Australia : Page 8 : TreeHugger

Tag: Australia - Page 8

David de Rothschild on Crossing the Pacific in the Plastiki (Podcast)

To shed light on the plight of our plastic-laden oceans, David de Rothschild built a sailboat from 12,000 soda bottles and took it clear across the Pacific. With TreeHugger-founder Graham Hill as a crew member, the Plastiki charted a death-defying
Andrew Maynard's Mash House Lands In Backyard

TreeHugger Best of Green Young Architect Andrew Maynard is building a body of interesting work in Australia; the latest is the Mash House, an addition and renovation. With its curved base and top, it
Lady Snails Found Growing Penises (On Their Heads)

A shockingly high percentage of female sea snails off the coast of Perth, Australia, have been found with a troubling new feature - penises growing from their heads! Researchers say that at one point, 100 percent of the snail
Zaishu Stool: Eco-Friendly Flat-Pack Furniture As Social Art Project

Designed with economy of materials, transportation and assemblage in mind, we're big fans of flat-pack furniture that's done well, especially when it's got a bit of pizzazz to it. The Zaishu Stool by Australian design duo
Prefab Is So 19th Century: Iron Prefabs Shipped 'Round The World

Living Steel commissioned an interesting article on the history of steel and iron prefabs. Professor Miles Lewis explains how Britain shipped wrought iron and corrugated steel houses to California and Australia during the gold rushes of the 1850s, when
NewMerino is Traceable, Ethical Australian Merino Wool

For well over 100 years Australia's prosperity was inextricably lined to the export of wool, and in particular, Merino wool. We even had phrase for it: "Riding on the Sheep's Back." But in the '60s wool's economic dominance was
Could Perennial Fodder Crops Mean More Sustainable Livestock?

TreeHugger has featured an awesome tour of a permaculture allotment, permaculture-inspired disaster relief in Haiti, and even greening the desert in Jordan. Yet while permaculture—which very simply
Andrew Maynard's Airdrop House: Just Add Water

Cameron Sinclair of Architecture For Humanity always says that the last thing people need after a disaster is another architect's idea for instant housing, but that hasn't stopped TreeHugger Best of Green Young Architect Andrew Maynard from looking at
The Whole Hemp House

The house you don't need to render, plaster, paint or insulate. The house with the building material that you can grow on one hectare (2.5 acres) of land. The same building material you can process yourself with standard
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
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
Romancing The Ride. Cycling is Good for the Heart.

I was late, I was late,
Can Aquaponics Pay for Itself?

Aquaponics usually stirs up a good deal of interest and debate here. From the awesome urban aquaponics of Growing Power to industrial-scale aquaponics operations, plenty of people believe in the idea of
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
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
Lucky Koala Hit By Car Walks Away Without a Scratch

Not only is this koala bear one of the cutest animals on the planet, it just may be among the luckiest too. Defying the odds normally stacked against wildlife in an encounter with a fast moving vehicle, this koala bear survived being
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.
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.