Archive for the ‘twitter’ Category.
Our favorite links from around the Web:
+ Treehugger investigates how many gallons of water it takes to make common objects.
+ CNET tips us off to reusable hemp tea bags. Ultra hippie vibe notwithstanding, we still think they’re pretty cool.
+ Earth2Tech follows a house that tweets its energy use.
+ GreenBiz tracks the $500M grants available for green job training, while Oakland’s Ella Baker center celebrates its first graduating class.
Earlier this year twitterers in more than 200 cities held face-to-face, offline festivals to raise money for charity: water, a non-profit dedicated to providing clean water to underdeveloped nations. The fundraiser generated $250K, which the charity used last week to drill wells in Ethiopia. Watch daily video updates of the project.
On a related (though admittedly frivolous) note, our friends and favorite rouge tinkerers over at MAKE devised a way to use Twitter to have your plants remind you when they need water. The plants even send a sweet note of thanks once you’ve soaked them. Although more of a novelty than a revolution, these high-tech tweets can help avoid wasted water—and dead plants.
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