Released into the wild a few month back was the Confetti range from Zak Designs. Very sharp looking homewares made from recycled melamine. Melamine is very durable plastic with a tight crystalline structure that for the most part resists the staining, delaminating, and pitting that is common to other plastics. I have a bowl that […]

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Sami’s new found delight with his pressure cooker is a reminder that being green doesn’t always require having the latest eco-gadget. After all the bicycle is hardly a new invention. And one place you can track down a warehouse of time tested ingenuity is Lehman’s. Founded in 1955 to furnish the local Amish, the company […]

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We planted our veggie and flower gardens this past weekend and found some advice from an article in Women’s Health Magazine to be helpful. The article was about growing your own vegetables and the benefits from doing so, in addition to some tips about growing for newbies. What we found particularly interesting was the […]

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What’s the Big Deal?
Submitted by The Green Guide Girls™,
Cindy Katz & Jennifer S. Wilkov
A book is published somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, writes Gabriel Zaid in “How Many Books.” Fifty years after the introduction of television, says Zaid, the number of titles published worldwide each year has increased fourfold from 250,000 to 1 […]

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Already under pressure from a combination of poaching, logging and disease, the great apes are increasingly feeling the threat posed by further habitat destruction as a consequence of the push to switch from fossil fuels to biofuels. Richard Leakey, the chair of WildlifeDirect and a leading conservationist, has warned that the apes, which include chimpanzees, […]

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The Government unveiled a scheme yesterday, where produce will carry a label indicating the size of its carbon footprint. It will take into account the production, distribution and even disposal of the packaging after use.
It’s not an easy task though, because the footprint of an item in a supermarket is not always obvious. For example, […]

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In the fight to save energy and combat emissions, every little bit helps: even the lowly, mass-produced clay brick. Over nine billion bricks are churned out annually, each at great cost to the environment (making cement for concrete bricks emits thousands of pounds of mercury into the air while baking them discharges a diverse array […]

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In the context of President Bush’s call to do something about climate change in 2050 (hey, why not make 3050 the deadline?):
"We do not endorse global carbon trading," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters before Bush’s speech.

So much for the political feasibility of cap-and-trade … unless the key word is global.
And here is another […]

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Michael Iannone has been hard at work ever since we spied him on TreeHuggerTV last year, building a beautiful Kirei Signature Console for eco-enthusiast Kachina Myers’ housewarming party (here’s part one, part two and part three). In addition to changing the name of the company to Iannone:Design, just in time for ICFF, earlier this month, […]

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This week, the DOE Fund is giving new meaning to the word recovery. As New York’s only on-demand restaurant waste-oil pickup service, the organization is giving jobs to men trying to get their lives back on track, while turning the city’s grease into biodiesel. We speak with DOE founder George McDonald and with Lewis Ross, […]

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