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Of course, the procedure is not all that fantastical, where your uneaten food items magically turn into usable electricity. Dattatreya Mandal: When we talk about sustainable electricity generation, perhaps the very last thing that comes to our mind is food. MORE
Usable Bike Chains, Part Deux. Categories. Garden. Kitchen. New & Exciting. Electronics. Events. Health. Personal. Clothing & Accessories. Community. Current Acitivites. Forums. Groups. Members. Get Our Books. AboutMyPlanet. HybridMile. GrowNews. GirlSustainable. EcoFriendlyDaily. MORE
In a fascinating turn of events, researchers at the University of Utah are in the process of developing small devices that can turn heat into sound, and then the sound into usable electricity. Dattatreya Mandal: As we know it. If solid figures are any indication to go with, we are certainly going through a propitious phase for renewable power generation. MORE
With a clean desk, a few bookshelves and a means to file and manage documents for quick perusal, you’ll have a great starting point for creating a professional office design that will make people take notice while also offering a modern level of usability. MORE
By Michael Smith (Veshengro) Imagine, if you please, turning scraps of plastic into usable fuels. This may very well be the inauguration of a new era that converts waste plastic, like packaging from meat plants and scrap from auto factories, to usable gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, and natural gas for cooking and heating. The processor, through a special catalyst, cracks the hydrocarbon chains in the plastic and separates out usable fuel. MORE
The beaches there were covered daily with a thick line of stinky seaweed that rendered the beaches unusable (fortunately the swim up bar at the pool was still usable). A slimy, brown monster, after slithering free of the Bermuda Triangle, is devouring beaches from Florida to Texas and the Caribbean. It’s not the plot of a bad science fiction movie, although it involves a whole lot of bad science — just zero fiction. It’s big, it’s unstoppable, it sometimes disappears only to return. MORE
These hosts add the scraps to their personal compost piles and—with guidance from Compost Pedallers’ how-to handbook—transform the waste into usable material for their growing operation. An eco-preneur hits pay dirt with a bike-powered pick-up service in the heart of Austin, Texas. MORE
Of course you love to reduce, reuse and recycle, but what about turning all that recycling into usable, wearable art? Feelgood Style has a great post here about fifty projects you can take on to make your fashion statement an eco-statement too. MORE
Hippocrates, reverently referred to the herb as the “medicine chest” of all herbs because of its endless benefits and the usability of all aspects o. Food Health & Wellness Z ADMIN Wellness Featured Today cold elderberry flu healthy medicine staying healthy MORE
The initiative plans to create an online directory whereby any business in the district, from restaurants to offices, can post their unwanted but usable equipment, computers, furniture and books. MORE
Usable water is decreasing faster than it can be replenished. There are many things in life we take for granted, water being one of them. It is assumed there is plenty of water to go around as it is a renewable resource, however, of all of Earth’s water, only 3% is fresh water – 97% salt water. Of the 3%, more than half of that is frozen in glaciers and polar caps leaving less than 1% available for human consumption. We must consider how we can conserve water before it’s too late. MORE
Donate your usable goods: Do not trash your outdated computing and printing equipment, instead donate them to Computers with Causes and donate your old furniture to Donation Town. MORE
Ryan Baldwin, Baldwin Custom Woodworking While working as an arborist removing trees from backyards and along city streets in Fort Collins, Colorado, Ryan Baldwin saw an opportunity to salvage city trees destined for the dump into usable lumber for woodworking projects. “I MORE
" Upon further inspection, he saw that the dumpster was chock full of usable items — and there were dozens of others just like it all over campus. It started with a futon in a dumpster. Now it's a student org that's changing the way we see waste. It started with a futon in a dumpster. MORE
Energy Points , a company that does energy analysis for business, factors in the these myriad values in terms of what percentage of the energy input—fossil fuel energy, plus energy for production and energy for environmental mitigation—will become usable electricity. The WSJ's Numbers "guy" : The true cost of electricity is difficult to pin down. MORE
Consumerism Policy Sustainability Waste Management bags paper plastic re usable I recently came across the following video from DNews ( Discovery News ) briefly addressing the age old grocery store bag question of ” paper or paper? MORE
In cities where bike lanes are routinely ignored--like New York, where cyclist Casey Neistat hilariously documented the number of illegally parked cars along one bike route a couple of years ago--having something like this to physically separate the curb is one way to make lanes more usable. MORE
These emission-free gadgets quietly convert sunshine into usable electricity for your home. I have long been an advocate for rooftop photovoltaic solar panels. You can reduce your electric bill to near zero in the best cases, and significantly in any case. You will save money on utility bills from day one and add value to your home. Here […]. solar energy solar panels MORE
DIY (do-it-yourself) Projects Energy Efficiency Green Lifestyle Home Energy Usage Home Improvement care energy-efficiency filter hot tub maintenance pool pool and hot tub pump re-usable filter MORE
Tags: Plumbing Recreation and Outdoors Travel and Vacationing adaptive exhaust systems AirHead chemical contaminants chemical re-circulating toilets chemicals Composting dehydration end product Envirolet Environmental Protection Agency food food scraps MSD installation sanitation systems Sun-Mar toilet technology usable end product waste treating device MORE
Which ones are re-usable and how can I tell? A great way to ensure that your home is using energy efficiently is to regularly change and monitor your furnace filter. But which filters are best at actually filtering the air? Don’t worry. MORE
To this end, Warm Current diverts usable wetsuits from the waste stream and donates them to individuals or groups in underprivileged communities. Click here to view the embedded video. MORE
Photovoltaic solar panels can turn as much as 23% of the sun in to usable grid power while traditional solar panels convert at around 14% to 16%. MORE
As bike ridership continues to grow, the question of what kinds of bikes offer the best in terms of utility and usability for the modern commuter is one that is often raised. Click here to view the embedded video. The Oregon Manifest 2011 Constructor’s Show , a competition that took place back in September, focused on that question with this year’s challenge, asking: what is the ultimate modern utility bike? MORE
One of the priorities for the initiative will be tackling the issue of the lack of usable green space in many communities, particularly in deprived areas. Love Parks Week is going year-round after lottery funding was finally transferred to environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy. MORE
There are a lot of different things that people do to turn old, useless junk into something usable. Categories. Garden. Kitchen. New & Exciting. Electronics. Events. Health. Personal. Clothing & Accessories. Community. Current Acitivites. Forums. Groups. Members. Get Our Books. MORE
The city, reports Fast Company , intends to convert its abundance of waste into usable electricity by investing in the world’s largest waste-to-energy facility. By 2020, the waste-to-energy plant being constructed in Shenzhen will convert 1/3 of its trash into energy. Did you know? MORE
While lumber prices are soaring, and deforestation a rising concern, millions of pounds of perfectly usable wood are dumped in landfills every year in the form of pallets and shipping cases. Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Wood Pallet Projects by Chris Gleason 128 pages, 9 x 7.5 MORE
It was a material I had not considered as being usable for kitchen counters, but here it was, and it looked and worked so well. I first came across a true butcher block counter top at a dear friend’s home. MORE
Combining all of the sunshine that falls on the solar panel over a 24-hour period, the average roof in the United States gets about four hours of “full” or “usable” sun a day. Solar power is becoming more efficient. and more affordable. MORE
First message: Save the environment by taking your own re-usable bags out shopping! We absolutely love the two-fold message of this handy little tote! Plastic bags are one of the most wasteful by-products of our plastic obsessed society, and their use should be illegal! Plastic bag bans are becoming more prevalent.) MORE
Re-usable tote bags are great gifts for everyone….not That’s A Wrap When wrapping homemade goods and gifts for anyone this holiday season, think re-usable! MORE
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) I am sure many of us have old CDs and DVDs or various kinds laying around the place that are duds, no longer used or simply no longer usable and recycling those is actually not as easy as it is thought. MORE
They’ll have to donate or repurpose usable food instead. Americans generate food waste like nobody’s business. The USDA estimates that in 2010, we didn’t eat nearly a third of the 430 billion pounds of food produced in the United States. MORE
Their only options: donate any usable food, ship the remaining scraps to a composting facility or as farm animal feed, or turn the food waste into clean energy at an anaerobic digestion facility, where microbes in enclosed chambers break it down. MORE
Founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, Terracycle is an award winning international upcycling and recycling company that collects hard to recycle packaging and transforms them into clean, usable materials and products. MORE
DIY (do-it-yourself) Projects Energy Efficiency Green Lifestyle Home Energy Usage Home Improvement care energy-efficiency filter hot tub maintenance pool pool and hot tub pump re-usable filter MORE
Founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, Terracycle is an award winning international upcycling and recycling company that collects hard to recycle items and transforms them into clean, usable materials and products. Normal. false. false. false. EN-US. X-NONE. X-NONE. MORE
Red Warblers , Cardellina rubra , are easy enough to find in their highland Mexican habitat, but getting usable photographs has eluded me before. I have had to wait a long time to write this post. MORE
But even if you repair your fave skirt, do clothing swaps with your friends, and sell the good stuff on eBay, you still have clothing left that you just can’t wear (and hey, we’re not all crafty enough to make usable things from old clothes). MORE
Have a look at this collection of pictures of bar carts that run the gamut of style and usability! Maybe they were always cool, but this is the first time in my life I’ve ever REALLY wanted a bar cart. Maybe I’ve just watched too many episodes of Mad Men. MORE
Costa is also now offering 25p off a hot or cold drink for customers that bring a re-usable cup into its stores; and in April it will begin selling a selection of own-branded, re-usable cups. MORE
I didn’t get much that was usable, but I did get one shot that really confuses me. MORE
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FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Usable Bike Chains, Part Deux. Categories. Garden. Kitchen. New & Exciting. Electronics. Events. Health. Personal. Clothing & Accessories. Community. Current Acitivites. Forums. Groups. Members. Get Our Books. AboutMyPlanet. HybridMile. GrowNews. GirlSustainable. EcoFriendlyDaily.
EcoFriend
MARCH 30, 2012
Of course, the procedure is not all that fantastical, where your uneaten food items magically turn into usable electricity. Dattatreya Mandal: When we talk about sustainable electricity generation, perhaps the very last thing that comes to our mind is food.
EcoFriend
MARCH 19, 2012
In a fascinating turn of events, researchers at the University of Utah are in the process of developing small devices that can turn heat into sound, and then the sound into usable electricity. Dattatreya Mandal: As we know it. If solid figures are any indication to go with, we are certainly going through a propitious phase for renewable power generation.
Environmental News Network
JANUARY 11, 2015
Consumerism Policy Sustainability Waste Management bags paper plastic re usable I recently came across the following video from DNews ( Discovery News ) briefly addressing the age old grocery store bag question of ” paper or paper?
Green Living Ideas
AUGUST 27, 2014
DIY (do-it-yourself) Projects Energy Efficiency Green Lifestyle Home Energy Usage Home Improvement care energy-efficiency filter hot tub maintenance pool pool and hot tub pump re-usable filter
Living Green & Saving Energy
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
These emission-free gadgets quietly convert sunshine into usable electricity for your home. I have long been an advocate for rooftop photovoltaic solar panels. You can reduce your electric bill to near zero in the best cases, and significantly in any case. You will save money on utility bills from day one and add value to your home. Here […]. solar energy solar panels
Green Living Ideas
AUGUST 27, 2014
DIY (do-it-yourself) Projects Energy Efficiency Green Lifestyle Home Energy Usage Home Improvement care energy-efficiency filter hot tub maintenance pool pool and hot tub pump re-usable filter
Green Living Ideas
MARCH 13, 2009
Tags: Plumbing Recreation and Outdoors Travel and Vacationing adaptive exhaust systems AirHead chemical contaminants chemical re-circulating toilets chemicals Composting dehydration end product Envirolet Environmental Protection Agency food food scraps MSD installation sanitation systems Sun-Mar toilet technology usable end product waste treating device
Green (Living) Review
JANUARY 8, 2017
Ryan Baldwin, Baldwin Custom Woodworking While working as an arborist removing trees from backyards and along city streets in Fort Collins, Colorado, Ryan Baldwin saw an opportunity to salvage city trees destined for the dump into usable lumber for woodworking projects. “I
Elephant Journal
JUNE 6, 2017
Hippocrates, reverently referred to the herb as the “medicine chest” of all herbs because of its endless benefits and the usability of all aspects o. Food Health & Wellness Z ADMIN Wellness Featured Today cold elderberry flu healthy medicine staying healthy
Green (Living) Review
JULY 22, 2015
" Upon further inspection, he saw that the dumpster was chock full of usable items — and there were dozens of others just like it all over campus. It started with a futon in a dumpster. Now it's a student org that's changing the way we see waste. It started with a futon in a dumpster.
Green (Living) Review
APRIL 3, 2016
The city, reports Fast Company , intends to convert its abundance of waste into usable electricity by investing in the world’s largest waste-to-energy facility. By 2020, the waste-to-energy plant being constructed in Shenzhen will convert 1/3 of its trash into energy. Did you know?
Solar Power Ninja
MAY 18, 2015
Photovoltaic solar panels can turn as much as 23% of the sun in to usable grid power while traditional solar panels convert at around 14% to 16%.
Green (Living) Review
AUGUST 30, 2014
Their only options: donate any usable food, ship the remaining scraps to a composting facility or as farm animal feed, or turn the food waste into clean energy at an anaerobic digestion facility, where microbes in enclosed chambers break it down.
Wend Magazine
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
As bike ridership continues to grow, the question of what kinds of bikes offer the best in terms of utility and usability for the modern commuter is one that is often raised. Click here to view the embedded video. The Oregon Manifest 2011 Constructor’s Show , a competition that took place back in September, focused on that question with this year’s challenge, asking: what is the ultimate modern utility bike?
Hug a Tree with Me
MARCH 7, 2014
Donate your usable goods: Do not trash your outdated computing and printing equipment, instead donate them to Computers with Causes and donate your old furniture to Donation Town.
Green (Living) Review
MARCH 30, 2013
While lumber prices are soaring, and deforestation a rising concern, millions of pounds of perfectly usable wood are dumped in landfills every year in the form of pallets and shipping cases. Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Wood Pallet Projects by Chris Gleason 128 pages, 9 x 7.5
Environmental Economics
OCTOBER 19, 2015
The beaches there were covered daily with a thick line of stinky seaweed that rendered the beaches unusable (fortunately the swim up bar at the pool was still usable). A slimy, brown monster, after slithering free of the Bermuda Triangle, is devouring beaches from Florida to Texas and the Caribbean. It’s not the plot of a bad science fiction movie, although it involves a whole lot of bad science — just zero fiction. It’s big, it’s unstoppable, it sometimes disappears only to return.
Green Furniture Home Design
MARCH 18, 2015
Have a look at this collection of pictures of bar carts that run the gamut of style and usability! Maybe they were always cool, but this is the first time in my life I’ve ever REALLY wanted a bar cart. Maybe I’ve just watched too many episodes of Mad Men.
Hug a Tree with Me
JULY 24, 2013
Founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, Terracycle is an award winning international upcycling and recycling company that collects hard to recycle packaging and transforms them into clean, usable materials and products.
Environmental Economics
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Energy Points , a company that does energy analysis for business, factors in the these myriad values in terms of what percentage of the energy input—fossil fuel energy, plus energy for production and energy for environmental mitigation—will become usable electricity. The WSJ's Numbers "guy" : The true cost of electricity is difficult to pin down.
Green Home Blog
MARCH 7, 2012
Usable water is decreasing faster than it can be replenished. There are many things in life we take for granted, water being one of them. It is assumed there is plenty of water to go around as it is a renewable resource, however, of all of Earth’s water, only 3% is fresh water – 97% salt water. Of the 3%, more than half of that is frozen in glaciers and polar caps leaving less than 1% available for human consumption. We must consider how we can conserve water before it’s too late.
Green Living Ideas
JUNE 30, 2015
Which ones are re-usable and how can I tell? A great way to ensure that your home is using energy efficiently is to regularly change and monitor your furnace filter. But which filters are best at actually filtering the air? Don’t worry.
Wend Magazine
JUNE 27, 2011
To this end, Warm Current diverts usable wetsuits from the waste stream and donates them to individuals or groups in underprivileged communities. Click here to view the embedded video.
Green (Living) Review
DECEMBER 22, 2009
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) I am sure many of us have old CDs and DVDs or various kinds laying around the place that are duds, no longer used or simply no longer usable and recycling those is actually not as easy as it is thought.
Hug a Tree with Me
OCTOBER 24, 2013
Founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, Terracycle is an award winning international upcycling and recycling company that collects hard to recycle items and transforms them into clean, usable materials and products. Normal. false. false. false. EN-US. X-NONE. X-NONE.
Green (Living) Review
JULY 1, 2014
In cities where bike lanes are routinely ignored--like New York, where cyclist Casey Neistat hilariously documented the number of illegally parked cars along one bike route a couple of years ago--having something like this to physically separate the curb is one way to make lanes more usable.
Green (Living) Review
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
One of the priorities for the initiative will be tackling the issue of the lack of usable green space in many communities, particularly in deprived areas. Love Parks Week is going year-round after lottery funding was finally transferred to environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.
Green (Living) Review
AUGUST 15, 2014
They’ll have to donate or repurpose usable food instead. Americans generate food waste like nobody’s business. The USDA estimates that in 2010, we didn’t eat nearly a third of the 430 billion pounds of food produced in the United States.
Green (Living) Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Costa is also now offering 25p off a hot or cold drink for customers that bring a re-usable cup into its stores; and in April it will begin selling a selection of own-branded, re-usable cups.
Green Furniture Home Design
MARCH 12, 2015
It was a material I had not considered as being usable for kitchen counters, but here it was, and it looked and worked so well. I first came across a true butcher block counter top at a dear friend’s home.
Greentumble
MARCH 20, 2018
Combining all of the sunshine that falls on the solar panel over a 24-hour period, the average roof in the United States gets about four hours of “full” or “usable” sun a day. Solar power is becoming more efficient. and more affordable.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Red Warblers , Cardellina rubra , are easy enough to find in their highland Mexican habitat, but getting usable photographs has eluded me before. I have had to wait a long time to write this post.
Green Furniture Home Design
JANUARY 14, 2013
With a clean desk, a few bookshelves and a means to file and manage documents for quick perusal, you’ll have a great starting point for creating a professional office design that will make people take notice while also offering a modern level of usability.
Green (Living) Review
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
These hosts add the scraps to their personal compost piles and—with guidance from Compost Pedallers’ how-to handbook—transform the waste into usable material for their growing operation. An eco-preneur hits pay dirt with a bike-powered pick-up service in the heart of Austin, Texas.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2011
I didn’t get much that was usable, but I did get one shot that really confuses me.
Green Furniture Home Design
DECEMBER 13, 2010
First message: Save the environment by taking your own re-usable bags out shopping! We absolutely love the two-fold message of this handy little tote! Plastic bags are one of the most wasteful by-products of our plastic obsessed society, and their use should be illegal! Plastic bag bans are becoming more prevalent.)
The Green Samaritan
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Re-usable tote bags are great gifts for everyone….not That’s A Wrap When wrapping homemade goods and gifts for anyone this holiday season, think re-usable!
Celsias
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
The initiative plans to create an online directory whereby any business in the district, from restaurants to offices, can post their unwanted but usable equipment, computers, furniture and books.
Green (Living) Review
JUNE 17, 2011
By Michael Smith (Veshengro) Imagine, if you please, turning scraps of plastic into usable fuels. This may very well be the inauguration of a new era that converts waste plastic, like packaging from meat plants and scrap from auto factories, to usable gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, and natural gas for cooking and heating. The processor, through a special catalyst, cracks the hydrocarbon chains in the plastic and separates out usable fuel.
Green Living Ideas
JANUARY 17, 2014
Of course you love to reduce, reuse and recycle, but what about turning all that recycling into usable, wearable art? Feelgood Style has a great post here about fifty projects you can take on to make your fashion statement an eco-statement too.
Eco Chic
JUNE 16, 2014
But even if you repair your fave skirt, do clothing swaps with your friends, and sell the good stuff on eBay, you still have clothing left that you just can’t wear (and hey, we’re not all crafty enough to make usable things from old clothes).
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