recent posts Wild Recycling: Flush Away Cancer...
Wild Recycling: Flush Away Cancer
I’m always on the lookout for new ideas on how to recycle old toilets (like this and this) and “Flush Away Cancer” demonstrates wild and wonderful out-of-the-bowl thinking on creative loo reuse. Traveling Toilet photo via www.wbng.com For the Tri-Town (New York) Relay for Life, one team has conceived the hysterical “Traveling Toilet.” to raise funds. For a $10 donation,...
Headlines that Make Me Say, “Huh?”...
Headlines that Make Me Say, “Huh?”
South Haven officials, please get in touch. I believe I can help you unravel this perplexing mystery. Which begs the question: are there environmental problems in heaven? Lane County, how much of this is allocated for communications consultants? I know a good one and I’m pretty sure she can work within your budget. As you might have noted by the image watermarks, all from failpost.com.
Happy Fix a !$@# Leak Week...
Happy Fix a !$@# Leak Week
If you’re looking for a happy-clappy everything-went-perfect DIY inspirational story, better keep looking! (Although in this story, we do live happily ever after in the end.) For “Fix a Leak Week” I was armed and READY. Before we discovered it, our running toilet leak had caused us to lose about 6 gallons of water an hour, every single hour, around the clock…or, 144 gallons...
The Friday Fiver: Good Stuff You Missed This ...
The Friday Fiver: Good Stuff You Missed This Week
ONE: Ebay Water Item of the Week: Las Vegas Gaming Water Bottle Caddy $2.99. This is for all the folks who are ready to cast their chips on a Las Vegas water gamble! Winner takes all! TWO: Weird Water News Item of the week: Screenshot of video from www.wsvn.com From nbcmiami.com: A drunk Fort Lauderdale man had enough with the water bills on his mobile home, so he decided the only way to handle...
Austin, Beware of the Blob...
Austin, Beware of the Blob
Austin Water Utility demonstrates that slimy, greasy, fatty subject matter can really get the creative juices flowing!  “Stop the Grease Blob” sounds like a band playing at Austin’s SXSW, but is actually a video from the city’s campaign to alert customers to the horrifying consequences of putting greases and fats down the drain. We love the screaming females and melodramatic music....
recent from Water Music h2o mp3: Afraid of Water - Uranium Lake h2o mp3: Afraid of Water - Uranium Lake
Have you ever witnessed the sheer terror that envelopes a person as they anxiously declare, “I’M AFRAID OF WATER!” Of course you have, and that’s why “afraid of water” is such a visceral allegorical phrase to express unreasonable, overwhelming fear. This track cleverly employs the phrase to express an aversion people and social situations. This alt-pop group from Northwich/Manchester,...
recent from Newsworthy Grandeur in the Ocean Garbage Patch Grandeur in the Ocean Garbage Patch
This new awareness advert from Rise Above Plastics combines the ick factor of the ocean garbage patch with the majesty of a giant whale with predictably repugnant results. (From their website, we learn that “In some places of the Pacific Ocean, the amount of plastic suspended in the water outnumbers plankton six to one.”) Two other items on the Rise Above Plastics website that make us...
recent from Water Towers Barcelona Water Tower Brings On The Bling Barcelona Water Tower Brings On The Bling
Attention civic boosters, if your town’s pride-and-joy water tower is decorated with a flat, plain-Jane painted logo or mascot, imagine how something like this could help you hit the big time! Your town’s tower could display a sparkling digital media extravaganza worthy of a glamorous international destination like Barcelona in Spain! (Don’t fret over funding…a couple of bogus...
recent from Art and Water Yosemite February Fire Fall: A Hot Photo Op Yosemite February Fire Fall: A Hot Photo Op
It’s a good thing I read Aquafornia or I might never have known about the odd, rare and spectacular illusion known as the Yosemite “Fire Fall”… which actually involves no fire whatsoever. Left, Horsetail Falls-Yosemite, by dlr9000 on Flickr In Yosemite there is an almost non-existent waterfall called “Horsetail Falls.” During the last two weeks in February if conditions...
recent from Recycling and Reuse What Modern Water Engineers Can Learn from Ancient Infrastructure What Modern Water Engineers Can Learn from Ancient Infrastructure
From TED: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting: With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today — and are often superior to modern water...
recent from Bottled Water Moral Mayhem at Vancouver’s Mini-Bars! Moral Mayhem at Vancouver’s Mini-Bars!
Besides the Coca Cola/Dasani concession, where’s the least-likely place we’d expect to find tap water promoted during the Vancouver Olympic frenzy? Hotel mini-bars, you say? Photo via cbc.ca: A stainless steel refillable water bottle is featured prominently in mini-bars in Vancouver Well,...