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Men: Pee And Wash In The Same Fixture!

Lenny Bruce would have had such fun with this, but this just makes so much sense, a sink built on top of a urinal! And designer Yeongwoo Kim has made it look good, too. The theoretical sequence is that you use the urinal, then wash your hands and the washwater rinses the urinal, saving water. Since of course, everybody washes their hands after peeing, right?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Classic Polo Meets Organic Cotton in New Men’s Fair Trade Fashion Label

Image courtesy of Tompkins Point Apparel. For those who call “The Official Preppy Handbook” a must read — if you missed it, the forthcoming follow-up called “True Prep” is coming soon — there’s a green (and pink) option for the classic polo with insignia on the left chest from new fair trade label Tompkins Point Apparel. In fact, this is the first third-party certified Fair Trade fashion available in the US. More: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Brad Pitt — Dancing with Ridiculous Questions

Filed under: Brad Pitt Brad Pitt was in New Orleans on Friday to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina — and did so by visiting houses in the Ninth Ward that were built by his charity — and we asked him if he thought Octomom should do ” Dancing with the Stars .”… Read more

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Olympic Gymnast to Teach Zoo Orangutans How to Swing

Photo via thirtyfootscrew Few animals are as adept at swinging through the treetops as our primate cousins – but sometimes even they could use a refresher course. After years of being limited to mostly terrestrial locomotion, a group of orangutans at a zoo in the Netherlands now have a chance to get their swing on thanks to a newly renovated enclosu… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Clayton’s i-house 2.0: Reading Between The Lines To Find The Future Of Prefab

Preston at Jetson Green shows us Clayton Homes’ i-house 2.0, a larger version of their green modern prefab introduced two years ago (and seen in TreeHugger here ). It is a handsome design, beautifully presented. But while Preston says that “I-house has been insanely popular”, another source noted in the spring that “Apparently, Clayton’s hotcakes are sti… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Peak Oil Alarm Raised By Secret Government Talks

Image credit: AZrainman Could government finally be waking up to the threat of peak oil? When a government minister attended a peak oil conference as a “keynote listener” , I perhaps unkindly cited it as evidence that miracles do happen. But despite warnings of peak oil in 5 years from Richard Branson , there’s no doubt that governments the world over have not so far devoted too much attention to peak … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Pretty Pollution’ Minnesota Lake Now Pretty For Real

Mary Taffe took these pictures at the same spot in Big Stone Lake last summer (left) and this summer (right). Photos by Taffe via pollutionsolutionanybody . Last year at this time, the part of Big Stone Lake near Mary Taffe’s house was a murky, smelly mess, just as increased factory farming activity in the Minnesota /South D… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Should We Really Measure Green Building?

“One of the greenest homes ever built” Katherine Salant writes in the Washington Post: Can a big house be green? Yes, but a smaller house will always be greener because fewer resources were used in its construction and less energy is needed to heat and cool it. It is certainly a point we have been discussing on TreeHugger for years, and it is great to see it in the Po… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Andy Warhol Gets Recycled with Fuse Soup Can Lights

There is something so iconic about a Campbell soup can, particularly after Andy Warhol got hold of them. Now William Heefer of Fuse has recycled pop art into light fixtures. He collects the industrial sized cans from restaurants and cafés in Dublin and ” celebrates the cross over between popular culture and sustainability.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can Aquaponics Pay for Itself?

Image credit: Kanu Hawaii /Creative Commons Aquaponics usually stirs up a good deal of interest and debate here. From the awesome urban aquaponics of Growing Power to industrial-scale aquaponics operations , plenty of people believe in the idea of recycling fish poop into plant food in an efficient semi-closed-loop system. And yet questions remain—I’ve asked before whether

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