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• Less-Is-More and Permission

  
  Humor Power — Authority: 116
  We often have beliefs that lead us down the wrong path when deciding whether or not to use original humor. 1.  We often want to be funny so badly that we think it’s a good  choice to use every humor idea we can think of.  The logic is that   “it’s a numbers game” and the more times we swing at the ball, ...
  2 days ago

• Attention Green Shoppers: Buy Nothing Day on Cyber Sunday, Too?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  "Sit and Spin" submitted by Pearse OHalloran to Adbusters Media Foundation Yesterday was the recommended "Buy Nothing Day" in North America. Today, November 28 is "Buy Nothing Day" for the rest of the world, when consumers (that means most of us) "participate by not participating." The Adbusters BND campaign has ...
  3 days ago

• Jargon Watch: Boomerangers

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  They are not all slackers living in their parents basements; a recent survey by Pew finds that "13% of parents with grown children say one of their adult sons or daughters has moved back home in the past year. Social scientists call them "boomerangers" -- young adults who move in with parents after living away from ...
  6 days ago

• One For The Road: A Home in a Shopping Cart

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  The Road opens this week, with Viggo Mortensen pushing a shopping cart through a post-apocalyptic world. Kevin Cyr was thinking about Cormac McCarthys novel when he designed the Camper Cart. "That cart is almost like a character in the novel," Cyr told the LA Times . "Its essential to the characters survival."... ...
  6 days ago

• Less is less and more is more, nothing more, nothing less!

  
  Mokokoma Mokhonoana || Graphic designer — Authority: 110
  As an advocate of simplicity, I obviously have an interest in any writing on the subject. It’s almost inevitable not to ‘bump’ into the phrase ‘less is more’ while reading writings on minimalism or simplicity. While taking a walk last night the phrase came to mind and the philosopher in me couldn’t ...
  1 week ago

• Test Google Website Optimizer: knowing your best home page

  
  The LEADSExplorer Blog: Lead generation - Website visitors - CRM - B2B — Authority: 121
  Although we believe in our product (and our customers seem to do so too), we feel the path from website visitor -> to free trial user customer is suboptimal and could / should be improved. There are enough website visitors; still we have a feeling that the conversion rate could be higher. In order to know you ...
  1 week ago

• Houses Get Small (Sort Of) In Response to Recession

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Wall Street Journal Is it just the economy or is there a real change going on? Michael Phillips writes in the Wall Street Journal about how builders are offering smaller houses than they have in years. The Scarlett OHara stairs and two storey halls are out, and the plans are simpler, square-er, and way more ...
  1 week ago

• Increasing Your Signal-To-Noise Ratio

  
  The Rat Race Trap — Authority: 484
  Signal-to-noise ratio is defined by Wikipedia as “ratio of a signal power to the noise power corrupting the signal.”  This concept comes from electrical engineering but it can be applied to information overload.  I don’t know about you, but I constantly struggle with finding a signal hidden in all the ...
  1 week ago

• Help Wanted: Extreme Green Consultant to Help TreeHugger Founder Renovate 420-square-foot Apartment in NYC

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Dear Readers, Buildings comprise 40% or more of our emissions in the U.S., so Im trying to create a personal living situation for myself that might be a model for how more of us could live in the future (at least in cities like New York).Im gunning to design a tiny, ultra-green-yet-sleek (almost luxurious in parts), ...
  1 week ago

• Tripit or Skip it? Less is more on Linkedin

  
  Suzy Og — Authority: 110
  If I see one more Tripit update on LinkedIn alerting me about someone in my network taking a trip from Amsterdam to Rotterdam, or from The Hague to Delft, I might  puke!  Why would you want to know when anyone is taking a 45 minute or even 12 minute train ride?  They may as well [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Top Green Gift Giving Meta-Guidelines, For All Seasons

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 616
  Everyones got a holiday gift guide. Heres one that shows you how to give a green gift, not what to give.
  2 weeks ago

• Disappearing Act

  
  Matchstic Blog — Authority: 125
  We’re a short-sighted people. We like to consume, and we want our goods in nice packages — oftentimes individually wrapped. But where do these things end up? Who cares — out of sight, out of mind, right? (If you care to know what happens to those plastic Coke bottles tossed away without a second thought, it’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Need a Nap? Rent a Sleepbox

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  images by arch group via Dezeen Ever have a couple of hours to kill between flights or trains? Rose at Dezeen shows us the Sleepbox, from Russian architects Arch Group . They envisage this tiny booth being installed in airports, train stations and shopping centers.They squeeze a lot into what looks like a four ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another Benefit of Smart Grids: Fewer Utility Trucks Spewing CO2

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Photo: Flickr , CC The Difference Between Snail Mail and Email One of the benefits of smart grids that we too often overlook is the fact that theyll greatly reduce the need for power utilities to send trucks (and often big ones) out in the field to gather data and fix problems. The most obvious example of this is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Good News! Water Use in the U.S. Less in 2005 Than 1975

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Despite 30% Population Growth We always hear about how were using more of this and more of that, so it is welcome new to learn that apparently the people of the U.S. were using less water in 2005 than in 1975 despite a significant increase in population. Daily water consumption in the U.S. is 410 BILLION gallons of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Second Skin: A Pop-Up Room By Rene Siebum

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Alex at Shedworking is expanding into interior design, with this bookcase that opens up to "create an environment which helps us to concentrate and focus," although it wont do much for noise. Alex calls it "shedworkingesque."Designer Rene Siebum won third in the public voting at the Design Academy Eindhoven during ...
  3 weeks ago

• Treehouse Without a Tree By Benoît Fray

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  TreeHugger previously showed some of the work of French designers Dans mon Arbre ; Industrial designer Benoit Fray worked with them on this project we didnt see in their portfolio. Ecofriend calls it "a sustainable treehouse made from locally sourced wood."... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  3 weeks ago

• 16 Big Green Ideas Were Thankful For

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 616
  At Planet Green, were always grateful for any new invention or concept that carries an aura of sustainability. But now were entering into the season where its time to voice that thankfulness.
  3 weeks ago

• Pop-Up Camper Looks Like Sydney Opera House on Wheels

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Images via dezeen Trailers are such interesting exercises in design of small spaces. Pop-up campers and tent trailers have been around for a long time (see this great Pac-man version from 1936 ). Their great virtue is lower air resistance when towing, making them easier to handle and reducing fuel consumption ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rent-a-Goat in Action! Clearing Brush the Way Nature Intended It

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Photo: Rent-a-Ruminent LLC Could goats be the past and the future? Weve written many times about goats being used to replace lawnmowers and to clear brush (for example, in Arizona , in North-Carolina , and even at Googles Mountainview HQ ). Well, we can now add to that list the Seattle-based Read the full ...
  4 weeks ago

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