Photo via Gizmag Swedish and American researchers have just developed a fully recyclable lighting component with what Science Daily is terms a "new super material": graphene. Graphene is both inexpensive to produce and is 100% recyclable, and could be used to create glowing wallpaper made out of plastic--much like )LEDs could. But graphene appears to improve on OLEDs in some very big ways . . . ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo via Indian TV Today Gwyneth Paltrow's weirdly-named GOOP website and weekly newsletter are full of the actress's favorite things--destinations, recipes, meditation techniques, detox plans, fashions, books, and more--for die-hard fans looking to live the Paltrow life. But this week, she enlisted one of her more famous vegetarian friends for a special guest post:...Read the full story on TreeHugger

A great new bill was introduced to Congress yesterday (how often do you get to write a sentence like that these days?). Authored by Bernie Sanders (I-VT), it would create incentives and tax rebates for solar roofs and solar water heaters. The bill aims to get 10 million solar roofs and 200,000 solar heaters up and running--producing a total of 30,000 megawatts--over ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo: Method Guest contributor Adam Lowry is the founder of Method. I blog here about design as intention, which is to say that if you broaden your design intention to include social and environmental factors, your designs can become transformational. Examining typical laundry packaging from this design perspective provides interesting insight. If you ask what is the intention of the design of a typical laundry package, the answer is clear: Big detergent jugs are designed to get us to use more. They are a symbol of bigger-is-better wastefulness. The laundry jug is the SUV of consumer p...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: bogenfreund/Flickr "Not In My Backyard" has been a rallying cry for homeowners upset with the aesthetic implications of renewable energy facilities and a distributed power grid. This attitude, combined with slow state and federal legislatures and now dwindling stimulus money...Read the full story on TreeHugger