«A fascinating article recently in The New York Times points out the cruel fact that most forms of the color green are manufactured in ways that are ecologically irresponsible, and in some cases severely damaging to the environment. How’s that for irony?

Michael Braungart, the German chemist who co-wrote Cradle to Cradle says that “the color green can never be green, because of the way it is made. It’s impossible to dye plastic green or to print green ink on paper without contaminating them.” Green is apparently a very difficult color to manufacture, and it requires toxic substances to stabilize it. Therefore, green-colored plastic, paper and packaging cannot be recycled or composted safely, because of the risk of contamination..»

Source: re-nest.com

Toilet paper wipes out 27,000 trees a day
«Worldwide, the equivalent of almost 270,000 trees is either flushed or dumped in landfills every day and roughly 10 percent of that total is attributable to toilet paper, according to the latest issue of World Watch magazine.» Source:

Kevin McCloud’s top green home tips
«As Grand Designs Live opens, TV presenter Kevin McCloud selects 10 products from recycled scourers to insulating blinds:   Sting plus: upholstery made from nettles Smile Plastics: recycled plastic worktops Parans: solar lighting Giles Miller: cardboard furniture Hemcrete: greener concrete EcoForce: recycled everyday homewares Black

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
«The swirling mass of plastic soup in the Pacific Ocean, known by a handful of names — the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, North Pacific Gyre, Trash Vortex, and Plastic Graveyard among them —

toi aussi, fabrique ton diesel avec ton micro-ondes
copié/collé depuis chez NiouScientist « A US company (Global Resource Corporation) is taking plastics recycling to another level – turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas. All that is needed, is a finely tuned microwave and a

Dead animal beer bottles at £500 each ‘perverse’
«A beer served in bottles made from stuffed animals has been criticised as “perverse” and “pushing the boundaries of acceptability”. The End of History, made by BrewDog of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, is 55% and £500 a bottle. The bottles

The in Vitro Meat House
«We’ve waxed lyrical about botanical walls, green roofs and living treehouses on Inhabitat for years – is the next logical step a home made from animal tissue? From the boundary-pushing team of archi-visionaries who brought us the fabulous

Luxicare crayon
Luxicare crayons made from home-processed food! Colours are made by processing and mixing nuts, sesame seeds with melted marshmellow, corn, nuts, yellow fruity pebbles, bee pollen, dried bananas, almonds, black sesami, wild sesamem Goji berries and

My Bike Keeps Me Juiced Up
«The I-Green is a small bike peripheral that turns kinetic energy into electrical to charge nearly any portable device. » Source: www.yankodesign.com Share a2a_config.linkname="Green is Toxic"; a2a_config.linkurl="http://www.digitalsook.net/20100411/green-is-toxic"; a2a.init("page");

say it with a bullet
«Young Israeli designer Adi Zaffran Weisler has made a collection of jewellery from spent bullets…» Adi Zaffran’s website Share a2a_config.linkname="Green is Toxic"; a2a_config.linkurl="http://www.digitalsook.net/20100411/green-is-toxic"; a2a.init("page");

My computer is Green
Si des progrès ont été remarqués dans la consommation électrique avec l’électroménager, les ampoules basse consommation, l’isolation, … il n’en va pas de même pour l’informatique où l’on constate que des produits comme les cartes graphiques continuent, d’une génération