Fwd: Prouvé House Visited and More

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TreeHugger visits

one of the world's most famous prefabs, from

1951. Why? As we said two years ago:

"Here is a house that can fit in an old small

airplane and yet be so elegant and beautiful

as to belie any notion that buildings that

are efficient and prefab have to be

architecturally pedestrian."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La Maison Tropicale, one of the

three existing models from 1951, by the

architect Jean Prouvé, erected and open for

viewing now, in front of the Tate Modern

museum. It was discovered by Eric

Touchaleaume who has been called the "Indiana

Jones of furniture collecting". He has spent

the last decade scouring remote parts of the

world for valuable artifacts such as this

house. Having bought 600 of Prouvé's chairs,

he became obsessed with finding the house.

Hearing that someone had seen one in

Brazzaville, he travelled there and found two

of them damaged by bullet holes and

corrosion. It took six months to get the

buildings out of the Congo because of the

civil war and tribal conflicts.

 

He also found a former Air France

headquarters building, furnished by Prouvé.

As the word spread that he was looking for

furniture from it, people gradually brought

their pieces to him. He eventually wrapped

the whole thing in banana leaves, in 15

shipping containers and got them shipped out

to France. Martha Stewart, Brad Pitt and Marc

Jacobs are big collectors. . ::More

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paperless Home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Families are going paperless far faster than

businesses; they have to pay the price of ink

jet cartridges. "Paper is no longer the

master copy; the digital version is."But

there is a price: energy.

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Sweet!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the first time in over 125 years sugar

cane farmers, in one region of Australia will

not burn their crop at harvest time. Instead

they will ship the still green waste and cane

residue to a new 30 megawatt plants, where it

will be burnt to generate power. ::More

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Water Fight!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 1818 a mapmaker screwed up and put the

border between Georgia and Tennessee in the

wrong place. (according to Georgians,

anyways) Now they want it back, along with

the river that runs through it. ::More.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tip from Planet Green: Pay Your

Bills Online

 

 

Still not paperless? Consider cutting

paper and stamps out of the equation

altogether and paying your bills online.

You'll save the cost of a stamp and the worry

of whether or not the payment will arrive on

time, and it's easy to do: almost all banks

and service providers offer the option

these days; About.com has a

nice overview of getting this done.

Once you start paying your bills online,

most banks and many service providers offer

the option to stop sending you paper bills as

well; if you're going to pay them online, you

might as well cut the clutter and go with

electronic bills and emailed reminders,

right? As with cutting down on junk

mail, cutting back on paper bills

cuts back on clutter, and, perhaps most

importantly, paper required to print your

bills. ::More at Planet

Green.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Save Trees and money with tips from Planet Green! Created by the same savvy folk who brought you the award-winning TreeHugger, Planet Green is your user's guide to living mindfully on this big blue marble we all call home. Greenily, Team TH

 

 

 

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