Everything is turning up Murphy's Law lately. My fuse is wicked short. As my friend S said: "If an ice cube falls on the floor I want to smash it with a hammer and then throw the hammer out the window and hope that it kills someone!And how ( Read more... )

I hope they come to the US soon!

This is even better than the poop-insulated house I posted a while back!

As if you even needed another reason besides hearing her assertively talking about Y-incisions.

Treehugger on why cities make storms worse

Bah! Storms!

They suggest:
Using green roofs, paving tiles, and landscaping the city to native habitat is a good start.

And then they ask:
What else can modern cities do to battle increased flooding?

I wish I had a better idea of how these things worked.

Get rid of your e-waste a-okay ( Read more... )

I've only started reading this but am putting it here for reading later, and for anyone else who is interested.I always think that the type o' PR vegans get is particularly interesting and generally have a hard time reconciling trying to live-and-let-live if it means live-and-let-kill-n-abuse ( Read more... )

via Modish blog, I found this neat site about "recycled" (re-used) rings. Old ring settings are re-used with knit/stitched yarn/fabric to create the "gem".

They have a really nice (for lack of a better word) organic look to them:


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R just sent me this link to a Poop House. He thinks it's gross but I think it's kind of cool. It's a house that seems to have a hollow structure and as the years go by, is insulated with the bio-waste produced from inside the house ( Read more... )

This is playing @ Cinema Village and is the most charming and earnest movie I have seen in a very long time ( Read more... )

sponsored by Sustainable Flatbush and the Lower East Side Ecology ( Read more... )