Simple yet clever, we’re raising our glasses to the inventive repurposing behind the Re-Juicer. The Re-Juicer turns an orange into OJ with the twist of a wrist and a plastic water bottle. Another cheeky product from New York designer and founder of Amron Experimental, Scott Amron, the Re-Juicer is made from the bottom part of a Poland Springs water bottle. Because of the bottle’s inherent flexibility, it easily bends to pour your fresh squeezed juice into a glass. Cheers to that!

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More ironic than practical, Swiss designer Michel Bussien’s Growing Chair evokes pertinent ideas for the 21st century: nature trapped within the confines of man, manicured at his whim, or a specimen preserved behind glass - like fossils in a museum. On the other hand, when I look at the Growing Chair, I see the proliferation of life despite artificial boundaries. But, perhaps it’s something much simpler than that - a lush little greenhouse with a seat to enjoy it?

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While San Diego was not considered a very green city just a few years ago, this sunny patch of paradise is quietly coming into its own by leaps and bounds. Enough businesses are seeing the light, and new green ones are opening all the time, that this year heralds their very own Go Green (coupon) Book, which offers over 100 coupons to local environmental stores, eateries, services, recreational activities and an entire category for “other.” Read on to find out how to get one. …

While San Diego was not considered a very green city just a few years ago, this sunny patch of paradise is quietly coming into its own by leaps and bounds. Enough businesses are seeing the light, and new green ones are opening all the time, that this year heralds their very own Go Green (coupon) Book, which offers over 100 coupons to local environmental stores, eateries, services, recreational activities and an entire category for “other.” Read on to find out how to get one. …

Sunny days are here again, which means it’s time to load your skin up with plenty of quality SPF before you venture into the great outdoors. John Masters Organics is all aboard for summer with a new broad-spectrum mineral sunscreen designed to deflect attacks from both UVA and UVB rays, while pampering and hydrating your epidermis with certified-organic green tea extract, Shea butter, and jojoba oil. …

Sunny days are here again, which means it’s time to load your skin up with plenty of quality SPF before you venture into the great outdoors. John Masters Organics is all aboard for summer with a new broad-spectrum mineral sunscreen designed to deflect attacks from both UVA and UVB rays while pampering and hydrating your epidermis with certified-organic green tea extract, Shea butter, and jojoba oil. …

If Small Cars Become More Profitable, We’ll Have Better Small Cars Toyota announced something interesting: The company is restructuring and retooling so that it can make more profits on small cars (more details below). To some this might sound like just some cost-cutting caused by the recession and massive drop in car sales, but I don’t think that’s all there is to it (or at least, I hope not). In fact, I think this is probably the way out (or at least the least bad option in the short-term) for the auto industry. Allow me to explain……

Why? Peak Oil. Jeff Rubin is a regular supplier of great quotes to TreeHugger (like his description of the tar sands: “You know you are at the bottom of the ninth when you are schlepping a tonne of sand to get a barrel of oil” )

For almost twenty years he was chief economist for CIBC World Markets, but has left that comfortable world to spread a not so comfortable message: Our lives are about to change, as the title says: Why Your W…