Tag: Mexico
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Waste Receptacle Offers Wi-Fi in Exchange for Dog Poo
Bullmastiff owners in Mexico City are about to become extremely popular among laptop-wielding parkgoers, methinks
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Mexico Unanimously Passes New Climate & Energy Law
Somehow this one passed us by, a pretty glaring omission: Mexico has passed a serious climate change and renewable energy law. It's just the second time that a nation has put long-term climate targets into national law.
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Make Food for Struggling Monarch Butterflies With 3 Recipes Using Your Leftovers
The annual spring migration is a potentially treacherous one this year: Help the monarchs along with these recipes for butterfly food.
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Modern Mayans More Concerned About Environmental Problems Than Calendar Ending
And you probably should be too...
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Flatpack Laser Cut lamp Assembles in Minutes With No Tools
But I do wonder how long it would last without real hinges
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Mexico Closes Giant Landfill, Aims to Make Waste Management System Green
The Mexico City government is looking to build both a biogas plant and a recycling plant to salvage some of the waste from the landfill.
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Simple But Luxurious: Ceramics Molded From Real Avocados by C4
Re-defining 'luxury' means turning to the rich expression of natural materials and forms for these designers.
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Reusa, Reduce, Recicla: YoReciclo Brings Recycling to Mexico
At first, YoReciclo collected just two materials for recycling, and managed about 10 tons a month. Now, the Mexico-based company is up to 25 materials, including types of plastic not recyclable in most of the U.S., and
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Tainted Mexican Papayas Prompt FDA Border Alert
The FDA has responded to over 100 cases of Salmonella linked to papayas exported from Mexico by increasing food security at the border. The culprit, a bacterial strain called Salmonella Agona, spread to 23 states. Mexico currently
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The Week in Animal News: Long Lost Cat Comes Home, Animals Bathing, and More (Slideshow)
A Colorado family that had long ago given up on finding their cat got some incredible news this week, when Willow was found in New York City -- five years later and 1,800 miles from home.
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Turning Pull Tabs into Silk and Metal Purses
Flick your Bic and flip your tab -- again and again. When I lived in Mexico a while ago, two vendors had a stand in the Puebla zocalo where they refilled Bic lighters
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Elemental Monterey Social Housing Wins World's Largest Design Prize
The INDEX Design prize splits $ 800,000 among five categories: Body, Home, Work, Play and Community. The Home category has been given to the ELEMENTAL Monterrey, a clever social housing project in Mexico. The units are what Avi
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High Line-Inspired New Elevated Park Will Bring Green And Pedestrian-Friendly Infrastructure To Mexico City
Mexico City
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Punk Rock Permaculture in Mexico City (Video)
It's not just hippies going that like to go green. From green-living anarchist collectives to Punk Rock Permaculture's reporting on disaster relief in Haiti, the notion of green living back-to-the-land lifestyles goes
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Beautiful Uneven Objects From Wood Leftovers That Also Create Awareness In Mexico
Mexican design studio Le Porc Shop has a cool project called UFO (Unknown Folk Object): a workshop in which the designers work with people to design items with wood leftovers from their shop.
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Smart Adobe Houses To Help Women In Difficult Conditions In Mexico
Inspired by the work of Mexican architect Juan Jose Santibañez, who helped twenty women in difficult living conditions to build their own homes in Oaxaca twenty years ago, Portuguese architecture firm Blaanc Borderless and
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1,000 Tiny Religious Metal Figures Recycled Into Captivating Plate In Mexico
Walking around any city or small town in Latin America, you'll usually find at least one of these laying on the street somewhere: small religious metal figures used as offerings or tokens of gratitude to saints.
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Tubohotel: Concrete Tubing Recycled Into Affordable, "All Tube" Hotel
Here on TreeHugger we've already seen minimalist hotels made out of giant sections of concrete tubing. But who would have known concrete tubing could be actually made to look inviting, much less for travellers
