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1. Give Your Love Bunny an eCard
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2. Happy Valentine's Day!
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3. Quiz: How Much Of Our Chocolate Is Tainted By Slavery?
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4. Fishing Industry and Conservationists Work together for No Take Zone on Arran
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5. The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part Two)
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6. Xambox Scans And Files
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7. New House of the Future Coming to Disneyland
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8. Feds Wanna Know: Do U <3 Them?
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9. Velorution: London's Folding Bike Rental Service
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10. Urban Revitalization: Small Steps Yield Big Results
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11. NComputing puts excess PC power to good use
Give Your Love Bunny an eCard
2008-02-14 16:33
gifts
Whew, when we tried to send a Valentine eCard this morning (green naturally!) we just found boatloads of poorly designed, agonizing attempts at humor. Then we came across the free video eCards on Rattlebox. Although some of the cards are a bit er...sexually loaded..the site offers at least some savvy, intelligent ways to show you care in an environmentally friendly-way (no wasteful packaging, minimal carbon footprint, and no cost!). Many of the cards are based on vintage movies. Also check out the Backwards Birthday Cake--the film starts with a crushed cake and rolls backwards to its previous form. ::...
Happy Valentine's Day!
2008-02-14 15:15
Culture & Celebrity
Today's the big day--a full 24-hours dedicated to wearing your heart on your sleeve, and eating chocolate with friends, S.O.'s, and even colleagues. But if you haven't put enough thought into what you should be doing for that one special person in your life, it's not too late. Our Valentine's Day Gift Guide is a green cheat sheet to the perfect last-minute memento or bouquet, and we also give you hour-by-hour ideas for keeping it sexy all day long. ::Valentine's Day Gift Guide: Giving Greener Love... 
Quiz: How Much Of Our Chocolate Is Tainted By Slavery?
2008-02-14 15:09
food
A billion dollars of chocolate is sold for Valentines Day, much of that by Hershey's and Mars. They buy it through dealers like Archer Daniels Midland and Cargills, who buy it from equatorial cocoa growing countries. A big chunk of it comes from the Ivory Coast, where as many as 284,000 children are trafficked and enslaved to pick the crop. 
Fishing Industry and Conservationists Work together for No Take Zone...
2008-02-14 14:16
news
Fishing bans, such as the one saught for blue fin tuna by the World Wildlife Fund and the US government or New Zealand's supposed ban on bottom trawling, can often be controversial. The conflict between conservationists wanting to protect our threatened marine resources and fishing communities trying to make a living can be a painful one. At least that is the perceived wisdom. However, the Guardian brings us an inspiring story about the Isle of Arran, off the coast of Scotland, where the fishing indust... 
The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part Two)
2008-02-14 14:11
TreeHugger Radio
In part two of our interview with Yvon Chouinard, the maverick businessman talks about politics and the irony of living simply in a consumer society. He also rebuffs his brand's "Pata-Gucci" reputation and explains why he's started pouring cheap wine down the toilet.::TreeHugger Radio Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes, or just listen/right-click to download. Catch
Xambox Scans And Files
2008-02-14 14:09
electronics
We recently extolled the virtues of the paperless home, but some people have to keep the paper for legal and tax reasons. Back in the early days of the computer, our daisy wheel printer spit out three copies of every letter: one for the client, one for the job file, and one for the continuous file where everything was stuck on a clipboard by date. Having evolved past that, we still have a file cabinet for every bill, statement and item of correspondence, and it takes time to put it all away. Wasted time if you have a Xambox. ... 
New House of the Future Coming to Disneyland
2008-02-14 13:20
Design & Architecture
Motorola House of the Future, 1962, via Plan59 I have always loved houses of the future, even though the future never seems to come. I think that perhaps the Monsanto House of the Future (watch the incredible film of it here) inspired me to become an architect. So I was really excited to hear that Disney is going to build a new one. Until I read more. ... 
Feds Wanna Know: Do U <3 Them?
2008-02-14 13:10
news
We were fortunate to intercept one of what must have been many big red heart-shaped boxes being sent to federal government offices in Washington, DC. The box's contents? A dandy collection of those traditional candy hearts with words on them -- except these were obviously custom-made for some anti-environment federal agencies! We're sharing the 15 best that were in the box.... 
Velorution: London's Folding Bike Rental Service
2008-02-14 13:09
bikes
Velorution, a bicycle shop in London reckons visitors the UK capital should make like a local and get about on a zippy folding commuter bike. To this end they offer a rental service for folders. Here's the deal: "There is no faster way to do it than by bicycle. Order one of our models and we will deliver it to your room; at the end of the day, just leave it to the concierge and we will pick it up; couldn't be easier. If the weather is not friendly, we can rent you smart weatherproof jackets and trousers. Don't waste time in traffic jams!" You can choose from a Strida, Brompton, Dahon or even an 
Urban Revitalization: Small Steps Yield Big Results
2008-02-14 12:51
Design & Architecture
We talk so often on TreeHugger about the importance of cities, about the need to revitalize and re-inhabit our downtowns, and what valuable assets the infrastructures of Detroit and other rust belt cities are. Therefore we can't help but be excited by the Onion's story of what happened in Detroit's Warrendale neighbourhood after the Beautification Committee spent $ 150 to build a three foot by four foot urban park. The Onion says: The green space, a rectangular patch of crabgra... 
NComputing puts excess PC power to good use
2008-02-14 11:00
Ted Samson - Thin clients
NComputing CEO Steve Dukker doesn't just subscribe to the belief that the average PC packs more processing power than the average end-user needs; he's built his company's product line of virtual PCs around it. "I'm not saying that the PC is dead, [but] there's a very large portion of the market that has no need for basically 80 to 90 percent of the power that's delivered in today's desktop," he says. An evolution of the thin client model (which I deem a viable green alternative to desktops), NComputing's technology enables as many as 30 users to simultaneously run virtualized Windows... READ MORE 
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