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Garden Green DIY - How to Convert a CarPort into a GreenHouse!

by max on June 20th, 2009
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Living in the city most of my life, I am having some withdrawls for a garden. Anyways, if you have an old carport laying around, here’s how to convert it easily into a greenhouse and grow your favorite plants. - link Also check out these cool E-books you can buy: Ultimate Greenhouse Package Garage, House, Cabin, Shed, Playhouse, Greenhouse & Barn Plans ...

Seedbomb gets idea from WWII

by David Allen on May 8th, 2009
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During the later stages of WWII, there was an American pilot named Gale Halvorson dropped candy from his plane for the kids of Berlin. One can only image how it must been for those poor kids and this was done in the name of hope. In a similar way the seed bomb could be used to repopulate baron areas with new plants, these could be trees, flowers and in some cases even crops. The b ...

Top 5 Cool Twitter Hacked Gadgets!

by max on April 26th, 2009
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Well, I’ve been slowly blogging and twittering over at TweetHacking.com, here’s the Top 5 cool twitter hacked gadgets for this last week: Botanicalls is a ethernet device that lets you monitor your plants via Twitter. For example, if your plant needs to be watered, you will get a tweet for that. I highly like this one as there’s going to be a slew of apps related with ...

MIT DIY Robot Gardners!

by max on March 12th, 2009
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Here’s some interesting news from researchers at MIT developing robot “Garden” automation. I have to speculate on how “effective” this would be but I imagine it will be highly effective than not. From the looks, it seems they’ve put a webcam, servo motor, and other goodies for plants in the project. This might be a sign that robot farming may not ...

Green DIY - How to Green Your Apartment!

by max on March 10th, 2009
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As people are becoming more conscious about our environment, we need to make sure each and everyone of us do their part. Even if “greening” is not scientifically correct, it’s a great way to conserve whatever we have left on earth. My advice is to make sure to recycle and let no food get leftover. Here’s a couple more from Missy over at our green blog: Use An Ec ...

Hydroponic DIY - How to Make an LED Plant Growing Box!

by max on January 6th, 2009
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I am not to sure what types of plants you could grow using this cool DIY LED Plant growing box but it sure is safer than using halogen lamps and burning down your whole house. I am going to test it out on some guinea pig plants now and if I start seeing tall spindly growth I can easily switch out the current while LEDs with some ultra bright blue LEDs by simply pulling out the socket, ...

DIY Hydroponocs - How to Make your own Hydroponics system!

by max on September 26th, 2008
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Here’s a cool DIY hydroponics system you can make for growing all types of your favorite plants indoors. This is a great way to keep your plants constantly filled with nutrients, now don’t burn your house down with lamps that are too powerful. The air pump has become a staple component in most systems for various reasons. Moving water with air makes complete sense to me whil ...

DIY - How to Re-use Excess Waste and Make Your Own Rich Soil!

by max on September 1st, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool DIY on how to re-use leaves, urine, and other excess waste into a DIY Compost Tumbler to make your own rich soil. If you like gardening or if you are simply into making rich soil that will make your plants grow fast and healthy, you might want to check it out. he video above comes ...

DIY - How to Make a Cool Table with Old Magazines!

by max on August 24th, 2008
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Recently, I have been actually looking for a table to buy a table for a small spot that needs one. With this DIY, I will be able to make a new small table with some of my old magazines I’d throw away eventually anyways. I like the concept, of re-using magazines for DIY furnitue design. The most amazing part is that it requires very little hardware. If there’s anything we ...

EcoJohn - Eco Toilet Incinerates your Poop!

by max on August 14th, 2008
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This has to be the coolest eco-frienldy device for taking a dump. It’s an Eco Toilet that works by incinerating your poop to white powder. Even better, the incinerated poop can be used for adding nutrition to your plants. With the Eco Toilet in the works, we will no longer need long septic pipes to our houses, just one little toilet that does the job for you. Of course, I have ...