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Archive for November 25th, 2008

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Author heading dementia campaign

Author Terry Pratchett will hand a petition to 10 Downing Street calling for an urgent increase in funding into dementia research.

Posted on November 25th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Care ‘failing the terminally ill’

Terminally ill people and their families are being let down by failings in end of life care, a watchdog says.

Posted on November 25th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Ban on calling old patients love

Nurses will be told by new guidelines to stop calling older patients “love”.

Posted on November 25th, 2008 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Martino Gamper Brilliantly Reinterprets Classic Carlo Mollino Chairs

Martino Gamper is surely the king of chair recycling with innovative projects such as 100 Chairs in 100 Days, that recently won a Brit Insurance Design of The Year Award. Last month at the Frieze art fair in London Gamper displayed his latest adventure in chair recycling, this time teaming up with the celebrated Italian […]

Posted on November 25th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Tree Museum by Ilkka Halso

They took all the trees
Put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see em
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
-Joni Mitchell…

Posted on November 25th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

From Bauhaus To Outhouse: A View For Two Improves The Design

at Wikipedia), there is still a proper place in the countryside for a well-designed outhouse. For a small cabin or prefab in the woods, especially with a dwelling occupied a few weeks each year by only a handful of people, it’s a cheap solution to a human problem as old as civilization.
The outhouse shown […]

Posted on November 25th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

TreeHugger Desks Around The World

A while back we did a post that included pictures of a few desks belonging to TreeHuggers around the world, but as usual so many contributors missed their deadlines, what can we say? So now we put them all together so you can see how we work. Some are green (one is made of wheatboard) […]

Posted on November 25th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

So Many Greens: GreenBuild, Green Design Furniture, Douglas Green

Douglas Green has been building furniture in Portland, Maine since 1993 under the name Green Design, and he has been living up to his name when it comes to the way he designs and builds.
Green manufacturing to us means creating designs that endure - structurally and artistically - to last for generations, without harming […]

Posted on November 25th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

GreenBuild: What’s So Special about Yolo Paint?

TreeHugger first showed YOLO Colorhouse paints over three years ago and their outdoor line a year ago. It’s nice stuff, but now every paint manufacturer offers VOC (volatile organic compound) free paint, it is an easy point when you are racking them up for LEED. (Learn why VOC free is important here)
So besides the […]

Posted on November 25th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

GreenBuild: I Have Seen the Future and it Flushes

For a long time this TreeHugger has been promoting the idea of residential composting toilets, saying that ” If we are truly going to develop a zero waste society and protect our water resources, we are going to have to start thinking about dealing with all of our wastes and not keep flushing some of […]

Posted on November 25th, 2008 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

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