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  • Dec 28 2009
    SEVEN ECO COCOAS TO WARM YOU UP
    I’ll never learn quiet how to adapt to the winter. My Latin blood does not adjust well. However, I do enjoy any excuse I get to drink warm beverages, especially hot cocoa. When I learned that there existed such a thing as eco cocoa through Grist.org’s recent tasting, I could...
    Archived in Travel + Food
  • Dec 28 2009
    CHAVEZ GIVES WORLD’S TALLEST WATERFALL A NEW NAME!
      Hidden deep within the Venezuelan jungle stands the tallest waterfall in the world. It’s so tall, rising to a height of 3,212 ft, that the roaring torrent of falling water is reduced to a mere mist before meeting the rocks below. Due to its remote location, the magnificent cascade...
    Archived in Travel + Food
  • Dec 26 2009
    THE GLOWING ARTIKCAR
    Bicycle Design is always trawling up remarkable cycle oddities. This one, the work of UK artist Ben Wilson, is modeled off the kids toys Ben remembers from youth. Though more art than daily mule, ARTIKCAR is steered by leaning the body. It was conceived for a parade masterminded by Walk the Plank, a UK...
    Archived in Art/Architecture/Design Technology
  • Dec 26 2009
    HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM GREENJAR.NET
    While you are taking time off during the holidays check out the latest from Grist.org Grist has rounded-up the best green news stories of the last decade. Pretty Cool. Everything from celebrity environmentalism to sustainable food, climate change to the greening of business is considered. It’s a great look at where...
    Archived in Entertainment
  • Dec 25 2009
    Wind Turbine Becomes Colossal LED Christmas Decoration (Video)!
    After a year of engineering, modeling, and trials, the world’s largest Christmas star now hovers above the A9 Autobahn near Munich’s northern gateway. Affixed to the three blades of the massive wind turbine–70-meters tip to tip–are 9,000 light-emitting diodes (LEDs), all of which use less power than a hairdryer. The...
    Archived in Art/Architecture/Design
  • Dec 22 2009
    Little Green Box: An Energy-Efficient Computer from Design Hara
    As computers become more and more our BFFs (singularity, anyone?), we need greener ones: less toxic, more efficient, and easier to upgrade and recycle. Hailing from Korea, this interesting specimen is custom and hand-built, made by a company called Design Hara. Details are a bit sparse–at least for the non-Korean speaker–but...
    Archived in Technology
  • Dec 22 2009
    Sarah Wigglesworth Designs Tree From Bike Parts
    Sarah Wigglesworth has built a an eco-friendly Christmas Tree out of bicycle wheels borrowed from Re~Cycle, the UK charity that restores bikes and ships them to Africa. Lighting is just reflectors; the wheels are spun by wind power. Sarah Wigglesworth said: “The team brainstormed a number of ideas during a design charette....
    Archived in Art/Architecture/Design Take Action
  • Dec 22 2009
    XMAS TREE MADE OUT OF MOUNTAIN DEW (VIDEO)?!
    Talk about a recycled Christmas Tree. This one is made from 400 Mountain Dew cans. Drinking soda isn’t a green or healthy thing to do – but skipping a fake plastic tree or a chopped-down pine tree and constructing your own out of highly recyclable aluminum cans is certainly a...
    Archived in Art/Architecture/Design
  • Dec 21 2009
    BIONIC NEWS: PHARRELL & TYSON TOUSSANT REVOLUTIONIZE MONCLER
      Last month Italian designer outwear company MONCLER announced that they will be partnering with producer/artist PHARRELL WILLIAMS, creator of the clothing lines Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream (kicks), to produce a line of men’s down coats called “BULLET PROOF”. The name “bullet proof” is not just a clever moniker,...
    Archived in Fashion
  • Dec 20 2009
    NYC Skaters Sparkle Under LED Lights
      New York City is lit with dazzling displays of energy-sucking holiday decorations this time of year. But the pop-up pond at Bryant Park has an alternative lighting rig for its skating rink, open daily until midnight this winter. Illuminated by a new Jewel-Light Luminaire of LEDs, the rink, located behind the main library...
    Archived in Technology

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