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Change the World (and Help Haiti) With a T-Shirt

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Want to be a force for positive change – and look good doing it? A company called Wear Your Intention, which creates organic apparel printed with messages of peace, hope, faith and love, is donating 100% of the profits of their Changing the World Limited Edition T-Shirt to Haiti earthquake relief efforts.
The American Red Cross [...]

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Lexon: Green Modern Bamboo Gadgets

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Walk into store full of gadgets and home goods, and you’re generally hard-pressed to find things like clocks, radios, calculators and lighting made with something other than plastic or unsustainably produced metal. If you do manage to score something made of wood, it’s probably a holdover from the paneling-obsessed 70s – not exactly stylish.
A company [...]

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Great Green Tech: PrePeat Rewritable Office Printer

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Since “going paperless” has proven to be a difficult challenge for so many companies despite their good intentions, printers are still an integral part of most offices. But even with waste-preventing practices in place, there’s still all that ink and wasted paper.
Enter the PrePeat, a new eco printer that uses zero ink or toner, and [...]

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The Write Way to Get Green: Recycled Pens from TerraCycle

How many times have you purchased a new refillable pen, only to lose it within days, forced to buy a new one? Writing instruments are all too easy to misplace, and disposable pens and markers are still a big source of waste. We may not have an easy (and non-dorky) fix for losing pens, but [...]

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Weird Electric YikeBike Unfolds in 15 Seconds

TIME Magazine called it one of the best inventions of 2009, and the YikeBike is definitely pretty cool, even if extremely weird looking. The carbon fiber body, matte black finish, unusual seating configuration and tiny back wheel aren’t the only things that set it apart from other bikes you’ve seen – it’s powered by a [...]

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Wheelie Bin Urinal Turns Public Urination into Free Fertilizer

Anyone who has ever lived in an urban metropolis like New York City knows about the pee stench. It’s everywhere – in the subway, at the ATM and even in lobbies of public buildings. First-floor tenants sometimes find that the smell creeps into their apartments. But what can be done to stop it? For many [...]

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