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Category: Systems Science

Sauna Savu – Modular Design sauna

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Tetra-Shed: An office pod for your backyard

(via Tetra-Shed: An office pod for your backyard (and more)) Related articles Have Supernova 2, skint, do I need a Tetra? (gearslutz.com) Using Metal Sheds To Add Storage Space To Your Backyard (athomesense.com) First Solar Will Target Japanese Rooftops With TetraSun Purchase – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) Why Your Home Office Should Be In The Backyard (forbes.com)…
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Swamp Thing

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The Guerrilla Gardening Home Page

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Toss the brush and throw robot Mirra in your pool

Toss the brush and throw robot Mirra in your pool by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com iRobot’s latest pool cleaner can filter more than 4,000 gallons per hour. It’ll help you be lazier for a cool $1,300. LAS VEGAS—I used to try cleaning my godmother’s pool with long, unwieldy nets and hoses, and always gave up in……
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Sarah Palin, fruit flies and science funding

The Fiscal Cliff Is Forcing a Biomedical Day of Reckoning Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke TimmermanSarah Palin, the onetime candidate for the second-highest elected office in the U.S., once delivered a rant on the campaign trail about waste she perceived in federal support of fruit fly research.Scientists everywhere were… http://flip.it/DNFcj Related articles Watch the Palin Turkey…
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NYC emerging as a social tech startup powerhouse

Why 2013 Will Be a Big Year for NYC’s Tech Start-Ups! Alan McGlade, forbes.com New York City has a thriving start-up scene and now is firmly established as the number two innovation center behind Silicon Valley. The ramp in momentum can be felt across the city landscape from the mayor’s office where Michael… RT @flipboardtech:…
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Why Straight Talk is the best iPhone plan for information and knowledge workers

Since most information and knowledge workers don’t spend nearly as much time chatting on a phone these days as managing data in other forms (email, messages, sites, social media), it increasingly makes little sense to spend the thousands of dollars a year charged by major carriers for a their phone services. Fortunately, some smaller companies…
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Straight Talk and other pay as you go iPhone carriers

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Vietnamese architect designs $4000 houses for low income families

For Less Than $4,000, A Permanent Home For Low-Income Families By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A young Vietnamese architect works to solve a growing problem for families along the Mekong Delta. Designing low-cost housing is a series of compromises between dignity and pragmatism, a dance between what a family needs and what it c… RT @FastCoDesign:…
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Small ship stoves for caravans

shipmatestove.com • Classic fisherman’s cast iron wood or coal boat stove. • Intended for boats between 20’ and 45’. Could also be used as supplemental space heating on larger boats… cabins, pilothouses or salons. • Stainless steel sea rail standard. • Two… ShipMate Stove Company Inc. – your source for classic solid fuel boat…
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Field lab in the desert

The Field Lab – Extremely Sustainable Homestead Michael Janzen, tinyhousedesign.com The Field Lab, also known as the Southwest Texas Alternative Energy And Sustainable Living Field Laboratory, is the 40-acre desert homestead of John Wells. John had been living in upstate New York for years but had a bit of… The Field Lab – Extremely Sustainable…
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