6 month ago
deusx : Wikinomics » Blog Archive » 50,000 Estonians clean up their country in one day - "It is not really about the rubbish. It is about changing people’s mind sets. Next year it might be something else."
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6 month ago
deusx : slightlywarped.com's Curiosities - "Tim Nobel and Sue Webster take piles of trash and make art into them... but sometimes the art isn't apparent until you see it in a different light."
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nelson : War on Clutter - How to get rid of crap; if I buy Merlin beer maybe he'll help me declutter?
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philgyford : LRB | Andrew O’Hagan : The Things We Throw Away - Wonderful essay about the UK's rubbish and recycling. Well worth reading. "Throwing things away has been so essential to our sense of how to live that we forget we invented the process just to increase our pleasures."
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23 month ago
jkottke : Running the Numbers, a great new series of photography from Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers, a great new series of photography from Chris Jordan, is kind of a combination of Chuck Close and Edward Burtynsky, with a bit of Stamen thrown in for good measure. (via conscientious) [via]
philgyford : Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait - Images showing the number of things used by Americans every day/week/month/etc. Amazing, scary, etc. (via Haddock)
Khoi Vinh : Running the Numbers, an American Self-Portrait - Photographic representations of massive statistical facts.
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35 month ago
deusx : Wired News: Machines Pluck Cash From Trash - "When you give people the option and make it easier on them, you find that people will recycle on a much higher level" Seems like this will be very useful for when the oil runs out.
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