Archive for the ‘Climate-friendly’ Category

Vladimir Kush

Category: Art, Climate-friendly

Vladimir Kush

These images are a spectacular illustration of our relationship to the earth.

The world as you have never seen it

Category: Climate-friendly, Inspiration, Technology

Energy Consumption cartogram

According to Wikipedia a cartogram is a map in which area is not depicted. Instead, another thematic mapping variable like travel time or Gross National Product is substituted for land area. Click on the image above to view more maps.

Always Green Grass Painting Company

Category: Climate-friendly

Always Green Grass Painting Company

Do you have problems keeping you lawn green? Never mind why, just spray it green so you look better then your neighbor. Who needs real nature when you can just make it look sorta real :)

Light flowers

Category: Climate-friendly, Play

light flowers

Here is something you can do with your regular bulbs when you replace them with new CFLs.

Reverse Graffiti

Category: Climate-friendly, Graffiti

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwsBBIIXT0E[/youtube]

Heely’s Hack: Energy Harvesting

Category: Climate-friendly, Industrial Design, Inspiration, Nerdy stuff

energyshoes

The Energy Harvesting Dérive by Christian Croft and Kate Hartman combines new modes of pedestrian movement with alternative energy research goals. The project hacks the recently popular Heelys roller sneaker to transform it into a platform for generating electricity from human motion.

Video of the shoe can be found here

Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers

Category: Art, Climate-friendly, Inspiration, Photography

Chris Jordan
He was on the Colbert Report a couple of weeks ago. His photos give an amazing perspective on mass consumption.

Vatican carbon neutral

Category: Climate-friendly

Vatican agrees to a carbon offset scheme

Vatican agrees to a carbon offset scheme.

Stop unwanted direct marketing

Category: Climate-friendly

the-cma

This Do Not Contact Service enables individuals to reduce the number of marketing offers they receive by mail, telephone and fax thereby reducing the amount of waste sent by mail. Consumers register to have their names removed from marketing lists held by members of the Canadian Marketing Association.



This service is for Canada only. If you know of a service like this for your country please send me an email so I can post it.