Tag: Music - Page 4
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Recycle Old CDs with Murfie, Buy Used Music for Cheap
Do you have music guilt? Music glut? Rows and rows of old CDs that haven't been played in years? If you're like a lot of people, you rip a CD to your mp3 player or smartphone as soon as you buy it. That's if you buy the CD at
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Repairable, Modular 'Ironbuds' Could End the Reign of Crappily Made Earphones
If you use earbud headphones, you've probably owned more than one pair. They break easily and often, pushing users to spend less money on a product they know won't last. That in turn pushes
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Radiohead Vs. The Tar Sands Oil Pipeline
Word of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline -- and of the massive protest that's gathering in D.C. a week from now to fight it -- is beginning to spread beyond environmental and activist circles and into the
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Portable Composting Toilets for Festivals, Homes and More
As festival season rolls on, many party goers will have been putting up with the ordeal of smelly, chemical-laden and often disgustingly soiled portable toilets. But it doesn't have to be that way. Roskilde's p-trees
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Sheryl Crow Donates Concert Proceeds to Wild Horses, and More Celebrity News
Musician Sheryl Crow may have thought she was showing her support for animal rights when she promised to donate part of the proceeds from an upcoming Wyoming performance to the Cloud Foundation, which protects wild horses
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ROCK REUSE RECYCLE at Rock-A-Field Festival
Last weekend I experienced what was for me the greenest music festival so far. And not only because at Rock-A-Field in Luxembourg you actually get to rock a lush green field surrounded by dense forest. The organisers of RAF also set an example of how
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Musician Ben Sollee on the Ravages of Coal and the Wonders of the Bicycle (Podcast)
Among music festivals, Bonnaroo is the juggernaut, and this year is was bigger than ever with 80,000 people descending on Manchester, Tennessee. One of the innumerable artists to preside over the festival's many stages (which included sitting in with My
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The Whole Foods Parking Lot Rap (Video)
Anyone who has ever fought for a parking spot in Whole Foods, or bought 6 items and wondered where their money went, will now know they are not alone. Following in the footsteps of hardcore climate science rap, and vegan
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The Most Eco-Friendly iPhone Speaker Made from Bamboo, Uses Zero Electricity
I think this just might be the greenest speaker for iPhones that we've come across yet. It's a piece of bamboo. And that's it. Just a piece of bamboo...but it works wonderfully. The bamboo speaker is essentially a 1-foot length
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Lillian Folk Opera: A Romantic Approach To Ocean Plastic Pollution
Although raising awareness about plastic ocean pollution was not the main motivation behind its creation, the 'folk opera' album Lillian and its composer Ben Lear have become regulars at events related to ocean
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Great White Sharks Apparently Enjoy Songs by AC/DC
Conventional wisdom would suggest that the best way to lure great white sharks is to bait the water with chum, but one Australian ocean tour operator says he's found something that works even better: hard rock. It's been
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How to Be and Who Is Green at Primavera Sound (or any other) Festival
Alright, staying at home and listing to music online would have much less impact on the planet, no doubt, but there is something about some 100.000 people getting together during 3 days to enjoy the latest (and not so latest; Pulp and Nick Cave are
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Maker Faire 2011: Trash Amp Turns Junk Into "Ridiculously Loud" Speakers
One of the things I love most about Maker Faire is the wide variety of projects made from what would normally be considered trash. After all, to makers, trash is simply raw materials that other people keep putting into buckets
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Maker Faire 2011: Modular Guitars by Praxis Turn Just About Anything Into a New Guitar
Photos via Jaymi HeimbuchMaker Faire 2011 was not short on musical instruments, but one that particularly caught my eye were these very interesting looking guitars. Not only do they look interesting, but the design is amazing -- made to be modular with
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10 Lessons for Planning an Environmental-Friendly Music Festival
Big music festivals, such as Bonnaroo, Coachella and Outside Lands have all taken steps to make their events more eco-friendly, but staging such an event is a huge challenge and keeping the ecological footprint small
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Wood Design from Spain: Fab Lab Houses, Wooden Islands and Spanish Guitars - Part 2 (Photos)
Last week I posted a stunning wooden bicycle, and the beautiful heritage of wooden ceilings in Andalusia from a series of wood design from Spain that Confeadera put together. Other works include the Fab Lab House, some
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France Puts On Concerts to Encourage Recycling, Charges Old Electronics As Entry Fee
This month, music lovers throughout France are getting a real treat: a series of ten concerts, featuring mostly up and coming French artists. But what makes this tour TreeHugger worthy is that
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Help the Eco Music Festival Design the First Sustainable Event Tent (Slideshow)
This July 4th weekend, the Eco Music Festival (EMU) is bringing Leftover Salmon, RJD2, Tea Leaf Green, Perpetual Groove, and other musical acts one and a half miles above sea level—to Snowmass Village,
