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Eco-Friendly Shoes

Zappos is a leading online store, with a wide selection of eco-friendly shoes from top brands like Birkenstock. Birkenstock® USA, began over 30 years ago when the founder, Margot Fraser, had a dream of sharing the comfort and health benefits of Birkenstock shoes. A few years earlier, while visiting a German resort, she had tried on her first pair and was extremely impressed at how good they felt. From there, Margot learned that the original Birkenstock contoured footbed was invented and manufactured in Germany by Konrad Birkenstock in 1897. In fact, the Birkenstock family has been shoemakers for over 225 years – more than two centuries of creating and perfecting a tradition of walking comfort. Birki’s® was founded in the early 90's by Stephan Birkenstock The goal was to create stylish sandals that were not only good for you but also something to show off. All Birki's shoes and sandals are made in Germany using environmentally-friendly process and proven craftsmanship. Most Birkenstock and Birki's footbeds are crafted from a cork-latex mixture. The cork used is 100% renewable and sustainable harvested from the Oak tree. The harvesting of the cork does not harm the Oak Tree and allows for new bark to grow back beginning the life cycle all over again. Each contoured footbed will molds and shapes to your foot with the heat of your body creating a custom footbed that supports and cradles each and every step. For the customer that wants a cushioned footbed, they can now enjoy the soft footbed that is offered by Birkenstock shoes and Birki's shoes. Available in a variety of styles, the time-tested cork construction has been enhanced with a layer of memory foam.

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Online shopping 'more eco-friendly' : Shopping online is greener than heading out to shops in person, a new study has revealed. The report by Heriot-Watt University found that it is more environmentally friendly for consumers to have shopping delivered to their homes rather than travelling to retail outlets themselves.

Experts at the institution's Logistics Research Centre, which was established in 1997, compared the carbon footprints of online and conventional shopping for a number of goods including books and CDs, with a particular focus on the delivery process.

It found that while an average trip to the shops produced 4,274 g of carbon dioxide, a typical van-based delivery created just 181 g.

This suggests that when people drive to a shop to buy fewer than 24 small, non-food items, home delivery is more eco-friendly. However, the report does add that this makes no allowance for failed deliveries or returns. Professor Alan McKinnon, director of the Logistics Research Centre, said the study highlighted how consumers should be encouraged to think about how they spend, as it is "clearly important to minimise the environmental impact of both conventional shopping trips and home delivery".

US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life' -- Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society. Anthony Watts describes it thus: This is an important moment in science history. I would describe it as a letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door. It is worthy of repeating this letter in entirety on every blog that discusses science. It’s so utterly damning that I’m going to run it in full without further comment. (H/T GWPF, Richard Brearley). Dear Curt: When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that.

JUST BAG - Not really. It’s not just a bag. The new Justine is beautiful and practical, especially with the hidden flash of exotic leather in yellow, coral and emerald. The bag comes in many shades but the striking ones are in contrasting hues — light khaki and acid yellow, tan and emerald, stone and coral. Available in different sizes, the bag is medium built, not too tiny but not big enough to be mistaken for a luggage. The hardware is a slip-lock, like the old-school cigarette lighter. Not that the carrier isn’t cool enough to initiate a conversation.