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- GREAT IDEA BUT HOW DO I DO IT WHEN I HAVE NO MONEY AND AM ON A PENSION?
- We're not on the gas main, so most houses round here use oil for heating. If there was a cheap and reasonably accurate flow meter, that would make it so much easier to monitor usage. Does anyone have a recommended make and model?
- As a student who moved out on their own wallet a year ago, and is now a moved-out dependent, can anyone give advice on where a flat-dweller can get local/organic produce in Dublin, a city that lost its allotments from a need for speedy development? St. Andrews, Pearse St. host a market on Saturdays, but it's value for money as opposed to studently cheap. Same street has a good local butcher (excuse my murderous meatitarianism, please) but there's no local green-grocer like home. Or opportunities to compost that I know of (yet the management company maintains a court-garden, so I might make enquiries).
- This is an awkward question to anyone else with big architecture/urbanism interests out there: Researching built-environment sustainability brings something to mind; what do we do with a lousy building stock, of many sub-regulation, dreary housing estates and the like? A green building is not green, regardless of Passivity standards if people think it's ugly, so applying long-term thinking, should we be greening our present building stock or knocking what really shouldn't have been built (by others)?
- There is something of a token of common "wisdom" (untested by me) about power habits and life-cycles in electronics, such as computers (particularly monitors), certain light bulbs and battery-based things (possibly even laptops). Essentially, overly frequently (whatever that is) turning off and on these items is damaging to the circuits and thusly product life-spans. I know this is true with things like the capicitance of Lithium Ion batteries (charge the full, drain them dead - or watch them wither), but does anyone have any tested facts on this token?
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Please join us on Facebook
First of all thank you for visiting Edenbee, we really hope you like what we've done with the place. That said we really want you to get involved in our latest venture which sees us having a presence on Facebook. We have developed a great Facebook application which allows individuals to make the best possible choice by providing them with a host of…
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Tweeting Energy Meter
German utility company Yello Strom is clearly into accessible tech: it manages its meters directly via households’ broadband connections, and offers access to Google's PowerMeter. Now, it's keeping its customers informed by enabling meters to tweet about energy use.
Each "Yello Sparzähler" smart meter (designed by IDEO) is allocated its own Twitter …
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20 Big Ideas for Fixing Climate Change
Over at Infrastructurist, they have coverage of a UK initiative to come up with 20 bold ideas for “saving the world.” These include:
A giant Artificial Stomach That Eats SeaweedStep One: Grow lots of kelp near the surface of the ocean. Step Two: Harvest it and “digest” it in a giant plastic “stomach.” The giant green mass gives off lots of gas — the
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Wal-Mart’s New “Sustainability Index”
On Thursday, Wal-Mart is going to announce its new effort to create a comprehensive “sustainability index” for every product it sells. The plan is to give every microwave, bean bag, book, and Transformer a score that reflects its full environmental impact, from manufacture through use and disposal, taking into account greenhouse gas emissions, use …
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Consumer Carbon Offset Website Needs Cleaning Up
A new website promises cash rewards for home utility bill reductions, but will it manage to peak attention? MyEmissionsExchange was launched last week, but the site lacked obvious safeguards to ensure customer confidence.
Recently lauded by Time Magazine for appealing to "checkbooks instead of our conscience," MyEmissionsExchange could provide the i…
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Omega Center for Sustainable Living
On track to become the first green building to achieve both LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge Certification, the Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OSCL) embodies the synthesis of wastewater recycling, clean energy, and eco-friendly architecture. Designed by sustainable design firm BNIM Architects as a functioning model for the nonprofi…
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Urban Design - Ji Lee
Ji Lee is a young, originally Korean designer who lives in New York. His first really fantastic project was getting 50,000 empty blank bubble stickers printed and gluing them on the advertising posters all over New York.
This gave passersby a chance to fill out the speech bubble. Ji would go back and photograph the results, often with funny or meani…
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Pee Power
In the last post we looked at poo today we look at pee. Would you like to drive a car powered by urine? Of course you would. Not only is it an efficient concept, but, according to Gas 2.0, “using urine as a source of hydrogen to power the cars of the future is a serious undertaking and based on completely sound science.”
Researchers at Ohio Univers…
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New Loo Design: (Sh)It's a Commodity!
Industrial designer Virginia Gardiner has designed not just a new toilet, but a new closed-loop management system that will allow individuals to, basically, recycle their poop. Yeah, I just said that.
But give her idea a few minutes of your attention, because it's really not as gnarly as it sounds.
A student of the Design London school at Imperial Co…
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Greg Craven's back!
Greg Craven says he had to write a book to pay his 'Red Bull bill' debating climate change - but can he sell 7m copies?
Two years ago a science teacher from a high school in Oregon called Greg Craven became a web phenomenon when he posted a video on YouTube entitled The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See.
In the video, which has now been viewed mo…