Six ingenious things to make from scraps
Breathe new life into old objects and reduce landfill waste by diverting leftover odds and ends that would be relegated to the dumpster into useful items.
Call it repurposing, call it recrafting, call it creative reuse, or call it trash transformed. No matter what you call it, this concept of “cradle to cradle” is one of the tenants of green living. It means that a product’s
The state of wildlife in the midst of a mass extinction (now)
Jeff Corwin is becoming the Everyman Indian Jones. Because he’s not just an “animal guy” anymore. And while his first MSNBC documentary, Future Earth: 100 Heartbeats, may have enough cute fuzzy animal appeal to woo doe-eyed animal lovers, the brutal scenes familiar to the nature show lineup don’t come from circling hyenas, but from us, whether we’re poachers in the African bush or simply shoppers
Mitsubishi develops EV charging system for apartment dwellers
Even as electric car technology hurtles forward, there are still challenges remaining as to how to integrate them into our society. How to make battery charging readily available to urban and apartment-dwelling drivers has been one of those challenges, but Mitsubishi has designed a system that could take care of that, at least for Japanese drivers.
Along with the Japan Delivery System Corporation, the auto company
