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Maker Faire 09: The iFixit Global Repair Community
What is Maker Faire without people encouraging others to fix their own gadgets, appliances, automobiles and, well, anything else they own? The iFixit Global Repair Community provided just such a resource, helping people learn
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Maker Faire 09: Resurrecting Fabric Giftwrap with Furoshiki
Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch Planet Finds had a Maker Faire booth showing off Wrap-Ti, a product that expands on the art of furoshiki, or gift wrapping with a piece of fabric. Furoshiki is one of the most sustainable ways to wrap a gift since the fabric can
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Maker Faire 09: SCRAP Puts Junk Back Into Craftster Consumer Stream
Wandering through the textiles section of Maker Faire 09, I saw a booth with bins of junk and a sign that said "Scrap." Turns out they weren't talking about the junk in the bins, but rather an operation that takes the trash
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US Government Wastes $440.4 Million a Year on Printing
I worked on an air force base for awhile and saw the ridiculous amount of paper that government employees will go through in a day, not only through mindless printing practices, but also reporting protocol that encourages putting out
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Need a Little Help Reaching Your Environmental Goals?
We all need to have goals. Goals help guide us and give us wings to reach new heights. Becoming green is not a natural process for everybody, and in fact, many of us could use a little help here and there. Maybe we are trying to
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Friday Feast for the Eyes with Awesome Tire Sculptures
We've mentioned tire sculptures before, albeit really briefly. It's time to revel in them for awhile as we let our brains wind down for the weekend. Robot Nine shows off some really amazing ways artists have reused old tires,
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When More Is Less: The Case for Bulk Buying Food
Squirrels do it, so why not the rest of us? Stash away some food for later on. It could be argued that the time when humans imitated the behaviour of animal food storers marks the beginnings of civilisation. For agriculture produces more food than can
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New Technology Hopes to Boost Tire Recycling by 50%
Researchers in Australia are hot on the trail of a new energy efficient technology for recycling tires into high quality rubber powder and they hope it will lead to a boost in tire recycling by as much as 50%. The
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e-Waste Expected to Plateau by 2015
According to a study by Pike Research called "Electronics Recycling and E-Waste Issues," we can expect to see a leveling out of the amount of e-waste heading to landfills by 2015.Pike Research expects that in 2015, our
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Almost Half US Colleges Go Trayless. Why?
Trayless? Really? When I started hearing that colleges were going trayless all I could think was, "how is saving plastic by not using a couple of trays going to cut down on the environmental footprint of a campus that is the
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Donating Your Old Cell Phone for Moms on Mother's Day
Can't think of what to give Mom for Mother's Day? If you can't find anything off our Mother's Day gift guide, maybe you can do something really cool in her honor. Something like donating your old cell phone. How, exactly, might this honor your mama,
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Rothbury Rock Fest Raises Green Bar
Coachella won our Best of Green Music Festivals and does an exemplary job recycling plastic water bottles, educating fans, and other greenings. Though I
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What Do Lays Chip Bags And Classical Music Have In Common?
Even though it seems everyone has an iPod or MP3 player and is downloading music, traditional CD's are still a huge business. The jewel cases are made from a variety of plastics that break easily and are not easy recyclable; sooner or later most of
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South Africa's New Joule and a Waste Free Year in New Zealand, Via Renew Magazine
I never know where to start with Renew Magazine, it’s so packed with useful knowledge every issue. And it’s no different with the April-June 2009 edition of the magazine, whose tagline is ‘technology for a sustainable
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Why Choose Compostable If It's Still Going in a Landfill?
These days everything says eco-friendly, natural, biodegradable, and compostable (not to mention a myriad of other mysterious environmental words. Sounds good, right? But is it worth spending the extra couple of bucks if the item
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Green and Responsible CFL Vendors sell the Light, not the Bulb
A common complaint we hear about compact fluorescents is that milligram of mercury is going to kill us if it gets into the air or into the landfills. Like most things that go into landfills or recycling bins, like pop bottles and electronics, there
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Water-Saving Concept Device to Measure Water, Detect Leaks
The Every Drop Counts Water Meter concept device is a clever idea on how to not only measure water consumption, like so many shower timers and meters, but also detect any drips or leaks so that a user consumes wastes as little
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New Website Lets Green Geeks Say No to New Gadgets
Finally, a website that sums up the connection between being a gadget geek, and being green. A new websites called Last Year's Model provides a resource for geeks to say why they're saying, "No!" to the newest models of gadgets.We love cool gadgets as
