Decompressing after a long week at work by escaping into the woods to take a hike or spending some time on a boat in the middle of nowhere sounds good, right? Some of us don't have the luxury of time, though, but the work of one outstanding miniature model-maker and photographer actually rivals what you might be able to see out in the great wild yonder.
Revamping our energy system will take substantial funding, and while some countries, like China, are investing in the whole cleantech pipeline, from “lightbulb to lightbulb” — from idea to implementation, as Google puts it — the U.S. is investing only sporadically. Since 1980, funding for R&D has dropped 58 percent, with energy getting only 2 percent of the pie.
“We need to invest across that whole spectrum, and we need to make that sustained,” said Bill Weihl, Google’s Green Energy Czar.
Google, for one, is putting its money where its mouth is. ...
Take a look at the latest, greatest entry in the ecological friendly building materials category -- you might be tempted to ditch carbon-heavy lumber once and for all. Plastic for the people!
Everytime you think that you've seen just about everything there is to do with recycled glass bottles, an artist bursts into the spotlight with their own unique twist and you realize that creativity never gets old. We should all follow this example and dabble in beer bottles.
We all like to wear something a little sparkley now and again, especially on special occasions, but this jewelry maker and sculptor manages to transform found forest materials into absolutely striking (and oftentimes "wearable") works of art. Imagination is a fantastic thing!
Creative furniture designers continue to stretch the bounds of what we expect to see sitting in our living rooms. Are you okay sacrificing conventional wood selections for the sake of Mother Nature?
This is amazing! I am constantly reminded that I know hardly anything about the beauty and nature of this world. Have to make these places a must see before I die!
"Don't worry...be happy." "Don't sweat the small stuff." Sure, both sayings are great advice except when you happen to be an eco-worry wort who has difficulty shutting off all of the world's environmental problems at the end of the day (in your head). Could it literally be GOING to your head in the form of wiry white strands?
Just when you thought it was safe to throw out your dead pens and markers, Terracycle has just stepped up to the plate with their new-and-improved lofty recycling ambitions and repurposing dreams. There's even a little somethin'-somethin' in the deal for YOU when you send all of your expired writing implements in...
Go ahead. You're dying to know what this is all about. Take a peek, I dare you. Let's put it this way -- you can be 99.999% certain that real live eager-beaver rats are involved....and YES, this is a legitimate project happening right now!!
This is a really fun submission for the Winter of Fun Contest and I thought it may inspire others in freezing cold areas to make something similar! Vote for her entry to help her win the contest on greenwala!This is a really fun submission for the Winter of Fun Contest and I thought it may... more
We’ve all heard that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but what about molars and bicuspids? This eco-jewelry from Australian silversmith Polly van der Glas is comprised of sterilized human molars, bicuspids and canines that are hand-set in sterling silver to form a unique collection of rings, earrings and trinkets.
Are you still practicing the 5 second rule and chucking more "dropped eats" than you probably should? What a waste of good food, at least according to several studies....
It’s one thing to make a documentary film on America’s sustainable communities but it’s another to do it by bike.
The hand brakes have been applied to the pedal-powered production phase of a soon-to-be-released documentary film called Within Reach, a 6000 mile bike tour of communities, cohabitations, and communes shot entirely using solar-powered electronics and leg-powered bicycles.
We caught up with riders, director, and producer Ryan Mlynarczyk and Mandy Creighton encamped and rejuvenating at the Joyful Path Healing and Meditation Center out in Blue Mounds Wisconsin.
For us that meant eco villages, co-housing communities which are more of an urban, townhouse style co-habitation, a co-op where everybody lives under the same roof but you each have your own bedroom. And then we also visited a couple of the old communes that are still around.
The movie isn’t slated to be screened until Earth Day 2011 but you can catch teasers, clips and blog posts on their website, WithinReachMovie.com.
For more on sustainable communities and the full interview with Mandy and Ryan, click here.
Photos by Ryan Mlynarczyk.It’s one thing to make a documentary film on America’s sustainable... more
Trash-to-treasure exercise #1,987,053. Sort through garbage cans and landfills for cast aside media relics such as cassette & VCR tapes. Use them as a modern day canvas for your artistic painting efforts, saving the world and exercising your creativity at the same time! See how one British artist pulls it all off....
The next time you're tempted to toss broken toys or bits of consumer waste into your garbage can, think about what this artist does for a living and ask yourself, "Is this really landfill worthy or is it possible that even I can turn it into a treasure?" Peruse Jane Perkins' works and become inspired to pull out your glue gun and get busy!
