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The first fully compostable snack chip bag

SunChips, Frito-Lay’s popular line of multigrain snacks, will introduce for Earth Day 2010 the first fully compostable snack chip bag made from plant-based materials. Packaging Digest describes the key design innovations behind SunChips’ new packaging:
Current snack food packaging has three layers: a printed outer layer with packaging visuals/graphics, an inner layer, which serves as a [...]

BLDGBLOG Book Release

The much-awaited BLDGBLOG book is out. Sounds like the visually-stunning, encyclopaedic tour de force we’ve been expecting: 
“It’s got five major chapters and a huge bibliography; it’s got interviews, full-color photo spreads (by Simon Norfolk! David Maisel! Edward Burtynsky! Ilkka Halso! Bas Princen! and more!), as well as original illustrations by my colleague at Dwell, Brendan Callahan; it’s [...]

Detroit Green-Ready Houses Going for $100

Somehow I missed this inspiring development: artists are moving in to Detroit, buying up houses for dirt cheap and converting them into linked-up, green artist communities.
A local couple, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, started the ball rolling. An artist and an architect, they recently became the proud owners of a one-bedroom house in East Detroit [...]

The Gould affair (strikes back at Sokal)

Joanne Faulkner of What Sorts of People has a post up on what ought to now be known as the Gould affair, in reference to the well-known Sokal hoax — which continues to haunt the postmodern left more than ten years after its perpetration. Faulkner summarizes the turn of events thus far:

Keith Windschuttle, editor of [...]

Leo Spitzer on the origin of the word “Environment”

Leo Spitzer on the origin of the word “Environment”

Towards the end of his epic history of the concept of “milieu”, Leo Spitzer briefly goes over the origin of the closely-related English word, “environment” – which was coined, it turns out, by Thomas Carlyle in an article on Goethe, published in Miscellanies (1827).
And “what is particularly interesting is the fact that the lines in [...]

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