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Seventh Generation CEO Jeffrey Hollender on "Big Green Lies" and Earth Day
This past Tuesday, I had the fortune of attending a premiere party hosted by my favorite green cleaning brand, Seventh Generation. Partying in the penthouse
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Yesh, "Mutts" Cartoonist Patrick McDonnell Makes Every Day Earth Day
The state of our planet isn't funny business, but dozens of King Features' cartoonists will be inking the change they wish to see in the world for the comics syndicate's second annual Earth Day
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Natalie Jeremijenko's Urban Space Station (Part Two)
Photo: Mark Mahaney The Rhinoceros Beetle is the world's strongest animal, able to lift more than thirty times its own weight. To Natalie Jeremijenko, this sounded like an invitation to wrestle. Via some clever technology (she is an engineer, after
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Natalie Jeremijenko's Urban Space Station (Part One)
Photo: Mark Mahaney If I were in Manhattan, my visit to the Environmental Health Clinic might involve a session afloat Dr. Jeremijenko's raft/office on the East River. Under the circumstances, she treated me over Skype, checking my toxics and
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Emily Pilloton Discusses the Hippo Roller and other Designs for Humanity (Part Two)
In our last conversation with The founder of Project H Design, Emily Pilloton voiced her frustrations with a design world that has lost sight of its duty. In this segment, we're taken through her latest project: a math playground in Uganda for the
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Emily Pilloton Discusses the Hippo Roller and other Designs for Humanity (Part One)
The world doesn’t need another bamboo coffee table. Design, says Emily Pilloton, should be about solving our most pressing problems. Easier said than done, certainly, but the young architect/designer is not just talk. Pilloton founded Project H Design
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Janine Benyus on Biomimicry in Design on TH Radio (Part Two)
How does an electric eel generate electricity without frying itself? How does a tree move water hundreds of feet up without pumps? If we quiet human cleverness and follow nature's lead, says Janine Benyus, we see that most of our challenges have
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Janine Benyus on Biomimicry in Design on TH Radio (Part One)
Janine Benyus is the woman who opened our eyes to the practice of modeling technology after nature, a discipline she calls biomimicry. Drawing on nature's design library has given birth to glue inspired by lizards, coatings inspired by beetles,
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Christopher Parr, Consumer Marketing VP for Sub-Zero and Wolf, on Green Appliances and Kitchens
As the Consumer Marketing Manager of Sub-Zero and Wolf, Christopher Parr knows what people want in their kitchens, and knows what it takes for a fridge to be green. We had a chance to chat with him about Sub-Zero's idea of green,
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The TH Interview: Andy Revkin--Climate in the Obama Age
Hopes are high for an Obama-led climate strategy, but when it comes to true details there are still more questions than answers. Andrew C. Revkin has stationed himself at the intersection of science, technology, and policy for two decades, watching
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The TH Interview: Fred Pearce--Confessions of An Eco-Sinner (Part Two)
Despite his own confessions, Pearce isn't here to preach. He'd rather people make up their own minds about what to buy and what to snub. In the second part of our interview, the author of Confessions of an Eco-Sinner tells more tales from his
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The TH Interview: Fred Pearce--Confessions of An Eco-Sinner (Part One)
Ever get curious? "Where was my computer put together, who picked my coffee beans, what about the gold in my wedding ring?" We recall when Fred Pearce set out to find the answers, a journey that took him around the world seven times. Confessions of An
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The TH Interview: Chris Goodall--Ten Techs to Save Our Butts (Part Two)
In part two of our interview with the author of Ten Technologies to Save the Planet, we continue our tour of the coolest, most promising, and most necessary green technologies alive today. Get ready for electric cars, carbon capture, and (I know it's
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Ed Begley, Jr. on Saving Energy, Saving Money, and Looking Up
Photo credit: Ed Begley, Jr./LOOK UP Ed Begley, Jr. is a busy guy. Between his show Living with Ed on Planet Green, his other acting gigs -- you've seen him in movies like "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind", in guest spots on "Arrested Development," and
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Marco Capellini: "Ecodesign is not a trend, it's an industrial necessity"
Rome based designer Marco Capellini has become a well-known name in the Latin ecodesign movement.
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Change Maker Josh Onysko, Cranberry Salsa and Sexy DIY Scarves
:: Get the do goodin' dirt from the man on a squeaky-clean and green mission, Josh Onysko of Pangea Organics.
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The TH Interview: Chris Goodall--Ten Techs to Save Our Butts (Part One)
Mr. Goodall phrases it more elegantly than we have, to be sure, but the premise is the same: if we want to avoid big trouble in paradise, we need to get very busy with radically new technologies. Goodall is an author (his previous book was How to Live a
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James Scott Brew on Recession: With Existing Buildings "We Are Sitting On a Virtual Oilfield"
The LEED-certified Oregon Health & Science University's Center for Health & Healing James Scott Brew, a principal architect with the Rocky Mountain Institute, the seminal green "think and do tank," knows a thing or two about sustainable design. He's
