HOW TO – Recycled Sodapop Charms
Craftster user Altered Angel shares her clever tutorial for making recycled soda can charms. These would be so fun to make out of wacky-looking imported soda cans, too. Link.
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Win a Green Bunny Bag
Rachael Rabbit is having a fun giveaway contest on her blog. Simply leave a comment on her blog before 12 noon EST on Valentine’s Day and you’re automatically entered to win one of her cute new Green Bunny reusable grocery totes. These sturdy bags fold down to a 4″ x 4″ square so you can […]
PET Bottles Shredder
Phil @ MAKE writes: This device “shreds” plastic bottles to make them easier to carry and to make crafts with them. Aiming to reduce the volume of PET bottles carried by “catadores” (people who collect bottles and other kinds of waste from streets), Takashi Utsumi developed a device with which one can rapidly shred PET […]
Turf Trac 8hp lawn tractor refurb
FrankG sent in this fun project that features the salvage of a lawn tractor destined for the land fill – Link.
Home-built wood-gas rig
Nifty video of a home-built “stratified downdraft gasifier,” a.k.a. a wood-gas generator. Wood gasification was an important 19th century fuel technology, but was finally displaced by petroleum-based gas. Wood gas made something of a comeback during WWII, borne of necessity. It may come back again, after the apocalypse, when we need to try and outrun […]
Aerocivic – green modded Honda Civic
Darin writes – Photos & details of a 15 year old Honda Civic, radically aerodynamically modified for increased fuel economy. The owner reports coast-down testing indicates the co-efficient of drag has dropped from .34 to .17 – better than GM’s ill-fated, and super-slippery EV1 electric car. With fuel economy instrumentation, the owner claims “Approximate mileage […]
HOW TO – Make a homemade battery using fermented grass
Here’s how to make a homemade battery using fermented grass cut from your lawn, thanks Franco – Link.
