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Chart: Summer Suffering in the Midwest

July 8, 2010
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It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity! Oh dear, we’re at it again… instead of producing revenue or creating other things of value, I’m creating more fake charts for our [...]

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Its High Time We Soaked Pot

August 4, 2009

Dry times. Our regionally-inappropriate potted plants are screaming for moisture and we’re darn tired of constantly dragging around that watering can and hose, splashing, spilling and transpirating all that good [...]

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Please, Give It A Second Thought

June 4, 2009

This double-taker was spotted at my local drugstore. Propel declares their product is now delivered with 33% less plastic. The proud declaration is displayed on a big, colorful hunk of…. plastic. [...]

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Beware the Ecological Inspector

April 18, 2009

Please recycle your recyclables in the recycled container? All these -cycles are leaving me tongue-tied! Nice shot from laraine on Flickr, who snapped this photo in a large park in [...]

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Smoke on the Water

April 2, 2009

High praise for this creative packaging! I regret that I am unable to translate the Chinese label for you, as you’re likely as curious as I am about the production [...]

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Post-Festival Fate of the Metheun Tree

February 18, 2009

Sometimes I’d just stare and think…I wonder what’s become of her? Just a couple months ago we wrote about plastic bottle holiday trees, including this recyclarific example from the 2008 Methuen (Massachussetts) [...]

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Creative Thinkers Hit the Bottle

February 2, 2009

www.instructables.com, in partnershp with Tap’dNY, is running a “Keep the Bottle” Contest calling for great ideas to recycle and reuse plastic bottles. Tap’d is an organization that has been very [...]

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The aesthetics of recycling: Water bottles take flight

October 27, 2008

Bruce Voyce is a sculptor from Vancouver B.C., Canada and in his Water Project, “the office water bottle is being transformed into a fantastic interactive world of wonder.” I am [...]

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The aesthetics of recycling: Blooms

October 24, 2008

Behold the beauty that lies in your waste bin. These ethereal blooms are made from water bottles by RodPujante. Amazingly, he uses no glue or fasteners, just the repurposed bottles. [...]

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The aesthetics of recycling: Water Bottle Waterfall

October 12, 2008

If you were at the Nuit Blanche Festival in Toronto, October 4-5, 2008, you’d have been fortunate to have viewed this spectacular installation. “Waterfall” by Katherine Harvey is described as [...]

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