Rain forecast for the weekend? Same here. And if you’re planning to spend it snuggled up indoors, here are a few things to while away the time…
French-Brazilian architects Triptyque are the latest to join the craze for cladding buildings in living greenery. Here, plants poke out holes in organic concrete and are doused in a mist of recycled rainwater, jetting from the plumbing which, you’ll notice, is all on the outside – giving the building an inside-out look. How will it look in a few years, we wonder? (via dwell).
Speaking of rain, let’s celebrate it a little – after all, we’re 70% the same thing.
With the North Californian salmon-farming industry recently hitting the wall (as Vanessa reported a while back), the news from inland fisheries isn’t going to be good – so it’s no surprise that a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey isn’t encouraging. Grist has the details.
And still with Grist, they report that Apple’s latest version of the iPod Nano is the most toxic-free yet. (How toxic were Apple products before, we have to ask?) As for functionality, you’ll want to read the Washington Post’s review.
Takeaway pizzas boxes…well, there’s an invention that makes us wince. Thankfully this company is keen to tear them up – or rather, perforate them and let customers tear them up into useful plate-sized pieces, as TriplePundit reports. Nice idea. (But I can think of a better one: the pizza-box equivalent of a tote bag, made from washable material?)
Apartment Therapy have an intertesting (if slightly eyebrow-raising) suggestion: fish fung shui for your home. Position your waterbound pets to enhance the chi flowing through the rooms of your house.
David Letterman, not known for keeping his thoughts to himself, has lashed out at…well, pretty much everyone during an extended "thought-sharing moment" on global warming during his show. Enjoy. (Thanks to the Huffington Post for this one).
Now, if this car drove past you, would you call the police? Feel sorry for Marcelo da Luz – all the guy wants to do is set a new world distance record in his Power Of One solar car…and as EcoGeek notes, it’s been pulled over 7 times to check who (or what) is driving. It seems there’s such a thing as too futuristic-looking.
Confused over which carbon offsetting services are legit and which are bogus? Then you’ll be happy that the Environmental Defense Fund has done the work for you, as Treehugger reports.
And finally, Margaret Teich has looked at the state of the fashion industry in the marketplace – and finds it fickle and wasteful. She wants a shift towards durable, practical items that stay in your wardrobe because they’re timeless and top-quality – because they’re true "wearable art". When the average American woman is spending an estimated $12,000 on beauty products and services every year, it’s an argument that couldn’t make more sense.
Have a great weekend!
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