Tag: Zero Waste - Page 11
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Designer Joey Roth Builds Zero-Waste Show Booth From Discarded Materials
You can take Joey Roth out of TreeHugger, but you can't take the tree-hugger out of Joey Roth. A man with a plan, the Sorapot designer and TreeHugger alum arrived on setup day at the New York International Gift Fair last
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Sneak Peek at Exclusive Clip From No Impact Man Movie
In early 2007, writer Colin Beavan started an experiment, which he described as follows: A Guilty Liberal Finally Snaps, Swears Off Plastic, Goes Organic, Becomes A Bicycle Nazi, Turns Off His Power,
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Tesco Diverts 100% of Its Waste From the Landfill... By Turning Meat into Electricity!
UK supermarket chain Tesco can stick a feather in its waste-reduction cap: Its 2,300-odd stores have managed to divert 100% of their waste going into landfills nearly six months ahead of schedule -- a decidedly good thing. Too
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Random Green Product of the Day: EcoBlaster Air Horn
In the heads of most marketers, one need only slap the prefix "eco" onto any gadget name and suddenly that gadget is green. While we generally like to bulldoze devices like that, here is one very random eco item
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Brilliant Ways to Reuse Books
Images via Offbeat Earth Offbeat Earth is showing off some really amazing ideas for how books can be used for more than just reading. Here is a great idea for turning a book into a vase ideal for decorating library tables. But the art doesn't stop here.
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Wanderlust Festival Co-Founder Jeff Krasno Speaks About the Festival's Green Initiatives
Wanderlust Festival co-founder Jeff Krasno says that this new yoga/music festival is working to be one of the greenest festivals around. Practicing what they preach, this Tahoe based festival branded its own water bottles made from compostable plastic
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Can Reuse Make You a Star?
The little-known (but rising star) band from Texas, Vocal Trash, has been recycling for over a decade and incorporating green into every show way before green was hip. Part street performers, part green gurus, these five members
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Gadget Repair Business Doubles for The iPod Doc and Others
NPR has an excellent report this morning on Morning Edition about the gadget repair business. According to the news report, business has doubled since the downturn in the economy. Could this mean the start of a
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Clever Toothbrush Stops Paste Waste with Haste
One of the first times I met Graham Hill, the founder of TreeHugger, he told me about growing up in a household where practical environmental behavior was the norm. "My mom always taught us to use all the toothpaste in the tube before
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How to Turn Unrecyclable Waste Into an Asset
How many billboards did you pass today? If you can even keep count, you're lucky. Most of those are made with vinyl. And most of them get thrown away. Over 3 million a year in the US alone. That's nearly 10,000 tons, or to give you
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MIT Using Electronic Tracking on Trash to Change Consumer Habits
MIT has just announced a new project that makes trash a whole lot more technical -
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Packaging Design at Its Worst (Slideshow)
Packaging design can take some pretty weird forms -- individually-wrapped everything, super-over-packaging in the name of safety -- and when it's bad, it's really bad. From individually-wrapped bananas (and prunes!)
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Don't Let This Get Past Your Eyes: MilkMuny Wallet
Apple didn't invent the mp3 player nor the smart phone, but they sure know how to bring to market versions of the genre that make people sit up and take notice. And such might be the case with Milkmuny. This new start-up business, from Portland,
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Recycled Tire Logs Say to Pressure Treated Lumber, "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better..."
Photo via: www.EricCastro.biz "I Can Do Anything Better than You!" RTP Re-Tread Products is in the testing phase of a series of recycled rubber tire products designed to one day take the place of some of the applications where pressure treated
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No Impact Man Documentary Film Is Low on Carbon, High on Awareness
TreeHugger attended a pre-release screening No Impact Man, a documentary made about Colin Beavan (aka No Impact Man) and his family's yearlong experiment to live a zero waste lifestyle in New York City. We were happy to see that the movie treated its
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5 Ways to Make Consumer Electronics Green, or Better Yet, Obsolete
It's a common complaint that technology advances so rapidly, new products hitting the shelves are outdated the second they arrive there. Before we even purchase a device, new versions and varied models are under
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Rethinking Trash into Inspired Art (Slideshow)
The SMART Art Competition 2009 brought out the best artists in the world who use trash as their artistic medium. The purpose of the competition was "to show how discarded items can be redesigned into works of art as well as
