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By Dave, September 5, 2006 9:40 pm

My Way News – Aspiring ‘Biotown’ Gets Visit From CSNY

Still breaking new ground and putting their $ where their ideals are! Way to go guys!

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By Dave, September 3, 2006 1:22 pm

Simple Shoes – Official Simple Shoes Brand Site for Simple Sneakers, Clogs, Shoes and Sandals – FREE DOMESTIC GROUND SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $75

Haven’t tried or even seen their products but I like the way they think.  Gonna have to go to Parisians (probably spelled wrong) in Gadsden (closest dealer to us) and see what they look like and how they feel.

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By Dave, September 3, 2006 1:07 pm

Treehugger: Living Like a Hobbit. Small House, Travel & Adventures
I’ve read about Dan Price before but there is a lot more available now. Lynette Chlang has written an article on meeting him and visiting his place in the woods.  Good stuff and sound like really good people.

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By Dave, August 31, 2006 2:06 pm

Treehugger: Minkas: Japanese Recycled Houses
Minka houses are Japan’s equivalent of our log cabins. Until the middle of the twentieth century, most ordinary country people lived in them. They were built using local materials such as wood and paper, and techniques such as thatch and no nails, that were suited to the local climate and lifestyles. The mud-plastered walls and thatched roof structure were resistant to earthquakes and easy to rebuild. In northern Japan, they had steep roofs and small windows to cope with the long snowy winters; in the hot south, they were small and low with raised floors– well-ventilated and typhoon resistant. Today, many minkas are being demolished and the craftsmen disappearing. But people are beginning to realize that they are the ideal recycleable house, sympathetic to the environment and using local sustainable materials.

Cool!    Glad to see that they are starting to save some of them.

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By Dave, August 31, 2006 12:38 pm

Treehugger: MBDC’s Pick for All-Purpose, Non-Toxic Cleaning

Last Week, we told you that sustainable product and process design consulting firm McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) had awarded Begley’s Best All Purpose Cleaner with Cradle to Cradle Certification, one of the most prestigious sustainable honors out there. So what’s so special about this stuff? Well for starters, it is non-toxic, non-caustic, non-fuming, non-flammable, non-explosive, non-irritating, non-allergenic, and 99 percent biodegradable in seven days. Then, you have the ingredients that sound more like a gourmet party dip: Extracts of pine, palm, de-acidified citrus, maize, fermented sugar cane, and olive seeds.

This sounds good to me. I have been having health problems with all of the commercial cleansers for years mainly due to the stinkum that they put in them. We had been using Ivory liquid, but with their change to a new formulation a couple of years ago, when they added a stinkum to the new and improved version, had to quit because I couldn’t eat or drink from dishes that had been washed with it, unless they had been double or tripple rinsed, and even then most times I could still smell it. So now to see if our local (nearly 20 miles away) health food store carries Begleys Best and try it. Looks like a good for all that needs cleaning product without added stinkum. Cool! Thanks for thinking of the environment (and unknowlingly me) Ed!

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By Dave, August 29, 2006 1:59 pm

Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Above is the original article and site. Below is the physorg.com article

Flying on hydrogen

Now why couldn’t physorg.com add a link to their article linking to the original?

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By Dave, August 28, 2006 10:11 am

Ad executive crusades to rid roads of `spam’ – The Boston Globe

He’s my kind of guy. But the Portsmouth police are apparently a bunch of idiots.

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By Dave, August 25, 2006 7:39 pm

Cancer alert over tin can and plastic bottle chemical | the Daily Mail

Lovely… 🙁

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By Dave, August 23, 2006 11:08 am

Treehugger: Businesses Unite Against Kimberly-Clark

There is MORE than enough paper and cardboard trash out there that should be recycled instead of going into landfills. Time this was brought to K-C’s attention and since they don’t seem to listen any other way maybe this way it will get through.

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By Dave, August 23, 2006 11:04 am

Treehugger: Nanosolar: Printing Solar Film Like Paper

Cool!

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By Dave, August 20, 2006 10:14 am

BLDGBLOG: Floating islands gone wild

Strange suff, these floating islands.

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By Dave, August 18, 2006 2:24 pm

Nomadic Research Labs

Been here and posted about it before but another link can’t hurt. Neat stuff!

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By Dave, August 15, 2006 12:01 am

Treehugger: How To: Make Your Own Non-Toxic Bathtub Cleaner

Cool.

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By Dave, August 14, 2006 10:44 pm

Treehugger: Straw Bale Construction Passes The Fire Test

Another problem surmounted.

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By Dave, August 14, 2006 10:42 pm

Farmers’ choice : HindustanTimes.com

This is FANTASTIC!!! Cheap liquor or wine? as a pesticide. One liter will treat 2 acres. No problems with toxins and kills the harmfull insects. Gonna have to try this on Bill’s patch.

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By Dave, August 3, 2006 11:29 pm

Rat Patrol – Features

Some seriously cool bikes. And some that I wouldn’t ride for any amount of money! But that is an old fart typing… 😉

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By Dave, July 24, 2006 7:06 pm

Model 1600 – Distillers – Waterwise

My mother asked me which kind of water purification unit I wanted and this is the one I decided on.

All stainless steel construction and no moving parts. Any heat source is supposed to work and they mention wood and coal fires. Only requirement is a level surface.

Another big plus is there are no filters or other expendables used so the only ongoing costs will be the cost of heat.

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By Dave, July 22, 2006 1:54 pm

Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact
How To Build a Solar Generator

Affordable solar power using auto parts could make this electricity source far more available.

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Interesting ideas. Wish for more detail but that seems the norm.

Update — Steve mentioned the auto tracker thing in a comment on this post and rather than bury this info in a comment here it is…

The easiest auto tracker I know of is a power steering assist cylinder with 2 12 oz freon cans attached on either side of a metal plate and attached to the hub of the device needing to follow the sun.

The cylinder is hooked to the control arm of the device and each side charged to balance the unit with both cans covered.

Each can is attached to one of the lines on the cylinder so that when one is in the sun the pressure is higher than the one in the shade and the unit moves to keep them both equally shaded/in the sun.

Quite elegant actually. One moving part and that is the piston.

Any low boiling temp gas should work as long as it doesn’t eat the rubber in the seals or lines. Propane should be safe and is easier and cheaper than freon r 12 to obtain and nowhere near as bad for the ozone, just highly flammable. Will have to try it and see.

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By Dave, June 23, 2006 8:59 am

Treehugger: Fortified Houses as Hurricane Bait

I’ve seen 4 to 6 foot thick walls of rebar enforced concrete broken and mangled by a hurricane so I really doubt that a row of houses on concrete stilts are gonna do much for anyone but line a few pockets. But what the hell do I know.

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By Dave, June 22, 2006 8:54 pm

Cleaner combustion from Atlanta researchers | The Register

So where is the link to more information? This sounds very interesting but without more info is pretty worthless.