7 green things you’re already doing this Christmas
Tired of reading about how to be greener this holiday season? Give yourself some credit for the green things you do automatically.
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Dec16
Baby Sloth Orphanage: Cutest Place on Earth
by Betsy Mason
Baby sloths are completely irresistible. Perhaps it’s because their faces are shaped in a permanent smile. Or maybe it’s because they love to hug — stuffed animals, trees, other sloths, people. It could simply be their signature comical slowness.
And orphan baby sloths? Well, If you think you can resist them, try watching this video only once.
The trailer is just a taste of the new documentary, “Too Cute! Baby Sloths,” airing Saturday Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. ET on Animal Planet. The show is filmmaker Lucy Cooke’s follow-up to her wildly popular internet video “Meet the Sloths.” Both were shot at the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica…
(read more: Wired Science)
Dec14
SIGHMATE A three-month-old orangutan peeks out from inside a wooden box in East Kutai, East Kalimantan province, Indonesia; it had been separated from its mother. (Photo: AFP-Getty via the New York Post)
(via earthhour)
Dec13
More? Enough.
A diver swims alongside a Greenland shark, a rarely-seen species that looks like it has been etched from stone. They can survive for more than 200 years at depths of up to 600 metres under Arctic ice. They grow to 23-feet long and are so fearsome they have even been known to eat polar bears. Picture: Doug Perrine/Seapics.com/solent
¡No teníamos idea de que estos animales existían!
(via earthhour)
Dec8
500 manatees. As the temperatures drop in the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of giant manatees make their way to river in Citrus County, FL.
Dec7
We’ve got all the information you need about being green even after death.
Dec6
Beneath the Surface: Rediscovering a World Worth Conserving - Courtney Mattison
Courtney Mattison’s sculpture, “Our Changing Seas: A Coral Reef Story” is currently featured in the latest exhibit in the AAAS Gallery, “Beneath the Surface: Rediscovering a World Worth Conserving.” This exhibit features more than 60 photographs, paintings, drawings and works of mixed media by seven different artists, all depicting the complexity and beauty of our oceans.
Related article: http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/1114art_exhibit.shtml
(Source: youtube.com, via skeptv)
Dec4
Here on the Unconsumption Tumblr we champion the idea of repairing things, or, as our friends at Do The Green Thing like to say, “stick with what you got.”
This story in the Houston Chronicle (related video above) about a Houston-based shoe craftsman earning the shoe repair industry’s highest honor [from the Shoe Service Institute of America (SSIA)] made me think I should call attention to SSIA’s Web site — it’s a resource for not only for repair, but for choosing quality footwear in the first place.
Via its site, the SSIA — motto: “If the shoe fits, repair it” — provides information about shoe care and the names of repair professionals throughout the U.S. The site also features an ”ask the experts” forum where questions, such as “Can dog-chewed women’s shoes be fixed?,” can be submitted and discussed. Check it out.
(Disclosure: I’m a fan of both repairing things and Shoe Savers, the recipient of the SSIA’s award and the business featured in the video and Houston Chronicle story. Shoe Savers has prolonged the life of three pairs of my favorite shoes!)
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