Cell phones still don’t get recycled very often. The modular phone concept has some hurdles to overcome, but would immediately reduce cell phone e-waste.
Tag: open source
How to Build a Wind Turbine for $30
Renewable energy = high upfront costs… right? Yes, if you’re paying someone else to put your system together for you. Now, that seems like kind of a no-brainer for most [ … ]
Grow Your Own Edible Insects: the Open Bug Farm
Insects are chock-full of nutrition, and require little space, effort or expense for farming. Compare this to, say, growing a cow or a pig yourself, and you’ll understand why 2 billion people around the world already practice entomophagy (the fancy word for “eating bugs”).
The Cool Techie DIY Beehive: Another Tool for Colony Collapse Disorder
The Open Source Beehives project publishes printable plans for honeybee shelter that are ready for a computer-controlled cutter (and that can be made really techie with sensor kits).
The Pedal Powered Generator Goes Open Source
Building a simple pedal-powered generator isn’t that difficult – we got one (kind of like the one above) going on the fly nearly four years ago at the last blogathon [ … ]
How to Build a Simple Solar Concentrator: SolarFlower Tutorials Now Online
Want to build a Solarflower, the open source solar concentrator we featured a little over a year ago? Now you can: designer Daniel Connel has published tutorials for simple, cheap solar collector.
Open Source Concentrated Solar Power: the Solarflower
Yes, I’ve been on a bit of an appropriate technology kick lately: really loved Barefoot Power’s micro solar system and the Nuru light system and its companion human-powered charger. So, [ … ]
The Twelve Days of sustainablog: Urban Homesteading, Green Colleges, and Recycling by the Numbers
Dog days of August? Not at sustainablog! While most people are wondering if the summer heat is ever going to end, we were hitting our stride here: many more posts, [ … ]
Eco-Libris: Open Source and Free Online Textbooks – Is this the Future of Textbooks?
This post was originally published on Eco-Libris blog on August 22. Last week we wrote here about our partner Chegg and their renting textbooks’ model. This is a great model and [ … ]