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Con.Temporary Furniture: Simple Screwless Flatpack

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Con.Temporary Furniture: Simple Screwless Flatpack

Images Credit DBCSC Swiss designer Colin Schaelli tells the story of John Doe, who was so tired to going to the Big Swede for cool furniture on a budget. Really, his only friend from Scandinavia is Billy. “All others appear too unappealing to him. And who could disagree? Nobody wants acquaintances he needs an extensive manual for, right?” So Colin designed con.temporary furniture , really simple designs that go together without screws and don’t need a manual. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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End of Suburbia Director to Launch ResilientCITY – the Future of Our Cities (Video)

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on End of Suburbia Director to Launch ResilientCITY – the Future of Our Cities (Video)

Image credit: Resilient Planet The End of Suburbia and its sequel, Escape from Suburbia, might just be the most influential documentaries within the environmental movement to be seen in recent years. True, they may not have achieved the mainstream success of An Inconvenient Truth , but I have met so many people whose worldview was profoundly shaken by film makers Gregory Greene and Barry Silverthorne and their uncom… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on A Not To Be Missed Plastic Ocean Themed Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party This Tuesday

Photo: David de Rothschild Planning your holiday party schedule in New York City can be calendar jujitsu, what with work parties, friends parties, family parties, but there are also a few green themed parties that the sustainably minded New Yorker shouldn’t miss, and are also just plain fun. One of these parties, this upcoming Tuesday, December 14th, is the annual Green Drinks NYC Holiday Party . The party will be held at MI-5 bar in T… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Roof of Hot Air Makes a Picnic Pavilion the Perfect Autumn Hideaway

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on A Roof of Hot Air Makes a Picnic Pavilion the Perfect Autumn Hideaway

Image via Reflex Déco From Dutch designers Overtreders W comes “Het dak dat opgaat in rook,” or the “roof that goes up in smoke.” It’s a fitting name, since this innovative picnic pavilion consists not only of the usual tables and chairs, but also of an inflatable roof, filled with hot air heated by a wooden stove in the center of the pavilion and kept in place by wooded stilts…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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VP of R&D Admits Electric Engine Helps Porsche Game Environmental Laws

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on VP of R&D Admits Electric Engine Helps Porsche Game Environmental Laws

Image: Porsche 918 Spyder Press Release When Porsche presented the 918 Spyder plug-in electric concept car, it got some leaded blood boiling. A sportscar that can do 0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds but gets under 78 miles per gallon (3L/100km)? Brian Merchant deemed it a significant development, one which “will make waves far beyond the crowd concerned with fuel efficiency.” And that is what we want, right? To pull everyone into the green li… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on With Climate Change Looming, We Are The Ghosts Of Christmas Yet To Come

“The Last of the Spirits, from Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition. ” Image credit: Wikipedia (copyright expired) – an excerpt. I am not suggesting that Dickens was prescient about climate change, in the fashion of the absurd claims made for Nostradamus. Nor do I think you should literally wear a hoodie (the modern equivalent of Grim Reaper… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Humans Behind Deadly Shark Attacks in Egypt

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Humans Behind Deadly Shark Attacks in Egypt

The Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh has been hit by five shark attacks in two weeks. Photo: Robert Hornung / Creative Commons . A series of recent shark attacks — one of them fatal — on tourists at Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh resort have swimmers scared and authorities scrambling for an explanation. In what is surely the most bizarre theory, the governor of the region has suggested the Israeli intellige… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Caused By Short-Term Extreme Weather Not Gradual Temperature Rise

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Caused By Short-Term Extreme Weather Not Gradual Temperature Rise

The blue areas in this image represent changes in elevation of the ice sheet from 2003-2006; the grey areas represent no change in elevation. Image: NASA Goddard Photo and Video / Creative Commons . We’ve all heard that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting and that should it disappear completely some really dr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sierra Club Pulling Heads Out of the Sand in Cancun

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Sierra Club Pulling Heads Out of the Sand in Cancun

Photo credit: Sierra Club This week, I’m happy to introduce Justin Guay of the Sierra Club’s International Climate Program, who is in Cancun at the international climate negotiations. He helped write this post to explain more of the important work happening over the past two weeks. The Sierra Club has been busy building the momentum, and pressure needed to ensure that our politicians and leaders live up to international responsibilities and infuse positive momentum into the climate change negotiations in Canc… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Belize Bans Bottom Trawling in All Its Waters

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Belize Bans Bottom Trawling in All Its Waters

Satellite image of bottom trawlers off Louisiana Coast; photo via Wikimedia Commons In a great victory on the path to more sustainable fishing, Oceana has announced Belize banned all forms of bottom trawling in its country waters. Effective December 31, 2010, the incredibly destructive fishing practice will be no more for Belize, helping to preserve its reef system and maintain the World Heritage Site status of its barrier reef system…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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