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  • Best Cheap Vacuum

    Alexander George, thewirecutter.com If I were buy­ing a vac­u­um on a bud­get, I’d get the Pana­son­ic MC-UL815. At $150, you get fea­tures and suc­tion power equal to or bet­ter than that of more expen­sive mod­els. (Last Updat­ed Sep­tem­ber 21, 2012: We’ve had a few requests… Best Cheap Vacuum | The Wirecutter http://flip.it/1bnMu http://flip.it/1AXiL Best Cheap…

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  • ECO-FRIENDLY LED LIGHTING & SUSTAINABLE LIGHTING DESIGN – PRODUCTS

    luminair.co.uk LUMI­NAIR TREE TENTS Lumi­nair Tree Tents – Sus­tain­able, Low-Impact Shel­ters. DOWN­LOAD PDF or click the arrow keys for more. LUMI­NAIR TREE TENTS Lumi­nair Tree Tents – Sus­tain­able, Low-Impact Shel­ters. DOWN­LOAD… LUMINAIR LTD – ECO-FRIENDLY LED LIGHTING & SUSTAINABLE LIGHTING DESIGN – PRODUCTS http://flip.it/M1DrN http://flip.it/wh11s ECO-FRIENDLY LED LIGHTING & SUSTAINABLE LIGHTING DESIGN – PRODUCTS Related…

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  • A database of US factories and things for makers

    A Journey Towards Local Manufacturing, Part 2: Maker’s Row, a Database of American Factories and What They Can Do for You core77.com Where would we be without the connective tissue that is the Internet? Amazon connects buyers and sellers. eBay lets us transfer junk from one person’s basement to another. Twitter lets ordinary citizens know…

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  • Soma Compost able water filter

    Soma: Drink Better Water with a 100% Compostable Filter core77.com I’m sure I’m not the only person who hides the Brita when company comes over and feels terribly guilty tossing those carbon-filled plastic filters every couple of months. In fact, it’s always been a bit of a mystery to me why there wasn’t a… RT…

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  • Biomimetic design kick starts

    Kickstart a Voronoi Design App for Biomimetic Bookshelves and More core77.com Last weekend, New York saw the opening of its first ever Museum of Math (MoMATH)—the first one in the States—which, for all its kid-friendly attractions, probably doesn’t delve into higher-order phenomena such as, say, Voronoi diagrams, in which a… RT @core77: Kickstart a Voronoi…

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  • UX phenotype: off the grid

    Core77’s Seven Designer Phenotypes: #7 – Off the Grid core77.com Off the GridHabitat: Undisclosed. But you would be uncomfortable therePlumage: All-weather, lightweight, durable & shockingly expensiveAttributes: Secret Stash of Granola, Digital Compass, Dedicated GPS device. Spends a… RT @core77: Get all of the things you need to get away from it all…: http://flip.it/c7aVZ http://flip.it/piT5o Related…

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  • Plenty of Color and Lots of Personality: The Offices of Shopify

      lifehacker.com Adam Dachis View Profile • Email • Facebook • Twitter • Google Plus • RSS Work can be a lot more fun when your office inspires it, and that’s cer­tain­ly the case with Shopi­fy. They took an ordi­nary series of work­space… Plenty of Color and Lots of Personality: The Offices of Shopify http://flip.it/7avDp…

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  • Pesticides in tap water and allergies

    Pesticides In Tap Water Linked To Rise In Food Allergies Morgana Matus, inhabitots.com Image courtesy of ShutterstockWhen planning a meal for a playdate or birthday party, it seems you always have to be aware of a food allergy for at least someone in you child’s friend group. According to the Centers for Disease Control and……

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  • Drop Eco hotel for modern nomad

    The DROP Eco-Hotel is a Portable Prefab Pod Home for the Modern Nomad Mike Chino, inhabitat.com In-Tenta designed the DROP Eco-Hotel to provide a mobile dwelling for modern nomads. The prefabricated structure consists of a central tube capped on either end by big fully operable bubble windows that provide natural ventilation. The pod hotel i……

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  • Americans have too much stuff

    UCLA Researchers Find American Families Have Too Much Stuff and Too Little Time inhabitots.com Fam­i­lies drown­ing in too much stuff is the focus of a new book, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Cen­tu­ry: 32 Fam­i­lies Open Their Doors, by researchers at UCLA’s Cen­ter on Every­day Lives of Fam­i­lies (CELF). To get infor­ma­tion fo… RT…

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  • Waldorf education for enviro education

    Why Waldorf Education Is A Great Choice For Environmentally Conscious Parents inhabitots.com Find­ing decent edu­ca­tion options for your kids is no doubt one of the most chal­leng­ing and frus­trat­ing aspects of being a par­ent in today’s soci­ety; and we’ve spent a lot of time on Inhab­itots with our Green Edu­ca­tion Series, try­ing t… RT @inhabitat:…

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  • Otter wax DIY Eco water repellant

    Make Your Own Water-Repellent Canvas With Otter Wax’s All-Natural Bar ecouterre.com Trans­form your favorite shoes, shirts, and jack­ets into heavy-duty, water-repelling work­wear with Otter Wax, an all-natural, non­tox­ic bar derived from humane­ly and sus­tain­ably derived beeswax, lano­lin (extract­ed from wool), and plant-bas… RT @inhabitat: Turn your favorite shoes, shirts, and jackets into heavy duty, water-repelling…

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