There’s only a few days left to enter Inhabitat’s Spring Greening contest. Deadline is midnight, March 27th. Repair and reuse have been hot topics as of late, with everyone from technology renaissance man Saul Griffith to Worldchanging editor Alex Steffen advocating a shift towards repairable, long-lasting heirloom products. We’ve been covering reclaimed design for quite […]
There’s only a few days left to submit projects to Inhabitat’s Spring Greening contest. Deadline is midnight March 27th. Repair and reuse have been hot topics as of late, with everyone from technology renaissance man Saul Griffith to Worldchanging editor Alex Steffen advocating a shift towards repairable, long-lasting heirloom products. We’ve been covering reclaimed design […]
Have you seen the great work of Amy Smith? She operates D-lab nestled beneath the infinite corridor at MIT. Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal. […]
UK designer Giles Miller makes these laptop cases (and a number of furniture pieces) from recycled cardboard. I love the way he’s altered the corrugations to create designs in the cardboard. Corrugated Cardboard Laptop Case
Here’s a simple, flat stand for your iPhone, Touch, or other mobile media device, made from a cut-up office store bonus card. DIY compact iPhone stand More: Earbud cord manager Credit card guitar picks
AIDG is a NonGovernmental Organization (NGO) that helps provide low technology solutions to help address environmental and health needs to people living in communities without great access to the systems that many of us consider requirements. Here are a few of their water-based initiatives: Solar Hot Water: XelaTeco, with support from AIDG’s wonderful interns, recently […]
By way of Boing Boing and Treehugger comes this wonderful take on the famous British “Keep Calm and Carry On” posters from WWII and the more recent, less positive, versions such as “Now Panic and Freak Out” and “Panic and Run Away.” This is more our cup of tea. I love the crescent wrench crown. […]
