A Futuristic Shower For The Home 2014/03/09 David Cass In outer space, astronauts can have years without a fresh supply of water. Drifting in a space capsule, in an exterior room, they clean and use the same continuously recycled source. Why, asked Swedish commercial designer Mehrdad Mahdjoubi, do we not do the very same on Planet Earth? This was the concept behind the OrbSys Shower– a state-of-the-art filtration system that recycles water while you wash. In the eyes of Mahdjoubi, we have to start doing it now, before it comes to be a neccesity. Exactly how does it work? Much like area sh...

Rainwater Harvesting In Sarasota, Florida 2014/03/15UncategorizedDavid Cass The Florida House Learning Center is a demo home and yard featuring an environmentally-friendly building, rain harvesting, and sustainable landscaping products and approaches. The landscape was made to be a “Model Florida Yard,” showing using drought-tolerant and indigenous plants, xeriscaping, rain catchment, pervious walkways, and other methods to lower detrimental run-off into Florida’s estuaries and bays. In Florida, which boasts an abundance of rainfall every year, rainwater harvesting focuses more on...

Keep Faucets Looking Shiny Longer 2014/04/10UncategorizedDavid Cass You know how it is… You wipe down your faucets, turn away for a moment, and they’re spotty once again. To help keep them shiny longer, rub down your faucets with wax paper after you clean them. The excellent people over at LifeHacker.com advised this little technique after noticing how quick water spots gather on faucets. Wax paper has a bit of texture to it so that it can polish off water spots that cleansing misses and the wax will help ward off water for some time too. And, you don’t have to use wax paper for just polis...