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From the folks behind OZO car, (NY’s swanky all hybrid car service) comes OZO life, a grand green lifestyle site.

Check out the left-to-right scrolling action! The pink links! The little cyclist animation that plays when you load a new page!

Right now they’ve got up a green detergent comparison chart:

Seems good ol’ Seventh Gen comes out on top. Interesting stuff, no?

Check out OZO life!

And if you need a hybrid to the airport, try out OZO car. Every hybrid has wireless internet and a powerstrip so you can charge your laptop. Smart!

Hello All,

Environmentally speaking, things seem to be going very well.
Winter is coming to a close, Spring is just around the corner, and there is an unmistakable buzz in the air.

Everywhere I look, I see things that encourage and excite me:

Wind Power in Texas.

(great article here: nytimes.com)

Green skyscrapers and carbon neutral cities popping up around the globe.

(images via inhabitat)

Inhabitat and Treehugger constantly awash with a wealth of inspiring intel.

(image via inhabitat)

(image via treehugger)

Swissmiss and her seemingly endless supply of inspiring design and imagery:

Wonderful times, these.

Love to all,

SFNYC

(image via inhabitat.com)

For anyone who has looked sadly at all the used batteries laying in the streets or on the subway lines, help is on the way.
Battery standardization, recycling centers, power on the go, all in one convenient vending machine.

One by one, the loose ends get routed back into the system, and waste loses another battle.

Yay!

Great article from Inhabitat

(via swissmiss)

I love watching makers make.

Silkscreening with Zach Klein from Mareen Fischinger on Vimeo.

Personal Fabrication = What you want, when and where you want it.

An amazing TED talk about the present of technology from Neil Gershenfeld.

This is a beautiful piece by Joaquin Baldwin.

Here’s his site: Pixel Nitrate

And his demo reel, courtesy of youtube:

Enjoy.

Two quotes immediately stuck with me:

“If you’re a worm in horseradish, then the whole world is horseradish.”

AND

“By embracing the diversity of human beings, we will find a surer way to true happiness.”

Truer words I’ve yet to hear this day.

Great mind in Mr. Gladwell’s skull. I’d love to meet him.

Check out his books: Gladwell.com

Hello All,

A friend of SFNYC’s just hipped us to a really great children’s book.
It’s called: “All the Way to the Ocean”- by Joel Harper.
It’s about two boys who learn about how anything thrown into the street or the gutter eventually makes its way to the ocean.
After learning this, they enlist the help of their classmates and work together to clean up the streets and gutters. Great message.

And here’s something really nice: By teaming up with Living Tree Paper Company and printing the book on recycled paper, the author was able to save:

Over 9000 gallons of water.
22 trees.
Nearly 1000 pounds of solid waste.
1,900 pounds of greenhouse gasses.
4,443.5 kilowatt hours of electricity.

And, they printed the book with soy ink!

Nice!

Well done, Joel Harper!
(why do you not have a wiki page?)

Love,

- Jackson

(via inhabitat)

This is great.

Neat little tips you can put on your pen and have a little lunch with.

“If you associate the affordable and ubiquitous ‘Bic pen’ with disposable, throw away office culture – think again, as Zo-loft design has added a whole new dimension to desktop utility. Their “Din-ink” series of Bic pen style tops allows you to instantly convert your writing tools into ready made cutlery. With one easy step that trusty chewed-up pen of yours can become a sleek spoon, fork, or knife for that classic dining ‘al desko’ experience.

Din-ink designers, Andrea Cingoli, Paolo Emilio Bellisario, Francesca Fontana, and Cristian Cellini, went the extra measure to insure that the set of tops were 100% biodegradable, non toxic, and hygienic. They are cleverly made out of renewable resources like natural starch and fiber (GM free corn and potato) and come in compostable and heat-sealable packaging, too. Din-ink tops are also heat resistant to 105 degrees C. That’s hot! (Even cooler, they used vegetable-based ink for all of their product printing).”

Sustainable is tasty.

Here’s the original post: Din-ink on inhabitat.

I’m semi-ashamed to admit it, but this made my morning.

(Update: I’m no longer ashamed. I’ve watched this spot five times now, which is five times more than I would usually watch a Verizon commercial. This is a brilliant ad.)

Love to all,

J