Category: Systems Science

  • GoodEggs fixes food system

    GoodEggs raises $8.5M to fix our food system one egg at a time Rebecca Grant, venturebeat.com If you are a nut for raw nuts, a grass-fed guru, an organ­ic ora­cle, a local-food loon, or a farm­ers mar­ket fiend, today is a good day. Good­Eg­gs has raised $8.5 mil­lion to expand its local gro­cery deliv­ery ser­vice…

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  • Gourmet chickens fed gourmet chicken scraps

    Gourmet restaurants are making gourmet chickens by feeding them gourmet leftovers Sarah Laskow, grist.org The gourmet food company D’Artagnan has come up with an ingenious (or creepy, depending on your perspective on these sorts of things) plan for recycling kitchen scraps from high-end restaurants like Per Se and Gramercy Tavern, the New York… http://flip.it/ovB3j Related…

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  • The secret life of car sharing

    The secret, sordid lives of shared cars Greg Hanscom, grist.org ShutterstockThis Frasier reunion show isn’t going to tape itself — better step on it.So you want to share your car. You’ve got a plan to rent it out during your off-hours. Good on you: You might help a few of your neighbors get by without……

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  • Site ranks car green metrics

    How green is that new car you’re eyeing? This site is the easiest way to find out Sarah Laskow, grist.org Americans may be driving less, but there are still more than 230 million cars cruising around the U.S. And sometimes those cars break down or get old and their owners want to buy a new…

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  • Economic Plancha cook stove

    EcoZoom Plancha Cook Stove Kent Griswold, tinyhouseblog.com Tom Pritchard from EcoZoom located in Oregon contacted me a while back about their wood cooking stove called the EcoZoom Plancha. He thought the owners of tiny houses might be interested in the stove and asked me to review it.The sto… http://flip.it/BjZo6 Related articles Survival Friday: One Log…

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  • Oorja biomass stove

    Oorja Biomass Pellet Stove at werd.com werd.com Oorja Bio­mass Pel­let Stove Green Prod­uct In the past few years pel­let stoves for home heat­ing have rev­o­lu­tion­ized the way peo­ple keep warm by burn­ing renew­ables. They’re more effi­cient and t … http://flip.it/wVR2q Related articles Wood Pellet Burner the new Green way to Heat (airiernatura1.wordpress.com) Wood-Pellet Bonds Show…

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  • Build your own evaporative cooler

    How to Build an Evaporative Cooler Christin, wordpress.com Portable Swamp Cooler. Click for larger image.How to build a low-cost 12 volt evaporative cooler. My husband and I built two swamp coolers that we use to air condition our tent when we camp in hot, dry weather at Burning Man. These compact units b… http://flip.it/sqcvn Related…

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  • 1/3rd of food wasted worldwide

    (via One-third of food wasted worldwide, U.N. says – latimes.com)

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  • Tear out your lawn and get rich

    Get Rich Quick by Tearing Up Your Lawn by Tim Layton, popularmechanics.com DIY Central moonlightbulb/Flickr If you live in Los Ange­les, you might be able to earn a few extra bucks and leave behind the dread­ed job of mow­ing the lawn in one fell swoop. The Los Ange­les Depart­ment of Water and Power (LADWP) h……

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  • Natural, biological swimming pools

    Don’t You Wish You Were In One of These Beautiful Natural Pools? Eric Limer, gizmodo.com You’d be crazy not to love stark, modern design like the stunning Tangga House, but the natural look can be beautiful too. Take these awesome man-made pond pools from Water House for example. You can’t tell me you don’t want…

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  • Specialized turbo

    Specialized Turbo: Powerful Electric Bike Makes Cycling No Sweat Sam Laird, mashable.com The Specialized Turbo may represent the future of personal urban transport. The electric bike that hit the American market this year looks sleeker than its clunkier competitors, has the speed to easily pass cars on streets and offers the off-road… http://flip.it/jjeYS Related articles…

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