Is “Green Living” getting in the way of the “Green Movement”? Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) increased by 45 % between 1990 and 2010, and reached an all-time high of 33 billion tons in 2010. Renewable energy deserves subsidies, its partisans say, because conventional energy sources have enjoyed bigger subsidies for decades. The latter [...]
Just wanted to let you guys know about reuseit.com’s Fall Clearance Sale that is going on until October 10th, 2011. A whole bunch of products are on sale up to 60% off, including water bottles, reusable shopping bags, waste-free lunch kits, rechargeable candles, and Farmer’s Market essentials. I have bought all sorts of stuff from [...]
Ice cream, a sacred delight and American favorite, is not as pure as we think. The companies Breyers and Dreyer’s still allow the use of rBGH. Recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST) is a genetically modified hormone injected into cows to increase their milk production. Faced with the alarming possibility of a double-dip recession [...]
Barcelona-based Transfodesign would like to encourage more designers to think about the potential that exists in the things we throw away, and has put together its Trashkitchens competition together to see what kinds of kitchens design teams might create from trash. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation just released a full draft of [...]
The latest version of the Smart Fortwo is the Smart Forvision, a new all-electric concept that Daimler will debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show later this month. Nestlé’s chairman and former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe offers a lengthy disquisition on the “problems” associated with organic foods and covers all the classic anti-organic arguments, from “organic can’t [...]
The room smells a bit like a chip shop. There is a reason for that. They are making biodiesel – converting vegetable oil from local McDonald’s restaurants so that it can be used to fuel trucks. Modern wind turbines are actually a pretty simple concept based on age-old science. The inherent kinetic energy in moving [...]
Fox News called the three-and-a-half-minute segment “Climate Change Myths: Separating Fact From Fiction” — an apt name because as far as the science is concerned, there’s very little that could be characterized as fact, and a whole lot that could pass for fiction. Few (cosmetic) brands are living up to their marketing claims, with some [...]
