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By Dave, August 15, 2007 3:43 pm

The Homemade Homemaker | Consumer and ethical living | Life and Health

Link found via Treehugger.

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By Dave, August 10, 2007 10:34 pm

A Better Way to Make Biofuel (TreeHugger)

Looks promising. This could also be used to run farm equipment right off the waste biomass left over after harvest. I hope it scales well.

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By Dave, August 10, 2007 9:08 pm

Who Needs a Shopping Bag With a Mottainai Furoshiki? (TreeHugger)

Cool way to use a square piece of cloth to carry just about anything. No paper or plastic bag needed. I’m gonna download the pdf, print it out and practice these carry wrap ties on a large bandanna. Good stuff!

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By Dave, August 8, 2007 11:08 pm

Home Composting Made Easy (TreeHugger)

Interesting method of composting kitchen scraps. Makes me want to build that kiln, start digging clay and build a potters wheel. After the heat breaks I may just do so. Been wanting to/talking about it for years and at this age if I’m gonna I best get started.

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By Dave, July 10, 2007 1:23 pm

A Low Impact Woodland Home

I think I have posted about this house before but it was on a different site so here it is again. I wanna build one something along these lines!

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By Dave, July 7, 2007 9:37 pm

Green Transport Specialist Bans Employees from Bikes (TreeHugger)

Stupidity happens every time you put the accountants and/or the lawyers in charge.

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By Dave, June 21, 2007 3:24 pm

Home Grown Home: A Straw Bale Off Grid Double-Wide (TreeHugger)

That’s a hell of a way to beat zoning restrictions! Just build the straw bale house on a mobile home frame. Cool!

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By Dave, June 21, 2007 3:17 pm

Team Cycad: Bicycle Billboards (TreeHugger)

Seems like a strange way to advertise a product or event to me but what do I know…

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 4:14 pm

Sycamore Ceiling Fan: Works Smarter, Not Harder (TreeHugger)

Interesting concept. From what is posted in the comments the efficiency is way on up there for the amount of air it moves. Cool! in more ways than one. 😉

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By Dave, June 17, 2007 11:08 am

Van Os Keuls – Innovative building materials from everyday tin cans: eco-artware Recycling Rag Newsletter
A Can-Do House: A New Twist to Aluminum Siding

Van Os Keuls lives in a 1953 brick tract house, to which he built a 230 sq. foot addition on to the back in 2000. The nearly-finished plywood and insulation board structure was covered with building paper, waiting to be sided or otherwise finished. He found bricks too expensive, and didn’t want the usual siding alternatives. After some thought and consideration, Van Os Keuls decided to try a new medium no architect and none of his clients had used before — flattened aluminum soda and beer cans.

Interesting concept. Just not sure of the practicality of it but that could just be me.

I’ve built several wall sections of aluminum cans and cement but am not gonna do any more that way. I’ll recycle the aluminum and use the cash to buy cement to use with glass and plastic bottles instead.

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By Dave, April 17, 2007 9:18 pm

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? – Independent Online Edition > Wildlife

Interesting. And alarming. Time to give up the cell phones maybe.

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By Dave, April 8, 2007 1:39 pm

Hybrid Technologies L1X-75: Zero-60 in 3.1 Seconds, Batteries Included – Popular Mechanics

Small, quiet, and looks like a whole lot of fun. Charges off of a 110 volt outlet and has a 6 figure price. Watch the video!

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By Dave, March 28, 2007 9:56 pm

San Francisco passes plastic-bag ban – Yahoo! News

About damn time! Hope it spreads and fast. Teh plastic suckith!

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By Dave, February 21, 2007 1:36 pm

The Opulent Outhouse

Can we say “overkill” boys and girls? This is the most over the top waste (HA-HA) of taxpayers moneys I have seen since the upteen thousand dollar toilet seats (other than the comander and chief idiot’s war). And it can’t be used in cold weather cause its a composting toilet and they don’t work when it gets cold, so the forestry service (or whatever) locks the doors in the winter. Idiots, the whole bloody lot of them…

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By Dave, February 3, 2007 4:56 pm

Firewood

Burn wood? Bookmark this site! Good stuff!

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By Dave, December 26, 2006 10:58 am

The Temas Blog » “Ecological Bricks”

New post about building with PET bottles/product waste at the Temas blog.  Keith as always has a good writeup with links to other sources (mainly in spanish but google or babel fish translate fairly well) and info.

I’m thinking of trying a wall section (or two)  of PET 2 liter bottles in the roundhouse I am building.  Been wondering how they would work with cobb as a binding agent.  No time like the present to find out.

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By Dave, November 30, 2006 12:31 pm

Treehugger: Sweet Potatoes beat Green Roofs at Sinking Heat Islands

Good idea.  Gonna have to look into something like this for the q-hut. 😉

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By Dave, November 30, 2006 10:26 am

The Temas Blog » More Construction with PET Bottles

Good idea!  Fill the bottles with sand and use as bricks or blocks using cement as the binding agent.

Good blog too.  Now on my feedreader.

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By Dave, November 28, 2006 10:03 pm

Treehugger: Amy Youngs’ Digestive Table

Tis an interesting idea.  BUT, and to me it is certainly a big but,  while I can see having a pail in the corner using this method of food scrap recycling, I don’t want it in the middle of my dining table. 🙁

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By Dave, November 15, 2006 8:24 pm

MAYAPEDAL

Now this is some serious pedal power!  Lots of pix of bike powered machines.  Good stuff.  I wish is that they had a bit more in the way of how-to’s on the site but they state that they are willing to share designs with other non-profit orgs.