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Green Lifestyle News tagged with design

Old Red Goes Green: Recycled Wall Brick Built to Save Water
Green Lifestyle  (tags: water, technology, sustainable, recycling, humans, interesting, greenproducts, greenliving, environment, eco-friendly, conservation, design, architecture )

Daphna
- 6 days ago - dornob.com
It might look like your typical old red clay house-building brick on one side, but turn it over and there is a shift that hints at a deeper design change - one that is eco-friendly but also expressive in a way that most walls or brick are not.
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Wash Your Clothes By Pedaling Your Bike (With Video)
Green Lifestyle  (tags: children, clothing, coolstuff, design, eco-friendly, family, greenliving, greenproducts, home, humans, recycling, sustainable, technology )

Daphna
- 12 days ago - treehugger.com
You don't need electricity to do the laundry. It's as easy as riding a bike. My wife's 90-year-old aunt still washes her laundry by hand, and dries it with a wringer. God bless her. But if you're a little busier, you can keep you
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How to: Recycle a Rubber Hose Into a Cheap & Comfy Chair
Green Lifestyle  (tags: coolstuff, design, eco-friendly, family, garden, green, greenliving, home, humans, recycling )

Daphna
- 13 days ago - dornob.com
Clean modern lines, wood and metal supports ... one could almost imagine this being sold at your local contemporary furniture store for thousands of dollars. Except: that comfortable-looking lining threaded between the structural frame is an ordinary, eve
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The Earthship
Green Lifestyle  (tags: architecture, conservation, design, eco-friendly, environment, family, greenliving, home, humans, interesting, recycling, Sustainabililty )

Daphna
- 16 days ago - motherearthnews.com
In his 1989 book, A Coming of Wizards, Michael Reynolds says four mystical beings, "wizards," have guided his work. He says they taught him to "denormalize" his thinking and "surrender" to his own "energy band." The results of his mystical inspiration
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Produce: The Other Reusable Bag
Green Lifestyle  (tags: children, conservation, design, eco-friendly, environment, family, food, garden, greenliving, home, humans, recycling, organic, sustainable )

Daphna
- 19 days ago - planetgreen.discovery.com
At this point you probably have so many reusable bags you're wondering how to reduce, reuse and recycle them. Ironic, right? Not as ironic as carrying a bunch of those to the farmers' market or the (health food) store and then loading them up
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Small Mobile Homes: Bike Trailers & Shopping Cart Campers
Green Lifestyle  (tags: architecture, coolstuff, design, eco-friendly, greenliving, home, humans, interesting, travel, shopping )

Daphna
- 21 days ago - dornob.com
From colorful paintings and detailed line drawings of delivery trucks and mobile homes to actual full-scale bike-and-shopping-cart camper construction projects, artist and designer Kevin Cyr seems (healthily) obsessed with portable housing and mobile liv
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Your Old Computer Could Be An Olympic Medal
Green Lifestyle  (tags: sustainable, recycling, humans, green, environment, eco-friendly, conservation, design )

Daphna
- 23 days ago - earth911.com
After a two-year-long design competition, the 2010 Winter Olympic medals have been chosen, and the design isn't the only cool part. Weighing in at a record 500-576 grams, the medals are made from recycled electronics.
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Rock the House: Bizarre Boulder-Based Stone Home Design
Green Lifestyle  (tags: architecture, design, family, greenliving, humans, home, organic )

Daphna
- 25 days ago - dornob.com
It seems too strange to be real - a home emerging from a set of giant stones, seemingly cut out of the rock itself. Yet there it stands in rural Portgual with the pictures and video to prove it. No, it is not an optical illusion nor a fancy photo-editing
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Earthship Makes Landfall in Nicaragua, Builds Town Out of Tires
Green Lifestyle  (tags: architecture, conservation, eco-friendly, design, environment, greenliving, home, humans, interesting, recycling, sustainable, world )

Daphna
- 29 days ago - treehugger.com
In the San Juan Del Sur region of Nicaragua, the famed Earthship crew, along with 13 Nicaraguans from the local community, created an entirely off-grid, sustainable community, titled Casa Llanta ("Tire House"). This is the first Earthship in Nicaragua and
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Peugeot 118 Miles Per Gal Leaning Fun Machine
Green Lifestyle  (tags: travel, sustainable, humans, greenliving, energy, eco-friendly, design, auto )

Daphna
- 45 days ago - gliving.com
Another Hybrid motorcycle type of vehicle, which just might appeal to the masses. This one comes from Peugeot. A fairly big automaker in Europe, has come up with the HYmotion3. This machine provides some protection from the weather with a glass canopy and
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15 Must-Read Books to Broaden Your View of the World | EcoSalon
Green Lifestyle  (tags: books, sustainable, humans, interesting, organic, health, greenliving, green, environment, eco-friendly, conservation, design, home, society )

Daphna
- 47 days ago - ecosalon.com
Some say print books are passÃ, but I still like curling up on the couch with a mind-expanding read. Here are my top picks for ecological and sustainable reading.
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Earth Architecture: 15 Mud & Dirt Buildings
Green Lifestyle  (tags: architecture, conservation, design, eco-friendly, environment, family, greenliving, green, home, humans, interesting, sustainable )

Daphna
- 47 days ago - webecoist.com
Earthen buildings come in a vast variety of shapes and sizes, made from materials like fired clay, compressed dirt and a mixture of clay, sand, straw and water. People have been using various forms of earth to build structures for centuries, from the trad
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Would You Pay $39.95 for a Light Bulb?
Green Lifestyle  (tags: LED, light, bulb, coolstuff, sustainable, energy, eco-friendly, conservation, green, home, interesting, technology, humans, environment, business, greenproducts, design, globalwarming, goodnews )

Tom
- 48 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Didn't think so. But what if it used 90% less electricity than a standard incandescent bulb, cut greenhouse gas emissions and saved you an estimated $280 over its 25-year lifespan? That's the challenge facing Dutch start-up Lemnis Lighting today.
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Free Heat From An Old Window And Some Soda Cans.
Green Lifestyle  (tags: sustainable, technology, recycling, humans, interesting, greenliving, green, eco-friendly, conservation, coolstuff, design, environment, greenproducts, home )

Daphna
- 55 days ago - ecotechdaily.com
That's it - it's basically a free heater. However, now you may be asking how/where it could be used? Well, what I was initially going to use it for was to heat my garage during the winter, so I could work out there all day without freezing to death. My pl
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13-Great-Solar-Concepts-Inspir ed-By-Plants
Green Lifestyle  (tags: Solar Power, eco-friendly, design, plants, lighting )

Mimi
- 56 days ago - treehugger.com
Some very nice ideas inspired by plants
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