“Being green helps me secure my future.”™
When I saw this picture of a “protest” against Yellow Pages it really struck a chord with me. I seriously can’t remember the last time I ever opened one! I may have used one to prop a door open or squish a bug. But seriously, who uses them anymore?
A recently released report from the China Greentech Initiative outlines the how and why China will become one of the largest, if not the largest market, for green technology in the coming decades. Per-annum estimations of the worth of this massive market range up 1 trillion dollars, an impressive sum.
No question about it- Green is still Hot. We still see daily evidence that spreads across all the Life Categories: DESIGN, ENTERTAINMENT, TECHNOLOGY & WELL BEING. It’s feels like ages (at least a year ago) that we reported on the quirky, fashionable bags that were being made from recycled advertising banners.
Two businesses, two different cuisines, two different sets of staff and chefs –all under one roof, with one entrance, one kitchen, and one dining area. By day, it’s a burrito joint; by night, it’s a Nepalese BYOB restaurant. When everyone’s talking about cutting energy waste and consumption, it seems that using building space more wisely [...]
As a child I use to wonder why grocery store produce was always so much uglier looking than those my mother would pick out at farmers markets. I would suspiciously eye them over thinking my mother was simply too cheap to buy the “top quality” fruits and vegetables that sat perfectly shaped and placed in [...]
At first glance we thought the headline was a spoof, something comical to be set aside with the barcoded Lamborghini or barcode tattoos. Seeing the source, however, we quickly realized this wasn’t just the real thing, but an interesting piece of life evidence that falls in our Maslow Safety category. British company Helveta has developed [...]
According to the Real Diapers Association, the average cost of disposable diapers for 2 years is $1,600. Or if you’d like to hop on the recession-savings- green friendly bandwagon craze, you could cut that cost to about $160 by switching to cloth diapers. While MSNBC ran a story regarding cloth diaper sales going up, no [...]
Five decades ago The World Wildlife Fund came on the scene and has been making waves ever since. Well, they’re setting quite a standard with their HQ in the Netherlands. But so they should!
With so much “greenwashing” going on these days it is heartening when a company not only embraces exactly what it is they stand for, but leads by example in the innovation dept. too.
I don’t know about you, but I have to respect whatever trees get contorted into Post-it notes, because I use them like crazy. Luckily, 3M has announced that they have received chain-of-custody certification from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. This means you can keep on posting them to your hearts content…
A year ago we saw the reverse graffiti work of Paul Curtis, who would wash messages onto the dirty surfaces of cars, streets, and walls throughout Leeds, England. It made for interesting street art seeing the contrast between the dirty and cleaner surfaces, and just as interesting was the British authority’s inability to react to [...]
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