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What a 44 Year-Old Toaster Can Teach Us About Sustainable Design

What a 44 Year-Old Toaster Can Teach Us About Sustainable Design

How $2 bought me one of the best appliances I own I like my toast. I’m one of those people that believes bread simply tastes and performs a better when thoroughly warmed and a little crispy on the outside. So you can imagine my consternation when my toaster recently stopped working.  It’s not that the toaster [...]

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Etsy Finds to Help You Waste Less in the Kitchen

Etsy Finds to Help You Waste Less in the Kitchen

So we’ve made the switch to recycled toilet paper in the name of saving virgin forests, but it turns out that the bathroom isn’t the only room in the house with the potential for producing lots of waste. Between paper towels and napkins and those sandwich baggies, your poor trash bin can fill up [...]

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GARBAGE Recycled Kitchenware Lighting

GARBAGE Recycled Kitchenware Lighting

Gilles Eichenbaum, also known as Garbage, is a Paris based designer and artist who melds antique household items into captivating light fixtures. Truly gorgeous.

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Save Energy with a DIY Eco-cook

Save Energy with a DIY Eco-cook

We featured the Eco-cook a couple weeks ago and I was surprised how angry some people got claiming that this was not in fact eco-friendly.  The arguments came in by comment and by email.  The chief complain was that this is just more stuff to buy and to send to the landfill and that [...]

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Sunday Funnies - An Energy Saving Dishwasher

Sunday Funnies - An Energy Saving Dishwasher

LAUGH!  Here is an Energy Saving Dishwasher… the only downside is until your train it you’ll have compost heaps in your living room.  From “Stupid & Funny Ideas” at Blogspot

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