Tag: green
Better E-Waste Disposal: Gadgets Dissolve In Water When You Upgrade
As our world becomes more technology infused, it means there is an increasing number of old gadgets that eventually end up in landfills when they can no longer be useful anymore. Even if we give or sell our old smartphones to people who need them when we upgrade, and even if someone uses them after ...
Office Plant Made Of Green Pens For Workaholics Without A Green Thumb
There are many benefits to having plants in your office. Studies show that they help reduce stress, enhance employee attitudes, increase productivity and even improve air quality. If you look at a desk with plants and one without plants, the one with plants will always feel more cozy and inviting. A ...
Green Tech: First Ever Bio-Adaptive Algae-Powered Building Opens
If you like green tech, this building in Hamburg, which is powered by algae, is going to inspire you. It's the first building like it in the world, and it's basically a self-sufficient living building. If you don't know what algae is, here is a Google Images link so you can see what it looks like. A ...
![Why It Is Important To Recycle Your Old Used Smartphones [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/rise-of-smartphone-recycling-infographic-optimized.jpg "Why It Is Important To Recycle Your Old Used Smartphones [Infographic]")
Why It Is Important To Recycle Your Old Used Smartphones [Infographic]
I remember back in 2012 when I read an article on Mashable about how by the end of the year, there would be more smartphones than people in the world. The study used to back up that statement was the Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update 2012 - 2017 by Cisco. Now that we are into 2013, I'm sure ...
Disappearing Package Design Creates No Waste…It Just Washes Away
Every single year, Americans alone put over 140,000,000,000 pounds of packaging in the trash. Packaging waste makes up a lot of what we throw away, and when you think about how much packaging you toss in the garbage can each day, it might surprise you. Wouldn't it be nice if a package design was cre ...
Color Emotion Guide: Learn What Emotions Your Logo Represents
You already know how important the color of your logo is for your brand. It may seem like just a color, but to your customers and potential clients, it communicates a lot more than just that. What you may not realize is that the color of your logo can actually make a person feel a certain way. In ot ...
Ghostbusters Inspired Ectoplasm Green Slime Popcorn
I've always loved Ghostbusters, but when I first saw this ectoplasm green slime popcorn, I instantly thought about how fun it would be to dump the green slime over someone's head instead of delicately drizzling it over this popcorn. The thing is, if you were really going to slime somebody, you proba ...
Starbucks Location Built From Recycled Shipping Containers
Not only is Starbucks my favorite place to get coffee (Caramel Macchiatos to be exact), but this is also my favorite architectural design I've seen this year so far. What you see in these pictures is a Starbucks drive-thru created from four huge shipping containers. The containers are recycled and r ...
The World’s First Vertical Forest: An Architectural Beauty
I'd like to introduce you to the world's first Bosco Verticale (Italian for Vertical Forest), which is being built right now in Milan. According to Christopher Woodward, a writer for the Financial Times, it's "the most exciting new tower in the world."
This vertical forest will span across two to ...
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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 ...
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 ...
How To: Recycle & Reuse Items For Your Garden
We are big fans of reusing and recycling at Bit Rebels. The whole concept of giving a second life to something that might have before been considered trash is becoming more and more popular. Several years ago when well known artists started making things with trash, their creations usually looked ki ...
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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 ...
Elegant Gown Created From Recycled Plastic Bottles
Back in 2009 when we first started writing about recycled designs, I'll admit that most of them, although they were all fabulous, looked very homemade if you know what I mean. Now, two years later, the recycled designs we see are very different. Creating things with renewable resources is becoming a ...
Elegant Lamps Created From Recycled Juice Boxes
Tetra Pak is a company originating in Sweden that makes boxes (called Tetraboxes) in which food and mostly drinks are packaged in. Here in the States, we call those packages "juice boxes," although there are a lot more than just juice drinks packaged in those containers.
On his blog, Ed Chew, a d ...