Featured Blog Posts – June 2012 Archive (25)

Portman, a vegetarian since childhood, turned full-on vegan after reading Jonathan Safran Foer's book "Eating Animals" last year (although she went back to being a vegetarian during her pregnancy) .…

Although she may be one of the most beautiful women in the world, Gisele Bundchen is much more than just a pretty face. Named the…

via: Where Good Food Comes From 

At today’s “Future of Food: Food Security in the 21st…

By MARK SHERMAN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President…

Introducing theC-1, the world’s first gyroscopically-stabilized

“rolling smart phone”. This vehicle combines the efficiency

and freedom of a motorcycle with the safety and…

Each By Gordon Living Wine Barrel Adirondack Chair is made to order. Every…

Named in honor of the first female surfers from Polynesia, Brown Girl Surf TM is a journey to find, support and share with you the stories of the world's first female surfers.    The first girls in the…

Nor-v-gen, for over 90 years this small Minnesota based company has helped prolong the lifespan of many a trusted boot. Hunters, carpenters, woodsmen, and ranchers alike…

By Oliver Lazenby,Via: Yes!…

Tudo bom! As part of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) an enormous outdoor installation of fish was constructed using discarded plastic bottles on Botafogo beach in…

via: Refinery29

While…

Rustic, knotted, raised-grain pine with a copper handle meld together to make my uniquely beautiful and extremely awesome…

via: EditionedArt

Domenica Bucalo is an award-winning Italian artist. International exhibitions include “Contemporaneo DOC/DOCVA” at the Museo…

by Katherine Gustafson via Yes Magazine

In 2002, two neighbors armed with spades and seeds changed everything for crime-addled…

By Joel Makower via GreenBiz

"Materiality” is becoming part of the fabric of sustainable business.

For the…

via: Fashion Office

Pictured:  Depicted is a man who…

If you are going for the rustic Tuscan farm house look this…

From rolling beds, to curvy wood iron seating, Joe Manus's work at Shiner International is dirty, sexy, clever and dark.

Joe applies the manufacturing techniques and brutal aesthetics that earned him his reputation at the boutiques and…

Via: CP  |  By The Canadian Press

SUNDRE, Alta. - Crews were scrambling Friday to contain and clean up a pipeline spill that is believed to have sent up to 475,000 litres of crude oil flowing into a…

U.S. military veteran and lecturer Paul Chappell explains why he now advocates peaceful solutions to conflict. Chappell served for seven years, was deployed to Baghdad in 2006, and left active duty in November 2009 as an Army Captain. He wrote the book …