Check out this fun way to get your kids to clean up the plastic bottles at the beach or park. This plastic octopus (actually it has six legs so it is more of a sextopus) has no legs until you attach "found" plastic bottles to it. Buy this for "hours of fun" at the beach. [...]
Check out this fun way to get your kids to clean up the plastic bottles at the beach or park. This plastic octopus (actually it has six legs so it is more of a sextopus) has no legs until you attach "found" plastic bottles to it. Buy this for "hours of fun" at the beach.
I wonder how many plastic bottles need to be collected to make up for the production of the plastic octopus?
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I am oftentimes skeptical about the myriad of lists one can find out there covering everything from foreclosure rates in metro areas to best cities to fall in love. I have a hard time with most of these rankings because I am a big fan of quantifying results before something is published as truth and [...]
All Paper Recycling, Inc. has created a product called Shetka Stone that can be used for a variety of uses including countertops, fabricated panels, benches and tile. Shetkastone is made from100% pre and post consumer waste paper, including counterfeit money and phone books. The material is scratch, stain, and water resistant and [...]
”to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible“ -Definition ‘Optimize’
The National Aquatic Center in Beijing achieves sustainability through the optimization and integration of its structure, envelope, and building systems. In doing so it tells the story of how a little known problem of theoretical physics, Kelvin’s Conjecture, influenced the design of a prominent international [...]
Recently I had the benefit of sitting in on lecture about using plants to treat environmental problems. The lecture was given by Dr. Lee A. Newman, who has been conducting research in the area of phytoremediation for the past 16 years. Her work at the University of South Carolina focuses on using plants [...]
An exhibit on the effects of Climate Change opens tommorow at the Museum of Natural History in New York and runs through August 16, 2009.
“Climate Change will use realistic dioramas, hands-on activity stations, and dynamic animations to understand the climate’s response to the build-up of greenhouse gases and explore the repercussions for today’s world and [...]
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Darragh, This is a great product. I think it would take thousands of octopus bottle creatures to clean up Baltimore’s Inner Harbor though…