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Coming soon – your hab

James and his pod

This time next year you could be ordering cardboad accomodation from MyHab. A product design student from the UK won a design prize sponsored by steel company Corus for an inspired temporary habitat to be used at music festivals. James Dunlop who completed a three year ‘Creative Product Design’ Course intends to sell the pods for $120 each and is testing them at a number of festivals this year. My.Hab consists of two recycled plastic components which hold in place a weather treated cardboard skin.”…

August 13, 2007 1 Comment

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Auto dweller denies he

An eccentric Brit living in a Land Rover in New Zealand has denied wild speculation that he is Lord Lucan, the missing peer whose disappearance sparked an international manhunt 20 years ago after the death of his nanny.…

August 10, 2007 No Comments

How to live a low-carbon life

A leading environmentalist has calculated that walking to the shops…

August 9, 2007 No Comments

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McDonalds switch to used cooking oil

They want your grease

After a successful trial in the Netherlands, hamburger chain McDonalds will power all its UK delivery trucks with cooking oil by the year end. The 155 trucks will run on biodiesel made entirely from used oil collected from the burger bars.

The UK trucks will initially use a blend of 85 per cent biodiesel and 15 per cent rapeseed oil. The move is further evidence of the long-lasting effect of the anti-McDonalds campaign a decade ago. Many of the leaders of that group are now living off-grid in Steward Wood, Devon.…

July 2, 2007 1 Comment

Off-Grid 101

How to live off-grid in Manhattan

Descriptions of ways to survive free or very cheap in the most expensive city…

May 11, 2007 No Comments

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Urban Sea of Green

Green Roofs currently sweeping across Europe inverts our spatial perception by taking vegetation from the ground to the rooftops. Aside from their ecological benefits, nobody would deny the aesthetic improvement of replacing an ugly old rooftop with a floral delight…

April 22, 2007 No Comments