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Plastiki to air on National Geographic Canada on Earth Day
by Danielle
Environment / April 15, 2011
With Earth Day on April 22, I thought it fitting to share with you an intriguing book by David Mayer de Rothschild. PLASTIKI recounts a voyage that took de Rothschild and a five-person crew 10,000 miles from the U.S. to Australia, sailing through rarely traveled, dangerous waters, risking their lives to call attention to our fragile oceans. Their exploration included urgent study of ocean pollution, island nations threatened by rising seas, damaged coral reefs, and the acidifying ocean itself and their discoveries are a call to action.
10 Green Architecture and Design Books
by Dan
Architecture + Design & Typography + Environment / April 22, 2010
To continue our Earth Day theme today, here's a list of 10 new and recent books for architects and designers about sustainable building and design:
- 1000 New Eco Designs and Where to Find Them by Rebecca Proctor
- Designing Sustainable Packaging: A guide to eco-friendly packaging design by Scott Boylston
- Earth Architecture by Ronald Rael (paperback coming soon!)
- Ecodesign: The Sourcebook by Alastair Fuad-Luke
- The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture by Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne
- Green Roof: A Case Study by Christian Werthmann
- The Hybrid House:Designing With Sun, Wind, Water, and Earth by Catherine Wanek
- LEED Materials: A Resource Guide to Green Building by Ari Meisel
- Off the Grid Homes: Case Studies for Sustainable Living by Lori Ryker
- Prefab Green by Michelle Kaufmann and Catherine Remick
Happy Earth Day World!!
by Danielle
Environment + Food & Drink / April 21, 2010
Here's an excerpt from ANNA GETTY'S GREEN ORGANIC: COOK WELL, EAT WELL, LIVE WELL, the ultimate guide to anything and everything that is good for our earth.
Enjoy!!
Zucchini and Sweet Potato Bread with Pumpkin Seeds and Dried Cherries
Makes one 9-BY-5-inch loaf
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crumble topping
1⁄4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon pumpkin seeds
2 tablespoons cold
unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
zucchini and sweet potato bread
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1⁄4 teaspoon aluminum-free baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground
cinnamon
1 cup sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup grated zucchini (about 1 1⁄2 small zucchini)
1 cup grated garnet yam (about 1⁄2 large garnet yam)
3⁄4 cup pumpkin seeds
3⁄4 cup dried cherries
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan.
2. To make the topping, mix together the flour, brown sugar, and pumpkin seeds. Cut in the butter with a pastry cutter until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Set aside.
3. To make the bread, in a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking
powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
4. In a large bowl, beat together the sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla. Mix in the zucchini and yam. Add the flour mixture, pumpkin seeds, and dried
cherries and stir well. Transfer the batter to the prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle the topping evenly over the batter.
5. Bake the bread for 1 1/2 hours, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the bread comes out clean.
6. Let the zucchini bread cool in the pan before removing it from the pan
to serve.