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GIVEAWAY: Win A Pair of Wawabots Personalized Water Bottles!

It’s never to early to begin instilling sustainable habits in young children, so get your little ones excited about drinking from a reusable container by winning two cool personalized Wawabots bottles! Wawabots are 20-ounce BPA-free stainless steel water bottles that can be printed with your child’s face or any other photo or design you desire. They’re a g... weiterlesen...

Toyota Recalls 52,000 Prius Hybrids (2001-2003)

Photo: Public domain. An Ounce of Prevention... If you are a Prius early-adopter and still have your 2001 to 2003 model, listen up: Toyota is doing a voluntary security recall on 52,000 first generation Prius hybrids in the US to "replace the electric power steering pinion shaft attachment nuts [...] If the steering wheel is repeatedly and strongly turned to the full-lock posit... weiterlesen...

An 8 Ounce Kettle Makes Boiling Water a Cinch and Takes the Gasoline Out of Camping

Image Courtesy of Devin Montgomery The weather's getting warmer and camping season is upon us. So as you break out the tent and the sleeping bag, there's a new design coming to market that's worth a look. It's the Backcountry Boiler™, an ultralight (8 oz), miniature chimney kettle that drops fuel cannisters in favor of "indigenous fuel," meaning twigs, sticks, dry leaves: any... weiterlesen...

Heinz to Adopt Coca Cola’s "PlantBottle"

Image: Business Wire Coke's patented PlantBottle, made from up to 30 percent plant-based material, will now be used for Heinz ketchup. Heinz says it will convert all of its 20-ounce bottles in the U.S. this summer. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger weiterlesen...

Heinz to Adopt Coca Cola’s "PlantBottle"

Image: Business Wire Coke's patented PlantBottle, made from up to 30 percent plant-based material, will now be used for Heinz ketchup. Heinz says it will convert all of its 20-ounce bottles in the U.S. this summer. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger weiterlesen...

Ode To A Nano- My Green Product of the Year 2005

Five years ago I wrote about my new iPod Nano, the 1 ounce, 8 dram wonder that I called the green product of the year. I wrote that it "demonstrates that brilliant design can let us all live as well or better than we do now in less space, using fewer resources and with a smaller footprint. The Nano is an inspiration." The consensus in the comments was "you can't be serious." "... weiterlesen...

Canada NOT PREPARED for Major Oil Spill, Environment Commissioner Warns

Image: NASA, Public domain. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Barrel of Cure... Canada has the longest coastline in the world (well, unless you want to be clever and get into the coastline paradox), touching three different oceans, and one of them (the Arctic) is seeing rapid increases in shipping and oil exploration because of the melting ice. But despite these facts, the coun... weiterlesen...

Will California Rush to Mine Gold Again?

photo: goldrushfieldtrips.com California has a history rich in gold, but despite sky high prices, the gold mining industry doesn't seem positioned for a revival in the state. The price of gold is more than $1363 an ounce, causing some folks in areas near historic lodes to clamor for a renewed mining industry in California. But cultural attitudes have shifted, and residents conc... weiterlesen...

NYC’s Favorite Fashion Bloggers (Including a TreeHugger) Style One LBD 16 Ways, Let the Challenge Begin!

Bright Young Things Style Challenger Tiffany of Six SIx Sick. Photo: Ayasha Guerin When Bright Young Things (BYT), the sustainable fashion label that launched with one little black dress last month, asked if I would don their LBD for a Style Challenge I had to muster every ounce of will po...Read the full story on TreeHugger weiterlesen...