Jacob Gordon
Jacob Gordon started writing for TreeHugger in 2005 and is currently the host and creator of TreeHugger Radio. He’s gone to Japan, Sweden, Brazil and beyond writing about cars for MSN Autos, and has contributed to Dwell, GOOD, and other publications made out of paper. Before winding up in journalism, Jacob worked for American Apparel, modeling, copywriting, and eventually managing environmental programs for the largest garment factory in the US. Jacob was born in Boston, studied at Bard College, and has lived in Los Angeles, Nashville, and now Brooklyn. He’s a lazy cook, a flexitarian (mostly veggies but he’ll gladly finish that Reuben for you), a steel guitar player, and occasional tai chi teacher. Jacob is also the founder of Nemonics Media, an Internet startup dedicated to making reading more social.
Latest Stories from Jacob Gordon - Page 11
-
Be Chief of Your Own Lookout Post
(Images via dornob and Tiny House Blog) If solitude, stair climbing, small spaces, and big panoramic views are your thing, you might feel right at home in a repurposed fire lookout tower. The hawk-eyed gang at dornob has wrangled together some beautiful
-
Daniel Goleman's Ecological Intelligence (Part One)
Even those of you with good, green intentions are being pretty much ineffective as you grope toward a hazy green mirage. Why? Your ecological intelligence—your knowledge of the real impacts of the things you buy and do—is pitifully low. Daniel Goleman
-
Good for the Eyes, Lungs, and Brain: Phillips Develops Off-Grid Lighting for Africa
(Image: Phillips) Phillips apparently sees a fruitful market among the nearly 2 billion people who lack access to electricity. The company is rolling out a small line of lighting products specifically designed for the needs of those at the bottom of the
-
The Biodegradable Toilet Teacup
(Image: Index Award) We've been reveling in the entries to this year's Index Award, a Danish design competition claiming to offer the largest purse in the world for such a contest: half a million Euros. The Bambulance is a thoughtful example of a
-
Thai Elephant Gets New Prosthetic Leg, Joyfully Throws Dirt
(Images: AP)We knew the day of Robo Dumbo would come, we just didn't know it would come so soon. Actually, we couldn't be happier for Motola. After losing her foot to a landmine a decade ago while working in a Thai logging camp, the 48-year-old elephant
-
The Boskke Sky Planter Turns Gardening on its Head
(Images: Boskke) Designer Patrick Morris has created the Sky Planter, an inverted pot for flowers, herbs, and other leafy companions. The son of a New Zealand ceramics family, Morris chose his company name, Boskke, to invoke the word bosky, meaning a
-
The Bambulance Goes Where the Ambulance Can't
(Images: Design for Development) The Index Award claims to be the largest design prize out there. Funded by the Danish government, Index shells out 500,000 Euros each year to the winning designers who have creatively demonstrated "Design to Improve
-
Captain Paul Watson of Whale Wars
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is at work all over the world, but you'll know Paul Watson best for patrolling Arctic waters intercepting whaling convoys. Whale Wars, now in its second season on Animal Planet, follows Watson and his feisty crew
-
Just Roll it Up: The Curly Lamp from Fuz
(Image: Fuz) The intersection of beauty, functionality, and energy efficiency is what makes lamp design so fun. At TreeHugger we like us some lamps: eerie alien lamps, flat-pack lamps, lamps from reused materials, lamps that are their own packaging, ink
-
Invention Overload! A Slideshow of the 2009 James Dyson Award
Inventors from the world over have submitted to this year's James Dyson Award, and we've got a prototyp-o-licious slideshow of our favorite entries. James Dyson is the iconic designer behind products like the Dyson vacuum cleaners and the Airblade hand
-
Invention Overload! The 2009 James Dyson Award
The James Dyson Award is given each year to a young inventor or designer who has solved a problem in a radical way. Some of this year's shortlisted designs—like Solaqua, the Link scooter, the Contortionist Bike, and Fresh, the Shrinking Milk Jug—have alre
-
New Green Homes in Seattle (Hopefully Won't Be Set On Fire)
(Images: GreenDwellingSeattle.com) If you're building green in Seattle, you have to be pretty confident of your product. After all, these "Green McMansions" were were called out on a greenwashing foul and torched to the ground. Dwell Development, LLC
-
Beautiful Chinese Pedestrian Bridge
Images via CA-GROUPRecently completed in the Qingpu district of Shanghai, this elegant pedestrian bridge is the work of CA-GROUP, an international architecture and urban planning collaborative triangulated between China, Spain, and Japan. The sharp eyes
-
The Incheon International Design Award 2009
The Korean city of Incheon and designboom have linked up to create a design competition that covers a broad swath of sustainable subject matter. The Incheon International Design Awards are open to anyone, and the three categories (green design for
-
Getting Wired Without Electricity: The Hourglass Coffee Maker
Image via RT Sales, Inc. If you are able to look into the future at least 12 hours, and want to cut the electricity or natural gas out of your coffee-brewing workflow, then check out the Hourglass. We first saw this gadget over at Dvice. It doesn't take
-
Charging Up Nissan's Electric Car Without Wires
(Image: Jacob Gordon) We recently heard that Nissan has a keen interest in wireless charging for what will soon be a whole family of electric cars. But in the days leading up to the unveiling of the flagship Leaf EV, I saw this contact-free charging
-
Steve Thomas, Host of Renovation Nation on Planet Green
After hosting This Old House for more than a decade, Steve Thomas is now your green building guide on Planet Green TV's Renovation Nation. Steve shares with us some of the crazier things he's done on the show, talks about greenwashing in the industry,
-
Pulse Glowing Bike Concept
Image via Core77 It's hard to say no to a glowing bike, especially when it looks tight as hell and could save your life in a dark intersection. The folks at Bicycle Design pointed us to a Core77 post about the Pulse, a tasty single-speed concept
