December 2010
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Flat Pack DIY Shoes from Unulife
From the UnuLife website:
These shoes are made from a single sheet of recycled leather and use neither glue nor stitching. They come flat-packed for self-assembly, ready to be folded together by hand. The shoes and all the packaging are both recycled and recyclable. Either as summer ‘scuff-arounds’ or household slippers, indoors or out, they’re comfortable and surprisingly durable.
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Flat Pack DIY Shoes from Unulife
From the UnuLife website:
These shoes are made from a single sheet of recycled leather and use neither glue nor stitching. They come flat-packed for self-assembly, ready to be folded together by hand. The shoes and all the packaging are both recycled and recyclable. Either as summer ‘scuff-arounds’ or household slippers, indoors or out, they’re comfortable and surprisingly durable.
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Amazon patents procedure to let recipients avoid... →
Mike Rosenwald reports that Amazon has quietly patented a process that intercepts gifts you don’t want and allows you to receive items you actually do want:
Amazon’s innovation, not ready for this Christmas season, includes an option to “Convert all gifts from Aunt Mildred,” the patent says. “For example, the user may specify such a rule because the user believes...
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Amazon patents procedure to let recipients avoid... →
Mike Rosenwald reports that Amazon has quietly patented a process that intercepts gifts you don’t want and allows you to receive items you actually do want:
Amazon’s innovation, not ready for this Christmas season, includes an option to “Convert all gifts from Aunt Mildred,” the patent says. “For example, the user may specify such a rule because the user believes...
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Time for happy returns? Here's a buncha barter...
I like the spin of this Metafilter post, “I got what you want and you got what I want lets trade!” seems like the perfect after-holiday sentiment, right?
Low on money, don’t despair, before money there was barter and you can still barter! Bartering for space. Bartering for the use of a car. Bartering food for pints of beer. Bartering books you’ve read for books you...
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Time for happy returns? Here's a buncha barter...
I like the spin of this Metafilter post, “I got what you want and you got what I want lets trade!” seems like the perfect after-holiday sentiment, right?
Low on money, don’t despair, before money there was barter and you can still barter! Bartering for space. Bartering for the use of a car. Bartering food for pints of beer. Bartering books you’ve read for books you...
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Buy Nothing Christmas
Culturejamming with the Adbusters gang [from the site]:
“With catastrophic climate change looming, we the rich one billion people on the planet have to consume less! And if that’s too extreme for grandma and the kids, try for a Buy Less Christmas. And maybe a buy local, buy fairer, buy indie Christmas. Whatever you decide, ‘tis the season to reclaim our year-end...
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Buy Nothing Christmas
Culturejamming with the Adbusters gang [from the site]:
“With catastrophic climate change looming, we the rich one billion people on the planet have to consume less! And if that’s too extreme for grandma and the kids, try for a Buy Less Christmas. And maybe a buy local, buy fairer, buy indie Christmas. Whatever you decide, ‘tis the season to reclaim our year-end...
Buy Nothing Christmas →
Culturejamming with the Adbusters gang [from the site]:
“With catastrophic climate change looming, we the rich one billion people on the planet have to consume less! And if that’s too extreme for grandma and the kids, try for a Buy Less Christmas. And maybe a buy local, buy fairer, buy indie Christmas. Whatever you decide, ‘tis the season to reclaim our year-end...
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General Motors … announced that it will repurpose 100 miles of oil-soaked plastic boom used during the Gulf oil spill into plastic parts for the Chevy Volt.
The use of booms from the Gulf oil spill is just the latest step GM has taken toward meeting its company-wide waste reduction goals. Earlier this month, GM announced that 52 percent of its global facilities have achieved landfill-free...
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General Motors … announced that it will repurpose 100 miles of oil-soaked plastic boom used during the Gulf oil spill into plastic parts for the Chevy Volt.
The use of booms from the Gulf oil spill is just the latest step GM has taken toward meeting its company-wide waste reduction goals. Earlier this month, GM announced that 52 percent of its global facilities have achieved landfill-free...
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