Category Archives: Not Quite What It Seems

Smaller Grids = Better Efficiency

By kimba | Published: February 17, 2009
With all of the talk these days, finally, of creating a new, alternative, energy grid, I began to think about what this grid was going to look like. And that worries me. I know that it takes great effort on the part of most people to see, or even comprehend, the value of the desert. I [...]
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Laid-Off? Open A Thrift Store!

By kimba | Published: February 7, 2009
With the news that there were just about 600,000 people in the US laid-off last month, I started thinking of ideas for new ways to make cash in a cash-strapped world. When money gets tight, people will start recycling their stuff – donating and buying to and from places like GoodWill, selling off the antiques to [...]
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Janine Benyus: 12 Sustainable Design Ideas From Nature

By kimba | Published: January 31, 2009
This TEDtalk is four years old, but is still, and probably always will be, relevant. It will always remind us that we not only need to design things for our use and consumption that get along with nature, we need to look at nature first to figure out how to design the things we use [...]
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