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When we last covered Oliver Rowe”s new restaurant, Konstam, we did not realize we had posted a picture of his older restaurant. The new restaurant serves really local food- like from inside the M25, a ring road around London. The correct

A skylight company called Velux has developed a type of glass that can become dark or clear by flicking a switch. The glass has special layers of material which turn dark when an electrical current is applied. The process is known as electrochromism, and it has also been applied in the automobile industry to automatically tint rear-view mirrors. Essentially replacing blinds, the glass can control glare, solar heat and UV radiation. Velux has limited number of sizes available and more are scheduled to be in production later in the year. They are still several times the cost of a traditional skylight with a shade, but they could be especially useful in places where it is difficult to access the skylight. Operating the windows takes only a small amount of electricity. According to Velux, “[I]t takes less electricity to operate a house full of SageGlass products than to operate a single 40-watt light bulb.”

It”s Monday, and for green blog-watchers, that can only mean one thing: the Carnival of the Green! Treehugger is proud to host this week”s edition of the Carnival, the brainstorm of green blogs extraordinaire City Hippy and TriplePundit. If this is your first COG, no need to worry: settle in, click around and enjoy the best of the past week”s content from green blogs around the world.

Playing in the sand must be one of the oldest, and most ecologically pure, games in existence.

Arguably, his hair is better. He”s definitely more reserved, and is in possession of a voice more mellifluous.

…unless you really have to. The two main reasons are that it can encourage the breeding of more resistant bacteria, and that the micro-organisms used by sewage-treatment plants to purify organic waste are affected by it. When they are rendered less effective, the plants use more harsh chemicals to compensate, thus polluting more.

If you eat cherries, chances are they come from Washington and Western Montana. The Washington cherries ripened late this year, and the Montana crop came early. This has meant a glut in the market, and the largest regional shipping plant isn”t accepting Montana cherries. Some farmers will leave tons on the trees (to fall and rot on the ground or make birds happy) because it”s less expensive to cut their losses than to pay to have them picked. Such a waste! Organic cherry growers who were banned from the plant because of fruit fly fears are making out just fine, however, with already diversified dissemination chains, and strong local markets.

Not only do we have the issue of people going to bed hungry while food goes to waste. Since we are experiencing the hottest Montana summer in anyone”s memory, this could be an example of how global warming will disrupt national and global food distribution. How will we feed ourselves then?:: The Missoulian. Photo, Peggy Greb, at the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

Regardless of whether you are a Walmart basher or activating optimistically for Walmart leadership in environmental and sustainable philosophy, the news on Friday in Germany is of interest:

While a number of European countries are moving full-steam ahead on wave power development, the idea of

Strathmore, long a staple of art students everywhere, is producing a new line of sketch, drawing, and bristol paper made with 100% windpower. Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc., which owns Strathmore, has been using windpower to meet its paper mills” energy needs for some time—according to Mohawk, 38% of their power is derived from windpower—but the Windpower series from Strathmore is the first line of paper created in the U.S. using windpower exclusively.

Not that you can really tell, as there is no trade-off in paper functionality, appearance, quality, or price. Instead, the benefits are essentially invisible: Mohawk”s use of windpower in conjunction with recycled fiber has resulted in 13 million lbs. of toxic air emissions not generated (CO2, SO2 and NOX), 8,581 barrels of crude oil or 1,960 tons of coal not used, 14.5 million miles not driven in one year, 94,500 trees not cut down, and 40 million gallons of water/wastewater flow not generated. Not bad! [Written by: Dave Chiu]