Feel free to admire my new front-yard fence! It's natural cedar and replaces a chain-link fence covered with English ivy (memories of which are fading fast.) Here's the before and after, with a link to waaaay before.
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The Institute for Human Services helped a handful of children plant a seedling toward sustainability yesterday in a donated Wiki Garden at the women and children's shelter in Kalihi.
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Barney's Simon Doonan and Sesame Workshop's Gary Knell at Fashion Delivers/ K.I.D.S. gala in NYC. Credit: Thomas Iannaccone, Via WWD Fashion Delivers , a non-profit organization that supplies victims of natural disasters with donated product, and Kids In Distressed Situations, Inc. (K.I.D.S.) raised almost $1.2 million dollars at their annual ...
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Images courtesy of Hopenhagen/Ogilvy & Mather. This guest post was written by Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather , as part of the Voices from Hopenhagen series. In explaining the genesis of the name " The Beatles ," John Lennon famously wrote, "A Man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them 'From this day on,
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Eco Factor: Solar-powered system teaches the simple principles to go green. Designed by Valeria Bianco, the CLOVERS is a renewable energy education system that uses flexible solar panel technology to teach teenagers about the electricity usage of..
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As we invent things to make our lives more efficient, the net result is often more things on our to-do list and a greater sense of pressure to get them all done! Let's face it; some of the hottest-selling products and concepts today are all about saving time.
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To create a link, eg: if you wish to create a link to designboom.com
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Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive announce an all-electric three-seater city car, made possible through a £4.5m investment from the government-backed Technology Strategy Board. With a total cost of £9m, the new research and development project will allow the consortium to develop four prototypes by February 2011.
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Fall chores in the perennial garden Mansfield Today As long as more moderate fall weather persists and the soil is still workable, we can continue to tidy up and even forge ahead in the perennial garden . … and more »
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Fall Color - Liquidambar
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Fall Color - Liquidambar - 1 Originally uploaded by dewelch Found along my walk yesterday, this Liquidambar styraciflua was bursting into color. This is one of the few trees that give us any sense of Fall here in southern California. They are planted along many streets here in the San Fernando Valley.
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Curious carrot: Unusual veggie catches attention of gardener Greeley Tribune Fisher, you see, has had white carrots pop up in his garden behind his central Greeley home, right along with the normal orange ones. “I've been gardening … and more »
There are no instructions, but the premise really is simple: Turn the entire board any one color within a set number of moves. Begin at the upper left square and click one of the colors on the right; all adjacent squares will turn that color. Keep it up, keeping an eye on what color squares are blocking others, until you've changed them all to ...
Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. ...
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Wondering what styles will be in eco-fashion this fall and winter? Earlier today, green-thinking fashionistas got treated to an eco-vegan fashion show at the Green Blogger Convention at Environmental Furniture in Los Angeles. Here’s what gorgeous green fashions hitting stores this and next season: EcoSkin’s line featured rayon-from- ...
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MEPA— The A Building isn't the only bit of newish construction to get some screen time lately. The Theory Building at 40 Gansevoort Street is now starring in a cell phone commercial . But wait a minute: "The building has been digitally altered to include a T-mobile marquee and replaces the brick colored columns with gray ones." They can do ...
Which is worse: Revealing your finances as a buyer to a co-op board of total strangers….or refinancing your mortgage and having to spill your financial guts to a board now populated by friends and frenemies?
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"Maybe the heron can hook up with the wild turkey that also lives in Battery Park and go on bombing raids over that stupid-ass noisy construction that wakes me up every morning along-side the West side Highway ."— Kinkistyle [Battery Park City's Most Dangerous Benches]
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The talk of sea-going troves of silver from Tiffany sent us on a hunt for history, and some tantalizing architectural treasures were our reward. In the mid-1800's, when what is now Soho was the center of commercial New York, Tiffany set up shop on Broadway. Back then they were called Tiffany and Young; to house their wares they built a marble- ...
BROOKLYN â There are 700 affordable co-ops and homes in Brooklyn currently available for purchase by qualified buyers under programs of the Housing Partnership Development Corp.
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Andy and Brooklyn's fave borough
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Brooklyn Deckerare condo shopping in -- where else? -- Brooklyn. They were spotted looking at several apartments at J Condominium in DUMBO, a 33-story riverfront building near the Manhattan Bridge. Sources said they "are looking for a Brooklyn apartment to complement their Texas spread and didn't want to buy in Manhattan." The pads feature floor- ...
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