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1. Everything In Its Place with the Interlocking Puzzle Loft
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2. TreeHugger is Hiring: Online Marketer Wanted
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3. Happy Owl Glassworks: Salvaged Glass Pendants
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4. Honda Looks Into Recycling Engine Waste Heat
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5. The Future of the Global Food System
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6. CBS: Forget Flying, Amtrak is In
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7. Toyota Can't Make Enough Prius Hybrids to Meet Demand
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8. What Not To Build: The New American Home
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9. The Challenge And Opportunity Of Cadmium Telluride, Solar Photovoltaic Film
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10. Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth
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11. Study ties sustainability to stock performance
Everything In Its Place with the Interlocking Puzzle Loft
2008-02-19 19:06
Design & Architecture
Image credits: Paul Warchol How's this for a great use of space? Faced with a ceiling of undulating height -- 11'-10" at the low point and 12'-3" at its high point -- Kyu Sung Woo Architects dreamed up the Interlocking Puzzle Loft to make the most of the oddly-shaped room. Since stacking two full-height levels was not an option, each area gets a half-height element -- either a closet or a sleeping platformand interlocked with another set. This results in three pairs of full-height volumes that are offset from each other, with two sleeping platforms and closets inserted above and below these intersecting pairs. The upper level... 
TreeHugger is Hiring: Online Marketer Wanted
2008-02-19 18:59
TH Exclusives
TreeHugger.com and PlanetGreen.com (part of Discovery Communications, home of Discovery channel, TLC, Animal Planet etc..) are looking for a smart, hard-driving, communicative marketer to help us market everything from specific posts to content areas to the overall site to other online sites. This job involves a lot of tactical work. We're looking for someone who can market specific posts to sites we have relationships with and sites we don't. We want to drive traffic to specific posts and areas as well as build the number and quality of incoming links. We also want to push into areas of the web where we are less well known e.g. inter... 
Happy Owl Glassworks: Salvaged Glass Pendants
2008-02-19 18:34
Fashion & Beauty
We're completely grooving on Happy Owl Glassworks' recycled glass pendants, made from broken shards of bottle glass and then fired into smooth, organic shapes. Because broken glass can take any shape, each pendant is one-of-a-kind. Strung on a 16-inch steel cable with magnetic closure, your necklace will come in a recycled paper box. Tip: If you already have a silver chain, you can probably make arrangements with the artist to purchase the pendant on its own, for less. That's the great thing about indie businesses. ::Happy Owl Glassworks... 
Honda Looks Into Recycling Engine Waste Heat
2008-02-19 18:16
Cars & Transportation
Honda engineers are trying to make the old internal combustion engine more efficient by recapturing energy that is usually lost as heat through the exhaust. There's lots of room for improvement: According to Amory Lovins from the Rocky Mountain Institute, only about 1% of the energy contained in a gallon of gasoline moves the driver of a car (if that's not shocking, we don't know what is). The rest is partly used to move the vehicle's weight, but it is mostly just lost as heat. What Honda is trying to do is turn some of that heat into electricity via the Rankine cycle co-generation. In... 
The Future of the Global Food System
2008-02-19 17:46
Food & Health
Photo credit: Green Map System Wired has an interesting dispatch from the AAAS Annual Meeting on the future of the global food system. The annual meeting, that took place last weekend in Boston, featured a speech by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, a professor of food at Cornell, who argues that the global food system is broken and needs to be fixed. How? He has some ideas about how to make our food system more sustainable and more efficient. But first, what are we up against? "There are 850 million food insecure people, and several hundred milli... 
Toyota Can't Make Enough Prius Hybrids to Meet Demand
2008-02-19 17:15
Business & Politics
Here's more evidence that there's a strong demand for greener and more efficient products: Bob Carter, the general manager of Toyota Division, has said in an interview with Advertising Age that "Our volume on Prius was up 67% last year. That was a supply-restricted 67% increase. That's 181,000 cars. We can't repeat that, no way, even though the demand may be there. We just can't keep up. So you will see much more moderate growth because of the supply." The Prius is currently ranked #8 among car models in the U.S., and Toyota expects to sell about as many in 2008 as in 2007 because of the supply problems.... 
What Not To Build: The New American Home
2008-02-19 16:56
Design & Architecture
I wish to retract my negative comments about last year's New American Home at the NAHB builders show, where I complained about its size. After all it was on an urban lot and had a few green features. I should have saved my venom for this year's home. Here, in a year where house prices are falling and McMansion owners are mailing in their keys and going home to momma, they have decided to flame out with a bang, a 6,725 square foot monster home that sets a new standard for excess. ... 
The Challenge And Opportunity Of Cadmium Telluride, Solar...
2008-02-19 16:10
Business & Politics
There's plenty of buzz in the startup world about faster-to-make, cheaper, highly efficient, thin-film solar photo-voltaic technology. For a sample, check out "Painting solar Bloo" about a solar panel startup company balled "Bloo" which is deploying nano-tech methods to up the cost effectiveness of Cadmium Telluride based solar collection devices. We're all for innovation, don't get us wrong; but Cadmium Telluride or "CdTe" solar panels are a troubling innovation pathway. This post presents a high-level summary of the... 
Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth
2008-02-19 16:01
alternative energy
Edward Burtynsky Environmental Defence just released a new report on the Alberta Oil Sands, calling it the most destructive project on Earth. DeSmogblog gleaned some facts from it: -Oil sands mining is licensed to use twice the amount of fresh water that the entire city of Calgary uses in a year. -At least 90% of the fresh water used in the oil sands ends up in ends up in tailing ponds so toxic that propane cannons are used to keep ducks from landing. -Processing the oil sands uses enough natural gas in a day to heat 3 million homes. -The toxic tai... 
Study ties sustainability to stock performance
2008-02-19 13:00
Ted Samson - Supply chain management
Companies paying closer attention to embracing environmentally and socially responsible practices enjoyed higher stock-share growth over the past three years compared to do companies didn't, according to survey results released this month by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). READ MORE 
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