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  • Sauna Savu – Modular Design sauna

    (via Sauna Savu – Modular Design sauna for Outdoors) Related articles Clearlight Infrared Saunas (clearlightinfraredsaunasblog.wordpress.com) 5 Health Benefits of Sauna Use (wakeup-world.com) Relax: Nordik Spa-Nature (ottawaurbanliving.wordpress.com)

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  • Tetra-Shed: An office pod for your backyard

    (via Tetra-Shed: An office pod for your backyard (and more)) Related articles Have Supernova 2, skint, do I need a Tetra? (gearslutz.com) Using Metal Sheds To Add Storage Space To Your Backyard (athomesense.com) First Solar Will Target Japanese Rooftops With TetraSun Purchase – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) Why Your Home Office Should Be In The Backyard (forbes.com)…

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  • Swamp Thing

    (via Swamp Thing | Dwell) Related articles SWAMP THING #19 Surprise Cover Reveals Super Guest Star (newsarama.com)

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  • The Guerrilla Gardening Home Page

    (via The Guerrilla Gardening Home Page) Related articles Guerrilla Gardening (drbausman.wordpress.com) Guerrilla Gardening and why I might be gardening your Garden. I’m genuinely not even trying to place a pun here. (dustyfeetphilosophy.wordpress.com) 10 Most Awesome Guerrilla Gardens from Around the World (organizationandsocialchange.wordpress.com) A guerrilla gardener in South Centeral (taintedbrains.wordpress.com)

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  • Toss the brush and throw robot Mirra in your pool

    Toss the brush and throw robot Mirra in your pool by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com iRobot’s latest pool cleaner can filter more than 4,000 gallons per hour. It’ll help you be lazier for a cool $1,300. LAS VEGAS—I used to try clean­ing my god­moth­er’s pool with long, unwieldy nets and hoses, and always gave up in……

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  • Sarah Palin, fruit flies and science funding

    The Fiscal Cliff Is Forcing a Biomedical Day of Reckoning Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke TimmermanSarah Palin, the onetime candidate for the second-highest elected office in the U.S., once delivered a rant on the campaign trail about waste she perceived in federal support of fruit fly research.Scientists everywhere were… http://flip.it/DNFcj Related articles Watch the Palin Turkey…

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  • NYC emerging as a social tech startup powerhouse

    Why 2013 Will Be a Big Year for NYC’s Tech Start-Ups! Alan McGlade, forbes.com New York City has a thriv­ing start-up scene and now is firm­ly estab­lished as the num­ber two inno­va­tion cen­ter behind Sil­i­con Val­ley. The ramp in momen­tum can be felt across the city land­scape from the mayor’s office where Michael… RT @flipboardtech:…

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  • Why Straight Talk is the best iPhone plan for information and knowledge workers

    Since most  information and knowledge workers don’t spend nearly as much time chatting on a phone these days as managing data in other forms (email, messages,  sites, social media), it increasingly makes little sense to spend the thousands of dollars a year charged by major carriers for a their phone services. Fortunately, some smaller companies…

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  • Straight Talk and other pay as you go iPhone carriers

    (via Straight Talk: It could let you dump AT&T or T-Mobile — Mobile Technology News) Related articles Consumer Reports: Prepaid Phone Plan Can Be Smart Way To Save (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com) Revealed: Secrets of a smartphone bill under $50 (redtape.nbcnews.com) Prepaid Phone Plans Give U.S. Cell Phone Users a Choice in a Post Paid World (z6mag.com) A…

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  • Vietnamese architect designs $4000 houses for low income families

    For Less Than $4,000, A Permanent Home For Low-Income Families By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A young Vietnamese architect works to solve a growing problem for families along the Mekong Delta. Design­ing low-cost hous­ing is a series of com­pro­mis­es between dig­ni­ty and prag­ma­tism, a dance between what a fam­i­ly needs and what it c… RT @FastCoDesign:…

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  • Small ship stoves for caravans

      shipmatestove.com • Classic fisherman’s cast iron wood or coal boat stove. • Intended for boats between 20’ and 45’. Could also be used as supplemental space heating on larger boats… cabins, pilothouses or salons. • Stainless steel sea rail standard. • Two… ShipMate Stove Company Inc. – your source for classic solid fuel boat…

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  • Field lab in the desert

    The Field Lab – Extremely Sustainable Homestead Michael Janzen, tinyhousedesign.com The Field Lab, also known as the South­west Texas Alter­na­tive Ener­gy And Sus­tain­able Liv­ing Field Lab­o­ra­to­ry, is the 40-acre desert home­stead of John Wells. John had been liv­ing in upstate New York for years but had a bit of… The Field Lab – Extremely Sustainable…

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  • Best Cheap Vacuum

    Alexander George, thewirecutter.com If I were buy­ing a vac­u­um on a bud­get, I’d get the Pana­son­ic MC-UL815. At $150, you get fea­tures and suc­tion power equal to or bet­ter than that of more expen­sive mod­els. (Last Updat­ed Sep­tem­ber 21, 2012: We’ve had a few requests… Best Cheap Vacuum | The Wirecutter http://flip.it/1bnMu http://flip.it/1AXiL Best Cheap…

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  • ECO-FRIENDLY LED LIGHTING & SUSTAINABLE LIGHTING DESIGN – PRODUCTS

    luminair.co.uk LUMI­NAIR TREE TENTS Lumi­nair Tree Tents – Sus­tain­able, Low-Impact Shel­ters. DOWN­LOAD PDF or click the arrow keys for more. LUMI­NAIR TREE TENTS Lumi­nair Tree Tents – Sus­tain­able, Low-Impact Shel­ters. DOWN­LOAD… LUMINAIR LTD – ECO-FRIENDLY LED LIGHTING & SUSTAINABLE LIGHTING DESIGN – PRODUCTS http://flip.it/M1DrN http://flip.it/wh11s ECO-FRIENDLY LED LIGHTING & SUSTAINABLE LIGHTING DESIGN – PRODUCTS Related…

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  • A database of US factories and things for makers

    A Journey Towards Local Manufacturing, Part 2: Maker’s Row, a Database of American Factories and What They Can Do for You core77.com Where would we be without the connective tissue that is the Internet? Amazon connects buyers and sellers. eBay lets us transfer junk from one person’s basement to another. Twitter lets ordinary citizens know…

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  • Soma Compost able water filter

    Soma: Drink Better Water with a 100% Compostable Filter core77.com I’m sure I’m not the only person who hides the Brita when company comes over and feels terribly guilty tossing those carbon-filled plastic filters every couple of months. In fact, it’s always been a bit of a mystery to me why there wasn’t a… RT…

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  • Biomimetic design kick starts

    Kickstart a Voronoi Design App for Biomimetic Bookshelves and More core77.com Last weekend, New York saw the opening of its first ever Museum of Math (MoMATH)—the first one in the States—which, for all its kid-friendly attractions, probably doesn’t delve into higher-order phenomena such as, say, Voronoi diagrams, in which a… RT @core77: Kickstart a Voronoi…

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  • UX phenotype: off the grid

    Core77’s Seven Designer Phenotypes: #7 – Off the Grid core77.com Off the GridHabitat: Undisclosed. But you would be uncomfortable therePlumage: All-weather, lightweight, durable & shockingly expensiveAttributes: Secret Stash of Granola, Digital Compass, Dedicated GPS device. Spends a… RT @core77: Get all of the things you need to get away from it all…: http://flip.it/c7aVZ http://flip.it/piT5o Related…

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  • Plenty of Color and Lots of Personality: The Offices of Shopify

      lifehacker.com Adam Dachis View Profile • Email • Facebook • Twitter • Google Plus • RSS Work can be a lot more fun when your office inspires it, and that’s cer­tain­ly the case with Shopi­fy. They took an ordi­nary series of work­space… Plenty of Color and Lots of Personality: The Offices of Shopify http://flip.it/7avDp…

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  • Pesticides in tap water and allergies

    Pesticides In Tap Water Linked To Rise In Food Allergies Morgana Matus, inhabitots.com Image courtesy of ShutterstockWhen planning a meal for a playdate or birthday party, it seems you always have to be aware of a food allergy for at least someone in you child’s friend group. According to the Centers for Disease Control and……

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  • Drop Eco hotel for modern nomad

    The DROP Eco-Hotel is a Portable Prefab Pod Home for the Modern Nomad Mike Chino, inhabitat.com In-Tenta designed the DROP Eco-Hotel to provide a mobile dwelling for modern nomads. The prefabricated structure consists of a central tube capped on either end by big fully operable bubble windows that provide natural ventilation. The pod hotel i……

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  • Americans have too much stuff

    UCLA Researchers Find American Families Have Too Much Stuff and Too Little Time inhabitots.com Fam­i­lies drown­ing in too much stuff is the focus of a new book, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Cen­tu­ry: 32 Fam­i­lies Open Their Doors, by researchers at UCLA’s Cen­ter on Every­day Lives of Fam­i­lies (CELF). To get infor­ma­tion fo… RT…

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  • Waldorf education for enviro education

    Why Waldorf Education Is A Great Choice For Environmentally Conscious Parents inhabitots.com Find­ing decent edu­ca­tion options for your kids is no doubt one of the most chal­leng­ing and frus­trat­ing aspects of being a par­ent in today’s soci­ety; and we’ve spent a lot of time on Inhab­itots with our Green Edu­ca­tion Series, try­ing t… RT @inhabitat:…

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  • Otter wax DIY Eco water repellant

    Make Your Own Water-Repellent Canvas With Otter Wax’s All-Natural Bar ecouterre.com Trans­form your favorite shoes, shirts, and jack­ets into heavy-duty, water-repelling work­wear with Otter Wax, an all-natural, non­tox­ic bar derived from humane­ly and sus­tain­ably derived beeswax, lano­lin (extract­ed from wool), and plant-bas… RT @inhabitat: Turn your favorite shoes, shirts, and jackets into heavy duty, water-repelling…

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  • Too green gadgets of 2013

    Top 6 Gadgets for the Home to Help You Go Green in 2013 | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Alyssa Alimurung says:, inhabitat.com It may still be Decem­ber, but we’re already think­ing about our res­o­lu­tion to make 2013 our green­est year yet. In addi­tion to those clas­sic resolves to eat health­i­er,…

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  • Make your own hard cider

    HOW TO: Make Your Own Delicious Hard Apple Cider In 6 Easy Steps | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Swistak says:, inhabitat.com Fall is here and we’ve got all kinds of autum­nal activ­i­ties on our minds – like bak­ing, pump­kin carv­ing, and hard apple cider drink­ing. I’ve always want­ed to…

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  • Top chemicals causing autism

    Top 10 Chemicals Most Likely to Cause Autism and Other Learning Disorders Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com This year, the CDC reported that autism now affects 1 of every 88 American children, which is an unusually high increase from previous years. Now, we may have some more clues as to what is causing the dramatic increases. The…

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