“Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! Isn’t that something?” were the exact words uttered back in December 1968 by an astronaut on board the Apollo 8 spacecraft. This mission would be the first to bring humans into space, and the words above would correspond to the moment man first laid eyes upon [...]
According to WE ADD UP, showering together is the preferred way to beat global warming…. nice, tell me more! So you’re probably not going to find a whole lot of data backing up this statement, but what you will find is a top selling T-shirt! WE ADD UP is a global awareness campaign that happens [...]
So there’s a lot of wheelin’ and dealin’ going on in Copenhagen right now. Countries from all over the world have been meeting for the past week, and will continue through the end of this one to hammer out a vision for a low-carbon future. The COP15 UN Climate Change conference is what it’s all [...]
When I was wee lad, I went through a phase where I wanted nothing more than to become a car designer. I wasn’t looking to toy around with the mediocre crap that was already on the road… I wanted the glory, the creative jackpot of designing really innovative, futuristic concepts. I would spend hours a [...]
I’m pretty excited folksies… and why might you ask? Cause I happen to be the Sprouter of the week!… The Twin Cities have a great new eco-resource in town called Sprout and it’s pretty much the cat’s pajamas… the Sprout site covers a lot of ground in a stylish package… its primary objective is to [...]
Back in December, a public exhibition in Sydney, Australia featured 6 eco-friendly homes constructed out of different materials including: concrete, glass, wood, clay, steel and cardboard. The one that really stood out from the pack was the wood residence presented by Xenian LivingLight. It’s called, get this, the ‘house of the future’!
Pretty stellar design, eh?
There’s [...]
Here’s a little design eye candy for y’all… Dutch designers Pieter Janssen and Basten Leijh came up with the idea to put a bicycle on the market that is useful, trendy and twice as cheap to produce, so that when people buy the product for a regular price there are enough means left to donate [...]
I just pounded out another solid read from the good ol’ Minneapolis public library… this book was called Shopping Our Way to Safety by Andrew Szasz and some really interesting and relevant ideas were laid on the table. The key concept was centered around a term Szasz himself coined, ‘inverted quarantine.’
We’re all aware of how [...]
In 2003, the American Dialect Society awarded ‘flexitarian’ as the year’s most useful word… this is interesting, considering that perhaps 7 people actually know what it is! Well, I recently became one of these 7 and will help to push this figure into double digits… a flexitarian is a “vegetarian who occasionally eats meat”… Yes, [...]
Nothing frosts my cookies more than being referred to as ‘a consumer’. It’s such an impersonal term, generally used to categorize faceless crowds and their spending habits… believe it or not, here in the US of A we are twice as likely to be called a consumer than a citizen! Ick!… This is far from [...]
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