http://www.eco-cide.com Exploring Ecology Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:35:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Looking for an eco-friendly end to your life?  Forget a pine coffin, weave your own final resting place from willows.  UK based Musgrove Willows is offering a course where you weave your own coffin, which doubles as a “blanket box” while you wait to die.  Except for the fact I ... http://www.eco-cide.com/eco-funerals-weave-your-own-coffin/ When my daughter started preschool last year, my life as a craft collector began. From rock monsters to paper plate people, our family grew by the day. While I always welcomed the creative creatures and inventions into our home, I was disappointed that many of them were adorned with things ... http://www.eco-cide.com/eco-minded-crafts-for-kids-the-imagination-factory/ Uhm. Yeah. We're not sure exactly what this is even used for. Maybe if you need to make enough margaritas to feed an entire army, literally, and in under 2.5 seconds, then what you need my friend is this gas-powered-party-blender. The best thing they have to say about it is ... http://www.eco-cide.com/untreehugger-gas-powered-party-blender/ I feel the consumerism of back to school season like a stiff wind in my face. I’m sending my oldest off to preschool, and after 3 years of not caring what she is wearing except for holidays and birthdays, forgetting to brush her hair for days on end, and ... http://www.eco-cide.com/back-to-school-not-buying-it/ Add another contender to the alternative aviation fuel race: Swift Enterprises. The company, which is based in Indiana, has developed a renewable jet fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae, woodchips, and other feedstocks. Swift’s biofuel currently costs $60 per gallon to produce, but the company believes that the cost will ... http://www.eco-cide.com/swift-enterprises-joins-race-for-alternative-jet-fuel/ Honestly, “natural” seems to be about a common a word as “green” these days and hands up who besides me is getting tired of the all the rhetoric? Being a natural brand should mean something and that’s exactly the position of Alima Pure. Not content with being ‘just another mineral ... http://www.eco-cide.com/organic-beauty-view-for-alima-natural-isn%e2%80%99t-just-a-buzz-word/ The opening of Portland’s The Green Microgym this week seems like a perfect complement to the announcement of M2E’s kinetic charger. Adam Boesel, the gym’s owner, doctored up spin bikes with weed whacker motors and truck alternators so that patrons can create energy to help power the 2,800 foot space. According ... http://www.eco-cide.com/green-gym-uses-human-powered-energy/ I’ve been taking the occasional punch to the kidneys here at Sustainablog. That’s okay. I’m not alone, and it’s par for the course for those who put their real face, real name and real, considered thoughts out to the public. But some recent comments, especially about the Drive 55 campaign that ... http://www.eco-cide.com/%e2%80%98commie%e2%80%99-green-blogger%e2%80%99s-55-mph-drive-instantly-enacts-crushing-law-upon-others/ This is a guest post by Becky Haas, who is an amateur crafter/environmentalist who also tries to make a living as a professional musician. You can also find her at the craft blog Sew and So. I have a confession to make…I’m addicted to music. I guess it comes naturally, ... http://www.eco-cide.com/new-life-for-old-cds/ From one of my favorite former students:I know it's been a long time and you may not remember me with all your students year in and out, but I've been reading your environmental econ blog daily the past month. I just want to say thank you and keep up the ... http://www.eco-cide.com/every-little-thing-i-do-is-magic/