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Long Studio. All images by Saunders Architecture We have been watching the career of Todd Saunders with interest; two years ago we called the Canadian expat living in Norway the Best of Green Young Architect . He has just completed this stunning artist’s studio on Fogo Islan…
Cave Troll from Lord of the Rings via Wikipedia Dan Blankenhorn of Smart Planet was thinking of his commenters when he suggested that “trolls die young”, based on a study researchers of the US National Institute on Aging . They looked at 5,614 Sardinians from four villages, and found that “those who scored high for antagonistic traits on a standard personality test had greater thickening of the neck…
The team at Meyer Wells. Image Credit: Meyer Wells If you’ve ever been upset to learn that a tree you loved either fell or had to be chopped down, you’ll be glad to hear about Meyer Wells , the furniture company based out of Seattle . Operating under the motto “furniture with modern roots,” Seth Meyer and John Wells take felled trees and turn them into custom wooden tables
Have you ever looked at a product the size of a pea wrapped in a layer of clear film, with a 20 page instruction booklet, vacuum packed in hard plastic, covered by another layer of cardboard and thought, “Why?!”?
Image credit: GreenHouse International & Mickou (Creative Commons) No sooner do we hear that the Scots have developed a biofuel from whisky distillery byproducts , that the tequila industry announces it wants in on the waste-to-energy act too. This is not without good reason— the growth of the tequila indus…
images from Wallpaper* Wallpaper* Magazine has always been a bit over the top, but they did have an eye for beautiful things. However the money-no-object aesthetic can be a turn-off. Thus I am a bit conflicted showing their International Bike .
Image credit: Olive Garden & Peter Baker (Creative Commons) When I wrote about drying clothes indoors , I was surprised to hear that some folks had considered opening the windows and cranking up the heat on the thermostat as a “green” method of clothes drying – even when you wouldn’t otherwise need to heat your house. But they’re not the only ones doing weird things out of season—tipster Ty tells us that his local…
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