Archive for August, 2007

Take a look at these scary/beautiful/wonderful images of our changing planet, taken from space….

This recycled razor that I stock just got a nice little mention in The Observer:

Species extinctions are news this week with reports that the Baiji dolphin that lived in the Yangtze River is now, apparently, no longer an inhabitant of planet Earth.

EcoBalls have been a revelation. They remain one of my most solid sellers and are really popular with the people who use them. I use them myself, in fact. But now there’s an alternative…

Laurie David is one of the American eco-movements stars. She co-produced An Inconvenient Truth, runs the influential website stopglobalwarming.org and has worked with dozens of pop stars to help plug the message. She recently toured with over-enthusiastic eco-evangelist Sheryl Crow, whose determination to spread the message resulted in her famous toilet paper “joke”. In the US, Laurie David is - next to Al Gore - the ecology movement’s number two figurehead.

Thanks to Treehugger for pointing me towards this recent article in Wired about a new eco friendly design for an apartment block in Chicago’s Hyde Park, designed by Studio Gang’s Joanna Gang…
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I read this on Grist. A reader of the American environment news site watches British sit coms like As Time Goes By and Keeping Up Appearances. He has noticed how small British fridges are compared to US ones…

This just in from The Onion is funny:

New Eco-Friendly Packaging Triggers Boom In Guilt-Free Littering

ROCKFORD, IL—Nick Sundin used to be neurotic about littering. The 37-year-old pediatrician admits he kept trash bags in his car, and would even pick up and throw away garbage he found on the street. Since boyhood, Sundin said, he was keenly attuned to the environmental degradation littering caused, an attitude triggered by the famous Keep America Beautiful “Crying Indian” public service announcement he saw on television as a young man.

Not anymore.

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