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Creative Vertical Garden Built With Dozens Of Hanging Flowerpots In Brazil

9:22 am in brazil, decorating, Design & Architecture, gardening by TreeHugger

Green Wall With Hanging Pots In Brazil Photo Photos: Rosenbaum. Building on the great response their awesome vertical garden with recycled plastic bottles received, Brazilian design studio Rosenbaum has come up with another vertical garden for their latest Lar doce lar project (a segment at a popular TV show where they remodel houses of low-income families). This time they used hanging flowerpots attached to the wall, giving an interesting illusion...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Awesome Vertical Garden With Recycled PET Bottles At Poor Family Home In Sao Paulo

8:30 am in brazil, Design & Architecture, gardening, recycled consumer goods, small spaces by TreeHugger

Vertical Garden With Recycled PET Bottles In Sao Paulo Photo Photos: Rosenbaum. Brazilian design studio Rosenbaum collaborates with TV show Caldeirao do Huck in a segment called Lar doce lar (Home Sweet Home), which helps families in need re-designing their homes to improve their lives and self-esteem. In its latest work for a family living in the outskirts of Sao Paulo...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Globe-Trotting Tour of Sustainable Design

8:00 am in argentina, australia, brazil, Design & Architecture, designers, indonesia, zero waste by TreeHugger

recycling paper waste workshop brazil photo A paper-waste recycling workshop in Brazil. Photo: "It's Not Easy Being Green." From the organizers of a prestigious annual competition in Australia to Balinese craftspeople selling their wares on the street, the world is full of people designing a better world, a little bit at a time. Two European designers are meeting as many as they can on a globe-trotting tour of sustainable des...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Marauding Gangs of Monkeys Invade Rio de Janeiro

11:59 pm in animals, brazil, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

capuchins invade rio photo Photo: sameffron / cc In Rio de Janeiro, bold bands of marauding monkeys are turning to a life of looting and mischief. By the dozens, young capuchin monkeys have been descending the nearby hills to sneak into homes and steal fruit and other food from unsuspecting residents -- wreaking havoc in the process. "They come in, make a mess, break and throw everything onto the floor," says one distraught resident of Rio's primate-sacked South Zone. But local experts say that kind-hearted humans may be to blame for unleashing this prov...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Head of Brazil’s Environmental Protection Agency Says It Is Not His Job to Protect the Environment

6:21 pm in amazonia, brazil, Business & Politics, dams by TreeHugger

amazon in fog photo Photo: CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture / cc As the President of Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA, which oversees regulationion in the world's largest rainforest, Curt Trennepohl has a very important position -- the only problem is, he says that protecting the environment isn't part of it. In an interview with Australia's "60 Minutes", when asked if his job was to guard the...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Paralyzed Lion Receives an Outpouring of Support

2:54 pm in animals, brazil, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

ariel lion photo Photos via Facebook In 2008, at a wildlife center in Brazil, a healthy and playful lion cub named Ariel was born. Nowadays, he spends his days in a house in Sao Paulo, unable to move limbs. Ariel suffers from a debilitating autoimmune disease that has rendered him quadriplegic, and requiring of round-the-clock care from his trainers. Although it might seem like a lonely, hopeless life for the paralyzed lion, his story has won the hearts of thousands -- and thanks to their outpouring of support, he's getting the care he needs. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Eucalyptus Monoculture Where Rainforests Once Stood

8:54 am in biodiversity, brazil, conservation, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

via internet science tech The paper industry has been eying genetically engineered eucalyptus for some time now. And while this fast growing tree has been used to fight erosion in Mali, many activists and conservationists are concerned about the spread of eucalyptus monocultures that are often replacing diverse and biologically rich rainforests. The Global Justice Ecology Project has a Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Brazil Reaches Wind Energy Milestone

4:01 pm in brazil, Business & Politics, renewable energy, wind power by TreeHugger

wind turbines brazil photo Photo: Stephen Messenger Brazil has reached a renewable energy milestone, among the first of many as the nation pushes to meet its ambitious pledge to reduce carbon emissions. Beginning in June, Brazil now generates 1 gigawatt of electricity from wind turbines, sufficient to power around 1.5 million homes, and is the first in South America to do so. Currently, 51 wind farms are in operation throughout the Brazilian northeast and southern states and over thirty more are currently under construction thanks to a ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Revolving Kitchen And Hanging Bed In Stunning 600 Sq. Foot Recycled Cabin

3:32 pm in bedrooms, brazil, Design & Architecture, kitchens, small spaces by TreeHugger

Hanging Bed At Recycled 600 Sq. Foot Cabin Photo Photo: Evelyn Muller. Although interior design events in Latin America are always full of huge museum rooms thought for impossible houses, it's good to see the trend of small spaces popping up in places like Buenos Aires and Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vietnam Era Weapon Being Used to Clear the Amazon

4:45 pm in amazonia, brazil, Business & Politics, deforestation by TreeHugger

agent orange photo Photo: Wikipedia Commons Agent Orange is one of the most devastating weapons of modern warfare, a chemical which killed or injured an estimated 400,000 people during the Vietnam War -- and now it's being used against the Amazon rainforest. According to officials, ranchers in Brazil have begun spraying the highly toxic herbicide over patches of forest as a covert method to illegally clear foliage, more difficult to detect that chainsaws and tractors. In recent weeks, an aerial survey detected some 440 acres of rainforest ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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