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British Artist Builds Forest Of PVC Trees

1:00AM November 24, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

This light-dappled glen of pale trees isn’t a scene out of the next Avatar flick, it’s an awe-inspiring stand of plastic Cherry trees created by designer Tom Price. More »


Ugly Duckling Lamp Uses Crappy Materials To Look Great

10:00AM December 1, 2010 | Sam Biddle

PVC piping and cut up soda bottles don’t exactly connote beauty and grace. But in the hands of a smart designer, they’re turned into striking table lamps – the Ugly Duckling lamp project. Each even has a swanlike form. Clever! More »


Pipe Some Tunes With These Pretty PVC Speakers

1:40AM August 5, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

PVC, a cheap, durable polymer useful for all types of pipes and potato guns, has long been a go-to Maker material. But these Sea Cucumber speakers, available on Etsy for $US200, are the rare pipes that shouldn’t be hidden. More »


HP Ranked #1 Green Company (What!?)

4:40PM October 15, 2009 | Don Nguyen

Newsweek’s latest Green Rankings gave Hewlett Packard the top position, establishing the firm as the greenest Fortune 500 company this year — a far cry from Greenpeace’s #14 ranking. So what gives? More »


Build Your Own Net Gun

1:00AM December 30, 2008 | Mark Wilson

While most of us will never fight crime with an arsenal of custom gadgets, we could build our own net shooter to foil pesky coworkers who just want to use the copier.

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Greenpeace on Apple MacBook 2008 Redesign: Good, but Not Good Enough

2:00AM October 20, 2008 | Jack Loftus

Greenpeace is dead set on giving Apple and Steve Jobs an inferiority complex. With one hand, the environmental group patted Apple on the head after the unveiling of its redesigned MacBook aluminium notebooks. With the other hand, however, it managed to knock Apple down a peg or two for still not doing enough to save the environment. “Compared to where Apple was before Tuesday, its laptops are definitely better. That in and of itself is a good thing. But not all toxic pieces have been eliminated yet,” said Casey Harrell, Greenpeace International’s toxics campaigner. If Apple were a person, we imagine this is the point where he or she would run away, or go goth at the very least, because they’d “never be good enough” for Greenpeace.

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