It was a little over a month ago when we told you about Core 77's Greener Gadgets competition"¦so if you had a design for a Green Gadget and you snoozed until now, well, you inevitably "losed." The design competition submission…
Continue Reading →Most people look at a junkyard and see piles and piles of trash that's well past its prime as a useful inanimate object. They'd rather not rummage through tires and busted up radios hoping to find useful gems. That's where…
Continue Reading →Metro daily newspaper's Sao Paulo arm reported yesterday that the other day city police found a giant plastic bottle floating down the river's Tiete River. However, just so you don't get the idea that this river is otherwise usually spic…
Continue Reading →I remember having a moment during the big ol' northeastern blackout in 2003. Without electricity, people left their houses. They walked outside and talked to each other. Best of all, I looked up and saw stars. In the wash of…
Continue Reading →Dear Nameless Caffeine Addict, I see you every morning at the local java joint, filling up on fuel before your workday begins, and just like you, I feel that if I were to break this cycle, my life might come…
Continue Reading →I've snuck into the JP Morgan Chase lounge for some snacks, quiet internet time, email checking, twittering, blogging and the like with pal and green crusader (and trouble maker) David de Rothschild from Adventure Ecology. If you don't know what…
Continue Reading →For a while now we've had an extra padded envelope lying around the office that we wish we had a purpose for. If only we could find the perfect lighting fixture or something that could fit inside. Hold on a…
Continue Reading →It's definitely one of the biggest branding successes (or shams) of the last 25 years that we've been led to believe we should spend $15 billion a year on something that, for most of us, shoots out of a faucet…
Continue Reading →God bless Sweden: check out the organic magnificence that is the Plantwall by Swedish designers Green Fortune. Growing up on walls from Moscow to Tokyo, these living architectural installations are custom designed for each space they appear in. They've devised…
Continue Reading →You can debate global warming until you're green in the face, but the fact is that the end all and be all has spoken -- and I don't mean Al Gore. Car makers have slowly been trickling out more efficient…
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