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Archive for the 'Fun' Category

New Theme for Spring

Every so often I decide to play around with the look and the feel of the site. Today is one of those days, so the site will look different today as I have fun redesigning it.
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May 18th, 2009
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I’m a Daydream Believer

Those silly monkees might have been right after all, it is good to believe in daydreamers as they might solve problems faster.
“People assume that when the mind wanders away it just gets turned off – but we show the opposite, that when it wanders, it turns on,” said Christoff, co-author of the study, and head [...]

May 13th, 2009
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Great Green Videos on Design

A website called Building has found five great green videos that centre around design for a better future.
Canvas Bags – Tim Minchin
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May 6th, 2009
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Cannabis Houses = Zero Carbon

Hemp, part of the cannabis genus, is a great building material according to researchers in the UK. EcoWorldly has a good write-up on the hemp housing research.
Technically speaking, hemp is the common name for plants of the entire Cannabis genus, although the term is more typically used to refer only to strains of industrialized varieties [...]

April 27th, 2009
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Eco-Friendly Golf Courses

I never thought I’d be writing about golf courses on this site because golf courses are absolutely awful for the environment. They use lots of pesticides and consume insane amounts of water – all so people can hit a ball into a hole. So, it is with shock that I find out that there are [...]

April 13th, 2009
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Urban Gardening: A Starting Guide

Following up on yesterdays post about greening your garden I bring you today’s post about urban gardening. If you’ve ever wanted to garden in or on your urban dwelling Inhabitat has a starter guide to urban gardening.
When choosing seeds, consider growing a bunch of herbs in a pot together. As for vegetables, almost everything will [...]

April 10th, 2009
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