TreeHugger pushes higher density living, but one thing people complain about is noise. It is hard to build a really soundproof wood frame partition wall, but new products like Enermax can make a big difference. It is a 1/2 thick fibreboard sheathing with a foil face. Bonus points: CFC and VOC free, it’s made [...]
The Observer must be one of the few newspapers in the world to have its own organic allotment garden. And an ongoing blog about it too. It’s a year old now and the garden’s development has involved community members, local school children and newspaper staff. The first weeks were hard–the amateur [...]
In support of World Aids Day tomorrow, 1st December, we want to tell you about the fantastic footballs being made by The Soul of Africa Initiative. You have heard about this amazing organisation’s work through Sami Grover who enthused about their Khulani fair trade moccasins earlier this year. The footballs are made from 32 panels [...]
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A study carried out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has reaffirmed a link between the droughts that have plagued many parts of the U.S. and climate change - though not the one you may have initially pegged. While many recent studies have sought to draw a link between [...]
Dan Siegel is the CEO of EVO, a new company dedicated to helping consumers find greener options for all their purchases; we introduced them yesterday. TreeHugger caught up with Dan between work, surfing, hiking and telemark skiing to chat about green business, growing the green marketplace, avoiding greenwashing, and where green consumption fits in to [...]
The post was about bicyclists putting stickers on cars that were parked in bike lanes. The reaction ranged from “So, now Treehugger is encouraging “eco-vandalism” by way of bike lanes?!!” to “Tell a cop that someone is parked in a bike lane!? HA! Like that would work. The cop would most likely laugh at [...]
The December/January Dwell notes that “in certain circles, “suburbia” truly is a dirty word.” However they manage to find a number of homes that “turn the suburban paradigm on its head- from unlikely renovations to prefabricated additions.
They do not entirely succeed in making one believe that living in the suburbs can be sustainable, but [...]
