Old Brooklyn Airport to Be Transformed into Giant Urban Campground

    Hey, MND/MEWR, still mulling over the soon to be disused KTM Railway Station and tracks? Here’s another idea! Park officials have now decided to turn the old air field into an urban campground, not only to promote camping to city dwellers, but also as a way to provide a more budget friendly alternative [...]

Oktavilla’s Colorful Office Wall is Made of Stacked Recycled Magazines

    Old magazines can be hard to throw away, so it’s easy for stacks of them to pile high. Instead of discarding advertising agency Oktavilla’s growing collection of paper periodicals, Swedish architecture firm Elding Oscarson used them as inspiration. By stacking the old mags up in a colorful configuration, the firm created this incredible wall for [...]

UNEP’s Green Economy Report

    The Report is compiled by UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative in collaboration with economists and experts worldwide. It demonstrates that the greening of economies is not generally a drag on growth but rather a new engine of growth; that it is a net generator of decent jobs, and that it is also a vital [...]

10 Cancer-Causers to Remove From Your Home

    Given poor government regulation, many of the cleaning products available on the market contain “everyday” carcinogens such as formaldehyde, nitrobenzene, methylene chloride, and napthelene, as well as reproductive toxins and hormone disruptors. Not to mention other ingredients that cause liver, kidney and brain damage, allergies and asthma. I really am a happy person–not [...]

Finally: Simplified Recycling Labels Are on Their Way

So you bought a coffee in a disposable cup (it happens) and you want to recycle it. What do you do? Who the hell knows. The fact that the plastic lid has a recycling symbol on it doesn’t necessarly mean you can, in fact, recycle it. It depends on what kind of plastic it is, [...]

S’pore set to have ‘green FTA’ with EU

    Singapore is set to be the first country in the world to have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU), that will promote the green technology sector. It’s one of six key chapters that will feature in the FTA, where a sixth round of talks is under way here. The [...]

Just how green is Facebook?

via The Ecologist.