids like conventional elevators, (although many residential elevators are chain drive and don’t have hydraulics either). Nonetheless, it reminded my of a childhood favourite,
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Better Than Vacuum Elevators: The Balloon Elevator
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Image credit: Development Trusts Association I recently asked whether organics was the private school of food —nice if you can afford it, but not a realistic option for the mainstream population. Affordability is certainly an issue if local, organic and sustainable food is ever going to bust out of its current market niche. One project in the UK is seeking to make sustainable, local shopping as affordable, and as easy, as going to the supermarket. To do so, they’re cutting out the middl… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Food Hub Model Makes Local and Organic Affordable (Video)
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photo: Yvon via flickr From August’s Russian heatwave and fires causing staple food prices to rise , to fears that expanded biofuel production will take agricultural land out of production , to concerns over food miles and the absurdity of local
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How Will Food Security Be Affected by Climate Change, Energy Constraints & Water Availability?
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Screengrab from: WSBTV.com , which has the full video A backyard farmer in Clarkston, Georgia is being sued for growing too many vegetables , on the grounds that he is in violation of local zoning ordinances, even though those ordinances have since been changed. Steve Miller had been growing copious amounts of produce on his land for 15 years, selling at local farmer’s markets and giving some awa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Georgia County Sues Backyard Farmer For Growing Too Many Vegetables
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