This is a great way to recycle a discarded wooden pallet. I just might grab the next one I find on the street and make a coffee table out of it. This modern, ethnic-looking coffee table, with its ochre stripes that conjures up visions of Marrakech, was made from a wooden pallet discarded in a […]
Clever global warming rug… made by Nanimarquina via BoJ. “Road Kill Carpet” Bunny rug.
The folks at esprit cabane show readers how to make these wintry stars from the bottoms of plastic water bottles.
“Field of Light” by Bruce Munro (currently installed at the Eden Project in Corwall, UK) consists of 6,000 acrylic stems connected with fiber optic cables ending in a clear glass sphere. The stems themselves hold no power, so there are 11 external projectors that send light to the balls while the entire installation covers an […]
Maybe you like Neil Young’s music. You might have heard about his opinions, but how about his car? Neil got his hands on one of the heaviest production automobiles, a Lincoln Continental Mark IV convertible, and has set out to make it into a more earth friendly transportation alternative. The car will be entered into […]
The “Spiral Sunrise” by Esther Polak visualizes the sun’s rising and setting through a solar-powered robot that is tethered to a tree and moves in circular rings around the tree. The robot carries an open sandglass so that when it moves, it draws a line of sand and the thickness of the line depends on […]
“Dumb” eco-questions you were afraid to ask. New Scientist offers the definitive guide to everything you wanted to know about being green but were too embarrassed to ask… If I switch the light on and off every time I enter and leave a room, does this use more energy than leaving it on all evening? […]
