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“The Solar Parasite” Window Box Heater – Tiny Yellow House

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This time around on “Tiny Yellow House”, I decided to mess around with passive solar heat so as to warm the always-cold front foyer of my home. The result: a smallish, closeable, passive solar collector that fits into a window opening. Its not rocket science (and it NEVER will be here on “Tiny Yellow House”) but it does work- even in January, in New England. Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : MAKE: Blog Discovery Date : 10/01/2012 19:00 Number of articles : 2

“The Solar Parasite” Window Box Heater – Tiny Yellow House

Sorry, Ritz-Carlton, Plant Based Bottles For Water Are Not Green

PSFK, who should know better, titles its post ” Ritz-Carlton Goes Green With Plant-Based Bottles ” and points to a USA Today article which touts them as green bottles and says “Concerned about the waste, the luxury hotel chain is switching to a bottle made 100% from plants that can decompose in 30 days in a commercial composting facility, or can be reprocessed and remade 100% into new bottles.” This is… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sorry, Ritz-Carlton, Plant Based Bottles For Water Are Not Green

This Device Provides Clean Water for Pennies a Day

Photo: Watercone Passive Solar One Step Water Condensation FTW! We wrote about the Watercone back in 2004 , but considering how much TreeHugger’s audience has grown since then, it’s likely that only a handful of you were reading the site back then. I think it’s time to have a second look at this very clever device that has the potential to help provide clean drinking water for millions of people who are lacking access to clean water (or if they do, maybe the access is intermittent and they could use a plan B). This could save many lives for … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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This Device Provides Clean Water for Pennies a Day