Tag: France - Page 5
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Parisian Woman 'Fixes' Potholes With Yarn
It may not be a real solution to Paris' potholes, but Juliana Santacruz Herrera has certainly come up with an attention-grabbing way to draw attention to the problem: Filling cracks and holes in
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France Puts On Concerts to Encourage Recycling, Charges Old Electronics As Entry Fee
This month, music lovers throughout France are getting a real treat: a series of ten concerts, featuring mostly up and coming French artists. But what makes this tour TreeHugger worthy is that
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Peugot's 100% Electric Concept EX1 Has Broken Six World Records
For it's 200th birthday, French automobile giant Peugeot decided to celebrate its past by looking to the future. Thus was born the Concept EX1, the 100% electric, two motor, 340 horsepower juggernaut that has already broken
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A Twisting Pedestrian Bridge Keeps Everyone Safe and Looks Great Doing It
When the Paris-based architecture firm DVVD set out to build a pedestrian bridge, they wanted to please everyone. Keep drivers safe from thrown objects by installing protective mesh around the bridge. Keep
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FYE Shoes - Fashionable, Affordable, Green & Responsible Footwear from France
Shoe lovers have more and more choice when it comes to buying eco-friendly shoes: Simple Shoes, Worn Again or TOMS are just a few of my favourites and I just found a new brand from France. FYE (for your earth) is a relatively young company that started
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Gerrit Rietveld Meets Transformer Furniture In The Sweetch18
How could I have missed this last fall? It is the perfect chair for the LifeEdited project, converting into a coffee table in seconds. The Sweetch18 from Cerekapery Innovation Lab was an award winner at l'Observeur du Design
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With 34 Reactors in At Risk Zones, France Wonders If It's Hostage to Nuclear Power
The ongoing situation in Japan has reignited the debate in France over nuclear power, currently the source of 75% of the country's
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Grenoble Puts a Superhero on the Payroll To Clean Up Its Streets
Last week, I introduced TreeHugger readers to Le Greenboy, the Parisian eco superhero star of a film by Jerome Genevray. One commenter pointed out that the City of Grenoble, in the French
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The Tree on Stage: Wood Furniture That Connects to Nature
At TreeHugger, we've got a bit of a thing for good wood furniture: tables, chairs, shelves and other pieces that are beautiful and built to last. A few weeks back, I wrote about Olivier Dollé, whose furniture evokes the trees that
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For Old Wine Bottles, a New Life: Works of Art from Reblown Glass
It's a given that the French are among the best at making, and drinking, wine. But what to do with all the empty glass bottles? There's the recycling bin, of course, but for glass worker Jean Michel Daluzeau, there is a much more
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Love the Treading Lightly, Portability And Size, But Is The Bubbletree Green?
I recently wrote Love the Green Roof. But Is It An Example of Green Design? including a section on why so many small spaces get on TreeHugger, writing that "One can certainly make the case that they tread lightly, and provide
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To Make Pedestrians Kings of the City, Strasbourg Plans to Drop City Speed Limits to 18 MPH
Strasbourg, in north-eastern France, is already one of the country's most bike-friendly cities. Fewer than half of its residents use a car to get around, and
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This Century Old Bridge Canal Has Something to Say About Being Green
Being something of a history buff as well as TreeHugger writer, a recent visit to the Briare Bridge Canal in France's Loire River Valley caught my attention. The structure itself is remarkable: a 662
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Film Review: To Buy, To Throw Away, To Buy; the Secret History of Planned Obsolescence
Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the
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Malaysian Eco Fashion Startup Will Show at Paris Fashion Week (Photos)
Malaysian eco-fashion label, Ultra. Photo: Ultra Ultra, a Malaysian eco-fashion label that launched in September 2010, will showcase their fall 2011 collection and bring their designs to an international level at Tranoi during Paris Fashion Week.
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Édouard François Is "Creator of the Year" At Maison et Objet
The French design show and magazine maison-objet has chosen TreeHugger favourite Édouard François as its architectural creator of the year. We gave his a Best of Green award in 2009 for his work that integrates green façades
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Old Christmas Trees Help Other Trees Grow Year-Round in Paris' Neighborhood Parks
Once all the gifts have been opened, all the feasting done, all the toasts made, the time will soon come to figure out what the heck to do with the Christmas tree around which so
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How to Build an Earthship: Step-by-Step Slideshow (Video)
Image credit: Earthshipkirst Appalachian Gothic architecture made from recycled pallet wood is by no means the only DIY housing option using reclaimed materials. In fact, TreeHugger has featured countless posts on "earthships"—self-sufficient
