Entries from January 2008

Water Wheels

January 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

An astoundingly clever idea–a bicycle that carries and purifies water while you pedal. Using a form of peristalsis, the same basic process that your intestines use to process waste, the “Aquaduct” purifies gallons of water in a matter of minutes:

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Tags: Design · Sustainability · Technology · Thinking Different

Norway: A Paradise?

January 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I’ve been within spitting distance of Norway (southern Sweden), but Michael Moore visited there while filming his movie Sicko. He found Norway so amazing that he decided not to include it in Sicko, for fear that nobody would believe it:

It turns out that Norway’s health care system is even better than that of France, one […]

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Tags: Living · Sustainability · Thinking Different