September 3, 2010
Unwanted silver steel drums are artfully upcycled into these hip contemporary furnishings by French furniture designer and artist Francois Royer. Working in conjunction with Stanker Design, the artist has transformed the simple materials of steel…
- HYANNIS, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Earl churned toward the Massachusetts coast on Friday, en route to Canada's Maritime provinces, after slapping North Carolina with heavy wind and rain but causing less damage than feared.
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James Murray, BusinessGreen, Friday 3 September 2010 at 00:15:00
Greenwashers need not apply
Has your company developed a genuinely innovative solution to an environmental challenge? Then WWF wants to hear from you. The…
- Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.
by Christopher Mims.
It’s over: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has conceded the primary race to her opponent, Joe Miller. Murkowski and three other Republicans will be leaving the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which means new leadership and four open…
- Programs help to make low-income housing more efficient; employ local residents.
- LIMA (Reuters) - Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American rainforest in the worst drought in decades.
- If you really believe Snickers satisfies your hunger and find the crunch of Doritos’ irresistible, you must try the new junk food: Baby carrots! I don’t buy baby carrots myself; I prefer to get whole organic carrots instead of the strangely uniformly shaped, plastic-wrapped ones.
- ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Friday he cannot predict whether Royal Dutch Shell, which has invested $3.5 billion in an offshore Arctic oil-development program, will be allowed to drill the five wells it plans next year in Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.