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Pocket Shelter Built From Scrap For 72 Bucks

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Image credit: Aaron Maret TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited. ” You can help: Enter the LifeEdited design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and the opportunity to design the apartment! LifeEdited sponsor Architizer presents Aaron… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pocket Shelter Built From Scrap For 72 Bucks

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Weekday Vegetarian: Bombay Aloo

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Photo: Kelly Rossiter For those of you who are tired of hearing about Thanksgiving or who aren’t planning on hosting or attending a big Thanksgiving dinner, here is something completely different. Make yourself an Indian inspired dinner instead. This is one of those dishes that is a staple of Indian restaurants, but is easy to

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How Much Insulation Can You Put Into An Old Building?

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Images credit Building Science TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited. ” You can help: Enter the LifeEdited design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and the opportunity to design the apartment! Graham wants to build the greenest apartm… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Much Insulation Can You Put Into An Old Building?

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Small New York Apartment to Receive Radical Revamp with LifeEdited Competition (Slideshow)

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Credit and more images: gaborrieger TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited. ” You can help: Enter the LifeEdited design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and the opportunity to design the apartment! I have been spending a lot of time over at Jovoto , looking at the amazing entries. I have bee… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Viral Organic Farm Rap Video… from England (Video)

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Image credit: Yeo Valley We’ve seen rapping physicians railing against speeding , and even a hip-hop take on bike sharing schemes . But this might be the first time we’ve seen rapping organic farmers from the West of England. The resulting video is a pretty strange beast…… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BrightShelf Throws A Curve At The Traditional Lightshelf

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

Image credit Lloyd Alter One of the simplest technologies for getting more natural light into an interior is the lightshelf; it bounces light off the ceiling instead of carelessly wasting it on the floor. I have thought that it might be a great thing in Graham Hill’s apartment in the LifeEdited project. Brightshelf throws a curve at the traditional flat lightshelf; this wave form on the top spreads the light out a lot farther, making a dramatic difference in the light penetration…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Turniture: The Chool Turns from a Stool To A Chair

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it “LifeEdited.” You can help: Enter the design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and possibly design the apartment! The Chool might fit in a LifeEdited; James Lucas of Slam designed it so that it sits like a stool, not taking up much room, until you sit on it. This action causes the mechanism ins… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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LifeEdited: With Transformer Furniture, You Can Party Like It’s 1499

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

From An Illustrated History of Furniture, Frederick Litchfield: Dining table made of boards and trestles TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it ” LifeEdited .” At TreeHugger we are going to go seriously back to first principles, looking at the design and furnishing of his 420 square foot apartment. Why Do We Have Furniture? Witold Rybczynski writes in