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11:28 am in Cars & Transportation, new york, transportation, wayback machine by TreeHugger
Jennifer Ouellette writes in io9 a post about pneumatic tube transport systems, strangely calling it A brief history of the pneumatic tube transport systems that never were and immediately showing images of a system in New York that actually was....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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9:03 am in cars, cars and transportation, wayback machine by TreeHugger
Modern Mechanix shows an interesting idea for saving space; after all, why take up all that room in a house for a garage when the car is gone so much of the time? Why make every facade of every house in America a blank wall of a garage door, when you could just fold it away when you don't need it? ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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3:39 pm in air conditioning, wayback machine by TreeHugger
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We are always looking for ways to live without air conditioning, but here is one we missed, courtesy of modern mechanix.
See our roundup of cheaper ways to keep cool without ac.
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1:34 pm in bathroom, health care, toilet, wayback machine by TreeHugger
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The really amazing thing about this standard "bathroom" from 1915, ninety-seven years ago, is how much it looks like the standard bathrooms of today. How did it get this way, and how did we get stuck in such a rut?
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10:16 am in bathroom, recycling, wayback machine by TreeHugger
Paris sewers in Victor Hugo's Day
Victor Hugo wrote in Les Miserables that "the history of men is reflected in the history of sewers."... The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and confronts everything else. "
It has not changed much since Victor Hugo's day. In fact, one could say that the North American development industry is built on shit. Basically, you either have ultra-low density development based on individual septic systems or you have development driven by the sewer system- the municipal responsibility of collecting shit and processing it and getting rid of it. But we have only had toilets in our houses for a hundr...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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9:47 am in less is more, living with less, wayback machine by TreeHugger
BoingBoing points to a 1960 publication from the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Second Homes for Leisure Living, calling it " a rather glorious bit of propaganda for super-modernist plywood living." But it is a lot more than that. It is another world....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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10:17 am in designers, kitchen, kitchens, wayback machine by TreeHugger
We recently did a very brief history of the fitted kitchen inIs It Time To Rethink the Built-In Kitchen?. For those who want a bit more information, Core77 has produced six parts of a history of the kitchen, starting with the work of Catharine Beecher (sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe), who was one of the first to lay out a kitchen for ergonomic efficiency. More in ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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11:20 am in design, Design & Architecture, wayback machine by TreeHugger
Modern Mechanix recently showed the Revolator, a different kind of elevator for vertical shopping centers....Read the full story on TreeHugger
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8:02 am in Business & Politics, climate change, wayback machine by TreeHugger
While reading up on David Orr for my recent interview of him, I came across an interesting essay entitled "Framing Sustainability" that is suitable reading for Memorial Day, which began as a ritual of remembrance after the Civil War. Orr writes:
We are now engaged in a worldwide conversation about the issues of human longevity on Earth, but no national leader has yet framed a satisfactory vision of sustainability. It is still commonly regarded as one of many issues on a long and growing list, not as the linchp...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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