Tag: environment
UPrinting’s Easy Design Tool: Create Your Business Cards Like A Pro
We write a lot of articles about design on Bit Rebels, and you would think that as much as design tools have advanced over the past few years, getting business cards for a company would be a piece of cake. Unfortunately, that's not usually the case. Of course, if you are a Photoshop wizard and you h ...
![How To: Run An Eco-Friendly Home [Chart]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Energy-Savings-Home-Tips-Infographic-optimized.jpg "How To: Run An Eco-Friendly Home [Chart]")
How To: Run An Eco-Friendly Home [Chart]
By now we all know how important it is for our precious planet that we recycle and choose the materials we use in our daily lives wisely. Reusing things that we might have previously considered trash is also a great way to give a new life and purpose to materials that might otherwise end up in a lan ...
Water Calligraphy Device: Decorate The Streets With Water
There is an ancient Chinese custom of writing messages on the streets with water. Although it creates a beautiful and natural decoration, there is a little more behind this tradition than that. The reason water is used is not only to make the messages temporary, but also because in Chinese Fung shui ...
Ultra Realistic Paintings Will Make You Question What’s Real
After being on the Internet since probably its early beginnings, many of us have seen some really cool stuff shoot by on the screen from time to time. Of course, there's a lot of junk, but sometimes there are things that create a lasting memory. It doesn't happen too often, but when it does, it sure ...
Stylish Shoes Molded From Recycled Cardboard
When I was doing research for this article, I learned a lot about cardboard with regards to recycling. There are two types of cardboard. The first is what's called corrugated cardboard, and it's the type of cardboard we normally see things packed in for shipping. It has that lightweight ruffled laye ...
A Disease Called Humans: A Creative Comic About The Earth
One thing that we love at Bit Rebels is the planet. Since we all live so far apart from each other, we feel the distance and the vastness of the Earth on a weekly basis. As technology continues to make our world smaller by connecting us all in ways we never thought possible even a decade ago, the fa ...
Gorgeous Dress Made From Old Magazines & Garbage Bags
Let me just start this article by saying if I tried to make a dress out of old magazines and garbage bags, it would look like something fit for the trash can, so the fact that this artist can make it look couture blows my mind. Gone are the days when fashion designs created from recycled household p ...
An Outdoor Cinema Created From Abandoned Refrigerators
One of the best types of creativity is the kind that we see when artists and designers create something that is not only interesting to look at and useful, but it also helps the environment. We see a lot of examples of this since together we are all learning the importance of recycling and reusing. ...
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One Day On Earth: Every Country On The Same Day [Video]
We are all just specks of dust in the universe. Does that make our lives insignificant? I believe it doesn't because even though we are just an itty-bitty piece of the puzzle, we are all connected. Our lives touch the lives of everyone else on this planet, and for that reason, we are very significan ...
Steampunk Animal Trophies: A Valuable Recycling Lesson
It's always strange to me whenever I see stuffed animal heads hanging on the wall in someone's home. I know that to a hunter, killing a deer, for example, might be considered a big victory. Having his head cut off and mounted on a piece of wood to display as a trophy is a symbol of the hunter's skil ...
Recycle Flashmob: The Roar Of A Thousand Environmentalists
If you recycle then you know the benefits of it. It's not only good for the environment, but you also get a few cents for it or whatever. There are still way too many bottles and cans that go missing in the world which litter and pollute our planet more and more by the day.
We are quite lazy when ...
Most Creative Way To Recycle Your Ink Cartridges
If you didn't read the title of this article first, and if you just looked at the pictures below, what would you think those science fiction sculptures were made of? Would you ever guess those were old ink cartridges?
I really, really don't like buying printer ink. Not only is it messy and expens ...
Combating Global Warming: Simple Action Steps
I read something the other day that said most people don't understand what global warming is. The phrase itself, "global warming," has been used so much in so many different contexts over the past few decades that a lot of the meaning in those words has lost its punch.
In the spirit of bringing a ...
Environment: Mushrooms Break Down Disposable Diapers
When I was researching this topic today, I couldn't help but think of a recent article Richard wrote called Gross Foods That You Want To Eat Anyway. It was about how, according to a TED speech, we will have to change our food supply in the future so that we will still be able to sustain ourselves an ...
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How Green Is The iPhone… [Infographic]
When everyone is talking about the environment, and how we can save ourselves from ending our luxurious living on a planet made out of dust, it's not hard to apply that thinking to pretty much any area of our lives. Even making a simple paper roll is causing further destruction of the ozone layer, s ...