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Banksy Turns Kiddie Ride Into Anti-BP Statement

Photo: Banksy.co.uk
Poor Dolphin
World-famous guerilla artist Banksy has made many environmental statements in the past, but we think this one is particularly clever, especially with the events of the past few months. Check out the video after the jump to see the coin-operated kiddie ride in action…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

Big Bambú: A Cresting Wave Hits New York City

Image Credit: Nucho via Flickr
Bamboo gets used in a lot of ways, from underwear to flooring to windmills. But this summer, the roof of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to a forest of bamboo that is an aesthetic end in itself. Since April, artists Read the full story on TreeHugger

Erin Hanson’s Clever Art Underscores Our Need To Want Less

Image by Erin Hanson
Erin Hanson’s outlet is the Recovering Lazyholic, and she has some great ways of pinpointing the unfortunate condition of so many of us folks, who give in to our slovenly side a little too often. One of her projects is “Need to Want Less,” a series of graphics that smartly and succinctly […]

Ecomobile: A Green Mobile Home In A Spiritual Trailer Park

Images unless noted: Findhorn Foundation
While following the development of small green prefabs, It has become increasingly clear that you cannot separate the home from the context, and that what we really need is a sort of green trailer park, where people can own their unit but share common resources. It turns out that it exists, […]

Obama’s Oval Office Is Beige And Could Have Been Green

New York Times
Everyone in the red state is piling on the redesign of the oval office, complaining it is not patriotic enough, even though George Bush took Bill Clinton’s red, white and blue garish extravaganza and turned it into a muted southern living room (and lost the red, white and blue) showing more taste […]

HP Competition Winner Has Rooftop Farms, Plugin Units

images from Bustler
The HP Skyline 2020 competition “outlined fresh visual imaginations for the skyline discarding preconceived notions” and “allowed students and professionals to partner and elucidate their visions and designs that would change the skyline thereby transforming the city itself.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger

House Built From Hemp Is Full Of Green Surprises

All images from Push House
In much of the world, hemp is thought of as a useful building material; Warren recently showed us an interesting house from Australia and it is common in the UK. But in America, it is still the butt of hippie jokes; Matt Hickman of the Mother Nature Networks describes a […]

Dual-Flush Toilet Retrofit, With Adjustable Flush (Video)

Image credit: Brondell Simple Flush
Dual-flush toilets have always been popular here on TreeHugger. After all, it seems insane to use the same amount of drinking water to flush your number ones as your number twos. (It actually seems insane to use drinking water at all, but that’s another story.) But rather than just advocating ripping […]

Cork Furniture and Cardboard Bars by Marina68 (Photos)

At TreeHugger we like cork, that warm material that can be harvested without chopping down trees, is fully renewable and biodegradable and can be shaped into many funky objects apart from stoppers to keep the wine in the bottles. The designers at studio Marina68 in Barcelona have worked with this local material and created a […]

Kwantlen Xthum: First Nations Meeting Place at University Scoops Design Awards

Designing a space to serve multiple functions can be a challenge. British Columbia design studio Public had to learn about a whole new range of uses for Xthum, at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where the Kwantlen, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen and Katzie Nations needed a space for celebrating, feasting, storytelling, counselling, advising, studying, and relaxing. How do you […]

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