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Everyone take off your clothes.

Aug.14.2008 9:00am | by doug jaeger

We recently finished the design and are in production of clothes recycling bin covers for Wearable Collections.We thought the we would share a litte bit about the project with you.Super clean, super clear was the brief when thehappycorp re-designed the bin covers for wearable collections, the clothing recycling network in NYC. Wearable Collections reduces some of the 386 million pounds of textile waste

The Story of Stuff

Apr.28.2008 6:48pm | by your friend

The Story of Stuff is a fascinating 20 minute documentary hosted by Annie Leonard on our Materials Economy, the system we use to produce consume and dispose of products.

Presented as a lecture in front of an animated white board, the main point the video makes is that we’re running a linear system of consumption on a planet with finite resources.  Where there should be a circle there is only

Happy Earth Day: now love people

Apr.22.2008 5:52pm | by your friend

Human beings are the most amazing things in the world. Be kind to them. Even the ones you don’t know. Even the ones you think you’ll never see again.

That does not mean you have to always be sweet or nice. It means you should always do human beings the courtesy of treating them as authentic, living, breathing creatures who have as much right to occupy space on this

One Square Foot

Jan.14.2008 12:50pm | by your friend

Inspired by Free Rice, two cousins from Missouri put together OneSquareFoot.org over winter recess (instead of doing this), a culture trivia game to save the rainforest one square foot at a time.

For every four questions you get right–ranging from Does the Mona Lisa have eyebrows to What does GIF stand for–the advertisers on the site preserve a 1×1 parcel of rainforest

Catalog Choice

Oct.19.2007 9:17pm | by your friend

End the disturbing cycle of junk catalogs slaughtering trees and clotting your mail slot by signing up for Catalog Choice.

All you have to do is select which catalogs are tripping you up when your arms are full of groceries and Catalog Choice will contact them on your behalf.

If the mailing persists, report it to Catalog Choice and they will follow up on the infraction.

Catalog Choice says it

Park(ing) Day 2007

Sep.21.2007 10:17pm | by your friend

All over NYC today parking spaces are being converted into mini parks, cafes and campgrounds as part of a nationwide effort by The Trust for Public Land to give our cities back to the people who live in them.

In NYC our sidewalks are overflowing and cars clog the streets. Consider this: a 250 square foot parking space can hold about 45 standing people, 20 bikes, one

Nation Under Siege

Sep.18.2007 3:58am | by your friend

Architecture 2030’s new study, “Nation Under Siege“, predicts the calamity that will befall US’ coastal cities if coal production and consumption is not immediately halted.

According to the study, rising CO2 levels will trigger irreversible glacial melting and dangerous climate change by the year 2035.

Ocean levels will rise by 1m or more around the United States. It might not