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When I first started Terracycle, I spent a lot of my time explaining what upcycling was. It was this foreign concept whose name wasn’t on a lot of people’s radar. Now, a handful of years later, more than 10 million people are collecting the brand specific waste that we’ve used to make a range of products; it has become increasingly common and may some day be as conventional as recycling.

Currently, sever… Read the full story on TreeHugger

This month Time Square is getting a makeover. Brooklyn-based artist Molly Dilworth won the competition reNEWable Times Square to design temporary surface treatments, launched by the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT). Her project “Cool Water, Hot Island” will refresh and revive the streetscape designs currently at the Times Square pedestrian a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

One of the shows that stood out this year at the Milan Furniture Fair was the Design Academy Eindhoven’s Question exhibition at the up and coming district Ventura Lambrate. With all this excess of design and the various crisis going on (environmental, social, economic,…), it is nice to see that one group sat down and asked questions about the role of design. And they encouraged visitors to Read the full story on TreeHugger

There are plenty of cocktail parties at the Furniture Fair in Milan, but this one was quite different. All the way out in Zona Bovisa we visited the show Meet My Project and were greeted at a bar that served fresh… bioresin products! The 3 designers from Breaded Escalope Design Studio in Vienna were not mixing drinks but small products behind their Shakin’ Products Bar. The products were made in the same way as their Original Stool: by shaking and rolling the moulds the bioresin hardens in about 10 minutes and out pops a finished piece…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

For five years, the team behind TreeHugger has been discovering, debating, and discerning which people, companies, products, and ideas are helping push green into the mainstream. Along the way, we have seen green fashion blossom, international climate treaties stagnate, and electric vehicles come to market. We have seen some green ideas rise and some green leaders fall. We’ve ranted and we’ve raved. But through it all, our optimism remains.

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Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage so we decided to see how Guim’s getting on so far. Guim started his tour on the 5th of June 2009 from the Olympic stadium in Beijing and his plan is to arrive in London in 2012. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

Global Climate Change Chaos
We’ve overshot sustainability. Three hundred fifty parts per million (350 ppm) is the recommended safe threshold for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Today, at 386 ppm, we’re over the limit. There is evidence that we will see ice-free summer Arctic a hundred years before IPCC estimates and we have already seen flooding in Read the full story on TreeHugger

‘A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate’
Do you know everything there is about climate science and the debate about global warming? Stop reading this.

Everybody else: Think you know all the ins and outs of climate change? Still plowing through all the models and possible scenarios for our climate’s future? Leaning … Read the full story on TreeHugger

‘A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate’
Do you know everything there is about climate science and the debate about global warming? Stop reading this.

Everybody else: Think you know all the ins and outs of climate change? Still plowing through all the models and possible scenarios for our climate’s future? Leaning … Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo by Remy Steinegger

This week something fairly monumental is taking place: It’s Climate Week NYC, where among other things, top government leaders from 90 countries are gathering for the United Nations climate session. It’s also time for things to kick into high gear for TckTckTck, an innovative global alliance of people, businesses, even faith groups, with a singular purpose: Make it abundantly clear the great importance they see in their country’s le… Read the full story on TreeHugger