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Turning soda cans into solar heating panels (by anitha goud)

If this could scale, it would be awesome.

Scientists Working on Wood Powered Batteries Made From Paper Waste | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

6 July 10

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Australians Get Bike Path Made From Recycled Printer Cartridges | inhabitat

5 May 10

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Sustainable Living Pavilion | ecofriend.org

The Living Pavilion is a low-tech, zero-impact structure that makes use of reclaimed milk crates as a framework where a green wall can be grown. The pavilion’s construction has been kept simple and modular. Relying on commonly available materials for assembly, the pavilion will provide a shaded area away from direct heat, which will be kept cool by the evaporation from its planted surface.

via urbangreens: blog-architecture

19 March 10

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Spoons

via seashelllz: unedited-peace: jjarichardson: alphabetasoup: nihilistidealist

22 February 10

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Rethink hanger turns two ordinary plastic beverage bottles into a unique clothes hanger

Not only does this put the disposable bottles to good use, it also hangs the shirts in better shape than a thin hanger.
from rethinkconcepts via noquedanblogs
via applearts: szymon

Rethink hanger turns two ordinary plastic beverage bottles into a unique clothes hanger

Not only does this put the disposable bottles to good use, it also hangs the shirts in better shape than a thin hanger.

from rethinkconcepts via noquedanblogs

via applearts: szymon

12 February 10

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Ekokook: The Kitchen of the Future That Produces, Prepares and Disposes (from Treehugger)

“Kitchens today are designed around bringing stuff in from the store and throwing out what we don’t eat. The Ekokook from Faltazi Lab, which ‘turns everyday waste into a new reusable source of energy, where each drop of water that fell on the roof or came from a tap should be used to the maximum instead of going straight down the drain.’”
via vermicompost: ninaprettyballerina

Ekokook: The Kitchen of the Future That Produces, Prepares and Disposes (from Treehugger)

“Kitchens today are designed around bringing stuff in from the store and throwing out what we don’t eat. The Ekokook from Faltazi Lab, which ‘turns everyday waste into a new reusable source of energy, where each drop of water that fell on the roof or came from a tap should be used to the maximum instead of going straight down the drain.’”

via vermicompost: ninaprettyballerina

1 February 10

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Recycled Windshield Greenhouse – Inhabitat

via landscapelifescape

13 August 09

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Shower Uses Waste Water to Grow Plants and Recycles the Rest - Neatorama

Using a natural filtering principle called phyto-purification, the bathroom becomes a mini-eco-system by recycling and regenerating the wastewater. The water from the shower and the washbasin is filtered through an organic system before being re-used. Phyto-purification is a natural water-recycling process which is commonly used in ecological purification systems.

via urbendisaster: poobah: think4yourself

5 August 09

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Can I Compost This?

From the makers of How Can I Recycle This? comes Can I Compost This?, which provides information about the compostability of items around the kitchen and home.

9 March 09

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Boat made of plastic bottles to make ocean voyage

De Rothschild is building his one-of-a-kind vessel on a San Francisco pier from recycled of plastic bottles, which he says are a symbol of global waste. Except for the masts, which are metal, everything on the 60-foot catamaran is made from recycled plastic.

“It’s all sail power,” he said. “The idea is to put no kind of pollution back into the atmosphere, or into our oceans for that matter, so everything on the boat will be composted. Everything will be recycled. Even the vessel is going to end up being recycled when we finish.”

De Rothschild’s vessel, scheduled to set sail from San Francisco in April, is called the Plastiki. Its name is an homage of sorts to Thor Heyerdahl, the fabled Norwegian explorer who in 1947 sailed 4,300 miles across the Pacific on the Kon-Tiki, a raft made from balsa wood.

16 February 09

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joelaz:

Corner Forest

A toilet paper roll made beautiful by Yuken Teruya.

11 February 09

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British Company Turns Fire Hoses Into Fashion : Ecoscraps

6 February 09

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davereed:

World’s First Garbage Truck Powered by Garbage » TreeHugger

Not exactly Mr. Fusion, but it works

for hippieflavor

4 February 09

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College students turn dining hall fry oil into biodiesel

with as much oil as large institutions like these go through, they should be able to produce a significant portion of energy to be used around campus.

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh