tires

Indie fashion offers an abundance of options from head to toe… almost! Cobbling , the art of making shoes, is not necessarily mainstream. Yet, I see no one walking around barefoot in public. I say, throw those misconceptions out the door about the difficulty of creating footwear. We can do better than plastic daisies hot glued to foam flip-flops.

In 2003 alone the U.S. generated more then 290 million tires. With an average lifespan of about five years unless recycled these tires will end up in the trash dump where they will take thousands of years to decompose. As the tires do decompose they will release harmful methane gas into the air, and worst of all create a toxic sludge that could seep into our waterways like your poop.

Michelin is launching a new energy-awareness campaign designed to measure how much fuel is being saved by cars using its tires. Michelin has erected four "green" meters in Paris, Berlin, New York and Shanghai, which show in real time the level of fuel savings and reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions since 1992 - when Michelin first introduced its low-rolling resistance tires.