The graffiti artist has a new serie of murals, including one of global warming as a mark of the end of the Copenhagen climate conference. Bellow, “I don’t believe in global warming”, with letters disappearing below the water. Simple and genious!
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China Daily has published today that a man from Changjiang, Hainan province, has been hospitalized after more than a hundred bees stung him. The farmer Chen was chopping a tree when the eco-friendly bees attacked the man. It’s real: nature is becoming against us.
According with TreeHugger, Deforestation Detection in Real Time (DETER) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has published that 2008-2009 was a great year for the rainforests, with logging rates dropping 46%. Hi-five!
Between 18th and 25th of September Portugal will have the Green Festival. The idea is spread the eco-friendly lifestyle, thru differents areas and workshops: Green Building, Green Home, Green Consumer, Green Places are the newests spaces, while Green Thinking, Green Fun, Green People, Green Taste and Green Trends are coming again.
Here is a new line of eco-friendly shampoos, called Concept Vert: Privé. But, this post is also here to remind us what is not good to have in our daily shampoos ingredients:
- Sulfates, gluten, phalalates, DEA, TEA, mineral oil, paraffin, PABA, paraben, or artificial coloring.
Concept Vert has its bottles feature patented air powered technology that equates to twice the washing and conditioning in reusable bottles. The products are designed to be recycled as well as being refilled and reused via the manufacturer through the salon of purchase. In addition, they use pure organic exacts. The color safe formula is enriched with Amazon Açaí and Babassu Oil to rejuvenat, nourish and cleanse the hair.
Accordind to testimonials, Concept Vert makes your hair “softer, shinier and much more manageable”.
Pictures from www.priveproducts.com
Nissan’s electric car is set to go on sale in the US and Japan in 2010 and rest of Europe by 2012. The first plug-free car technology will make charging electric cars easier and faster. The wireless charging system is based on the concept of inductive charging, the same electromagnetic field technology used to charge an electric toothbrush. Nissan has scaled it up for use in their Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) electric car.
A recent consumer research revealed that 61% of potential electric car customers were most worried about the inconvenience of recharging: now, battery will refill to 80% of its capacity, in about 25 minutes.
Read more here.
This month, the australian city Bundanoon, called Bundy by the locals, has voted to ban bottled water. The country spent round $500 mi in plastic bottles in 2008, and this fact claimed for the attention of the premier Nathan Rees. Bundanoon’s became the first bottled water free town in the world thru the campaign “Bundy on Tap”.
Synthetic trees are being developed at the Columbia University. The promise of the project is make trees wich soaks carbon up 1000 times faster than real trees. Besides the amazing song from Radiohead, i must say I rather natural trees… But, let’s wait and see.
A couple months ago, the greatest website applied for the green lifestyle has made an article about the production of leather and how the process works.
It’s good to read about it. The leather itself wouldn’t be as bad as PETA claims, but the whole chemical cocktail makes huge damages do the environment.
As I’m a fashion lover, i’ll repeat my muse phrase: “Using leather is a bit caveman.” (Stella McCartney). I guess she’s right….
P.S.: the blond muse Johanson in the pic is wearing eco-chic stuffs.
I’m a real Starbucks lover. And happy to hear that they’re now joining my world.
See, last thursday they announced that the company aims to earn LEED certification on all new company-owned stores beginning in 2010. LEED means: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
The goals for all new company-owned stores are that 50 percent of each store’s energy be derived from renewable sources, and that they will be 25 percent more energy efficient. The company has set long-term goals including replacing all stores’ incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs and ensuring 100 percents of its cup supply is reusable or recyclable by 2015.
