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.
Brainicane
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Archive for November 25th, 2008
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.
Ban on calling old patients love
Nurses will be told by new guidelines to stop calling older patients “love”.
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 […]
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…
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 […]
Marco Capellini: “Ecodesign is not a trend, it’s an industrial necessity”
Rome based designer Marco Capellini has become a well-known name in the Latin ecodesign movement.
Creator of the organization Remade, which promotes design with recycled materials in seven countries; and Matrec, an online resource for recycled materials, Capellini was in Buenos Aires for a conference organized by the city’s Metropolitan Design Center.
After his presentation, he […]
Serious Materials Makes Serious Windows
Kevin Surace and his company, Serious Materials, have been on TreeHugger before; they invented and are producing EcoRock, a new drywall substitute that generates a fraction of the carbon dioxide released in the production of conventional board. They also make Quietrock, a soundproof drywall where one sheet is equivalent acoustically to eight sheets of regular […]
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 […]
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 […]
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