TerraCycle & OfficeMax: Eco-Friendly Office Products
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TerraCycle has partnered up with OfficeMax to sell a line of eco-friendly office products. To start they are going to be selling recycled pencil cases, binders and trash cans but plan to roll out more soon. The Pencil cases are my favorite. TerraCycle runs the Drink Pouch Brigade, where schools collect these traditionally un-recyclable pouches and send them to TerraCycle. TerraCycle pays them $0.02 per pouch then turns them into the pencil pouches among other products. This is a great way for schools to raise money and we love products that are conspicuously made from recycled materials. They are eco-chic, plus it raises awareness for recycling and upcycling.
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GreenPix Solar Powered Media Wall
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GreenPix is the largest color LED display in the world, but more importantly it is powered by a photovoltaic (solar) system that allows this massive media display to operate without using any power from the grid. This massive curtain wall (20,000 sq ft) is mounted to the front of the Xicui entertainment complex in Beijing, near the site of the 2008 Olympics. Harvesting solar energy by day and using it to illuminate the screen by night it is an important reminder of sustainable design in China, a nation that is undergoing rapid and almost unrestricted industrial growth.
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Target’s Retote Reusable Shopping Bags
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(pictures from Notcot)
Target has teamed up with Newsweek and Terracycle to make Retotes, an interesting reusable bag program. Basically, the Retote is made of used, recycled Target bags that have been returned to the store then Terracycle turns them into reusable shopping bags. If you pick up Newsweeks April 15, 2008 issue, “Environment & Leadership: Who’s the Greenest of Them All?”, you will find that the cover doubles as an envelope that you can use to send in and get a coupon for a free Retote (which retail for $6). Kind of a production to get one reusable bag, but the target label adorned bags are popular and we have to give them credit for the creative promotion. Also, head on over to Terracycle and read about their story, they have some interesting ideas about eco-capitalism.
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More Bandwidth!
Posted by Kassblog
Usage patterns suggest that students online before and after school are using most of the bandwidth. The first graph shows usage spikes at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., and the second (you have to read it from right to left) shows increased use over time, except for a slight dip during summer.
On the one hand, we certainly do subsidize the recreational internet habits of our students. On the other hand, students learn best through experience how to manage their time. Adults adopt a teaching stance and hold students accountable for appropriate behavior online. This environment encourages responsible use in a constructivist manner. However, complacency comes easily -- we must remember to keep paying attention to student use patterns, individual cases of imbalance, and perhaps most importantly, keep talking about these issues among ourselves and with students. Tags: PIC
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Received our XO
Posted by Kassblog
It's much smaller than I thought it would be. Yes, that's a 12 inch iBook adjacent! Over the summer, we will also pick up a couple of Asus eeePCs and see whether either will serve our lower school students well as classroom computers.
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