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Itty-Bitty Baths Inspire Daft Designs

August 3, 2010
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While urban dwellers enjoy ready access to city amenities, a trade-off is the distinctly urban micro-bath. Why, I could fit most of these city loos inside my obnoxious suburban garden [...]

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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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Water Economics for your Left Brain

April 15, 2010
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Water economics, the design version: visualeconomics.com presents us with some selected stats with pretty, colorful pictures…just the way we like it!

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Is Water the Silver Lining in Every Cloud?

February 27, 2010

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” [...]

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Groovy! Mid-Century Modern Water Storage

February 15, 2010
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If Mike Brady had designed water towers or water tanks, I imagine they’d have looked like this! These are pages from a 1965 promotional book from the Committee of Steel [...]

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When a Plain-Jane Rain Barrel Simply Won’t Do

October 19, 2009

Saving water is stylish now! And a consequence of that is more high-design products with which to stylishly save water! While that DIY-hacked, second-hand barrel you dragged from the dump [...]

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All the Hip Toilets are Wearing These

October 6, 2009

If you think there’s not much you can do with the bland look of white porcelain, the cooler-than-us people at Hu2 Design have come up with something affordable, impermanent and [...]

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Flying Water Catcher for the Futuristic Home

September 1, 2009

I hope I live long enough to own one of these! The fanciful Water Catcher, conceptualized by Penghao Shan from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China, is a finalist in the Electrolux [...]

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Awesome Trash for the Wardrobe Stash

July 20, 2009

I’d like to see Jennifer Aniston and her “Smartwater” go green on the red carpet in this. That way, she could look trashy in a positive way (and smarter, too!) [...]

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The Campaign for Lovely Carafes

May 27, 2009

Thankfully, many great campaigns are underway to get clean water to those who desperately need it. But what about getting water to those who need it in a chic, well-designed container? [...]

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