Carbon Free Coffee is the next wave of organic. Check out Grounds for Change who have partnered with Carbonfund.org “to offset 100% of the global warming emissions associated with our coffee.” Bold move right! P.S. Great gift idea — coffee of the month club. Source, Discovery News, article by Tim Wall: http://news.discovery.com/earth/fair-trade-organic-coffee-120203.html
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02/23/2012
Your home should be an ecosystem. No joke and guess what it may be a reality in the near future. Designers at Philips are pushing the envelope and developing “a proposal for an integrated cyclical ecosystem where each function’s output is another’s input. ” The idea is that your waste would be your source of … Continue reading »
02/7/2012
Oral languages are critical to preserving traditional knowledge. Currently there are 5,000-6,700 languages spoken globally. According to Andrés R. Edwards in Thriving Beyond Sustainability, half of those languages will become extinct in the next 100 years. It is important to note that only 4% of the world population is indigenous, those 4% speak 60% of … Continue reading »
02/6/2012
Spider silk is stronger than STEEL, tougher than Kevlar. Believe it, because it is true. Engineer Markus J. Buehler discovered that silk varies its response to different environmental factors. When struck with a hurricane winds, the thread hardens and breaks to retain the structural integrity. In contrast when hit with a soft wind, the thread … Continue reading »
02/3/2012
Yale Students and professor Scott Stobel in the Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory discovered a fungi called Pestalotiopsis microspora that eats polyurethane (plastic). Source: Michael Cohen, article http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679201/fungi-discovered-in-the-amazon-will-eat-your-plastic
