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NY Spending

Well, neither of these are particularly recent stories, but I was just going through a list of things I meant to blog about last month and never got around to.
I figure posting them together with some related topic will work for now. As for the others, I figure there is a reason I didn’t [...]

Hate to Say: “I Told You So, But…”

I know you all thought my ranting about the Green Movement (1, 2, 3 to name a few) and lack of sincerity behind it was just that, ranting. But look around now. After all the fuss that was made back in May and June about how important it is in this day and age to [...]

Non-Electric Catalog

I don’t even know exactly how to tag this one- Is it “Green?” Maybe “Nostalgia?” Do we have an “Irony” tag?
I present to you Lehman’s Catalog, for all your non-electric device needs. Lehman’s was “Founded by Jay Lehman in 1955 to serve the local Amish and others without electricity, Lehman’s ships old-fashioned, high-quality merchandise [...]

TV Stand

Have you ever noticed when you buy something like a television it has a ton of extra packaging, a bunch of oddly shaped styrofoam pieces that never quite fit back in the same way and just end up in the trash.
Well one designer has tackled this problem, designing packaging for flat screen televisions that can [...]

Green Website

Ok, well that title just doesn’t seem right, especially when the website in question is Blackle.
Blackle is the first website designed keeping a green ideology in mind. Based on the Google model (and even using the Google search engine) but with slightly less functionality (no image search, maps, etc.) Blackle is a search engine with [...]

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