Despite a down economy, battery recycling is at an all-time high. According to Call2Recycle, battery recycling collection saw a 6.9 percent increase, and Call2Recycle collected 6.1 million pounds of rechargeable batteries in 2009. Call2Recycle…
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Battery Recycling Hits Record High
Photo via NASA Never before has the Earth been captured in such high resolution. Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center recently uploaded an amazing series of composite pictures of our planet , named “Blue Marble,” onto the photo sharing Web site Flickr . One look at such a clear view of Earth,
Photo: AFP In doing their part to help make the upcoming World Cup a bit greener, Nike has unveiled their official team jerseys–made from plastic bottles found in landfills. Players from Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands will be wearing the once-was-waste shirts, and millions of fans are expected to follow suit. For Nike, using the recycled plastic isn’t just a nice gesture to the environment; It takes 30 percent less energy to produce these
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Nike Creates World Cup Jerseys From Landfill Plastic
photo via jamie oliver If you need further proof that our nation’s food system needs to be rethought, check out this video where chef Jamie Oliver encounters some first grade students who cannot identify popular fruits and vegetables like tomatoes, eggplant, and cauliflower. The video comes form Oliver’s new ABC show “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Jamie Oliver Meets Some First Graders Who Don’t Know Fruits and Vegetables
Replace lumber with recycled rubber Tire Logs. Photo from Re-Tread Products Don’t grind old tires; slice ‘em and roll ‘em up into rubber logs to use like lumber. From footwear to handbags and earthship homes, recycled tires have found various forms of an afterlife, but that doesn’t come close to dealing with the vast numbers of waste tires generated each year. Most “recycling” of tires … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Earthquake Rebuilding with Recycled Tire Logs
Glocal from Jeff Heie on Vimeo . This film is an inspiration for all those adve… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Glocal: An American Family Leaves It All Behind to Live Locally in England
If you visited EarthFirst last week, you probably noticed something was amiss. No longer. Today, EarthFirst is introducing a brand new look: brighter, greener, easier to use than before. Our eco future looks better than ever, and we wanted a community to match. Thanks to the WordPress wizardry of fellow green publisher Chris Baskind and his web team, EarthFirst is now as fresh and dynamic as its readers. If you’re reading this via one of our feeds — in Google Reader, on iGoogle, or some other RSS client — click over to the main site and take a peek. Faster, simpler, better The first thing you’ll see is a cleaner, more open look. We’ve simplified the home page to make finding what’s new much easier. There’s a big, colorful features section right up top with the latest articles. Below that, you’ll see what’s still fresh and green. There’s always a cool video and cartoon in the sidebar, and quick links at the bottom to help you find what you need. One of the biggest changes is in site performance. The old EarthFirst had gotten pretty sluggish. It’s no fun waiting for a page to load — we’re in a hurry, too — so we’ve done some things to make browsing a lot zippier. Hope you notice the difference. We’ll keep an eye on this in the future. New ways to comment We’ve never required you register to add your opinions to an EarthFirst article. After all, it’s a hassle to keep up with all the passwords we already have. Why add another? Along those lines, we’ve adopted the DISQUS (it’s pronounced “discuss”) commenting system. You’ve probably already seen DISQUS-equipped sites around the web. DISQUS allows you to log into EarthFirst, and display your avatar, using many popular online identities. We currently support: Facebook Twitter Yahoo IDs OpenID If you don’t have one of these, you can also create a DISQUS ID by registering here . This will also allow you to effortlessly comment at thousands of other blogs and websites — and keep track of those conversations, all in one easy place. Not interested? That’s fine, too. You’ll find the usual blanks for your name, email address, and website. Comment away, no registration necessary. We will, however, permit authenticated users (people who have logged in through one of the services above) to post their comments to the EarthFirst without waiting for someone to approve their comment. Authenticated comments containing links may still be held for moderation. Depending on your settings, DISQUS may ask if you’d like to share your comment and our article on Twitter or Facebook. We’d really appreciate this — it helps grow EarthFirst, and gets the word out about green news and causes. What do you think? EarthFirst is still a work in progress, and we’ll be adding more content and features to the site through the coming weeks. What would you like to see? A forum, perhaps? Maybe a marketplace, with EarthFirst-reviewed goods worthy of greening your life? Maybe there’s a topic you’d like us to cover in more details. We want your feedback. Try out the new comment system and sound-off below!
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EarthFirst gets a brand new look
Image: complements of Duluth Timber NBC’s coverage of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games has drawn comments from the sidelines, ranging from How We Hate NBC’s Olympics Coverage: A Statistical Breakdown to NBC delivers the goods in Winter Games coverage . We will stay out of the content debate, but we want to share one thing NBC did right: they hooked … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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NBC’s Olympic Studio Furnished with Reclaimed Wood
Images by Justin Steiner at Dirtrag If you are going to have a lawn, TreeHugger Mike recommends a reel (or push) mower. (But then, he is an addict ) If you are going to have a really big lawn, talk to Ted Wojcik. He built this mower, seen at the North American Handmade Show. He normally builds more conventional bikes at Ted Wojcik Custom Bicyc… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pedal Powered Lawn Mower Is Talk of Handmade Bike Show
Prominent environmental organization Friends of the Earth has already made clear its opposition to the Obama Administration’s support for the nuclear industry, which it is calling a
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Friends of the Earth Launches Spooky Anti-Nuclear Ad Campaign
