New York City’s (Many) Toxic Sites, Mapped For Your Avoidance Convenience fastcoexist.com An interactive map of every bad pollution situation in the city creates a history of our urban development. Take one look at this interactive map of New York City’s toxic sites, and the city appears to be one giant minefield loaded with… http://flip.it/Tgp5F … Continue reading Visualizing NYC’s toxic waste sites
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FlyKly’s Smart Wheel lets any bike go electric and get connected Devindra Hardawar, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Forget those clunky electric bike conversion kits — FlyKly’s new Smart Wheel is a simple (and stealthy) way to add some juice to your existing bike. The New York City startup, originally known for its cheap… http://flip.it/jseqV … Continue reading Flykly smart wheel makes any bike electric and web enabled
This Camp Stove Collapses Thinner Than the Bark Used as Kindling Andrew Liszewski, gizmodo.com When you’re heading out into nature with nothing but a backpack, the long hike ahead of you is going to be far more enjoyable if you pack as light and minimally as possible. But that doesn’t mean you have to completely … Continue reading Littlbug camp stove
Is this the magic compost bin of your dreams? Holly Richmond, grist.org We know: $70 is A LOT of money to spend on something to hold your apple cores. Especially when a plastic bucket works just fine. (For that price, it should also make you dinner … and wash the dishes afterwards.) But the CompoKeeper … Continue reading DIY high tech compost bin
New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents John Upton, grist.org ShutterstockNew Yorkers can eat all the organics that they want — but that won’t be enough to protect them from the Big Apple’s stubborn pesticide problem.Despite living in a dense city with only tiny patches of agriculture (much of it organic,… http://flip.it/inoiQ Related … Continue reading New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents
GoSun: Portable solar oven cooks food in as little as 10 minutes - Images gizmag.com http://flip.it/h5dvj Related articles Be Cool: Make the World's Easiest Solar Oven (sierraclub.typepad.com) Prepare a Cardboard Box Solar Oven (outdoorcookingandgardening.wordpress.com) Typhoon Haiyan: How Technology Can Help (livescience.com) Solar ovens and solar cooking (makezine.com)
Like The Evolution Of Apple’s iPod And iPhone, Nest Is Building One Product At A Time Aaron Tilley, forbes.com Today Nest officially unveiled the follow up to its popular learning thermostat with a smoke and carbon monoxide detector called the “Nest Protect.” Getting a look at it in person, co-founder and VP of engineering Matt … Continue reading Nest builds social, data driven CO detector
Tropospheric Gas Detector Jake Spurlock, makezine.com Make: Projects Build a Tropospheric Gas Detector with two gas sensors. By using the MQ-2 and MQ-6 together, you can obtain accurate ground-level air pollution data. By Category: Arduino Time Required: 15 minutes Difficult… http://flip.it/BVILM Related articles This 13-year-old Maker teaches MIT alumni (atmelcorporation.wordpress.com) Why Predictive Analytics Is Important … Continue reading Build your own tropospheric gas detector
Mobile Pop-Up Shop Kit Transforms Vacant Storefronts Into Instant Community Hubs inhabitat.com An eclectic team of architects, designers, urban planners and filmmakers are giving new life to vacant storefronts on the Lower East Side with their ready-made kit of furnishings stored in a … http://flip.it/tJzAZ Related articles What Tech Hasn't Learned From Urban Planning (nytimes.com)
Stop Wasting Water Washing Dirty Jeans…Freeze Them! ecouterre.com Photo by duncharris Turn those blue jeans green—or at least maintain their deep indigo hue—by putting them on ice, literally. Employed by denim enthusiasts to prevent premature fading, the … http://flip.it/V1L1b
Daniel Lieberman: ‘Dieting is a disaster for everyone’ Interview by Ian Tucker, theguardian.com Harvard’s professor of human evolutionary biology explains why obesity is the major 21st-century problem – and why we are ill-equipped to deal with it Daniel Lieberman is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard and has published… http://flip.it/F9R8p Related articles Making … Continue reading Anthropological perspectives on why dieting is a waste of time
How Efficient Is Your City? America’s 34 Largest Towns Get Ranked thinkprogress.org CREDIT: National Geographic / Gregory KushmerekEven the U.S. cities that have gone the furthest in building energy efficiency still have a lot of ground they could cover, according to a new report. Boston, Massachusetts — the report’s highest-scor… http://flip.it/tQvi2
The Duck Chalet Kent Griswold, tinyhouseblog.com My husband, Jeff, and I wanted to share our latest summer side-project that is now for sale – the Duck Chalet! It stemmed from our love for small, intuitively designed, and cost effective dwellings.We are both green home designers and builders her… http://flip.it/FEJnw
GoodEggs raises $8.5M to fix our food system one egg at a time Rebecca Grant, venturebeat.com If you are a nut for raw nuts, a grass-fed guru, an organic oracle, a local-food loon, or a farmers market fiend, today is a good day. GoodEggs has raised $8.5 million to expand its local grocery delivery service … Continue reading GoodEggs fixes food system
Gourmet restaurants are making gourmet chickens by feeding them gourmet leftovers Sarah Laskow, grist.org The gourmet food company D’Artagnan has come up with an ingenious (or creepy, depending on your perspective on these sorts of things) plan for recycling kitchen scraps from high-end restaurants like Per Se and Gramercy Tavern, the New York… http://flip.it/ovB3j Related … Continue reading Gourmet chickens fed gourmet chicken scraps
The secret, sordid lives of shared cars Greg Hanscom, grist.org ShutterstockThis Frasier reunion show isn’t going to tape itself — better step on it.So you want to share your car. You’ve got a plan to rent it out during your off-hours. Good on you: You might help a few of your neighbors get by without… … Continue reading The secret life of car sharing
How green is that new car you’re eyeing? This site is the easiest way to find out Sarah Laskow, grist.org Americans may be driving less, but there are still more than 230 million cars cruising around the U.S. And sometimes those cars break down or get old and their owners want to buy a new … Continue reading Site ranks car green metrics
Man Attempts 1,200 Mile Journey in Solar-Powered ELF Bike/Car Tafline Laylin, inhabitat.com Organic Transit’s ELF has grown from a Kickstarter project into an amazing personal transit vehicle, and now a 65-year-old man from Cambridge is attempting to ride the 1,200 miles from Durham, North Carolina, where the half bicycle/half car is… http://flip.it/XDvDJ Related articles The … Continue reading Man travels 1200 miles in solar powered Elf bike car
EcoZoom Plancha Cook Stove Kent Griswold, tinyhouseblog.com Tom Pritchard from EcoZoom located in Oregon contacted me a while back about their wood cooking stove called the EcoZoom Plancha. He thought the owners of tiny houses might be interested in the stove and asked me to review it.The sto… http://flip.it/BjZo6 Related articles Survival Friday: One Log … Continue reading Economic Plancha cook stove
Oorja Biomass Pellet Stove at werd.com werd.com Oorja Biomass Pellet Stove Green Product In the past few years pellet stoves for home heating have revolutionized the way people keep warm by burning renewables. They’re more efficient and t … http://flip.it/wVR2q Related articles Wood Pellet Burner the new Green way to Heat (airiernatura1.wordpress.com) Wood-Pellet Bonds Show … Continue reading Oorja biomass stove
How to Build an Evaporative Cooler Christin, wordpress.com Portable Swamp Cooler. Click for larger image.How to build a low-cost 12 volt evaporative cooler. My husband and I built two swamp coolers that we use to air condition our tent when we camp in hot, dry weather at Burning Man. These compact units b… http://flip.it/sqcvn Related … Continue reading Build your own evaporative cooler
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