Hi Makers! The Tag Your Green Contest ends tonight at 11:59 PST. Here’s your last chance to get your entries in. Do you have an innovative project that you think is “green” or one you’ve been thinking about starting? That word green gets tossed around a lot. It’s slapped onto everything these days. What constitutes […]
If you ask me, crafters are great at recycling, from using the last scrap of fabric to giving a found object new life. Take a look at some of our favrorite up-crafted posts from this year. Looking forward to seeing what 2011 brings! Check out our Green and Recycle archives for even more posts. Wouldn’t […]
I’ve been going through our the blog’s “green” archives this weekend for a best-of roundup this week. In case you’re giving any last-minute holiday gifts, check out this post from April showing off plantable gift tags. It’s the gift that keeps on giving!
Here is our final installment of Maker Pioneers featuring inventors, entrepreneurs, and makers who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this video, we meet Kurt Fleischer. Kurt is a senior research scientist at Pixar, where he worked on building filmmaking software and directly on such films as Cars and […]
The lovely ladies from The Way We See The World are trying to get a new product off the ground: Jelloware: What is Jelloware? Jelloware are biodegradable, edible (and vegan!) cups that are flavored to compliment the drink inside. You can eat your cup as you sip your drink, and any leftover remnants can be […]
Joseph Karb, a teacher at Springville Middle School, wrote to me about an aquaponics enrichment project he is working on with his students. For the past two months, middle school students have been managing an Aquaponics Fish Farm with over 400 tilapia. Aquaponics is a system where fish and plants work together in a mutually […]
Here is the latest in our Make: Shorts video series, covering “Maker Pioneers,” inventors, entrepreneurs, makers, who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this episode, we meet Kurt Fleischer. Kurt is a senior research scientist at Pixar, where he worked on building filmmaking software and directly on such films […]
