Posted: January 30, 2010
Mark Boyle decided one day he was going to live a year without spending money on anything (though watching the video on site, he did spend money before starting on solar panels and long lasting tyres for his bike)
Despite the cold he manages well, he lives on items he finds in skips or in the [...]
Categories: Make a Difference Politics environment inspiration
Posted: January 29, 2010
A proposed 239-unit development in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley has yet to come to fruition, leaving an ugly, empty lot in its place. Seeing this, a group of enterprising citygoers have decided to turn the lot into Hayes Valley Farm, an education and research project sponsored by the San Francisco Parks Trust.
Original Source: San Franciscans [...]
Categories: Food Make a Difference Travel environment inspiration
Posted: January 26, 2010
Washington D.C.’s first-of-its-kind tax on disposable bags made quite a splash a week or so ago. Now the District is trying to figure out what exactly it did. From The Washington Post:
But the law has resulted in widespread confusion about which stores have to charge for bags.
The proposed regulations, which will become law following a [...]
Categories: Make a Difference Politics environment
Posted: January 19, 2010
Turbines, more than 100 feet tall, were installed last year in 11 Minnesota cities to provide power, and also to serve as educational symbols in a state that has mandated that a quarter of its electricity come from renewable resources by 2025.
One problem, though: The windmills, supposed to go online this winter, mostly just sat [...]
Categories: Make a Difference environment
Posted: January 14, 2010
The Color Dial Spray takes a greener approach to graffiti and spray cans. Essentially a refillable spray can, it stores CMYK colours, which can be mixed to create virtually any shade of any color. It even has two dials on the top, which adjust the hue and brightness of the color.
Categories: Art environment
Posted: December 11, 2009
The Iceberg Cometh via Telegraph
A massive iceberg twice the size of Manhattan is headed for Australia’s southwestern coast, threatening shipping lanes in the Pacific.
The “superberg,” called B17B, is roughly 1,000 miles off the coast of Australia and headed for warmer waters, where it will likely [...]
Categories: Really? environment
Posted: November 13, 2009
Categories: Really? Sports environment
Posted: November 1, 2009
Produced by Ken Kokin (Usual Suspects and Sundance Winner, Public Access), the TOMS Shoe Drop experience is beautifully documented to reflect the One for One mission.
Categories: Clothing Fashion Make a Difference Peace environment
Posted: October 27, 2009
1. Eating a hamburger a day could increase a person’s risk of dying by a third from cancer, heart disease, stroke and the list goes on.
This conclusion comes from the Meat Intake and Mortality study, a prospective (meaning in real time) study that looked at data from over half a million people in a ten-year [...]
Categories: Food Really? environment
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