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Living Green Infrastructure Declaration’

An online Living Green Infrastructure Declaration has been created to encourage government and the private sector to plan and build greener, healthier, more beautiful communities. Living green infrastructure advocates, including Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, LEAF, Ontario Parks Association, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, and Landscape Ontario are encouraging citizens ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this week, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Design, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior (1 comment)

Hello to hello lemon

Our decision to start hello lemon was motivated entirely by our desire to lead adifferent kind of lifestyle. In the beginning we didn’t set out to create a greeting card business – that happened quite organically. We simply knew that working at traditional jobs wasn’t going to provide ... keep reading

Written by Tim and Merinda this week, about Design, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior

Christchurch's Pallet Pavilion for Another Year - On PledgeMe

Christchurch in New Zealand  is still in a massive rebuild . About 70 per cent of the central city has been demolished after the earthquake in February 2011 and the city is seeing amazing and innovative concepts popping up everywhere. The container mall, and Gapfiller and Greening the Rubble projects everywhere ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this week, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Design, Finance & Money, Lifestyle & Behavior

A Streetwise Plane -Wow !

It's a bird...it's a plane ...No, its Terrafugia-a streetwise plane. keep reading

Written by Celsias this week, about Design, Transport, Travel

Airport Hires Goats for Vegetation Management

The Chicago Department of Aviation (CAD) has hired a herd of goats to provide sustainable vegetation management at O’Hare International Airport. The city’s department of aviation awarded a $100,000 contract to Central Commissary Holdings, which owns the small grazing herd and operates several restaurants including Chicago’s ... keep reading

Written by Environmental Leader this week, about Agriculture & Food, Design, Industry & Business, Travel

A Will for the Woods

  http://vimeo.com/62452617     At this year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival the  Audience Award went to the documentary feature "A Will for the Woods". This was a very small budget  project from a team of first-time filmmakers, and it looks at  the issue of eco-friendly "green burial" practices ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Lifestyle & Behavior

Ideas Colliding: IBM Research Combines Strategies from Multiple Industries to Create a Super Solar Collector

  Great men, like great epochs, are explosive material in whom tremendous energy has been accumulated; their prerequisite has always been historically and physiologically, that a protracted assembling, accumulating, economizing and preserving has preceded them – that there has been no explosion for a long time - Nietzsche. Scientific breakthroughs often follow a ... keep reading

Written by Rayna Gordon-Hellman this month, about Clean Technologies, Design, Economics, Industry & Business, Solar (1 comment)

Poison lips? Troubling Levels of Toxic Metals Found in Cosmetics

Damn- now lipstick too! A new analysis of the contents of lipstick and lip gloss may cause you to pause before puckering. Researchers at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health tested 32 different lipsticks and lip glosses commonly found in drugstores and department stores. They detected lead, cadmium, chromium ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Children and Families, Design, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior

Green Roofs Industry Grows by 24%

A 24 percent growth rate in installed green roofs in 2012 is part of the results of the Annual Green Roof Industry Survey.  “On the heels of a huge 115 per cent growth rate in 2011, the green roof industry still grew by 24 per cent in 2012,” said GRHC ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Design, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Lifestyle & Behavior

Thailand Billboards Can Be Used to Build Homes When They’re Not In Use

The Other Side campaign has modified road-side advertisements so they can be repurposed as the materials for homes of poor people in the country. We recently wrote about one innovative use of billboards – the Scribe Billboard – which housed the artist while they worked on designing a new commercial. Taking a ... keep reading

Written by Springwise last month, about Children and Families, Design, Lifestyle & Behavior, Recycling (1 comment)

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