SuperForest

Yayyyy!

This is my one hundred and second post!

The 100th post was apparently “Free Rice Follow-up”.

Have you checked out freerice.com yet? It’s fabulously addictive.

I believe the high score in my household is 8,100 grains of rice.

How is everyone’s holiday season going?

Good, I hope.

Love to all,

Jackson

Check out this years Holiday window at Barney’s!!!

All recycled, all spectacular.

Love this! I command you!

Ha ha ha!

love,

J

(Help. can’t stop playing freerice.com!)

Okay,

Things have gotten a bit out of hand.

In my house we’re all on freerice.com, building our vocabularies and helping to end starvation.

I just dug this tidbit up:

“According to Producer’s Rice Mills, (http://www.producersrice.com/rice/facts.html), there are over 29,000 grains in a pound of long grain white rice.”

So, play freerice.com until you get to 29,000 and you’ve earned someone a pound of rice, not to mention learned a few great, new words.

This is so wonderful! Everybody wins.

What about a typing game where you learn to type and win rice for someone, or you learn about American History, or Renaissance Art, or any subject?

I like learning. I like winning.

So very, very, very, very, smart.

Love to all,

Jackson

I pity the fool try to beat this score…

Imagine a site where you could play a vocabulary game, and every time you got a word right, the site donated 20 grains of rice to people in need. Imagine if you could play as long as you wanted…

Freerice.com

Mini SFNYC assignment!!!

Post your highest score in the comments!

Yay!!!! Fun.

-J

Aw heck, while I’m at the computer, I might as well say something.

My radiant girlfriend just gave me a Pre-Christmas gift, and even though in my family we don’t “do” the whole presents thing, I was still very excited.

That’s because she got me the Solio Solar-Powered Charger!

What is it? How does it work?

Plug it into your iPod, phone, iPhone, uh… zune. Put the tri-foil in the sun, and blammy: Powered!!!

Think of how many batteries this little beauty will keep out of a trash pile!

Lots.

I love it.

Get one: Solio Solar Charger

Hello All!

I’m so sorry I haven’t been posting.

If you read this blog, then you know that I live in Brooklyn. I didn’t, however, grow up in Brooklyn. I grew up on the garden island of Kauai.

So recently I went from this:

To this:

To be honest, it’s taken my brain several days to catch up with my body.

The idea of spending any more time than necessary in front of the Truth Box (computer) while in this incredible place is alien to me.

My reasoning: Superforest can have 46 weeks a year of my undiluted, unwavering, diligence and enthusiasm. The remaining two weeks are mine to recharge.

Every moment I spend in Kauai is like a week at a health spa, (not that I’ve ever spent a week at a health spa.) I can feel my cells repairing themselves with every breath I take.

I will resume posting joyously in 2008.

And so, all my love to all of you gentle people, Christmas Eve, in the year two thousand and seven.

Be safe, be happy, and be excellent to each other.

Love,

Jackson

Hello All,

I read in a green-living handbook that one could replace fabric softener sheets with aluminum foil balls and get the same effect.

Really? Aluminum balls? I had to see for myself.

Luckily, my incredible girlfriend had just baked cookies and we had on hand two aluminum sheet pans. (and a chihuahua.)

I gave both pans a scrub, and one still looked good, so I put it away for later baking.

The remaining pan I cut in half.

Then, using my winter gloves, I crumpled both halves into two foil balls.

Here they are, all done.

Pop ‘em into the dryer, (set on “Low” to conserve energy.)

Then I waited while my darks dried. The dryer sounded fine, but I could definitely hear my balls jangling. (So much subtext.)

BZZZZZZZ!

The dryer was done, time to see if the balls did their thing.

They sure did!

Not a wrinkle in sight, and much less static cling than usual!
Plus the dryer balls really seemed to knock loose a lot of lint.

Here are my shiny, metal, heroes.

The great part about aluminum dryer balls, besides their incredible low cost, savings to the environment and wonderful performance, is the fact that they will never wear out. Ever.

Dry a thousand loads with them and they will still be balls of crumpled up aluminum, zero change. This is smart.

To think how many dryer sheets I’ve thrown away. Never again.

Make yourself a pair, why doncha?

Saving your fellow humans can be fun and easy.

Love to all,

Jackson

If you’d like to know what a blog is, and have three minutes to spare:

This is such a beautiful and elegant way to convey information. I love the Common Craft videos on Youtube. They are all so well done. Check ‘em out.

They’ve got a great site: Common Craft.

Oooh ooh! Their motto is: Our Product is Explanation!

Oh god… I love so much. Hurts…

Lot-Ek is an architecture and design firm right here in NYC. They specialize in rethinking existing structures and using pre-built objects as source materials.
I can’t pronounce their name (Lot-eck? Low-tech?) but I can say I love their stuff!

Like their Recycled Airplane Library, which uses decommissioned fuselages as rooms.

Or their signature line of Container Houses built from retrofitted shipping containers.

And check out some of their amazing objects!

Like the Theater For One, a performance space where one actor performs for one viewer.

Or their Lightscapes

Or the TV Light

For these and other fantastical things, visit: lot-ek.com

Large and small, there seems to be little they cannot do.

If you are thinking of having a house built, or an office, re-done, or you need somehting designed, why not give a shout out to good ol’ Lot-Ek, right here in NYC.

I’ve been rockin’ the Radius Source toothbrush for about three months now.

I love it so much, I had to tell you about it.

Firstly, it’s the best eco-friendly toothbrush I’ve yet seen.

It’s got a handle made from renewable wood and CORN PLASTIC. Nebraska Corn Plastic! Yee-haw! Feels good in the hand, looks soft but is really tough and durable.

The heads are replaceable! This lo-tech solution uses 1/5th the materials and energy as tossing an entire toothbrush every time you get a new one. Creamy.

Finally, because the heads are replaceable, the toothbrush easily switches over to accommodate lefties! Being a lefty myself, I appreciate this gesture.

And the extra wide head and soft bristles feel good against the gums and leave the mouth feeling scrubbed and renewed.

A fine toothbrush if you happen to need one.

Check out their site here: Radius .com.