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Anna Gram's clever Citrus Clock runs on...lemons? No, it's not magic. The experimental timepiece actually uses the same principles of electrolysis that a conventional battery uses. The acid of the open-faced lemon interacts with the zinc and copper plug it sits on to create enough power to run the digi clock for a week or longer....read more
Anna Getty, sustainable local organic chef, prepares a delicious appetizer for us. Once again our friend Brendan Hines is a handy sous chef and plays straight man to Anna - or is it the other way around? SecondSHFT holiday cheer recipe from Anna's cookbook, I'M DREAMING OF A GREEN CHRISTMAS....read more
Anna Getty and Brendan Hines show us another easy organic, local recipe. Beautiful and impressive, the figs with proscutto, goat cheese, and drizzled honey is simple, quick, and a great one to have around when you're entertaining and want to be eco-kosher. Check it out....read more
It's official, spring is upon us. What better way to ring it in than to swoon over some some breathtaking, back-to-nature photos. These images, from a series by Swedish photographer Anna Aden called Lily of the Valley, should do the trick. With a painterly eye for countryside scenery, Anna depicts an angelic figure lazily enjoying a warm day in nature. At only 25-years old, this girl has some......read more
Anna Getty, organic chef and sustainability expert, and our friend Brendan Hines make organic anti-oxident cocktails with VeeV acai spirit and pomegranate - exclusively for SHFT. This is the first of three recipes Anna shares with SHFT from her cookbook I'M DREAMING OF A GREEN CHRISTMAS....read more
Anna Mia Davidson is an acclaimed documentary photographer whose editorial clients include The New York Times and Vanity Fair. Anna's personal interest in sustainability and rural America led her to travel around the Pacific Northwest, shooting farmers of organic food. "These individuals represent the resurgence of sustainable farmers in the Pacific Northwest, who are passionate,......read more
For creative collaborators Thomas Brown and Anna Burns, umbrellas are more than mere protection from the rain and classic symbols of "Britishness." They are also exploding canvases for one of the coolest video projects we've seen in a while. In "Pop Pop Bang," an installation set in idyllic English locations, the artists riff on masculine B-movie imagery, using umbrellas......read more
"Food is life."I have been known to say a similar thing, but when it came from the mouth of a Ugandan farmer, the words were more powerful than I could ever make them.Sitting to the right of Constance Okollet on a panel titled Food Anthropology at SXSW Eco in Austin last week, I was humbled as she emphasized what food meant to her and her community. Okollet is peasant farmer from Osukuru......read more
When you talk to well-traveled peeps about places they would like like to return to, Nepal inevitably comes up. The tiny Himalayan nation seems to enchant and amaze everyone who visits. Looking at these photos from 21-year-old German photographer Nicola Odemann, it's not hard to see why. Over three weeks in February and March, Nicola hiked the famed Annapurna Circuit in central Nepal. Her photos......read more
Animal friends going for a ride in a green vehicle is never a bad thing, in our opinion. Brooklyn's Tiny Inventions delivers the goods with a fun and fantastic multimedia interpretation of They Might Be Giants' "Electric Car". ...read more
