by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 01.29.07 via TreeHugger.Com
So if you live in small spaces, why give up so much to the kitchen? And why move to another part of the kitchen when you can move the kitchen to you? New Zealand designer Alfred Averbeck spun out this idea for a kitchen that has the [...]
January 29th, 2007
Clever Kitchen takes up 18 Square Feet
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January 19th, 2007
All-Terrain Cabin hits Toronto
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 01.19.07 via TreeHugger.Com
The All-Terrain Cabin as shown here is NOT for sale. It is designed as a showpiece, put together by BARK, a British Columbia registered non-profit collective of designers + businesses committed to raising the profile of Canadian design and ingenuity internationally, to show that Canada is more [...]
January 18th, 2007
Friends of the Earth – FoE.Co.Uk
January 18, 2007 via FoE.Co.Uk
About Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth campaigns for solutions to environmental problems.
January 18th, 2007
NativeEnergy.Com
January 18, 2007 via NativeEnergy.Com
About
Energy is a privately held Native American energy company. In August 2005, the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy (COUP) acquired a majority ownership interest in NativeEnergy on behalf of its member tribes, marking another [...]
January 18th, 2007
Salesforce.com goes carbon neutral
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By Gavin Clarke – 18th January 2007 via TheRegister.Co.Uk
Salesforce.com has become Silicon Valley’s latest high-tech convert to the green computing crusade, committing $126,000 to become “carbon neutral” this year.
The software as a service (SaaS) pioneer is supporting five renewable energy projects to compensate for the nearly 20,000 tones of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere by [...]
January 18th, 2007
Tesco splashes £500m to save the planet
18th January 2007 via DailyMail.Co.Uk
Tesco has boarded the environmental bandwagon with a £500 million “green revolution”.
Britain’s biggest retailer plans to install wind turbines on store rooftops, shift to petrol derived from plants, and sell energy efficient kettles and cheaper long-life lightbulbs.
It aims to move away from flying in fresh food from around the globe and [...]
January 18th, 2007
Google’s Goals Include Carbon Neutrality
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by EcoGeek.org on 01.18.07 via TreeHugger.Com
An Google internal memo entitled “Big Goals and Directions,” was recently leaked to the public. Amongst promises to expand advertising revenue another billion dollars, and to control spam in 20 different languages, Google also expounded on plans to increase its green power consumption to ten megawatts in the short [...]
January 18th, 2007
Housing Employees on the Roofs of Tesco
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 01.18.07 via TreeHugger.Com
Our UK sources tell us that Tesco is sort of the Wal-Mart of the UK and is not beloved by all. We have found websites and Guardian articles that are less than charitable.
January 17th, 2007
Building Green: Energy Efficiency and Aesthetics From The Same Materials (Part 2)
by Ted Owens, New Mexico, USA on 01.17.07 via TreeHugger.Com
In the previous column, I gave a quick overview of the features of my solar straw bale home. I refer to this type of structure as a “hybrid home” because it makes use of the best elements of high and low technology. (More on this [...]
January 17th, 2007
Dragspelhuset: the Accordion House
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 01.17.07 via TreeHugger.Com
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