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Mohamed Nasheed speaking during COP15, photo: Matthew McDermott . I’m only going to feign momentary offense at Maldives’ President Mohamed Nasheed , because I happen to think there’s nothing wrong with hugging a tree every now and...
Firefighters face a wildfire in Northern California. Image credit: mattspinner /Flickr Every summer, wildfires rage across the western and southern regions of the United States. These fires threaten homes, animals, and ecosystems, and they are also...
When we moved into our new house last autumn, we got a new bed. Despite our love of slumber, our last bed was awful – the cheapest double I could find when I needed a bed in a hurry back in 2002. It was small, uncomfortable and had been repaired...
Photo via Atro City News There’s one major way that it feasibly could–and that’s if the passage of a health care bill causes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to jump ship on energy reform efforts. Josh Nelson grapples with this possibility...
States that could, in the future, attract manufacturing jobs using low reliance on coal as a marketing tool. Image credit: J.Laumer, with USEIA data. A few days ago I asserted that total coal consumption per state is a more useful metric than coal...
We’ve had an email from Gordon: I am looking for a company that recycles or reuses used safety boots and shoes. They are predominantly leather with a steel toe cap and rubber or manmade sole. As a [huge multinational] company you can imagine...
Video profile of University of New Hampshire Ecoline™ project. Video credit:UNH and Waste Management. The beginning of a new decade reminds us to also look back at the past 10 years to see how everything from daily tasks to new technologies have...
PSFK shows us Pocket Wall, a storage system from Polish Designer Maja Ganszyniec . She describes it: Look at the house as if it were a package: the room is like a package and the wallpaper is like wrapping paper. The project turns the purely decorative...
Freefold Furniture is, as the above video indicates, a versatile shelving system. But the system can also serves as partition, screen, plinth or bench. Made of Xanita X-board (more below), which is 97% post consumer waste paper, the Freefold system...
