Fight The Flab!

How To Lose the Useless Items that Weigh Down Your Day (Part 1)This isn’t another dieting post. This is about getting rid of the flab that fills your working days: unnecessary activities that weigh you down and make your day tougher to get through. Activities that leave you breathless and exhausted … with little or nothing to show for all that extra effort

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10 Tips for Taking Great Photos of Public Spaces

When it comes to photographing public places, it's obvious that people must be front and center in your shots. But there's a lot more to good street photography than getting a nice crowd in the frame. To really communicate something about a place, you need to illustrate its qualities as a site of human activity. These tips from our street-smart photographers will help you capture those perfect public space moments on film (or memory card).

10 Tips for Taking Great Photos of Public Spaces | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)

8 Changes I Experienced After Giving Up TV

In June I decided to do a 30-day trial of no TV watching. DVDs were OK, but I wasn’t going to watch any regular programming or cable shows or tape anything with my DVR. At the end of the 30-day trial, I was pleased with the results, so I kept going. Now that it’s been over 60 days, I thought I’d share my observations on life without TV... (more)

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Citizens Pony Up for Green Energy

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Rev. Francis Galles lives on a retired priest's income, but he doesn't mind paying an extra 60 bucks a year to make sure some of the energy he uses comes from the wind turbines churning across southern Minnesota. "It's not much. I'd pay more," he said... (more)

Wired News: Citizens Pony Up for Green Energy

EcoModo - The Best of Treehugger

This week at TreeHugger: The folks at Tesla (makers of the zippy new electric roadster) are just getting started; confirming that there are new models in the works. As far as we're concerned, they can't get here fast enough, but until then, we're glad to see that scooters are more popular than ever; they might just be the new cars

EcoModo - The Best of Treehugger - Gizmodo

Video: Yoyo with Nemo Conception

Reach for the Moon," "Loop the Loop," and many more tricks in the familiar repertoir of yoyo virtosos were created by a group of ... all » professional demonstrators, mostly Filipino, hired by the Duncan Yoyo Company during the Depression. Nemo Concepcion was among the first such demonstrators, and the originator of many tricks. Filmmaker John Bishop describes his first encounter with a yoyo man...(more)

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VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE WEEK: Houses Woven Out of Trees

An MIT architect named Mitchell Joachim has proposed a living house, based on an ancient gardening method known as pleaching, which involves weaving together tree branches to form living archways, lattices, or screens

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE WEEK: Houses Woven Out of Trees

Condo Grows Green

Demand for the new breed of green condominium springing up across the country is showing yet again that environmentalism and a sound bottom line can cohabitate comfortably... (more)

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