Warren McLaren
Warren was one for the earliest writers for TreeHugger, way back in 2004, and has edited the weekly newsletter since its inception in 2005. These days, when not chained to his screen and keyboard, he also works for Australia's largest provider of outdoor education programs, designing courses to get kids outside into the sun and wind. Or can be found proudly watching his toddling young son harvest his own home-grown, organic strawberries and tomatoes.
Previously a designer of outdoor clothing and equipment for over a decade, Warren was one of the first, outside of the U.S., to specify fleece made from recycled drink bottles in the early 90's. He is a life member (and spent 15 years as a committee member) of Australia's first ecodesign not-for-profit, the Society for Responsible Design.
Warren later set up his own ecodesign consultancy, which saw him involved in myriad eco projects, like being lead researcher for Greenpeace's analysis of the Sydney Olympic "Green Games"; laying the groundwork for Ecospecifier, a database of green building materials; and lead editor of Environ, Australia's first trade magazine dedicated to eco-architecture. As well as lecturing at universities in green textiles, sustainable interior design and ecodesign, he's also got his hands dirty; managing teams in land conservation projects, co-managing a community re-use co-operative, and coordinating an organic wholefoods co-op.
Latest Stories from Warren McLaren - Page 7
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Setting Up and Running a School Garden. Toolkits for Teachers
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have released a follow up document to their 2005 publication, Setting Up and Running a School Garden. The newer manual is a School
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Cyclist Musician To Tour with Cello and Recycled, Solar-Powered, Electric-Assist Bicycle Trailer
A couple of years ago Kristin Rule, alias 'The Unconventional Cellist' undertook a 20 week music tour, toting her cello on a motorbike with a solar trailer. With a new album recently released, she is soon to be touring again, but
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The House that One Man Can Lift. Sanctuary Magazine Showcases This and More.
When it came time for our architecture writer, Lloyd, to select the Best Shelter Magazine for TreeHugger's 2010 Best of Green Awards in Design and Architecture he quickly
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Romancing The Ride. Cycling is Good for the Heart.
I was late, I was late,
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Australian School Ditches Bottled Water, While Another Becomes First Carbon Neutral School
While no longer breaking news, the endeavours of students and staff at two different Australian schools still merits attention. One school went bottled water free, whilst
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Le Pliable. French for Folding Bike Concept
Over the past half dozen years we've had more folding bikes cross our screens at TreeHugger than a rear bicycle wheel has spokes. And they keep on coming.
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Reuseit.com Makes Disposable Seem So Passé
Three years ago we ran a piece on ReusableBags.com and their cloth shopping tote bag. In a world rife with product churn (out with the old, in with the new) it's pleasing to see they still offer the exact same bag for hauling
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The Greens Are The Only Winner From Australia's Federal Election
You may recall that just eight weeks ago Australia found itself with a new Prime Minister, it's first female one at that, in Julia Gillard. She had ousted Kevin Rudd, who although sweeping
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Calls for Australia to Drop Compulsory Bicycle Helmets Laws
Not that this is a fire that needs any stoking but Australia is yet again debating the relative merits of helmets for cycling.
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Finisterre's Still Making Waves in Waterproofs and Wool
As we've noted before, Finisterre is a fiercely independent crew of surfers, out of Cornwall, making highly functional, and award winning, outdoor clothing with a
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Two Brothers with Two Buckets Take on World Hunger
A few weeks ago Daniel Vivarelli sent us a link to Global Buckets. and gushed about having come across "two young lads (brothers I believe) who have taken it upon themselves to cook up solutions for solving world hunger. WORLD FREAKIN' HUNGER ... I
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Design Students Create a Brighter Future: SRD Change 2010 Exhibition
For the past seven years now the SRD (Society for Responsible Design) have held their Change design exhibition showing the latest graduate student thinking around environmentally and socially responsible design solutions.
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Full-Sized Bicycle Folds Flat, Nearly Disappears: The ThinBike (Slideshow)
Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is an insatiable tinkerer/designer who strives for elegant design solutions. His latest foray into problem-solving, a collaboration with bike manufacturer Schindelhauer bikes, has
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Full-Sized Urban Bicycle Folds Flat, Nearly Disappears: The ThinBike
ThinBike Appearances can be deceptive. It looks almost like a normal bike, but it's a little bit more than that. It's totally functional, simply elegant, and aesthetically pleasing. In a modern gallery, it could be wall art; in the home of an urban cycl
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A New Guzzler Made of Glass and Grass by Bamboo Bottle Company
Is this what people have been clamoring for? A refillable glass bottle, protected by a sheath of fast growing, renewable bamboo.
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The Ups (and Downs) of Cycle Commuting
For longer than I care to remember I've been a
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Cycle Commuters Offered Fluffy Towels and Ironing Boards At Bike Park
Whenever we do a story on bike commuting there'll always be a commenter concerned about what happens when they arrive at their workplace. How do they scrub up from a sweaty or rainy ride? Where do
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Kevin Scott's Bendy Bike, It Wraps Around Posts for Secure Locking.
We've seen a plethora of ways for securing bikes against theft, but this might be the most creative. The whole bike bends around a suitable post to become, in effect, the loop through which the bike is secure
