1. Sustainable and Urban Gardening Newsletter for November of '09  permalink

Sustainable and Urban Gardening Newsletter for November of '09
Www.sustainable-gardening.com

Feel free to admire my new front-yard fence!  It's natural cedar and replaces a chain-link fence covered with English ivy (memories of which are fading fast.) Here's the before and after, with a link to waaaay before.

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2. A garden grows at shelter  permalink

A garden grows at shelter
Www.honoluluadvertiser.com

The Institute for Human Services helped a handful of children plant a seedling toward sustainability yesterday in a donated Wiki Garden at the women and children's shelter in Kalihi.

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3. 'Fashion Delivers' $1.2 Million to Victims of Natural Disasters  permalink

'Fashion Delivers' $1.2 Million to Victims of Natural Disasters
TreeHugger

Barney's Simon Doonan and Sesame Workshop's Gary Knell at Fashion Delivers/ K.I.D.S. gala in NYC. Credit: Thomas Iannaccone, Via WWD Fashion Delivers , a non-profit organization that supplies victims of natural disasters with donated product, and Kids In Distressed Situations, Inc. (K.I.D.S.) raised almost $1.2 million dollars at their annual ...

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'Fashion Delivers' $1.2 Million to Victims of Natural Disasters K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers Gala Raises $1.2M   —  Subscribe today to WWD.com, now incorporating comprehensive menswear and footwear coverage with the new WWDMen's and Footwear News channels, for complete access to breaking news and events that shape the worldwide men's and women's fashion, footwear, retail and beauty industries.

4. Voices from Hopenhagen: Copenhagen With an "H," by Tham Khai Meng of Ogilvy & Mather  permalink

Voices from Hopenhagen: Copenhagen With an
TreeHugger

Images courtesy of Hopenhagen/Ogilvy & Mather. This guest post was written by Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather , as part of the Voices from Hopenhagen series. In explaining the genesis of the name " The Beatles ," John Lennon famously wrote, "A Man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them 'From this day on,

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Voices from Hopenhagen: Copenhagen With an Interview with Rajendra Pachauri: Amid Mounting Pessimism A Voice of Hope for Copenhagen   —  Yale Environment 360 With skepticism growing about the chances of reaching a climate agreement next month in Copenhagen, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

5. Eco Gadgets: CLOVERS – A renewable energy education system for eco-conscious kids  permalink

Eco Gadgets: CLOVERS – A renewable energy education system for eco-conscious kids
Jolly / Ecofriend

Eco Factor: Solar-powered system teaches the simple principles to go green. Designed by Valeria Bianco, the CLOVERS is a renewable energy education system that uses flexible solar panel technology to teach teenagers about the electricity usage of..

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Jolly / Ecofriend
Eco Gadgets: CLOVERS – A renewable energy education system for eco-conscious kids Eco Cars: McLaren F1 designer plans to build the world’s most efficient electric car   —  Eco Factor: Zero-emission electric car to be developed by Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive. The designer of the world’s renowned supercar, McLaren F1, is up to a new challenge. Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive have announced an.

Jolly / Ecofriend
Eco Gadgets: CLOVERS – A renewable energy education system for eco-conscious kids Eco Architecture: 3XN and Nord Architects to design sustainable complex in Denmark   —  Eco Factor: Sustainable complex to feature energy-saving systems and roof gardens. Nord Architects and 3XN have won a competition to design a sustainable masterplan in Denmark that will be a cultural hub for visual arts, literature and...

6. 10 Steps to a 30-minute garden  permalink

Seattletimes.nwsource.com

As we invent things to make our lives more efficient, the net result is often more things on our to-do list and a greater sense of pressure to get them all done! Let's face it; some of the hottest-selling products and concepts today are all about saving time.

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7. 3xn and nord architects win masterplan project in aarhus, denmark  permalink

3xn and nord architects win masterplan project in aarhus, denmark
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To create a link, eg: if you wish to create a link to designboom.com

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8. Gordon Murray Design & Zytek Automotive Announce Electric City Car Programme  permalink

Gordon Murray Design & Zytek Automotive Announce Electric City Car Programme
Www.gordonmurraydesign.com

Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive announce an all-electric three-seater city car, made possible through a £4.5m investment from the government-backed Technology Strategy Board. With a total cost of £9m, the new research and development project will allow the consortium to develop four prototypes by February 2011.

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9. Fall chores in the perennial garden – Mansfield Today  permalink

Gardening Diva / Just My Garden

Fall chores in the perennial garden Mansfield Today As long as more moderate fall weather persists and the soil is still workable, we can continue to tidy up and even forge ahead in the perennial garden . … and more »

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Noreply / A Gardener
Fall chores in the perennial garden – Mansfield Today Fall Color - Liquidambar   —  Fall Color - Liquidambar - 1 Originally uploaded by dewelch Found along my walk yesterday, this Liquidambar styraciflua was bursting into color. This is one of the few trees that give us any sense of Fall here in southern California. They are planted along many streets here in the San Fernando Valley.

10. Curious carrot: Unusual veggie catches attention of gardener – Greeley Tribune  permalink

Gardening Diva / Just My Garden

Curious carrot: Unusual veggie catches attention of gardener Greeley Tribune Fisher, you see, has had white carrots pop up in his garden behind his central Greeley home, right along with the normal orange ones. “I've been gardening … and more »

11. Weekend game: Drench squares in color  permalink

Weekend game: Drench squares in color
Shenews.projo.com

There are no instructions, but the premise really is simple: Turn the entire board any one color within a set number of moves. Begin at the upper left square and click one of the colors on the right; all adjacent squares will turn that color. Keep it up, keeping an eye on what color squares are blocking others, until you've changed them all to ...

12. Martian landscapes  permalink

Martian landscapes
Www.boston.com

Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. ...

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13. The Latest eco-fashions: 4 green designers show off their vegan style  permalink

The Latest eco-fashions: 4 green designers show off their vegan style
Siel / Green LA girl

Wondering what styles will be in eco-fashion this fall and winter? Earlier today, green-thinking fashionistas got treated to an eco-vegan fashion show at the Green Blogger Convention at Environmental Furniture in Los Angeles. Here’s what gorgeous green fashions hitting stores this and next season: EcoSkin’s line featured rayon-from- ...

14. Friday freebies: Yak Pak Billboard Messenger Bag  permalink

Friday freebies: Yak Pak Billboard Messenger Bag
Siel / Green LA girl

win an upcycled billboard bag!

15. CurbedWire: MePa Building Transforms on TV  permalink

CurbedWire: MePa Building Transforms on TV
Joey / Curbed

MEPA— The A Building isn't the only bit of newish construction to get some screen time lately. The Theory Building at 40 Gansevoort Street is now starring in a cell phone commercial . But wait a minute: "The building has been digitally altered to include a T-mobile marquee and replaces the brick colored columns with gray ones." They can do ...

16. Refi shame!  permalink

Refi shame!
Brickunderground.com

Which is worse:  Revealing your finances as a buyer to a co-op board of total strangers….or refinancing your mortgage and having to spill your financial guts to a board now populated by friends and frenemies?

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17. Comment of the Day: "Maybe the heron can hook up...  permalink

Joey / Curbed

"Maybe the heron can hook up with the wild turkey that also lives in Battery Park and go on bombing raids over that stupid-ass noisy construction that wakes me up every morning along-side the West side Highway ."— Kinkistyle [Battery Park City's Most Dangerous Benches]

18. History Lessons: When Soho Went Ga-Ga for Tiffany's Silver  permalink

Pete / Curbed

The talk of sea-going troves of silver from Tiffany sent us on a hunt for history, and some tantalizing architectural treasures were our reward. In the mid-1800's, when what is now Soho was the center of commercial New York, Tiffany set up shop on Broadway. Back then they were called Tiffany and Young; to house their wares they built a marble- ...

19. Brooklyn Eagle™  permalink

Brooklyn Eagle™
Www.brooklyneagle.com

BROOKLYN — There are 700 affordable co-ops and homes in Brooklyn currently available for purchase by qualified buyers under programs of the Housing Partnership Development Corp.

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Andy and Brooklyn's fave borough   —  Brooklyn Deckerare condo shopping in -- where else? -- Brooklyn. They were spotted looking at several apartments at J Condominium in DUMBO, a 33-story riverfront building near the Manhattan Bridge. Sources said they "are looking for a Brooklyn apartment to complement their Texas spread and didn't want to buy in Manhattan." The pads feature floor- ...

20. Rachel K Schlueter  permalink

Rachel K Schlueter
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