Knu Desk is Like Your Elementary School Desk But Much Better
Remember those desks we had in elementary school with the space inside for notebooks and pencils? Well this beautiful Knu desk may make you nostalgic, but trust us, it’s a lot better than your workstation of yore. Made of FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified wood and finished with an extremely tough environmentally friendly catalyzed varnish, it has cubbies for envelopes, a laptop (up to 17”), folders, paper, CDs, and whatever else you need to store
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Knu Desk is Like Your Elementary School Desk But Much Better
Stunning Hawaiian Residence Features Cyclone of Reclaimed Wood
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Sakku.Traveler is a Stylish Solar Bag Made from Recycled Sails!
If you love cruising along the city streets on your two-wheeler or charging along the sidewalks on foot, what better way to take advantage of the outdoors than with this super practical solar bag?
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New LEED Gold Old Faithful Education Center in Yellowstone
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The Strangest Sustainability Analogy Ever? Stop Watching Spongebob (Video)
Image credit: CosmicRevolutionKS When I interviewed my friend Tim Toben of Greenbridge and Pickards Mountain Ecoinstitute , he suggested it was important that we all “tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by renewable energy — in poetry, music, art, dance.” That’s easier said than done. But one young man has been doing just that—and the result is rather strange, but oddly compelling. Apparently we..
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50,000 Minks Loose In Greece After Fur Farm Raid (UPDATED)
Photo via qmnonic Nothing like a flood of minks loose in a country’s already fragile ecosystem to put environmentalists in a tough spot. Two fur farms in northern Greece were raided, the results of which saw 50,000 minks running for the hills.
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v100 Mod Box: the Next Generation in Prefab Design
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Ecomobile: A Green Mobile Home In A Spiritual Trailer Park
Images unless noted: Findhorn Foundation While following the development of small green prefabs, It has become increasingly clear that you cannot separate the home from the context, and that what we really need is a sort of green trailer park, where people can own their unit but share common resources. It turns out that it exists, and has since 1962; Dr. Graham Meltzer just built his own home, the ecomobile, in the Park at Findhorn, a “growing eco-village and spiritual community.” in North Scotland…
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Erin Hanson’s Clever Art Underscores Our Need To Want Less
Image by Erin Hanson Erin Hanson’s outlet is the Recovering Lazyholic , and she has some great ways of pinpointing the unfortunate condition of so many of us folks, who give in to our slovenly side a little too often. One of her projects is “Need to Want Less,” a series of graphics that smartly and succinctly sums up the choices we’re given about consumerism. …
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Amazing Natural Packaging: The Wombat’s Super Butt!
If you’re into marsupials (and who isn’t?), my favorite, hands-down, is the wombat. Not just because they are vegan and terribly, terribly cute, or because they’re a bit lazy and are known Down Under for their ability to find shortcuts between A and B whenever possible — but because they have developed an incredible physical adaptation: The reinforced rump. When a predator attacks a wombat, it runs to its burrow and uses its tough cartilage-filled bum to block the hole.
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