(Photo via myhomeideas.com) Mother Earth News has plans for building a built-in bed. I have yet to find a good set of plans for the famed Murphy bed; has anybody else? Build one of these, put it somewhere semi-private in your home, and rent it to a community-minded friend (or random Craigslister) to decrease your […]
About a year ago my town started moving seriously towards Single Stream Recycling and Pay as You Throw for trash. These were initiated as a way of giving people an incentive to recycle instead of tossing everything in the trash. The trash was a pretty big part of the budget for waste removal in the […]
Ken found one more good use for unwanted discs – Oh what to do with CD’s, some blinking lights and a hot glue gun. Why make a holiday tree (the politically correct term). After sending out an E-mail to all of my fellows instructors for their dead cd’s. I received over 100 in interoffice mail. […]
Max explaining one of the component blocks of his dome (via) PBS’ Design Squad has found a winner of their Trash To Treasure Challenge with Max Wallack and his Home Dome: Twelve-year-old Max Wallack of Massachusetts won the Design Squad’s Trash to Treasure Competition, a contest that inspired kids to repurpose trash into practical inventions. […]
John Park @ MAKE writes: This worm farm is a wonderful reuse of an old bathtub. I especially like how the drain was plumbed for serving up that rich, fertilizing “worm tea”. My wife and I did some worm composting a few years ago in a much less attractive plastic bin. Next time we’ll build […]
This radiator chair doesn’t look particularly light or comfortable, but it is beautiful: (Via boingboing)
The “first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy-related solutions” came out this month. Via Worldchanging: Here is how Jacobson ranks the renewables, from best to worst: 1. Wind power 2. concentrated solar power (CSP) 3. geothermal power 4. tidal power 5. solar photovoltaics (PV) 6. wave power 7. hydroelectric power 8. a tie […]
