August 2009
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July 2009
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Jul 31st
“Shawn Saylor of Hillcrest Saylor Farm in Rockwood, Pennsylvania has saved...”
– Turning Waste into Windfall on Earth Industry
Jul 31st
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Meet the trashies « everydaytrash →
Trash Talk: “Next Saturday from 1-3pm, us guys truly [The Everyday Trash team] will be giving a talk and leading an interactive discussion on trash and the Internet at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, Queens.”
Jul 27th
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“The researchers, part of M.I.T.’s Senseable City Lab, have developed...”
– Where, Exactly, Does Your Garbage Go After You Toss It out?: Scientific American. Via Freakonomics.
Jul 22nd
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WatchWatch
Design Observer: “Beat This! “Victory Over Plastic Bags.” Video celebrates the creation of 2000 djembé drums in West Africa from 20 tons of plastic trash.”
Jul 21st
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Will the Recession Kill Recycling? →
“If recycling is to really work, several issues need to be straightened out: Landfilling must become more expensive, recycling must involve cheaper processes, and recycling credits should be traded. Those three things could make this crucial industry recession-proof.”
Jul 14th
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“Will recycling urine into drinking water solve the problem of water scarcity?”
– File under “extreme reuse”? Pee Totaler | GOOD
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Gadgets Show How Much Power Your House Eats -... →
Potentially handy unconsumption tools? I admit, I’m curious & interested. May have to try one of these gadgets.
Jul 10th
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Jul 9th
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Beginnings Nursery School Wants What You Don’t →
“As the New York Times reported last month, the Beginnings Nursery endeavours to get their youngsters engaging with a wide range of reused and repurposed materials. Their newly renovated loft has become a Materials Center holding a wealth of society’s discards that are perfect for young children. “With their strong inclination towards symbolic play and their tendency to transform objects...
Jul 8th
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Street Farmer - NYTimes.com →
The unconsumption link is a little tenuous — but the guy does make good use of composting. And it’s a worthwhile article.
Jul 8th
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Jul 7th
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Money and Happiness
From a new study on Consumption and Happiness: Items that were found to both be expensive and bring happiness: “• Houses. Everybody loved their house. A major source of comfort, stability, good family times, aesthetic autonomy. • Higher education: Most remembered college very fondly as an intellectual and social high point of their lives. • Travel, especially foreign holidays, family...
Jul 6th
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unconsumption / Blue jeans (denim) →
What to do with old jeans? One of your Unconsumption Tumblr contributors has worn so many holes in a couple of pairs of old jeans that they are now unwearable in any form (cutoffs etc.). Reluctance to chuck them in the trash led to Google, which resulted in a few tentative findings to be found on this page of the Unconsumption wiki. But utlimately the results were unsatisfactory: Some outfits...
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Top 5 Things You Didn't Know You Could Compost |... →
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“[James Kunstler] said we should stop calling Americans ‘consumers.’ ...”
– Reported from a meeting on peak oil by Joe Romm for Worldchanging.org.
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