Tag: Wretched Excess

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  Wretched Excess Dept: Electric Bike For The 1/10th of 1% Costs $ 36,000

  They call it green. I call it too much.

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  Wretched Excess Dept: In New York Condo, Cars Get Rm w/a Vu

  Just what we wanted: a "suburban home in New York."

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  Wretched Excess Dept: Limos Aren't Good Enough For The 1% Any More, Now They Have Sprinters

  If You've Got It, Don't Flaunt It; Just Get Driven Around In A Seriously Pimped Out Delivery Van

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  Just What You Don't Want For Christmas: A Single Serve Pod Coffee Maker

  It's the fastest growing thing in the coffee world, it is overpriced, and it is an environmental joke.

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  Just What We Needed Dept.: A Cardboard Radio

  Its interesting how our attitudes have changed over seven years of TreeHugger. Is a cardboard radio really green?

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  Wretched Excess, Packaging Dept: Collingwood Whisky's Flat Bottle And Plastic Top

  why is that big honking plastic top necessary?

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  Wretched Excess Dept: The Interiors of Private Jets

  We do go on that flying is dying, and have complained before about the carbon footprint of private jets. We often complain about ostentatious monster homes. But I have never seen anything like a slideshow in the Telegraph of the interiors of the

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  Just What We Needed Dept: More Useless Kitchen Accessories and NSFW Yet

  You don't need a lot of stuff to be a good cook; Mark Bittman says ""A stove, a sink, a refrigerator, some pots and pans, a knife and some serving spoons," I answered. "All

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  Prettiest Travelling Bike Ever. But At What Price?

  Wallpaper* Magazine has always been a bit over the top, but they did have an eye for beautiful things. However the money-no-object aesthetic can be a turn-off. Thus I am a bit conflicted showing their International Bike. It is

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  There's No Recession in the New York Times Homes Section

  The rich are different from you and me; they read the New York Times Home and Garden section on Thursdays, and don't seem to know that there is a recession. But they are beginning to deal with the concept of living with less,

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  Double Your Chance of Obesity and Heart Attack with the KFC Double Down Sandwich

  TreeHugger looks forward to the day when they finish Sovietizing the American healthcare system and the Obama Food Police start banning unhealthy foods and make us all eat like John Mackey, (like they did in the UK when they

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  Air Conditioned Coffins All the Rage in Serbia

  We do go on about the evils of air conditioning, and how planting a tree might be a good idea, or maybe digging into the ground a little bit to get some natural cooling. But if we needed more proof of the dictum "too much is never

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  The Four Sins of LEEDwashing: LEED Green Buildings That Perhaps Aren't Really Green

  "Is LEED a Fraud?" is the provocative title of an article on the Fine Homebuilding website by Kevin Ireton. It appears that mechanical designer Henry Gifford thinks it is, and makes a few good points in his paper

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  Miami Beach Roundup: They Haven't Discovered TreeHugger Yet

  What do you say about a city where the parking garages are so high that the new buildings don't start until the old buildings end? That perhaps they have their priorities a bit screwed up?

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  Wretched Excess Dept: A House Designed For Cats

  Now I will confess, there are a lot of ideas to love in this house, including the alternating tread stair and some terrific details, but for cats? We have shown a Stair of the Week for Cats before, but nothing as elaborate or over-the-top like this.

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  Just What We Needed Dept.: Seven Things You Don't Want for Christmas

  My favorite talmudic anecdote is from the Rabbi who noted "my life has been blessed, because I never knew I needed anything until I had it." I know exactly how he felt; How have I coped without this One Click Butter Cutter? found on Dvice. No wonder

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  Wretched Excess Dept: A £250,000 Dog House

  But hey, with the US$ so strong, thats only $ 382,469 and it is for two dogs, so that is a lot less per dog. So what if people are hungry or losing their jobs, let them build doghouses. Inside:

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  Gasoline in Wine Bottles? So Stupid it Just Might Work!

  I mean, gas is such a....commodity. There is regular and premium, but one is pretty much like another, and the costs are pretty much the same wherever you go. Water used to be like that, a commodity, but as Elizabeth Royte notes in Bottlemania, as one