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David Okada, a MetaEfficient reader, wrote to us to say that he’s compared the Oxygenics shower head, with another low-flow shower head from Bricor. David says Bricor had better spray at lower flow rates and was quieter than the Oxygenics (recently featured on MetaEfficient here).
Originally, jeans were dyed with the color of the actual indigo plant.
Today, natural indigo jeans can’t be considered metaefficient because they are expensive and only available as a kind of designer jean. Notwithstanding this, people admire these jeans because of their distinctive, deeply hued appearance. The story behind them is interesting too.
There are [...]
Not many print houses put much thought into making their production processes more efficient or non-toxic.
Ecoprint, based in the Washington DC area, is different. They have developed their own “eco-inks”. These inks are specially formulated to be free from toxic metals like copper and barium. The Ecoprint shop also runs on 100% wind power, [...]
Who would have thought sprawl could be so entertaining?
I guess its the combination of Dolores Hayden’s extensive collection of sprawl coinages and the aerial photography by Jim Wark that makes this book an intriguing coffetable read.
By glancing through the pages you see examples of curious sprawl phenomena such as “Pork Chop Lots”, “Boomburb”, [...]
This Vortex blender might save you a couple minutes at the gym.
A useful device to mix a margarita while living off-grid, camping, boating or traveling.
It qualifies as metaefficient because: portable, energy efficient, and relatively inexpensive.
TerraCycle is a product that could be called completely Metaefficient.
It is a liquid fertilizer produced through vermicomposting, or feeding organic waste to red worms. The worms’ excrement is a nutrient rich compost that can be mixed to produce liquid organic fertilizer.
The TerraCycle bottles are recycled soda bottled [...]
Napier Environmental is a company in British Columbia that sells non-toxic wood stains that replace the hazardous products widely used to treat wood today.
An example of one of their products is Natural Desk Oil, a waterborne blend of natural oils designed to penetrate deep into wood, and protect it like the [...]
With the right techniques, RVing can be a very efficient, non-polluting lifestyle. The best resource about retrofitting your RV to be more efficient is Phred’s “Poopsheets” which are free, compact information guides written by an experiencd RVer.
Topics include water treatment, solar power, efficient heating and cooling, composting toilets and efficient 12V [...]
Natural Capitalism is a book which dicusses similar ideas to those we present here at MetaEfficient.
Written by Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, the book starts off by explaining the authors’ theory of “natural capitalism”, but then it really [...]
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