I like this idea for an Easter egg receptacle. We’re going to be away from home this Easter and staying in a B&B, so this is a good idea for somewhere for the Easter Bunny to leave eggs for the children. It’s messy and a great kids’ craft and it’s made of stuff that is free, natural or would otherwise end up in the bin. For full instructions on how to make a bird’s nest, visit Growing Up Creative .
Tower City, another concept from the 2010 eVolo Skyscraper Competition , re-envisions the city of Marseilles as a stacked skyscraper that sits on stilts above the water.
Yesterday, Colorado’s state legislature finalized a bill to increase the state’s renewable energy standard to 30 percent by 2020. Colorado was one of the first states to adopt a renewable energy standard at all, committing in 2004 to get 10 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2015 and increasing that to 20 percent by 2020 in 2006. This latest measure puts the state right behind California, who has the highest standard at 33 percent by 2020. The bill also requires utilities to get 3 percent of their electricity from distributed sources like rooftop solar and other smaller wind and solar installations in order to give a boost to local renewable energy and construction companies. That requirement alone will be responsible for 1 GW of clean energy, save 6.8 billion gallons of water and reduce emissions by 30 million tons of CO2 a year
Olson Lewis Dioli & Doktor Architects recently shared their appreciation of upcycling with youngsters at the Brookwood School Sustainability Fair by teaching them how to turn trash into treasure. The firm taught children at the elementary school how to save simple wooden pallets from the incinerator and craft their very own bird abodes! The children were provided with a premade kit made from the wooden pallets, and had help from architects on the scene to piece the parts together
This photo, via The Telegraph , shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads. Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a botanical garden in South Africa. The species, cycads, is so old, in fact, that their broad ..
Most Americans would have a fit if their credit card or cell phone company sent a dollar amount at the end of the month with no itemized description to match.
Last week, we brought you news about Chef Daniel Angerer’s special cheese made from his wife’s breast milk , and boy did that open a can of worms ! While we expected knee-jerk ‘ EEEWWW ‘ reactions from people, we didn’t really imagine the extent to which people would get up in arms about breast milk cheese – something which in our minds is totally natural, organic, and not gross in the slightest. People got so concerned about the breastmilk cheese issue that apparently the New York Department of Health came to pay Angerer a visit over the weekend . Well you can rest assured that Angerer’s “ My Spouse’s Mommy Milk Cheese ” is not being sold to the public at his restaurant, Klee Brasserie – he confirmed that on the radio today.
The greater sage-grouse was deemed to be “warranted but precluded” by the U.S.
Photo: Jurvetson Telecom giant Nokia recently filed a patent for a cell phone powered by kinetic energy (one of our favorite kinds of energy here at Inhabitat!). The conceived phone would charge via built-in piezoelectric generators that will convert the user’s motions into power
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