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...
San Antonio’s Mutant Ninja Sewer T...
San Antonio’s Mutant Ninja Sewer Turtle
From this angle, I can’t quite tell if this is Michaelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Donatello! A few mutant Ninja skills might have helped this fully grown, totally stuck turtle found trapped inside a Texas sewer pipe. The San Antonio Water System’s snaking sewer camera caught the oddball...
Is Water the Silver Lining in Every Clou...
Is Water the Silver Lining in Every Cloud?
After I posted the snickering, tongue-in-cheek writeup on the 1931 “fog farm” concept, Angela B. sent along (via inhabitat.com) information on this real and modern example of a “fog farm” from a sharp student with her head in the clouds, so to speak. For her final thesis in...
The Smart Set Always Heads for the Beach...
The Smart Set Always Heads for the Beach
I’m thinking (as I browse travel sites from ThirstyInSuburbia’s cold-gripped Midwest HQ) how people naturally seek out bodies of water. We are hopelessly drawn to it. Look at any map and note how the population clusters along oceans, rivers, coastlines or lakes. Is it part of our human nature...
Architects Gone Wild: Water Inspiration ...
Architects Gone Wild: Water Inspiration for Yeosu 2012
Big-time international design competitions encourage architects to “design and build feats of wonderment” and for the ocean-themed Yeosu, Korea World Expo 2012 (”The Living Ocean and Coast”) we can see what their creative imaginations might generate with water as a prime ingredient. MVRDV...
Inventors Imagine a Water-Grabbing Fog F...
Inventors Imagine a Water-Grabbing Fog Farm
This week a study revealed that California’s coastal fog has decreased significantly over the past 100 years, potentially endangering the state’s treasured coastal redwood trees. And that’s not all! It potentially endangers these old and passed-over ideas, too, as detailed in a June,...
10 More Weird Water Items for Sale on Eb...
10 More Weird Water Items for Sale on Ebay
The Thirsty in Suburbia Super Water Flea returns! Following are 10 more hand-picked examples of rare, unusual and weird water-related merch just waiting for your winning bid. (The Sept. 2009 edition is here.) 1. You always knew water tended to be political so how about this one that’s “the...
Nag About Water Savings the Modern, Twit...
Nag About Water Savings the Modern, Twitter Way
I’m old fashioned, I guess… my method of encouraging conservation around the house involves nag, nag and nag some more. I’ve seen the light though via Jason Garland (jgarland79water on Twitter). His spiffy new water meter keeps careful tabs on water use, then sends out a seemingly...
Polluters, Ye Shall Feel My Wrath...
Polluters, Ye Shall Feel My Wrath
Some of our brethern (and “cistern”) have had their faith tested…not in their religious beliefs, but in the safety of their local water supply. From Yahoo News, MOSCOW – More than 100 Russian Orthodox believers have been hospitalized after drinking holy water during Epiphany celebrations...
Vols Fan Wants to Give Kiffin Some Crap....
Vols Fan Wants to Give Kiffin Some Crap. Literally.
After just one season as head football coach at the University of Tennessee, the not-well-loved Lane Kiffin cut town for California to become the new head coach of the USC Trojans. Now, it’s backlash time! People around these parts hold a mighty tough grudge and don’t take kindly to a snub...

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