How-To: Convert Spool to Button Stamp
Maximum Rabbit Designs shares the clever way she transformed a used spool into a snazzy button stamp, using craft foam and a small hole punch. Adorable!
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Double-whammy lighting/heating energy saving tank hack
Flickr user fotogra4er replaced the fluorescent tubes lighting his aquarium with LEDs. Which, of course, make way more light and way less heat for the same amount of energy. Then he upped the ante by cooling the LED lighting bank by circulating tank-water through it, which exploits what waste heat the LEDs do generate to warm the tank-water, and in turn saves power that would otherwise go to the tank heater.
Crafting with Kids Wind Chime — Free PDF!
To me, the real signs of spring are blooming bulb flowers and wind (there’s a lot of wind in New Mexico in March, let me tell you!). So when I was sent a copy of the kid crafts book What Shall We Do Today? by Catherine Woram, I was particularly interested in the homemade wind […]
The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough? @ 60 Minutes
The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough? @ 60 Minutes… In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that’s inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public its invention: a little power […]
MAKE @ Greener Gadgets next week in NYC
Next week a few of us from MAKE will attend the Greener Gadgets conference in New York City. For three years, the Greener Gadgets Conference has explored sustainable design alternatives for the electronics we use in our homes and workplace every day. The 2010 event, held February 25 in New York City, will feature two […]
How-To: Reusable Bowl Covers
Add this to your list of must-try projects for cutting down on waste in your home. Carrie McBride of re-nest shares how to make handy reusable bowl covers to take the place of saran wrap in the kitchen.
Waste oil foundry furnace — complete!
Jake von Slatt gives us a video tour of his finished propane and waste oil foundry furnace. I love the lamp post and lights. SO von Slatty! Final test of Jake von Slatt’s Waste Oil Foundry Furnace
