Wednesday
26Dec
Bright Ideas Or Brewing With Old Coffee Grounds
Dec 26, 2007 at 01:35PM
I'm often surprised by the creativity I find online but more often what most people seem to think of as creativity is simply wearing the same ol' hat backwards. In this post I'll give you examples of both and you can decide which is which.
Urban Rustic is a New York City grocery store that only sells products that are shipped no more than 50 miles to the store. One of the store's founders was responsible for the documentary film, King Corn.
I would think a pooper scooper
to be a far better choice than a SkooperBox for those of you who have pets and aren't lazy slobs. But hey, you decide if sending recycled paper to the landfill is a good use for paper that could be recycled again and again and again.
Indoor landscaping is cool but far out of the reach of most consumers and while rooftop gardens and green roofs are in, growing plants on the roofs of buildings goes back a few thousand years. Okay, so I did't let you decide.
I ride a motorized bicycle that gets 200 miles per gallon of regular gasoline but motorized bicycles go back over 100 years. Really great ideas last a long time.
In light of recent developments ThinkInteractive is a funny name for a company that advises its customers to use Facebook (watch the video.) By the way, Facebook has only become more dangerous in the last year. How is it that people can think of spying on citizens as being a creative use of technology?
Starbucks is selling used coffee grounds to gardeners. You'll probably want to add lime before you plant to adjust the Ph of the soil but make no doubt coffee grounds make for rich soils. Considering that my family has been recycling our own coffee and tea for the last 100 or more years I guess there really is nothing new under the sun.
Here's a tip: I use one of these to make a spot in the garden for our coffee, tea, fruit and vegetable scraps and when the hole is full I start another. The one I use once belonged to my grandpa and is far better than anything you can buy but that one will do. About 18-24 inches is as deep as you'll ever want to go.
Urban Rustic is a New York City grocery store that only sells products that are shipped no more than 50 miles to the store. One of the store's founders was responsible for the documentary film, King Corn.
I would think a pooper scooper
to be a far better choice than a SkooperBox for those of you who have pets and aren't lazy slobs. But hey, you decide if sending recycled paper to the landfill is a good use for paper that could be recycled again and again and again.
Indoor landscaping is cool but far out of the reach of most consumers and while rooftop gardens and green roofs are in, growing plants on the roofs of buildings goes back a few thousand years. Okay, so I did't let you decide.
I ride a motorized bicycle that gets 200 miles per gallon of regular gasoline but motorized bicycles go back over 100 years. Really great ideas last a long time.
In light of recent developments ThinkInteractive is a funny name for a company that advises its customers to use Facebook (watch the video.) By the way, Facebook has only become more dangerous in the last year. How is it that people can think of spying on citizens as being a creative use of technology?
Starbucks is selling used coffee grounds to gardeners. You'll probably want to add lime before you plant to adjust the Ph of the soil but make no doubt coffee grounds make for rich soils. Considering that my family has been recycling our own coffee and tea for the last 100 or more years I guess there really is nothing new under the sun.
Here's a tip: I use one of these to make a spot in the garden for our coffee, tea, fruit and vegetable scraps and when the hole is full I start another. The one I use once belonged to my grandpa and is far better than anything you can buy but that one will do. About 18-24 inches is as deep as you'll ever want to go.
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