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Searaser: pump water with waves
(images via dartmouthwaveenergy.com)
A horrible name and simple design for pumping water (which can then drive turbines) via wave action on a buoy tethered to the ocean floor (via Treehugger).
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18 hours ago
Help save the ACCRC
James Burgett of ACCRC's skull of junked electronics (photo via Dale Dougherty)
The Alameda County Computer Resource Center could really use your help, as Dale writes on boingboing:
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5 hours ago
Sprout in your toilet
The work with sprouting seeds is rinsing them: don't rinse enough and you get really unappetizing mold in with your fresh Greens. Here's a solution to that problem that makes your toilet a little less ....... read more
1 day ago
Edible Estates: turning lawns into food
Edible Estates is continuing to march around the country, with 6 gardens that were formerly lawns now in place nationwide.
(Images of Austin's Edible Estate via fritzhaeg.com)
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2 days ago
Backyard beekeeping - 120 pounds of honey
treasure stolen gold
low the sun and busy bees
prepare for winter
We collected honey from our two backyard hives this fall and I've finally finished jarring it. The new hive, split from last ye ....... read more
2 days ago
Energy, engineering, the future - All part of an automakers bailout
The talks of bailing out GM (and other auto-makers) are dominating the headlines, it's an interesting debate and I think we (the USA) will end up "bailing them out" - not because it will save them, b ....... read more
2 days ago
Coffee cup speaker set
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool
Arms22 shares this oddly stealthy example of DIY audio - converting a couple of empty grandes into computer speakers using a TDA1552Q amplifier chip. Nice reuse ....... read more
2 days ago
Will the future be human-powered?
Image from The Green Microgym in Portland
Seems unlikely, but it's good to see CNN writing about even the more Green-washed ends of the sustainability spectrum:
Couch potatoes will be horrified, b ....... read more
3 days ago
Neil Young's car
Maybe you like Neil Young's music. You might have heard about his opinions, but how about his car? Neil got his hands on one of the heaviest production automobiles, a Lincoln Continental Mark IV c ....... read more
3 days ago
"Dumb" eco-questions you were afraid to ask
"Dumb" eco-questions you were afraid to ask. New Scientist offers the definitive guide to everything you wanted to know about being Green but were too embarrassed to ask...
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5 days ago
Should tomorrow be zero-waste?
From Treehugger, here's an interesting call against recycling. In part:
Lets call recycling what it is- a fraud, a sham, a scam perpetrated by big business on the citizens and municipalities of ....... read more
6 days ago
The art of can throwing
Scott Beale of Laughing Squid writes:
"Can Throwing", it's kind of like Parkour for recycling.
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8 days ago
Housing in tents times
Treehugger has an excellent overview of 30 non-standard ways to put a roof over your head in 'tents times.' Above is one of my favorite: a tent disguised as a car. Don't worry: the article is as g ....... read more
8 days ago
Soil lamp burns LEDs and wants to be a plant
This "Soil Lamp" by Marieke Staps is made of mud and lights an LED through the natural metabolism of the biological organisms contained within it. We've seen fruit powering electronics before, but ....... read more
9 days ago
African bottle opener
Sometimes it's just that simple - a bottle opener from Togo, made with a piece of stick and a screw, with a lovely beaded handle.
Togolese Bottle Opener Simplicity
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9 days ago
WattzOn - Personal energy audit
Slides (PDF) of the WattzOn presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit...
MacArthur Fellow, Dr. Saul Griffith will demonstrate a new, free digital application that allows anyone to more broadly unders ....... read more
10 days ago
Yep, it's Fink's Grape Jelly
I smiled when I saw this posting on MAKE contributor Steve Lodefink's blog about making and canning Concord grape jelly. When we moved into our current house, which has several mature concord grap ....... read more
10 days ago
Learning from sustainable energy
There are lots of reasons why we should be weaning our society off of carbon based fossil fuels and moving to sustainable, renewable fuels.
Pick which ever reason you like and get to work:
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12 days ago
Stirling engine car
Dean Kamen is working on a Stirling engine car and it's on the road...
The same day that Ford and General Motors announced catastrophic third-quarter losses, Dean Kamen was showing off his new ....... read more
11 days ago
100% of electricity from renewable and non-carbon sources in 10 years
As part of the promotion around The Best of Instructables Volume 1, PT offered me a guest blogging spot at Makezine, which I naturally jumped at. This is the first of my periodic posts
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12 days ago