Tag: Beauty Treatments - Page 6
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"Weird" Animals Need Protection, Too
Do people considered attractive receive better treatment? That argument's been made. It turns out this may be the case with animal species needing protections, also: cuddly-looking polar bears get lots of attention (which they should), while the more
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Blood Levels Of Flame Retardants Correlate With House Dust Exposure
For this post put on your white lab coat. That way it's easier to say polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardant, a bioaccumulative, slow-to-break-down substance, concentrations of which, in human blood, have been found to correlate with
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Housing Employees on the Roofs of Tesco
Our UK sources tell us that Tesco is sort of the Wal-Mart of the UK and is not beloved by all. We have found websites and Guardian articles that are less than charitable. However, they do one thing that we wish a lot of big boxes would do here: They
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Arrgh, Stephane! Don't Do an Obama!
Here we are, getting all footsie under the table with new Liberal leader Stephane Dion, the new Great Green Hope, an environmentalist who can actually form a government, after a long intense relationship with Jack Layton and the NDP and a brief
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Project Rejeaneration by Del Forte
In the past we've waxed lyrical about Del Forte's ability to bring an engineered fit to women's organic cotton jeans. But we've, seemingly, not made mention of another of their sustainability endeavours. It's known as Project Rejeaneration,
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Lights Out in Sydney for Earth Hour
In about three months time nighttime Sydney is expected to become sea of darkness. For an hour of no power. Also known by its organisers as Earth Hour. The aim is to get office blocks and householders to turn off their lights for a mere 60 minutes
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Million Campaign Homepage: Free Pixels for Doing Good
Inspired by the Million Dollar Homepage (the site that sold 1 million pixels for $1 each), the Million Campaign Homepage is after a slightly more altruistic goal. They believe that the world is already flooded with advertising, and in the era of global
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Potenco: Powering Possibilities
At TreeHugger, we've seen our fair share of power generators that don't bother with conventional energy and rely instead on good old human power, like this wind-up charger and this DIY job for your iPod. Now, a company called Potenco has developed a
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Let The Power Be With Us: Glow-Tubes Map EMF Exposure
As reported in the New York Times , "Like the nation's highways and bridges, the network of transmission lines has not been maintained and expanded enough to meet growing demand, the United States Department of Energy says. In areas where there
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Carbon Credits: They're Getting Personal
In July, we wrote about British environment minister David Miliband's idea for a personal carbon credit card that would require UK citizens to account for their individual contributions of greenhouse gases. We used the word "radical" to describe the
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Help Wanted: Open Shutters Looking for Web Designer
[This is a guest post by Eugenie Dolberg. A bit different from what we usually cover, but very interesting. If you or someone you know can help them, please email Eugenie (contact info at the bottom of this post). Thank you.] In December 'Open
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New LED Puts Incandescents, Fluorescents to Shame
Seoul semiconductor has created a light emitting diode that emits roughly 240 lumens and claims the highest efficiency (amount of electricity to amount of light) of any light source. Fluorescents hit 70 lumens per watt, incandescents max out at 15, but
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The Slate Green Challenge
Paper manufacturing is one of the six most energy-intensive American industries, accounting for about 35 million tons of CO2 each year. There are numerous ways to positively impact your paper usage around your home and office like printing double-sided
