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Last week Milan’s annual furniture fair – the world’s biggest – wrapper up its 48th edition in fairly typical style. Although, if one thing about this sexy showcase for new furniture designs seems to be changing it’s the proportion of green and environmentally friendly models being unveiled every year. 2009 was another big year for [...]

Though LIsticles has yet to join the Twittering masses (lists are hard to pull off in 140 characters), we have a fairly substantial understanding of the new medium. Still, the options seem limitless, and so it’s nice every so often when someone we know and like narrows the focus somewhat and recommends some surefire twitterers [...]

Far be it for us to assume that the folks to the right of the political aisle don’t care about the environment. After all, even crazy libertarians have an irrepressible green thumb. Not only that, but some Republicans in American politics might actually merit the moniker “environmentalist.”
Of course, by “some” we mean 6, and by [...]

We’re still plotting our first solar-powered product purchase, but with all the wacky doodads made to run off sunlight we have to admit the choices are a little bewildering. should we get something useful like a solar-powered mouse for our computer? Or, do we get something that’ll really impress all the folks at the office, [...]

We love learning that objects, materials and products lying around our apartment can be applied to all kinds of handy tasks that have little or nothing to do with their stated purpose. The marshmallows we bought in November to put in our hot cocoa over the winter but never touched can be used to keep [...]

Yes, the weather is heating up, and everybody is starting to plot their swimming trips (even a humpback whale tried to swim through New York harbor and up the Hudson river today). But for those of us who prefer the cruising currents of fresh water swimming over the eye-stinging waves of salt-water beaches, here’s a [...]

As anybody who watched the BBC’s Planet Earth series will tell you, animal conservation funds and programs are fraught with all kinds of bureaucratic caveats and requirements. Though we clearly have the money and resources to save entire species, arguments about how to fund such initiatives and how to most effectively carry them out are [...]

China gets a bum rap (and with good reason) for all kinds of humanitarian and environmental shortcomings and offenses, but there’s some good amidst all this bad. After all, a rapidly modernizing nation with inexhaustible financial and human resources can get just about anything it wants done (like, for instance, the 3 Gorges Dam project). [...]

Ever get the impression that environmental friendliness and lavish luxury are antithetical? Yeah, we do to, but apparently not! So says TreeHugger, whose listicle of 6 Luxurious Eco-Resorts suggests some great, relatively guilt free destinations for your next (post-recession?) fancy vacation. How fancy? Well, at least a few hundred dollars per night, on top of [...]

Maybe if U.S. currency wasn’t green, the whole concept of the “green revolution” and corporate “greenwashing” wouldn’t sound like such a disgusting corruption of vital ideals in the name of marketing. Here we are, though, in a country full of eager green buyers with disappearing green bills, so it’s not surprising that some extremely brown [...]