Photo: Kelly Rossiter We no sooner get through Thanksgiving when the Christmas party season starts. Here is a simple recipe for roasted almonds that you can serve yourself, or take as a hostess gift. I took these nuts to a party this week and they were a big hit. Like most nuts , they are totally addictive. In fact, I’m snacking on some now as I write this. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Weekday Vegetarian: Spiced Almonds
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Image via EcoFactor EcoFactor is an energy management software start-up that recently won a Cleantech Open award. It aggregates data abut your home’s energy use and gives a grade for each zone of the house. The grade reflects how sealed a building is and its energy efficiency levels. While the grade is based on the home, it of course reflects on the owner and we know there are some people who just have to be straight A students. Luckily, EcoFactor also likes straight A students. So when one efficiency-minded customer called in fro… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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EcoFactor Helps Customer Discover Botched Home Improvement Project
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Heatherette designer and former Club Kid Richie Rich wears upcycled eyewear by Highbrow. Photo: Highbrow Designer Jessica Sapick has long had a knack for creating accessories out of unusual materials, from wearing binder clips as barettes in grade school to handcrafting clip-on eyebrows made with recycled materials and broken and unusable eye glass frames–donated from New Eyes for the Needy , a charity that provides new and recycled eyeglasses to the vision-impaired–under her current accessory company named Highbrow
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Upcycled Eyewear Bridges the Conversation Gap
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Title page, Linnaeaus, 1758, 10th edition of Systema naturæ. Image credit: Wikipedia . Life style grand-standing has lately been a consistent favorite in America. Sara Palin’s make-pretend Alaska lifestyle is but the latest example of many such successes. (Remember Zero Impact Man?) Making a spectacle of vegetarianism works well, too. Imagine yourself an expert at off-grid living over at off-grid.net . Helping to
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Where In The Taxonomy of Environmental Escapism Does The Modern Environmental Movement Best Fit?
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Image: GE Reports, used with permission. GE Reports , which is apparently a blog “sponsored by GE but created by a bunch of tech people” (whatever that means) has a nice infographic that shows how loud a wind turbine is on average depending on how far away you are. While GE makes wind turbines and isn’t an unbiased source, they are using data from the NIDCD (part of the National Institute of Health), a pretty credible source…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How Loud is a Wind Turbine? (Infographic)
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TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited .” You can help: Enter the design competition and win up to $70,000 in prize… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tiny Transformer Apartment Has Moving Walls, Dropping Beds and More
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Image Credit: Inhabitat Since the invention of the shipping container and the revolution in transport it caused, the globalization of world trade has changed the face of manufacturing. About the only industry that did not move to China was housebuilding; It’s hard to ship a house. But now, the clever Canadians of MEKA have solved that problem; They have taken the incredibly logical step of designing … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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MEKA Prefab Takes Manhattan, Raises Questions About The Future Of Housing
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photo: Ricardo Vacapinta under a creative commons license As colder temperatures crept into the Bay area this weekend, my toes began to get that familiar chill and I started to dream about hibernating until Spring. One place that alleviated this feeling and the countdown until Summer (201 days!) was Wilbur Hot Springs. I’m reluctant to sing Wilbur’s praise, for fear that it will soon become too difficult to obtain a same day reservation, but the natural hot mineral waters and lack of cell phone reception, make it a perfect winter weekend escape from rainy day blues. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hibernating Off The Grid At Wilbur Hot Springs
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Photo via The National Chances are, you haven’t heard of Haidar Taleb yet, but he’s on a mission to inspire the world. On Monday, the disabled 47-year-old from the UAE is set to embark on a record-breaking 200 mile voyage across the desert in a solar-powered wheelchair he designed and built himself. “With this journey I hope to raise awareness of disability and sus… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Man to Travel 200 Miles in Solar-Powered Wheelchair
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