Do you like to take long, and especially hot, showers regularly? Besides making your skin dryer you will also waste money and water (30% of all home water consumption is in the shower) on those long hot showers.

But fear not! Technology in form of “high-tech” sandglass timers is here to help you.

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Now we can count in baldness as another nasty side effect of pollution. According to a new research, by academics at the University of London, baldness has been linked with environmental factors, such as air pollution and smoking.

“The scientists believe toxins and carcinogens found in polluted air can stop hair growing by blocking mechanisms that produce the protein from which hair is made. Baldness is known to be hereditary, but the new research suggests that environmental factors could exacerbate hair loss.”

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Greenpeace is going after Unilever, the makers of Dove beauty products. According to Greenpeace Unilever “are causing forest destruction, species extinction and climate change.”

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My re-usable bags that once where shining white and bright is now all looking a bit, let’s say, unattractive. I don’t really know how many years I’ve been using them but it’s many and it’s getting a bit unattractive to bring them to the town.

If you are, like me, in this position or you don’t have any re-usable bags at all(!) you might want to check out the new colourful Mikado series from Envirosax.

With all the different colours, textures and patterns you won’t have a hard time finding a bag you like - it will be hard to choose which one to get!

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Here is a short interview with Lauri Apple, the creator of FoundClothing.

You run a site called FoundClothing, which basically is an online archive of clothing and accessories that you find in the trash or left on the streets, take home, wash and wear.

How and when did you come up with this whole idea?

I had the idea for the Website in March 2006, while I was sitting in the lobby of my law school procrastinating. I had been thinking about how long I had been finding clothes — since 1994 — and that there might be potential for a project of some sort based on my activity. I went home that night, took photos of all of the trashion in my closet, posted each photo with details about where the items came from and when they entered my life, and had a site.

The idea itself originated in 1994, when I passed the trash area behind a resale shop by my house and found a bunch of vintage clothing, including a great fur-trimmed jacket that I still have. After that, I remember looking at trash a lot more frequently, and going on scavenger hunts with my roommates (we were all very frugal, pro-recycling types).

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So you have switched your incandescent light bulbs to CFLs. Your food is organic, you buy locally produced products. And you have become a recycling master in your neighbourhood. Now what?

Now is the time to get a green, organic and sustainable wardrobe!

The Greenloop has everything you could ever need in fashion and accessories. They sell some really good looking reusable shopping bags, shirts, pants and shoes, and then some more.

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