Daily Music
Rough Exchanges by Resident Peasant
ShareResident Peasant, I’m digging you! Soft melodies intertwined with experimental indie folk I don’t think I could even come up with a better Monday work mix. If you haven’t taken the time to listen to this folk based band make sure you do and let them know what you think. Their full album is available [...]
Welcome Home, Radical Face
ShareWelcome Home by Radical Face probably isn’t anything new for many of you but I had to post it anyway. The actual music video is pretty darn cool however that isn’t when the song really moved up my list. Used in the Video Framed by Andi Wittmann Welcome Home took on a whole new meaning [...]
Bizness, Tune-Yards
Share Bizness is from Tune-Yards second alubm whokill released on April 18th 2011. There style is different, instrumentals completely solid, and a singer that gives you jam that you want to sing when you’re sitting during a meeting at work.
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Energy and Money saving Gadget
Share There’s mint.com and other sites out there to help you get as much data as possible on your finances to help you save money. Now there’s a device that was just release by Microsoft Hohm that allows home owners to see how much energy they’re consuming in near-time (every 15 seconds). By enabling devise [...]
Read MoreClever Triennial Entries Dispaly Energy Consumption In A New Light
Share In previous posts I’ve talked about interesting ways to save money such as Prison Pedal Vision Saving Energy and Helping Inmates Loose Weight but very little has been done to creatively display your energy consumption. Lately energy monitors have released great near time devices however they just split the information into a bar graph [...]
Read MoreTransformer Furniture: More Than Meets The Eye
Share Ok the title is a little cheese, but today I’m pretty crammed and I didn’t have too much time to think the title over. In a previous post “A Tiny Apartment Transforms into 24 Rooms” an architect in China created a 300 square foot apartment into an enjoy transforming living space. Today I ran [...]
Read More$30 Million Granted To Protect And Restore The Puget Sound
Share (Seattle—July 6, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is announcing nearly $30 million dollars in federal grants today to help protect and restore Puget Sound. The funds are the latest infusion of federal dollars in an ongoing effort to address decades of industrial contamination, urban pollution and habitat alteration in Puget Sound. The grants are [...]
Read MoreThe Importance Of Story Telling; Manufactured Landscapes
Share Manufactured landscapes has been out for three years but I wanted to revisit it for people who haven’t had the time to watch this movie. You’ll see in the trailer the opening tracking shot through a Chinese factory where 23,000 employees make most of the world’s irons is absolutely mind boggling. The pictures, video and stories [...]
Read MoreLife Box
Share How many trees are wasted for cardboard boxes? Moreover, how many packages do you receive have multiple boxes when you order something online? Well mycologist and mycomimicry Paul Stamets has an innovative solution that allows you to simply put your cardboard box I the nearest plot of soil to start growing baby trees. Paul [...]
Read MoreGov. Gregoire announces plan to launch nation’s first electric highway
Share One of the biggest barriers for electric vehicles (EV) face is how far they can go on a single charge. If you’re driving 20 miles each way for your daily commute a 100 mile charge doesn’t give you too much flexibility to go other places without recharging. This wouldn’t be much of a problem [...]
Read MoreOh-No-Costco Wholesale Ocean Destruction
Share Costco! Just say NO to wholesale ocean destruction The Costco sustainable seafood toolkit was sent to me by Greenpeace yesterday and now I’m relaying the information to you. The cause is a great cause but the campaign Greenpeace put together is a little pieced milled. In a previous post Environmentalist Pointing Fingers Again! At [...]
Read MoreEnvironmentalist Pointing Fingers Again! At Least This Time It’s Pretty Funny
Share In a previous post Environmentalist Love To Point Fingers But Hate When Others Point Back I coverd how environmentalist usually will point the darker sides out in others however, they’ll rarely talk about when they have been wrong. Today is another great example of how environmentalist go for the low blow but at least [...]
Read MoreEPA Releases First Round of Toxicity Testing Data for Eight Oil Dispersants
Share Earlier today I posted the announcement that a phone call will be happening with the EPA and BP announcing the first round of toxicity data from the oil dipersants in the gulf. Here are the notes from the phone call that the EPA had with the press today. WASHINGTON —The US Environmental Protection Agency [...]
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