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Empower the World’s Poorest Children Through Education!

On January 7, 2012 in Kids and Dogs, News, Products

Back in 2005, The New York Times called it “The laptop that will save the world”. In early 2012, this durable, new super-low cost tablet, the XO-3, will debut with a promised price-point of $75 for the nonprofit called One Laptop Per Child.

“A child can do anything to this software and never break it,” explains Walter Bender, a co-founder of OLPC and a former director of the MIT Media Lab that created Sugar, the XO’s user interface. “Why? When you make mistakes you’re learning. When you don’t, you’re being incremental. Yet if penalty is high for making mistakes, you stop taking risks, you stop learning. We try to give kids a safe place to do trial and error, to go out there and do it in a way they can’t screw up.” Continue Reading →

Green Renovating with Eco-Friendly Paint

On January 3, 2012 in Products

Trying to find a way to make your house beautiful? There are numerous ways to update an old home, but whether you’re tearing down walls or just adding a bit color, one thing you’ll definitely should use is paint.

Virtually countless paint choices fill the shelves of your local hardware store, so deciding on a healthy, dependable, and eco friendly paint can take a little bit of time, unless . . . you are equipped with the knowledge of a few key qualities that set eco paints apart from the rest. Before we dip our brushes into that bucket, let’s look at some reasons why run-of-the-mill paint might be hazardous to our health and to the environment. Continue Reading →

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Recycled-Content Picture Frames

On January 2, 2012 in Products

The work of collecting, sorting, and processing recycled materials only benefits the environment if those materials are manufactured into new products. But that won’t happen unless there’s a market for those new goods. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to find a recycled “alternative” for the item you need right now! We hope the following information helps you to “complete the loop” and purchase products with recycled content whenever possible.

Recycling on the one hand is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for “conventional” waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production. Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” waste hierarchy. Continue Reading →

Reduce Your Office’s Plastic Waste Immediately

On December 3, 2011 in Products

Now you can turn your water faucet into a drinking fountain. Yes here’s a way to hygienically drink or rinse your mouth straight from the tap with no more worry about dirty hands or cups.

Simply slide ‘Tapi’ on your water faucet, squeeze the bottom and the water will shoot up through it just like a drinking fountain. It’s so much fun, your kids will want to brush their teeth just so they can use it. Constructed of water-safe rubber that will never affect or change the taste of the water.

Fits onto almost any tap with a straight spout. Available here.

Price: $9.95 (set of two)

The Smarter and Faster Bottled Water Alternative

On November 1, 2011 in Products

More people these days are buying and consuming bottled water than ever before. In this ever more fast paced world we live in, even something as humble as H2O is getting its own gadgets.

The BIBO is a multi stage filtration system which offers both cold and hot water tap, 24/7, in a sleek, stylish package, designed to grace your possibly already gadget laden kitchen work surface. Continue Reading →

‘rememberme’ Chairs Made From Recycled Clothes

On August 14, 2011 in Products

German designer Tobias Juretzek uses a pile of old jeans and shirts to create his ‘rememberme’ furniture.

Description:

“What often intends to be forgotten in wardrobes and boxes, now is brought to light again. Worn-out clothes, still kept for emotional reasons, here draw a characteristic marking on the chairs. Like a kind of message in a bottle the furniture contains memories and a sense for stories revives in us. The chairs create a conceptual frame, lead the message to a new expression and present themselves in a particular way, giving another perspective to things in general. Continue Reading →

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