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Homemade Cardboard PC Case is Probably Flammable

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Perhaps the greenest and most flammable case mod we’ve ever seen, aside from the UbuntuBox, the “Recompute” cardboard PC case shows off how sustainability can not only be cheap, but can ignite your whole house in flames as well.

Even if there is a cooling fan, and even if the power supply and mother board are kept at separate ends of the PC, this thing is going to generate plenty of heat.

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Coffee Ashtray Merges Coffee and Cigarettes Closer Than Ever

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Many are familiar with this essential pair. What would the morning be without a cigarette and a strong cup of hot joe? Miserable is what it would be. Mixing your love for coffee, carcinogens, and saving the Earth, this Coffee Ashtray is a green alternative to the material of your other ashtrays, made with compressed coffee grounds.

Just as long as you know that no matter what ashtray you use, you’re still going to die, slowly and painfully. Have a great day!

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Concept Shower Uses Waste Water To Grow Plants, Purify Remainder

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The Phyto-Purification Bathroom and Shower concept uses your wasted water, unused and usually flushed down the drain, to help aid the growth of an organic system which purifies the water, right in your bathroom.

The plants are organized in such a way that they aid each other’s growth and all play a vital role in the purification of the wasted water. The plants are used as a green solution and a filtering process, ended by a carbon filter to stop any remaining particles.

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Pedal-Powered Monorail Saves Energy, Tightens Buttocks

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If I didn’t live in a cardboard box I might consider installing some sort of monorail system which could easily transport me around my vast estate. Since I’m such an awesomely eco-friendly guy, my monorail system would be totally pedal-powered. No motor needed.

The Shweeb is exactly that. An awkwardly named pedal-powered monorail system which simultaneously saves the Earth and tightens your buttocks. Since you’re on a track, there’s no reason why you can’t freely use your phone while getting from point A to point B, which sounds just snazzy to me.

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“Remember… These Come From Trees” Stickers

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I understand why people are up in arms about Earth’s trees being demolished. I’m pretty sure we need them for some reason, other than the fact that they look pretty. The thing that drives me nuts is that people bitch and moan, but don’t do a damn thing about it.

These “Remember… These Come From Trees” Stickers allow you to remind people exactly what their main resource (other than caffeine) happens to be. Each sticker supposedly has the potential to save 100 lbs. of paper a year. Take heed, or we’re going to have to start making paper out of a more common resource, like gold or diamonds or something.

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Google Images Gets Colorful

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I was searching on Google Images today and noticed a new feature that must have been rolled out recently. Before, you could filter by image size and content. Now there’s an option to filter images by color. That’s right. Let’s say you’re searching for an image of some jewelry but you only want to display blue items. A few clicks and voila. It works really well, too. I’m assuming Google created a way to analyze images on the fly and determine the basic colors that comprise the picture.

Give it a try and see what you can come up with. I searched for “awesome”, clicked green and this is what I wound up with.

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Abisko Washbasin Provides Extra Incentive To Save Water

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While the Abisko Washbasin does a fine job of encouraging water conservation, I’d one-up this design and go a bit further. You see, the Abisko Washbasin uses an angled design which allows wasted water to flow its way down through a drainage grill installed in the floor.

If you really wanted to encourage people to conserve water, you have to appeal to their common traits, such as laziness. Remove the drain grill and allow the wasted water to just splash all over the damn floor. I guarantee that people would waste a lot less water just because they are too lazy to clean up their wasted mess.

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Green Star Wars Tees Are Encouraging

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Saving the planet and Star Wars. What more could a geek want? Other than a Lucy Liu sex-bot, of course. The Jedi were always the ones that came off as the treehugger type. Darth and the rest of the dark side didn’t have much consideration for natural beauty. Perhaps never more evident than when he blows up Princess Leia’s beautiful home planet of Alderaan just because he felt like it.

When will the Galactic Empire learn that nature will always survive, no matter how many Death Stars you build. Are you green Jedi and proud of it? These Green Star Wars Tees from Zazzle are surely right up your alley if you’ve ever been a fan of the Star Wars universe. Admiral Ackbar would be proud.

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Hustler Zeon All-Electric Lawnmower: Because We Can’t Afford A Tesla

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Don’t get the wrong impression. We’re not total scrubs or anything. We just don’t have the kind of dough it takes to own a brand-new Tesla and that’s even considering the new and affordable Model S series.

With that said, the Hustler Zeon is just as cool… really (come on, we need some sort of self-delusion to keep us content)! The Zeon claims to be the first all-electric zero-turn riding motor. A full charge provides 80 minutes of riding time. Screw Tesla! The Tesla can’t mow my lawn.

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Just Say It: “My Reusable Bag Makes Me Better Than You” Shopping Bag

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I can’t help that I’m a better person than you. It’s just how it is. I use a reusable fabric bag, rather than one of those ghastly paper or plastic bags. It’s the never ending battle of good versus evil and I’m on the “good” side of the spectrum. I recycle everything I possibly can.

I hop in my Hummer, cigar and aerosol air freshener in hand and I head over to the grocery store, ready to prove to the world just how much I care about the Earth’s well being. Want to world to know how much better you are than them? $7.99 is the price of eternal salvation.

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