background preloader

Environment/Energy

Facebook Twitter

1ℓimit - Faucet Design by Yonggu Do, Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh & Yanko Design. One Liter Limited 1ℓimit faucet looks more like an elegant test tube inverted on top of a tap.

1ℓimit - Faucet Design by Yonggu Do, Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh & Yanko Design

The glass tube holds exactly one liter of water, sufficient for a quick handwash. The theory being that we waste almost six liters of water and use only one, while washing hands. Part of Nature cartoon by Stuart McMillen - Recombinant Records. This cartoon is heavily influenced by the books Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins (1999) and Mid-Course Correction - Ray Anderson (1998).

Part of Nature cartoon by Stuart McMillen - Recombinant Records

It is also in the same vein as the flash animation "The Story of Stuff" by Annie Leonard, which I watched when I was about 90% of the way through the drawing process. Back to post / website. View/add comments for this article.Part of Nature by Stuart McMillen. Mycologists So-Called Life Box - Environment - GOOD. The resourceful mycologist (that's a fungi-studier) Paul Stamets has made cardboard packaging that can be planted and will grow into trees.

Mycologists So-Called Life Box - Environment - GOOD

It's called the Life Box. The Life Box suite of products builds upon the synergy of fungi and plants by infusing spores and seeds together inside of packaging materials that can be planted. The Tree Life Box is made of recycled paper fiber. In this fiber, we have inserted a wide variety of tree seeds, up to a hundred, dusted with mycorrhizal fungal spores. The mycorrhizal fungi protect and nurture the young seedlings. Welcome to whalesong.net. Carl Safina: The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims. Lisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil. Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid. This Day in History April 30. Garth Lenz: The true cost of oil. Human Evolution & Archaeology - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. The Scale of the Universe 2. Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy.