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A conference which should be highly relevant to all building, environment and garden-related project professionals will be held twice this year in Singapore, first from the 19th to...+ Full Story |
Planning for the Third MillenniumClaude Fisli "I never think about the future. It comes soon enough," said Albert Einstein, one of this century's greatest thinkers. But he made this comment in 1930, when the 21st...+ Full Story |
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While these environmentally noxious fossil fuel industries (oil, gas, coal) are making record-breaking profits, one has to wonder why government subsidizes these established and very profitable industries with billions of dollars in corporate welfare... (oh that's right, petroleum owns all our politicians).
That goes a long way towards explaing why the solar energy industry gets so little in government subsidies - an inexhaustible resource able to provide most of the energy needed for a sustainable future if it were only to be properly developed. This makes no sense at all, we should be investing in developing new technologies, not giving cash giveaways to prop up the most profitable industry on the planet!
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Innovating new material from Kulla Design Studio: 50% sawdust
Saturday, 31 March 2012 12:41 | 
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"Paper or plastic?" I was constantly asking way back in 1985, when I was working as a bagboy in an Alpha Beta grocery store. I worked there during the year the now ubiquitous plastic bags were introduced and people would usually tell me "Both.".
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Fast forward a couple decades, and a bright light appears, this one again combining wood pulp and plastic bags. It's called '50% sawdust' and is the invention of Israeli-based Kulla Design Studio who came up with it when developing a new design method, during the material research phase, when two different worlds of waste: wooden sawdust and plastic bags were combined in a very innovative way.
Born of their desire to find new uses for the common waste products sawdust and plastic bags, by combining the two materials they have found an interesting new aesthetic quality with an almost unlimited range of applications. As you can see in these images (courtesy of Kulla Design Studio), they have created a method to fuse together plastic shreds with post-industrial wooden sawdust to create a new material, all without the need of any chemical adhesives.
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This process to create '50% sawdust' involved making a mixture consisting of equal parts shredded plastic mixed with wood sawdust, and pressure forming it in an aluminum mold, and then baking it, where the high temperatures melt the plastic to act as a resin that holds the materials together. What you end up with is strong, structurally sound material, with an interesting new aesthetic, giving new life to materials which would otherwise end up in landfills or worse, the environment.
Watch now as Kulla Design Studio fashions there new 'afterlife'
material into a hip and cool stool.
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'50% sawdust' stool
'50% sawdust' stool disassembled and ready for sale
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How to make Moss Graffiti
Wednesday, 07 March 2012 04:03 | Written by Thinknovation | | |
Forget harmful gassy spraycans that really just make a nasty eyesore...
Make your mark on your community with some groovy moss graffiti and help reduce your carbon footprint at the same time!
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How a global epidemic can ruin your day
Saturday, 25 February 2012 16:14 | Written by Joe Bodia | | |
"Contagion," the new film from Warner Bros. and Participant Media, looks at the consequences of an infectious virus creating havoc in the human population. But, how do viruses affect humans and what causes worldwide pandemics? Watch this video to get the answer and learn more about how to stay prepared at www.takepart.com/contagion
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