Mairi Beautyman
Mairi Beautyman is senior editor at TreeHugger and heads up the Living category, in addition to tackling feature projects for the site.
With a background in literature, art, design, and architecture, Mairi had sustainability hammered in at a young age during a childhood in rural Western Massachusetts. Her dog ate what was in the organic lunch box -- until she embraced her calling. Now she likes thinking about materials that don't stick around, and believes the best green design is also nice to look at. She tends to wander off...Morocco...Indonesia...Nicaragua...for extended surf trips, but usually calls Berlin home.
Mairi is also a regular contributor to Interior Design magazine, and has written for publications including The Huffington Post, A Hedonist's Guide to Marrakech, Wired, Art News, Architectural Record, Slow Travel Berlin, Time Out Berlin, Azure Magazine, and The Robb Report.
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Tomato-Powered Light? Wild Light Innovations by D-vision Students
There's nothing like a light powered by the juicy red fruit more commonly seen in insalata caprese in this city to get the crowd all excited. Or how about a light carved out of soap or light shades made of
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Super Posh (and Pricey) Green Furnishings by Moroso
I've always been a fan of Moroso -- the brand is just so lux and classy....although very expensive, and not green. Until now. The Italian furniture manufacturer has not one but three
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Cookie Jar Encourages Healthy Eating
There are a lot of things that make you fat -- Lloyd has this great list. But often it comes down to eating a cookie when you should be eating a banana. If you (or people in your family) have this problem too, then the
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Plants that are Lamps, Lamps that are Plants
This is my favorite trend so far at the Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010: a plant that is a lamp, lamp that is a plant.
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: The Green Preview (Slideshow)
Bored of your furniture? What if you could just sit in it to give it a fresh, new shape? That's the idea behind Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka's Memory chair, made of crumbled recycled
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: The Green Preview
Yes, design royalty, you know who you are, and you are all in Milan right now for the 49th edition of the world's biggest contemporary furniture fair: Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010, April 14-19. Once again, some 300,000 people will flock to this I
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Going Steady: 10 Animals More Monogamous Than Us (Slideshow)
Ah love. Woody Allen has some nice thoughts on this tricky thing that perhaps gets more thought around Valentine's Day. The recent swan divorce shocked us to the core, so we decided to ponder the happy
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Going Steady: 10 Animals More Monogamous Than Us
Ah love. With Valentine's Day around the corner, and the recent shocking swan divorce, we decided to ponder the happy couples in the animal kingdom...as well as two happy cheaters. "Of the roughly 5,000 species of mammals, only 3 to 5 percent are known
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Bread & Butter Berlin: Planet Earth's High-Performance Gear Made of PET Bottles
If you think of high performance sporting gear made from PET bottles, probably the first name that comes to mind is Patagonia -- personally, I'm a big fan of the
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From Camping to Polar Bears: 7 Green Themes in ABC's Lost
Ok, so you might not stop global warming, reduce your carbon footprint, or save endangered species if you tune into ABC's Lost. From a sentient island, to problems with space/time continuum....and...errr, polar
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Bread & Butter Berlin: Knowledge Cotton Apparel's Sexy Green Nerd Look
Oh nerdy can be so sexy. Especially when we're talking certified organic cotton nerd -- or maybe I'm just getting carried away by this model's glasses. Anyway, Danish company Knowledge Cotton Apparel, another
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Bread & Butter Berlin: Fashion Label Humanity Addresses...Well Just About Everything
From Mother Teresa, to Rosa Parks, to Nelson Mandela, to Hurricane Katrina to water conservation and Sponge Bob's eco-themed birthday, fashion label Humanity designs for a remarkable range of social causes. At Bread & Butter (Winter
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Bread & Butter Berlin: What Color Nail Polish do Europeans Wear?
While I did not notice a tremendous focus by the organizers of Bread & Butter (Winter collection 2010) on the environment, they did have a big marketing campaign for B&B; for Charity, which "aims to raise and support social
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Bread & Butter Berlin: Kuyichi Denim's Director on Not Paying More For Green Fashion
Last Friday, during Bread & Butter (Winter collection 2010), Tony Tonnaer, director of Dutch denim brand Kuyichi told the crowd assembled for German magazine Zitty's fashion symposium that
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Bread & Butter Berlin: Recycling Shirts From Americans...Because They Are "Physically More Structured"*
Oh snap! It's the kick-to-the-(flabby)-stomach truth: Americans are fatter, and Europeans know it. You can't hide the tub: According to USA Today, 65 percent of adults in
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Bread & Butter Berlin: Costo Recycled Hats Solve the Pom-pom Problem
To pom-pom or not to pom-pom? That is a question Finnish company Costo solves by making them removable. Costo is another savvy green company I came across while prowling through Bread & Butter's fall 2010 collection in
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Bread & Butter Berlin: Simple Shoes' Soles Biodegrade 980 Years Faster
Today kicked off Fashion Week in Berlin, meaning that this city that already oozes hipness is swarming with the well-heeled fashion crowd. For the next few days, I'll be
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Readers, Send Us the Savvy Ways Your Community is Fighting Climate Change!
You don't have to be named the greenest in the world like Freiburg, Germany or smashed by a tornado in order to earn a green renovation like Greensburg,
