Here are a few bits of interesting reading to start your week off right: another highlight from the Greener Gadgets Competition, solar blinds, Umbra answering a question on composting tainted food (peanut butter crackers, anyone?), recycled subway maps make cool napkin rings, and Treehugger asks if gift cards are the new bottled water.

• Recycled Subway Maps (at Great Green Goods)

• No Ifs, Ands, or Nuts: On composting tainted food (at Grist)

• Blight: Illuminating Solar Blinds Turn Night to Day (at Inhabitat)

• Are Gift Cards the New Bottled Water? (at Treehugger)