As we told you a little while back, the WIRED LivingHome "” a collaboration between Wired Magazine and LivingHome, an innovative prefabricated housing supplier "” is of equal interest to gadget heads, architecture fans and conservationists. Currently having its finishing…
Continue Reading →I first became aware of the problem that electronic waste, or "ewaste," poses to the ecosystem through the documentary film Manufactured Landscapes, which played here in New York a few months ago. In the film, you see a whole community…
Continue Reading →If you're going to be in Denver in mid October, you'll want to take a stroll down California Street -- it's the site of this year's Urban Forest Project, in which 24 local professional designers and 24 local design students…
Continue Reading →Even though I try, I am not the smartest person when it comes to being green. I'll admit that sometimes I leave a light on when I'm not home or stay in the shower a bit too long. Luckily, if…
Continue Reading →Scandinavia has come to our eyeball-rescue once again with the Ericsson Tower Tube, a radio base station concept that is a cost-efficient, environmentally-friendly, and a minimally phallic alternative to nasty cell phone masts. The concrete towers, designed by Sweden's well-loved…
Continue Reading →Products declaring their "green" status are popping up all over the place these days, and standing out in that market is becoming increasingly more difficult. Beauty Engineered for Ever, or B_E_E, has nailed it though; the New Zealand-based company has…
Continue Reading →In an ambitious effort to curb waste (and possibly increase their global PR image), Sony has launched a new national electronics recycling program. The Take Back Recycling Program aims to place a center within 20 miles of 95 percent of…
Continue Reading →Houndstooth on your dinner table? Say wha? The Haute Surface Collection, designed by Jamie Salm of Mio, a series of interlocking shapes cut from cork, designed to be laid out trivet-style on your dining table. They come in two types,…
Continue Reading →Portland is getting another storage facility, and you're probably thinking, "just what America needs...more mini storage," but in this case, hell yes! The proposed Portland City Storage facility will likely be the most energy efficient storage facility in the world,…
Continue Reading →Remarkable, a UK-based recycled product company, makes fun stuff out of old CDs, tires, and juice boxes. Oh, and about anything else they can get their hands on -- because the creative crew at Remarkable will stop at nothing when…
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