This is a new SIGG water bottle with a Keith Haring lady liberty design, part of a limited edition series celebrating America, land of the free, home of  thirsty. Perhaps you could score one of these cool designs for free by getting rid of an old SIGG bottle that contains poison, and you can enjoy the benefits without having to worry about exposing your body to a synthetic drug known to disrupt normal endocrine function.

I simply won’t stand for that in a water bottle. How about you?

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Tags: aluminum , baby bottles , bottles , BPA , cancer , conservation , endocrine , Food and Drug Administration , health , leeching , metal , plastics , Reuable , SIGG , sippy cups , synthetic drugs , water

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“It’s time to change everything we know about paper,” is the mission statement of Sodra Pulp Labs.

And that’s what the Swedish architecture firms that partner with the labs are doing as they wrap their minds around 50 years of research on pulp-based materials.

“Could it be durable? Waterproof? Light and insulating? Hard as Kevlar? We don’t know the answers, but you’re welcome to join us as we find them out,” says the lab.

Well, one thing is for sure: it can be kid-proof, such as the Parapu kids’s chair by the architecture firm Claesson …

Tags: chairs , green , kids furniture , Milan , nursery , paper , petroleum , plastics , pulp , stackable chairs , Sweden , wood

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My eccentric Aunt Lorraine could crochet better than most, her intricate hooded baby sweaters ideal for keeping my little ones bundled in warmth. Isn’t that the heartfelt purpose of most woolen handiwork? Yet the magical forms you see here, resulting from thousands of hours of labor, are a commentary on too much warmth – the kind devastating the coral reefs of our marine world.

In 2005, twin sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim put their heads and needles together to crochet these spectacular models of coral heads, anemone gardens and urchins. …

Tags: CAL Arts , coral , Cornell University , dumping , global warming , hyperbolic space , landfills , plastics , pollution , The Crochet Reef , The Great Barrier Reef , The Great Pacific Garbage patch , the Smithsonian

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Did you know most yogurt and cottage cheese containers and other polypropylene #5 plastics end up in landfills? The plastic made from our chemical industries cannot be recycled and yet this is the material selected to package so much of our food items (think hummus and ice cream), medicine and restaurant take-out boxes.

A new effort to salvage and reuse the containers has been announced by the company, Preserve, which is creating stylish household products out of 100% recycled plastics.

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Tags: food , news , organic , plastics , polypropylene , recycle , reuse

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