Daily nuts may help boost health
Adding nuts to a healthy diet may help release people from a dangerous combination of health problems, research suggests.
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Archive for December 8th, 2008
A Symphony of Recycled Shoes
Artists do the darndest things, including clever recycling.
SYMPHONY FOR 54 SHOES is a kinetic artwork that involves 27 pairs of shoes collected from a variety of second hand and thrift stores.
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Christmas Tree Uses Pedal Power
Every year the Tate Britain Art Museum commissions an artist to decorate its Christmas tree. Last year’s was covered with guns and fighter planes, another was hung upside down and yet another year there was just a note saying the tree had been given to charity. This year’s creation by Bob & […]
Linen n’ Things Could Become Cardboard n’ Plastic as Recycling Market Dries Up
Images by Jodi Hilton for The New York Times
Lots of people are worried about what to do with all those empty big-box stores in power malls across North America. Here is a solution: Fill them up with recyclables. There doesn’t seem to be much else to do with them right now as the bottom has […]
Big Boxes: Reuse or Recycle?
A few years ago, Julia Christensen wrote a book about big box reuse. She slept in pup tents or cheap motels to document their conversions into everything from Museums of Spam to gyms to charter schools to megachurches. It is not an easy thing to do, as she told Grist:
“The challenge is size,” says Christensen. […]
Transformer Furniture: Trio Sofa Lets You Work And Play
TreeHugger loves furniture that serves multiple functions; with Julia Hamid’s Trio Sofa you can work, eat, relax, you may never have to get up again. …
Green Temporary Showroom by Vector Architects
It is a sort of showroom for a residential project, the likes of which are often built and then thrown away. This one is designed for easy demolition and recovery after use.
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Clever Ways to Reuse PET Bottles
Swiss company Recycline has taken a rather interesting PET bottle and turned it into a range of products, from newspaper racks to vases to napkin rings. They range in price from 6 to 120 swiss francs but no doubt the MAKE types will have them knocked off before Christmas. …
iPhone App Plants Real Trees
Images via A Real Tree
A cool iPhone app called A Real Tree does something very practical for the earth entirely apart from your iPhone. When you purchase the app, you’re actually supporting the reforestation of countries around the globe. …
YOU Could be the Next Big Thing in the Green Gadget Industry
Photo of what your desk could look like as you’re inventing the next most amazing green gadget via saschapohflepp
With two new gadget design competitions coming up, you could be the next big thing to hit the green gadget industry if you put on your thinking cap!
Greener Gadgets is looking for your entry and gadget design […]
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