It’s National Design Awards time, when the Cooper-Hewett, National Design Museum honors “outstanding contributions from the design world, including architecture, fashion, lifetime achievement, and sustainable design solutions.” Quite a few of the winners this year are TreeHugger favorites; we look at the deserving winners (and a few we question).
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Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Awards Honor TreeHugger Favorites (Slideshow)
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Photo: Watercone Passive Solar One Step Water Condensation FTW! We wrote about the Watercone back in 2004 , but considering how much TreeHugger’s audience has grown since then, it’s likely that only a handful of you were reading the site back then. I think it’s time to have a second look at this very clever device that has the potential to help provide clean drinking water for millions of people who are lacking access to clean water (or if they do, maybe the access is intermittent and they could use a plan B). This could save many lives for … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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This Device Provides Clean Water for Pennies a Day
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Image credit: stevendepolo /Flickr With water shortages constraining food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity over the last half-century. Since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain, it is not surprising that 70 percent of world water use is devoted to irrigation. Thus, raising irrigation efficiency is central to raising water productivity overall. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Raising Water Productivity to Increase Food Security
photo: Jeffery DelViscio via flickr With all the talk about getting the United States off of oil, energy independence, creating a low-carbon future, et cetera, one of the key parts of that is reducing carbon emissions, whether they are from electricity, transportation or wherever they occur. Central to that is setting a price on carbon emissions. What options are there to do this? Cap and trade may be the main option being considered, but both a cap and dividend approach, as well as a carbon tax have their vocal proponents. Let’s take a look at e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What’s the Best Way to Price Carbon Emissions: Cap and Trade, Cap and Dividend, or Carbon Tax?
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photo: Bruce Thomson via flickr. A new angle on the commercial bushmeat trade has been documented in the journal Conservation Letters , the first time the illegal trade has been quantified through a European airport. Five tons of primate, crocodile and pangolin, in total eleven species, were trafficked through France’s Charles de Gaulle … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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270 Tons of Illegal Bushmeat Each Year Trafficked Through French Airport
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Photo via benketero California is simultaneously in a water crunch and one of the nation’s most important food sources. California is the world’s fifth largest supplier of food and agriculture commodities, and in 2007, California exported more agricultural products by air than 23 other states did by all modes of transport. That says a lot for how important farming is to the state, and we all know how important water is to farming. That brings us to the incredibly political and tumultuous issue of water rights and regulations within the state. In order to address a rising water … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Water Reporting Requirements Have California Farmers On Edge
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As BP’s Gulf oil spill continues to spew, the internet has helped showcase some of the more interesting ways an oil spill can be cleaned up. For example, a pac-man-esque oil recovery vessel and Kevin Costner’s machine that can separate oil and water–BP just ordered 32! The Upright Citizens Brigade explores what happens when BP spills coffee and the video is pretty hilarious (unlike the actual spill in the Gulf of Mexico). And in other green news, VW has just unveiled the new 2011 Jetta with a hybrid model coming in 2012; A new study estimates a carbon footprint of 2,753,251 tons of CO2 from the 2010 World Cup; and NASA says that the Moon may have more water th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credits: Jeffrey Peters/Anne Hamersky So many of the prizes for architecture go to gems that cost serious money to build, for people that have serious money to pay for it. The AIA/HUD awards are different; they recognize “excellence in affordable housing architecture, neighborhood design, participatory design, and accessibility.” The Paseo Center at Coyote Creek won for Excellence in Affordable Housing Design. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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AIA/HUD Awards Show that Good Design Isn’t Just for Rich People
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Image credit: Sarah Illenberger + Tia Grazette/ Plastiki “Ever since the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,” David de Rothschild wrote in TreeHugger , “it seems the barometers of success and modernity within society have been measured by our interaction, or rather lack of interaction, with the natural world.” The impact of this outlook, he continues, is palpable: Masses of
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Posters Help Send Plastiki Ship’s Message On World’s Trash Gyres (Slideshow)
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Photo credit: Ericskiff Three years ago we were appalled when Organic Oreos were launched , convinced that the organic label was being misused to make a fat and calorie rich product somehow healthier. Now a new study, reported in Livescience , confirms that not only do people think it is healthie… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Study Shows How Organic Labels Trick People Into Eating More
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