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  • The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills

    The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills Eliza Barclay, npr.org Sure­ly you’ve heard of crowd fund­ing sites like Kick­starter that have helped thou­sands of film­mak­ers, musi­cians and painters lever­age Face­book and Twit­ter to raise money for cre­ative projects. But crowd fund­ing isn’t just for hip­ste… http://flpbd.it/qq3h9 Related articles To Fund a Political…

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  • Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings

    Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com Online real estate ser­vice Zil­low is expand­ing its real estate list­ings today by adding “pre-market inven­to­ry” — specif­i­cal­ly, homes that have either been fore­closed or are in the fore­clo­sure process. Increas­ing the selec­tion of… http://flpbd.it/vNkbI Related articles No longer a…

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  • Etsy HQ breathing rooms and gross happiness

    Handmade Desks, “Breathing Rooms,” And Gross Happiness: Take A Look Inside Etsy HQ fastcocreate.com Beyond just quirk, crafty marketplace Etsy offers employes a green (B Corp certified) place to work where happiness is measured and learning is encouraged (two words: therapeutic doodling). Seven years into its exis­tence, the online hand­made a… http://flpbd.it/39vka Related articles Crafty…

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  • GMO in my foods: there’s an app for that

    An App To Tell You If There Are Genetically Modified Ingredients In Your Food BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com There are no laws that say companies have to tell you if they’re using genetically modified ingredients. If that doesn’t sit right with you, there’s now an app to help you sort out which foods’ genes have…

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  • The digital campaign

    The Digital Campaign: How Obama And Romney Are Targeting You Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Hors­es and bay­o­nets may have become the lat­est Inter­net meme to come from the last of the sur­pris­ing­ly comedic pres­i­den­tial debates (see also: binders), but as a metaphor for how candidates—who, as of yes­ter­day, were locked in a dead… http://flpbd.it/DViFx Related…

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  • Tradesy is an EBay for clothing hoarders

    Tradesy Brings New Life To Your Closet By Helping You Sell It To Others By Christina Chaey, fastcompany.com The secondhand fashion startup is streamlining the process of putting items up for sale to help you make more money in less time. Tradesy, an e-com­merce mobile app and web­site that launch­es today, is attempt­ing to take…

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  • It is possible to be a happy, financially stable freelancer

    How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talk­ing to cre­ative free­lancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeat­ed: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/Mtogd…

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  • Cocoon Tree: A Lightweight, Spherical Treehouse for Sustainable Living

    Lidija Grozdanic, inhabitat.com Read the rest of Cocoon Tree: A Light­weight, Spher­i­cal Tree­house for Sus­tain­able Liv­ing http://flpbd.it/dw1zk Cocoon Tree: A Lightweight, Spherical Treehouse for Sustainable Living Related articles Innovative Upcycling (creativefolkdesign.wordpress.com) Stilts: Inhabitat Monkeys Around in Sustainable Kenyan Treehouses (inhabitat.com) Cocoon Tree Tent (werd.com)

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  • The Farmery is a Farm and Market Set in Four Recycled Shipping Containers in North Carolina

    The Farmery is a Farm and Market Set in Four Recycled Shipping Containers in North Carolina Tafline Laylin, inhabitat.com The Famery has suc­cess­ful­ly raised $25,000 on Kick­starter to make this project a real­i­ty, so if you live in Raleigh, you’re in for a spe­cial treat. So far they have devel­oped two pro­to­types along with a…

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  • Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs

    Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Ben­son­wood’s Unity Homes fea­tures four dis­tinct home styles that are 2 to 4 bed­rooms and range in size from 1,113 to 2,452 sq ft. The home styles are called the Tradd (a clas­sic Tall Cape), Xyla (Amer­i­can Bun­ga­low), Värm (Swedish… http://flpbd.it/xGx3f Related articles Sunmodo…

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  • Super Tiny Whittled Down Caravan Home Comes with a Cat Observation Deck

    Super Tiny Whittled Down Caravan Home Comes with a Cat Observation Deck inhabitat.com We saw an array of amaz­ing home-made things at this year’s Maker Faire NYC, but one of the most impres­sive by far was the Whit­tled Down Car­a­van, a super tiny home on wheels. Built from scratch on top of a 4’ x…

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  • Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox

    Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox is a Tiny, Movable 3-Story Vertical Home Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Han Slawik based his Home­box on the ship­ping con­tain­er model for its trans­port capa­bil­i­ties, uni­ver­sal dimen­sions and use­ful­ness. But at the same time, wear, repair and main­te­nance of steel mate­ri­als is cost­ly, not to men­tion… http://flpbd.it/cSdov Related articles Starbucks Opens Drive-Thru Made…

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