This type of green design blows my mind. Online design mag de zeen has a story about designer Greetje van Tiem who has managed to created usable yarn created from newspapers. And better still, Tiem has managed to get 20…
Continue Reading →Just a few months ago, Kovac Architects broke ground on the Sycamore House, a modern Pacific Palisades residence designed as the home of Principal Michael Kovac. Also to serve as a laboratory for the architecture firm's ongoing research into environmentally-conscious…
Continue Reading →Yesterday marked the official launch of MindBodyGreen, a new information-sharing site with a healthy twist. MindBodyGreen allows users to submit sites and articles, then, depending on the number of votes each gets, sorts the stories into ranking order. What differs…
Continue Reading →I feel a special kinship to the team at Knú, the sustainable modern furniture company who launched this past September, not only because they were amongst the first of my discoveries after I started writing here, but because they are…
Continue Reading →Keeping tea warm is probably one of my biggest battles during winter, besides avoiding the flu. Oftentimes, when I'm ready for a refill, I come back to the stove only to find the water I boiled had turned tepid. Multiply…
Continue Reading →Aside from the potential novelty that is eating potatoes with cutlery made from potatoes, Spudware is designed with the earth in mind; while it's just as durable as plastic disposable utensils, its 80% potato starch/20% soybean oil composition allows the…
Continue Reading →While we're on the subject of saving the world (Were we? Do Superheroes ever rest?) perhaps today is the right day to enter cause/affect, AIGA San Francisco's biennial graphic design competition, which celebrates work that positively impacts society and communities.…
Continue Reading →Starting this Friday, the country's best eco-friendly designers will take to the catwalk for Portland's fifth fashion week. The sustainably produced fashion week will feature the Spring lines of over 30 earth-loving fashion labels, including some class favorites like Sameunderneath…
Continue Reading →Patagonia has been mother nature's biggest fan since before she was famous. It comes as no surprise, then, that the company has recently made another forward-thinking move in the form of The Footprint Chronicles, a design-through-delivery breakdown of the complete…
Continue Reading →Stefano Merlo, an Italian designer, is behind this Edison-worthy bucket that collects light. In an interesting visual take on the ephemeral concept of storing natural energy, Merlo used photovoltaic panels to power a set of LEDs encased in the buckets…
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