Posts Tagged ‘ green ’

Heat your home with pop cans! What?! Really?

January 12, 2011
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Heat your home with pop cans! What?! Really?

Cansolair is a company based in Newfoundland that’s developed a solar heater that’s built with recycled pop cans (and by “recycled” we mean basically opened, cleaned and painted, there’s no expensive smelting and recasting involved). It’s pretty fascinating as this video attests: How the cansolair pop can solar heater is manufactured More info here:

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“Green” tips for the reluctant

July 26, 2010
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“Green” tips for the reluctant

“Green” is now such a loaded word it immediately makes you think of… well… politics, consumption (like sometimes spending more to save more) and opinions less than our impact on the earth. “Thinking Green”, “Going Green” and “Green Movement” all should mean the same thing: doing things more efficiently, with less materials and less...

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