Archive for June, 2007
Plankton Heart Human Urine
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So you’ve already tried using urine to power your batteries and to fill up your gas tank. Why not now try using it as food (and, no, we don’t mean for your own consumption)? A team of ecological engineers at the University of Kalyani, India, discovered that plankton fed on a diet of ground water […] Read entire article |
Reduce, Reuse, Redesign
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It's the logical next step. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Redesign! Green Options is redesigning our site and the design is launching next week. |
Advocating Green Chemistry in the Lab
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It’s an age-old ritual for college science majors around the country: every year, a new wave of students takes a series of chemistry laboratory courses which, while interesting, often inspire much dread and stress. Students are expected to work with hazardous chemicals under cramped conditions to complete a set of preordained, stepwise experiments with speed […] Read entire article |
Want Good Fish? Think Salmon.
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Sport fishing ought to be a big input for any locally produced, 100-mile (or any other radius) diet. It’s been seldom discussed here; but we aim to correct that. Now…it’s true that there are many water bodies from which no fish should be eaten due to pollution. It’s also true that there […] Read entire article |
Movie Review: Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox
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Is truth stranger than fiction? Have you ever used Dr. Bronner’s soap and wondered how this tingly product has so many uses? In Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox, director Sara Lamm follows around the Bonner family in their quest to sell soap and unite everyone under one plan (the Moral ABCs), listed on the side of […] Read entire article |
Macy’s To Install 8 MegaWatts Of Solar Power
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Macy’s will be installing 8 megawatts of solar power in 26 stores throughout California. The installation will be performed by SunPower, a solar cell manufacturer. Macy’s will buy the arrays for 11 of the stores. For the other 15 stores, Macy’s will purchase the electricity produced by the solar panels from a third-party financier who […] Read entire article |
Edible Plates from Sebastiano Oddi
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Sebastiano Oddi, graduating student at the University of Brighton, cooked up the idea of the Edible Plate: |
It’s Canada Day. Let’s Lose the Fireworks!
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July 1 is Canada’s 140th birthday, and every town is getting the fireworks ready; where we are they will shoot them out over the lake. People sometimes say that TreeHuggers don’t want anyone to have any fun, but perhaps its time to put this tradition to bed. Besides the stream of burned and injured […] Read entire article |
Weekend Grub: Honey Iced Espresso
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When the thermostat starts to creep up, there's no reason to give up your morning coffee: just cool it down for a refreshing treat! |
1970: Foam Furniture Rises Like Bread
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Here is a thirty-six year old idea for flatpack furniture that needs revisiting. We quote the article: |