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Entries with the keyword "Green"

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Brooklyn Bridge Park
(13 August 2009) - by Evan Lamagna Integrating itself into the now desolate landscape at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, the long-anticipated construction of the Brooklyn Bridge Park finally broke ground recently, commencing the first installment of the 85-acre park that will assume...
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Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
(10 August 2009) - Emily Pilloton's forthcoming book, "Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People" drives home the notion that, while going green benefits the environment, the real way to save the planet and ourselves goes beyond just designing biodegradable products and instead...
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Eco-Pocke-My-Hashi Portable Chopsticks
(29 July 2009) - An eco-friendly and vibrant solution to the rampant waste of disposable chopsticks (250 billion are trashed yearly), Yuento's travel-friendly alternative comes with a portable poly-carbonate case and silicon cap that doubles as a rest between bites. The designers make...
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Reef Check
(13 July 2009) - Of the eco-tourist travel boom lately, one of the most effective programs we've encountered is conservationist non-profit Reef Check. Tourists lucky enough to indulge in exotic island vacations have a chance to give back, combine active and activist lifestyles...
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Brammo Enertia Electric Motorcycle Now Available
(06 July 2009) - Enertia, a new buzzed-about electric urban commuter bike, hit markets yesterday—surprisingly, at Portland, OR's Best Buy rather than at a dealership. But the unusual distribution strategy is the least of reasons why the motorcycle is getting all the attention....
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Bedol Eco-Friendly Water Drop Clock
(30 June 2009) - by Julie Wolfson An example of function-inspired form, the Bedol Water Clock takes the water-powered capabilities of the original and adds a new drop-shaped design. The new perky look conjures a miniature wave (or is it a fin?) in...
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Whitelines Notebooks
(29 June 2009) - by Tisha Leung Swedish paper manufacturer Whitelines's new collection of handsome notebooks feature white-ruled lines instead of standard blue or black on a light gray, non-glare paper. Their concept is simple: dark lines distract, white lines don't. For those...
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Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable
(12 June 2009) - Nathan Shedroff's new book, "Design is the Problem", presents a practical and layman-accessible exploration of sustainable design. In it, he breaks the progress towards sustainability into five parts: learning how to reduce, reuse, recycle, restore, and process. And Shedroff...
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Benjamin Graindorge x Duende Studio: Floating Garden Aquarium
(09 June 2009) - Floating Garden, a new freshwater aquarium concept by Benjamin Graindorge and Duende Studio, tackles waste management, the primary concern of aquariums, with an innovative, 100% natural filtering system. By enlisting two forms of natural filtration, gravel-bed filtration and aquaponics, the...
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Daylesford and Hepburn Mineral Springs Co.
(09 June 2009) - Tired of seeing imported water from the other side of the world on tables of their local restaurants, the Melbourne-based founders of Daylesford and Hepburn Mineral Springs Co. decided to act. Today, the team bottles and distributes water from...
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The 4th Bin Design Competition
(26 May 2009) - The 4th Bin tackles the e-waste recycling problem by proposing a massive infrastructure shift using design thought up by you. Sponsored by Valiant Technology, the international competition is putting the call out to all creative innovators to submit logo...
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GURP for Mother Earth Contest
(22 April 2009) - Starting today, 22 April 2009, Mimoco's GURP, or GreenBot USB Recycling Program, launches a three week long video contest to celebrate its green mission and we're happy to be on board to support it. With a goal of recycling...
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Three New Green Skincare Lines
(22 April 2009) - One of the simplest ways to make every day Earth Day is to incorporate some of these new skincare products that make it easier to live an eco-friendly lifestyle. Free of parabens (an ingredient already banned in Europe for its...
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Virus-Powered Car Batteries
(03 April 2009) - Responding to the growing need for high-functioning rechargeable batteries, scientists at MIT came up with virus-powered versions, a remarkable idea that may just be the next big thing in green tech. Using genetically engineered viruses that essentially build a...
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Green Science Kits by 4M
(03 March 2009) - Made by 4M Industrial Development, Green Science Kits are part of the company's Kidz Labs series and are simple and inexpensive means of illustrating sustainable energy and environmental science. The kits, which range from water filtration to the classic...
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Thames & Kosmos Alternative Energy and Environmental Science Kits
(23 February 2009) - Although the Rhode Island-based Thames & Kosmos has only been around since 2001, the science kit manufacturer has a roster of more than 57 award-winning kits. This prolific output has been possible, no doubt, through partnership with the respected German...
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Like-it Recycle Dust Station
(19 February 2009) - If you're the type of person who gets a rush out of visiting The Container Store, then listen up. Last month, the Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro) mounted a sizable exhibition of Japanese manufacturers at the New York International Gift...
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Matt & Nat Vegan Handbags
(03 February 2009) - When people picture a vegan handbag the last thing they think of is something with a luxurious feel or look. Thanks to Matt & Nat, the stigma of vegan products only being suitable for hippies and environmentalists is quickly...
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Paralda HEPA Air Purifier
(13 January 2009) - The tragic irony of many air purifiers is that while they remove toxins from your breathing space, they also spew ozone-depleting gases into the atmosphere. Instead of relying on this decidedly non-green electrostatic technology, Alen's new Paralda Air Purifier...
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Spranq Ecofont
(07 January 2009) - by Ariston Anderson If one of your resolutions was to start shifting toward a green lifestyle, we've got an easy way for you to start that involves little more than using a new eco-friendly font. While it may seem that...
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MPREIS Supermarkets
(05 January 2009) - by Laura Neilson I know I'm not alone in my love for grocery shopping in foreign countries. It's a great way to get a sense of a country's consumer culture—not just by seeing what the people of that country buy,...
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Best of CH 2008: Top Five Furniture Designs
(02 January 2009) - Whether handsomely storing record collections or melding classic design with the durability of something suited for an office, the picks below represent furniture that goes beyond simply being furniture—in both substance and style. Fire Table Dutch designers Ward Huting and...
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Best of CH 2008: Top Five Green Projects
(31 December 2008) - by Tamara Warren In 2008, green officially made the transition from hue to lifestyle in style, transportation and construction. As environmentalism becomes increasing a part of every day life, several eco-minded designs stood out from the pack and are destined...
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VW Touareg V6 TDI
(23 December 2008) - With the automobile industry in crisis, it's refreshing to see steps in the right direction like Volkswagon's new Clean Diesel Technology. Their most recent model to incorporate such emission- and pollution-lowering technology is the lean and mean Touareg V6...
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GeniusRide Smart Car Rentals
(12 December 2008) - by Laura NeilsonDespite all the steam and excitement generated by the long-awaited arrival of the Smart Car on U.S. roads, rental companies for the little roadsters are surprisingly scarce. In fact, (other than our beloved Zipcar) GeniusRide is currently...
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NYC Apple Day
(17 October 2008) - Nothing says autumn like hot apple cider. If you love it as much as we do, this Sunday is your opportunity to kick-start the season with NYC Apple Day, an apple-frenzy street festival held in conjunction with the launch...
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Switchgrass-Derived Bioplastics
(13 October 2008) - Environmental tech company Metabolix recently announced that they have discovered a way to derive large amounts of bioplastic (plastics made from renewable biomass resources) by growing it in switchgrass, a common prairie grass. Their efforts are part of an...
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Green Concept Cars by The Royal College Of Arts
(13 August 2008) - Design with no regard to plausibility is always fascinating, especially when applied to the sense of fantasy and freedom inspired by cars. But what happens when you introduce a limiting (and very real) factor to the project? Featured in...
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EcoTowl Bamboo
(01 July 2008) - The EcoTowl Bamboo is a 20” x 12” super absorbent, washable natural cloth that replaces the convenient-yet-wasteful disposable paper towel (and the earlier non-bamboo EcoTowl). Made from 82% bamboo—one of the world's fastest growing fibers—it was a finalist in...
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Green Plug Energy Efficient Power Charging Systems
(30 June 2008) - Green Plug is a new company working to alleviate the huge and unnecessary energy demands created by our increasing numbers of gadgets. There's so much wrong with the current model of consumer electronics' power supplies, it's hard to know...
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Public Farm One Installation
(25 June 2008) - by Scott J LachutFor NYC residents, food just got more local thanks in part to Work Architecture Company's latest project, Public Farm One (P.F.1), their winning entry in the Ninth Annual Young Architect's Program. The installation, unveiled over this...
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Element Carbon Fiber and Helium Skateboard
(17 June 2008) - Element Skateboards furthers the evolution of the skateboard deck with their new Push Construction Positive Negative Series. The Push Deck is a skateboarding paradox. Lighter than any other deck, it's also more durable. This innovative structure is a result...
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Cascadia Living Building Challenge and Leader Program
(09 June 2008) - by Russ Lowe Moving beyond the once revolutionary LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design) scope of strategies and requirements for building green, Cascadia, the Northwest chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council's Living Building Challenge meets once unimagined sustainability...
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Local River
(08 May 2008) - French designer Mathieu Lehanneur (featured in the recent Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit) has taken the locavore concept to a practical level with his Local River exhibit at Artists Space in Manhattan. The concept is a small aquarium...
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Noon Solar Bags
(05 May 2008) - When I first stumbled upon Noon Solar bags at the Museum of Arts and Design exhibit Beyond Green in 2006, these innovative solar accessories were in the early stages of development—in need of a little refinement and perhaps some...
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The Pharos Project
(25 April 2008) - by Russ Lowe Addressing inconsistencies and other challenges in eco-friendly construction, a revolutionary group of like-minded (and large-minded) scientists, architects, engineers, humanitarians and optimists from the U.S. Green Building Council's robust Northwest Chapter, Cascadia, have developed Pharos, a project...
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Laundry Dropps
(01 April 2008) - For city-dwellers too lazy to haul jugs of detergent, the environmentally-minded and/or those just sick of drips and spills, Laundry Dropps are convenient little dissolving detergent pods that cut down waste and clean duds naturally. About the size of...
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Powerstick
(17 March 2008) - Providing a rechargeable, on-the-go power source for most any portable device, Powerstick is a convenient little accessory well-suited for travelers, busy people or anyone who stays out all night and has an iPhone. After a couple of close calls...
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Rocio Romero: LV Series
(29 February 2008) - It's an all-too-common complaint that modern prefabricated homes don't fit the utilitarian or economical requirements of the average Joe. Fortunately, these Joes have a sympathetic ear with Rocio Romero. The Missouri-based architect built her first prototype in 2000 as...
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HYmini
(04 February 2008) - I recently got to check out the HYmini renewable power source for a bit at the Greener Gadgets Conference in NY. In fact, I poached a little charge from it for my camera, which gave me just enough juice...
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Pineapple Paper Furniture
(23 January 2008) - Establishment (an interior design outpost in Manhattan) recently tipped us to Pineapple Paper Furniture, a new line of benches and chairs made from compressed pineapple fibers. We like the Doonya Chair (pictured above right, $1,900) as well as the...
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Wearable Collections Clothing Recycling
(21 January 2008) - Recognizing that discarded clothing makes up six percent of household waste—386 million tons of the stuff—in New York City alone, Wearable Collections latched on to a novel solution. Rather than dump trash-bags full of used clothing (much of it...
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Greener Gadgets Call For Entries
(07 January 2008) - Greener Gadgets, a conference on the topic of greening consumer electronics, partnered up with our amigos at Core 77 in hopes of seeking out design innovations for more eco-friendly electronics. The design competition will engage established design firms and...
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Daily Dump Home Composting
(21 December 2007) - Based in Bangalore, India, Daily Dump (an unfortunate but memorable name) offers designer clay composting containers that are a lot more rustic and stylish than the green plastic bins generally available in the West. Composting is a great way...
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Green Home LED Christmas Lights
(29 November 2007) - We like a good Christmas light job as much as the next person, but there are always concerns about energy consumption and the like. Green Home, a pioneering outfit that's run out of a basement in San Francisco's working-class...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Nau: Sponsored Video and Giveaway
(15 November 2007) - Nau won us over from the beginning with their impeccably designed, eco-conscious outerwear and business concept. This behind-the-scenes video features insights into their design process, retail store design and their guiding philosophy. Designers Mark Galbraith and Peter Kallen show...
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Ecopod
(15 November 2007) - With us all increasingly looking for everyday efforts to be more green and care for our planet, why not consider an option for our last day here? Hazel Selina has done just that. The British designer used her background...
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Recycled Wood Tree House
(05 November 2007) - If remembering the fun and simple learning experience from playing with Lincoln Logs as a kid brings back good memories, then the Recycled Wood Tree House—a modern update to those brown stacking pieces of our generation—will likely bring the...
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TiWalkMe: 1,000-Year Forest Clock
(02 November 2007) - TiWalkMe is a clock (still in conceptual stage) designed to track 1,000 years using a forest seeded along a ribbon of land to tell time. Annual tree plantings set the pace, visually representing time passing as they mature and...
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Eco Pneumo Dry Sack
(31 October 2007) - by Passa Chattra If you've spent anytime hiking or camping you know the value of keeping your stuff dry. Nothing can be worse than having to sleep in wet clothes after crossing two rivers, hiking a few peaks, and...
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Portland Fashion Week
(24 October 2007) - by Valery Joseph That Portland, Oregon, is a poster-child of green values and sustainable living is hardly news. Consistently name-checked in the media and the recipient of countless awards—most recently, the honor of "Greenest U.S. City"—the Pacific Northwest town...
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Elektroon Electric Bike
(08 October 2007) - Giving mopeds of yore a new look and an energy boost, Citydoo's Elektroon relies on pedal power to get up to speed before the electric engine kicks in. But once it does, it can hit speeds up to 40...
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Green Tee Clothing Company: Gifted
(26 September 2007) - MomiMomi has consistently been one of CH's most-liked t-shirt lines, so we're happy to see that one of the designers is going green with his new line, Green Tee Clothing Company. Now based in Florida, designer Danny Leder, launched...
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Alpinist 21
(17 September 2007) - The haute mountaineering magazine Alpinist has stepped it up another level by going green with issue 21. Advocates for clean-style climbing (leaving no gear behind), Alpinist 21 puts their money where their magazine is by using an eco-friendly printing...
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Superfund 365
(12 September 2007) - Superfund365 is an innovative website that will, over the course of one year, profile 365 differrent man-made toxic catastrophes by featuring one superfund site per day. From Manhattan to Oahu there are many locales that are listed by the...
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Rewrite Notebooks
(10 September 2007) - Here's an environmentally friendly offering just in time for the autumn back-to-school season. Crafted entirely of recycled materials, Rewrite is a 40-page college-ruled notebook printed with soy-based inks on standard 8"x10" sheets. Using Grays Harbor Paper's Harbor 100, a high...
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Eco Gas Station
(20 July 2007) - In Los Angeles, the gas guzzling center of the Universe, BP enlisted Office dA to embrace the paradoxical task of creating a green petrol station. Improving the existing station on site, it's not a station "of the future," rather,...
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Amazon Life x Oestudio
(12 July 2007) - Sustainability comes in all colors and forms these days, but rather than fall for the clever marketing of a product that purportedly saves the environment, Rio de Janeiro’s Amazon Life really hits the heart of sustainability by being aware...
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Wind to Light
(25 June 2007) - Using wind power, Jason Bruges' installation Wind to Light illustrates alternative energy sources in the form of a cloud of LEDs. Mini wind turbines power the lights (both are mounted on poles); as the wind moves through them, it...
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Eco Nano City
(25 June 2007) - A research project by FoxLin, Nano City makes the point that technological development from within the fields of design and architecture can be made to transcend ecological equilibrium—meaning that we could have positive embodied energy assessments, material reductions and...
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Green Project
(12 June 2007) - A fresh take on disaster relief, the New Orleans-based Green Project is a positive approach to the deconstruction of damaged or collapsed homes and buildings. Rather than simply tearing the destroyed properties of new Orleans apart to make room...
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Bambu Sporks
(04 May 2007) - Improving on the classic cafeteria utensil, Bambu's new Sporks mimic the way people eat with their hands. Designed for easy spearing or scooping, the biodegradable "Veneerware" (Bambu's paper plate alternative) is perfect for picnicking, parties, camping or anyplace else...
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Dopie Sandals
(04 May 2007) - Here's something to brighten up your feet as you move towards summer. This strange-looking colorful footwear looks like the born-again sole of a Nike Air Rift sneaker. In fact, the Dopie sandal is a collaboration between industrial designer Matthew...
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Kaight Eco-Boutique
(27 April 2007) - When Kaight owner Kate McGregor initially envisioned an eco-friendly boutique, she saw it in L.A. where the green movement had seriously taken root. Thankfully, she decided that a fair-trade boutique in New York would be a little more interesting....
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RootPhi Rethinks Recycling
(24 April 2007) - Brian Witlin, cofounder or RootPhi, is interested in rethinking recyclability to retain the intrinsic beauty of the first generation object. One of his explorations in this direction is being leveraged by Timbuk2 to create a new generation of messenger...
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Weather Report
(19 April 2007) - Weather Report, the second eco-themed show at The Gallery @ Adventure Ecology in London, looks at the environment and the threats of climate change. A slight departure from the disposable themes in the first show Waste & the Natural...
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Neco
(16 April 2007) - An Australian-based online eco store, Neco carries the gear we need to battle the worst drought in Australian history and fight the global climate change disaster. The soy candles and bokashi bin pictured will assist your household in improving...
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PlanetTran Hybrid Car Service: San Francisco Bay Area
(16 February 2007) - Recent years have seen OZOcar in NYC, ecoigo and green tomato in London, an Ecolimo in Melbourne and an (unrelated) Ecolimo serving NYC, S.F., Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Just last week PlanetTran introduced the first fleet of Priuses...
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Nike Considered 2007
(24 January 2007) - Considered, the sustainable footwear line from Nike, has moved in to their All Condition Gear group and will be introducing some rather innovative product as the teams join force. Always reliable for the scoop, Woody over at Sneaker Freaker...
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EcoForms
(03 January 2007) - Though East Coasters are currently experiencing a strangely warm winter, we're already fantasizing about spring planting. For an eco-friendly alternative to plastic with a no-frills look, EcoForms are made from compressed grain husks with natural, water-soluble binding agents. No...
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CH Resolution Guide: Live Green
(28 December 2006) - Consuming less of the world's resources should be on top of everyone's list for 2007. Here are a few ways to decrease your footprint on earth. Ecopod Trees For the Future Jorf & Olif Citybikes Nau Inara Organics Babussu...
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Suck UK Sun Jar
(07 December 2006) - I'll admit that Suck UK can be a little bit hit and miss with its creations, but I think the Sun Jar is spot on. Using a solar cell, battery and LEDs, it effectively collects sunlight during the day...
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An Inconvenient Truth DVD
(06 December 2006) - If anything is going help you have a good yule this year—and more importantly for years to come—this "essential viewing" film about the threat of global warming is the one. A year ago no one would have believed that...
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Trees For the Future
(05 December 2006) - Trees For the Future (TFF) works with local communities to help reforest degraded lands and teaching local people agroforestry—how to grow, plant and tend to trees. The trees minimize soil erosion, provide foliage for animals and fuel-wood for the...
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Popular Science's Best of What's New 2006: Skystream 3.7
(13 November 2006) - Following last week's exhibit of Popular Science's Best of What's New 2006, CH's latest pick from the annual round-up of new innovations is the Skystream 3.7. The first all-inclusive wind generator engineered for residential use, the Skystream provides clean,...
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Nau sneak peek
(07 November 2006) - We paid a visit to Nau a few months ago and told you all about this exciting new activewear brand. As their January 2007 launch nears they've started adding content to their site, including the first preview of their...
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Maak Eebuh T-Shirts
(31 October 2006) - Harlem-based design house Maak Eebuh is launching their debut line of T-shirts "The War Series," aiming to provoke comment and build dialogue about the war in the Middle East. After working in costume design and high-end fashion at Yigal...
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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
(24 October 2006) - A truly unprecedented endeavor, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, provides cutting-edge solutions and ideas for constructing a more livable future. With contributions from more than 60 acclaimed writers, including a forward by Al Gore and an...
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Bird
(19 October 2006) - One of our favourite new discoveries, Byron Bay fashion label, Bird, is the creation of designer Rachel Bending whose "work pioneering sustainability in design started with Slingfings, a brand widely recognised for its environmental consciousness." Bending, who originally hails...
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After These Messages
(17 October 2006) - Geared towards communications professionals, After These Messages is the perfect forum for anyone who has ever looked at an ad and thought "How can they sleep at night?" An online campaign, it allows members to review advertising and other...
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Nau
(05 September 2006) - Nau is the tipping point for Eco-Luxury. It means “welcome” to the Maori in New Zealand, but it also means welcome to a whole new way of designing, manufacturing and selling product—the socially responsible way. We stopped by their...
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The Urban Forest Project
(18 August 2006) - The Urban Forest Project is a design-centric socially conscious event in two parts. The first is a collection of 185 banners that will be on display in Times Square (from 1 September to 31 October 2006). The tree-themed banners...
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Freitag's New Zurich Flasghip
(19 June 2006) - The Freitag bag has become somewhat of a phenomenon. Similar to Zo or Timbuk2 bags developed by bike messengers in San Francisco, Freitag bags were inspired by the heavy tarpaulin-covered trucks that brothers Markus and Daniel Freitag would see...
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The North South Project
(16 June 2006) - The concept of eco-chic is steadily spreading across the fashion and design worlds, as retailers are responding to consumers' rising demands for ethically and environmentally conscious products. But most companies tend to tout their eco-friendliness without providing adequate information...
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Industrial Design Techniques and Materials
(05 June 2006) - Industrial Design Techniques and Materials, traces the history of design materials from the shifts brought by the mass production of the Industrial Revolution to the more recent developments brought by technology and ecological consciousness. The upshot is an intellectual survey...
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Biotube Bench
(01 June 2006) - Made from recycled cardboard cylinders, embedded seeds in a cellulose liquid grow when they're exposed to water and light on the surface of Brooklyn-based designer Julian Lwin's modular bench. Available as individual tubes or bundled as shown, any plant...
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ICFF 2006, Part II
(19 May 2006) - Earlier this week the week we brought you ICFF 2006 and Beyond. As promised, here are a few more events happening this weekend, this time focusing on reader-contributed specifics. —Icing or Cake is Fabrica's window installation displayed at both...
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Sky Box
(08 May 2006) - My friend and former colleague Stefan Andrén recently finished the Portland, OR home he and his wife Nicole designed as the showcase for their architecture studio Krown Lab. Appropriately named, Sky Box is modernism for the naturalist. Set in...
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Hydro Wall
(05 May 2006) - Next Generation Design Competition sponsored by Metropolis Magazine. San Fratello's proposal will be featured at the Metropolis booth at the upcoming International Contemporary Furniture Fair, 20-23 May 2006, in New York, as part of the magazine's 2006 Next Generation...
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LO-TEK's Airplane Fuselage Library
(21 April 2006) - LO-TEK, the New York architecture firm that pioneered the shipping container revolution, recently proposed a new library in Mexico made of stacked discarded Boeing 727 and 737 fuselages. Usually, fuselages aren't recycled and are left to rust in deserts...
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Cheers to Earth Day
(21 April 2006) - Producers are responding to the increased demand for organic beer and spirits. Here are a few that caught our eye. Papagayo organic rums (plain and spiced), the world's first, come from a remote region in Paraguay. A project started...
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Preserve Tableware
(21 April 2006) - The 39 billion disposable utensils and 29 billion disposable plates used each year in the U.S. create about 950,000 tons of waste—enough to fill more than 132,000 garbage trucks that bumper to bumper would reach Chicago from the east...
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New American City: Sycamore Farms
(21 April 2006) - When artist and fourth generation farmer Matthew Moore found that farmland his family sold outside of Pheonix, Arizona was slated for a housing development, he decided to protest. Instead of picket signs, Moore took to the land, and recreated...
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renourish: nutrients for the graphic design community
(21 April 2006) - renourish is an online resource for green design and the result of two years of research by Eric Benson, who created the site as his MFA thesis at the University of Texas at Austin. Eric noted the many green...
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Earth Day
(21 April 2006) - Tomorrow is Earth Day so today we're all Green. Every day should be Earth Day, and it might be for some, but having a day set aside to call attention to living in a more environmentally sustainable way is...
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Stuffbump
(17 April 2006) - Graham Hill from Treehugger is no stranger to creating product—his We Are Happy to Serve You ceramic cups are a hit reusable version of the classic New York paper coffee cup. His latest creation, Stuffbump, is the first Treehugger...
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Jimi iPod nano Case
(22 March 2006) - Jimi, makers of the anti-wallet we previously covered here, have just released their latest creation. The Jimi iPod nano case is a rigid plastic shell that snugly fits around the nano. It's a two piece solution available in six...
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Laloo's Goat's Milk Ice Cream Company
(27 January 2006) - Laloo's Goat's Milk Ice Cream Company is hand made on a farm in Sonoma, CA where the 350 goats roam and graze freely in the majestic fields. These must be some very happy goats, because their milk, and the...
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NatureMill Automatic Kitchen Compost Machine
(18 January 2006) - The NatureMill automatic compost machine is designed to sit unobtrusively in your kitchen. Its aesthetic may be neutral, but it's a small price to pay for the huge benefits it provides—an estimated landfill savings of more than two tons...
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PowerFilm Foldable Solar Battery Charger
(17 January 2006) - This weatherproof solar charger was created for the military and is now available to the public. Going camping? A day at the beach? When you're off the grid and can't bear not reading the latest on Cool Hunting? Throw...
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The Green Bakery
(16 January 2006) - This new green bakery, said to be the first of its kind, just re-opened (following a brief preview in November it was closed for additional construction) in New York's East Village. All of the materials used in its construction...
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EcoSmart Fire
(03 January 2006) - EcoSmart Fire is an environmentally friendly open fireplace that comes in a variety of modern designs. The core of their system is the EcoSmart Burner, a simple metal box that houses all of the components to make a clean,...
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Cannabis Candles from IIKH
(20 December 2005) - These candles are part of a new collection at IIKH, one of our favorite stores for well designed green products. They are made from vegetable wax and have a cotton wick, which means they burn cleaner and longer than...
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Recycling Trash Can by Adriano Carvalho
(19 December 2005) - We love the simple and effective design of this recycling trash can by Adriano Carvalho. It won first prize in Brazil's Centre for Enterprise Commitment with Recycling's (CEMPRE) first "+Design -Waste" competition. The three separate trash areas stack for...
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Loomstate Vans
(15 December 2005) - Here's a sneak peek at Loomstate's new line of Vans due out this February. Made using the same 100% organic cotton that they use to make their clothes (it's a blend of fibers from Turkey, Texas, and Kentucky that...
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Sam's Yams
(30 November 2005) - Sam's Yams are a newly discovered dog treat that CH mascots Otis and Logan are all over. Having heard recently about more than one incident involving the healthy looking "green" chews that are mostly corn starch, and others about...
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Smencils
(29 November 2005) - Smencils are scented pencils made from recycled newspaper, which allows the pencil to retain one of ten "gourmet" scents: Bubble Gum, Cherry, Chocolate Milk, Cinnamon, Cookie Dough, Grape, Hazelnut Latte, Orange, Peppermint and Rootbeer. They can be used as...
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OZOcar
(28 October 2005) - Yesterday we read about OZOcar over at Charles and Marie and loved the idea so we decided to give them a shot for this morning's trip to the airport (en route to Seattle). With a fleet of 30 hybrid...
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Ikea PS 2006
(07 October 2005) - 2 1/2 years, 28 designers, 42 pieces: The challenge Ikea set forth-- to produce socially and environmentally responsible products using simple (often reused, recycled, and repurposed) materials. By all accounts the designers succeeded, often brilliantly. Using fish nets, recyled...
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RISD's New Digs
(15 September 2005) - Known for alumni who consistently go on to shine in nearly every creative field from architecture to cinematography, it's only logical to apply the principles of good design taught at RISD to daily life in the dorms. It's even...
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Sporting Green: RECYCL'art
(30 August 2005) - Recycling cell phones is as easy as finding a designated drop box in one of hundreds of Whole Foods stores nationwide, but when it comes to athletic gear, re-use options are much more limited. Until now, worn out cleats...
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Fairpack
(24 August 2005) - Fairpack is Central Saint Martins student Mark Hadfield's Master's thesis and plan to reinvent the shopping bag as we know it. Still in development, Hadfield's project tasks designers with creating a graphic to adorn biodegradable plastic bags, recycled paper...
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Nike Considered Blazer
(22 July 2005) - I've respected the Considered line of sustainable sneakers from Nike since its launch earlier this year, but I can't honestly say I liked any of the models. Until now. Freshness has pics of the next 4 Considered models, but...
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Avant-pop Bag Ladies
(19 July 2005) - A militant vegan bag lady, Holly Suan mixes bold, aunties' fabrics from Hong Kong, China and Korea, with modern confusion and performance art. Using strictly vegetal leather, the British-Malaysian designer from London works out of Hong Kong, selling to...
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Space Crystallization: Australia
(04 July 2005) - I first wrote about Ludwika Ogorzelec's Space Crystallization Cycle after seeing her show here in NYC last February. Her prolific installation of site specific cellophane lattice has graced a broad range of settings since the series began a couple...
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Creative Reuse
(22 April 2005) - Eric Quebral deconstructed and reconstructed this Air Max 90 box to explore the vague concept of sneaker as landscape for a recent school project. His topographical model is of a proposed running terrain. Being Earth Day today, I thought...
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Nike Considered
(10 March 2005) - Nike has recently introduced a new sneaker line called Considered. They're focusing on sustainable product innovation to eliminate waste and toxic substances during the manufacturing process. This new way of manufacturing for example uses 80% less solvents and glues...
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Green Skate Lab's East Coast Eco Bowl
(03 March 2005) - Green Skate Lab is building and environmentally sound, 3 section bowl in Washington DC. Made entirely from reused materials, the bowl is meant to be the centerpiece of a multi-purpose space that will also feature innovations in art and...
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Ecoist Bags
(08 February 2005) - Ecoist bags. Inspired by her journeys in Mexico and concern for the environment, Ecoist uses candy wrappers, food packages, and soft drink labels that have been discarded by manufacturers. They create a variety of bags that are simultaneously eye-catching...
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Toyota Z-Capsule
(21 January 2005) - Treehugger about Toyota's continued push for environmentally friendly transportation. The hybrid car manufacturer will be testing a new lower impact, mass transit scheme this March in Japan. The Z-Capsule bus runs on a low-emission, compressed natural gas engine. But...
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Recycled Paper Vase
(07 December 2004) - Most designers I know (myself included) read an enormous amount of magazines for both research and pleasure. A rather displeasing side-effect is the hideous amount of paper waste that results from this habit. Lekkerhome has a solution: hand crafted...
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Biodegradable Mobile Phones
(01 December 2004) - Well... not the entire phone. University of Warwick, together with PVAXX R&D, have created a prototype mobile phone casing, made of a biodegradable polymer. To exaggerate (and beautify) the point, they embedded a sunflower seed in the case so...
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Julian Lwin
(29 November 2004) - Julian Lwin is a product designer who decided to do something with all those refuse bottles found curbside on recycling day. His lighting pieces creatively repurpose laundry bottles making both a social and an aesthetic impact....
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ShitBegone
(22 November 2004) - As you may have noticed, I'm all about environmental friendliness, social responsibility and hot design. So is Brooklyn, NY based Jed Ela. He created ShitBegone to deliver labor friendly, 100% recycled, soft toilet paper at a valuable price. If...
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Method
(09 November 2004) - Method founders Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry have been on a 5 year quest to bring design and sustainability to the home care industry. With this year's proliferation of their line across Target stores, it's fair to say they...
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adidas Hemp
(05 November 2004) - Of all the trends right now, the one that makes me happiest is the fact that environmentalism and sustainability have found their way into design. The result-- hip, hot and feel good products. adidas was ahead of the curve...
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Ecotonoha
(02 August 2004) - A brilliant little future conscious design project-- Ecotonoha was created by Yugo Nakamura, ( MONO*CRAFTS ) for NEC. By adding words as leaves you collaborate to nurture a virtual tree. As the virtual tree grows, NEC will plant real...
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Biodiesel
(01 June 2004) - Maybe it's because of all the bullshit oil politics, or maybe it's because I just revisited my crunchy Vermont roots-- either way, I'm fascinated by Biodiesel at the moment. It is an old concept that's seeing a rebirth among...
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Earth Day / Human Descent
(22 April 2004) - Yes. We should all recycle more plastic, waste less water, and conserve energy resources. But that's stuff we should do every day. On Earth Day, I think we should stop to ponder how life on earth is evolving-- especially...
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Adidas Eco
(15 April 2004) - Among other finds in Rio were these simple, sensible, summer kicks. From what I could gather, they're made from hemp and have recycled rubber soles. I can't find any info about these through Adidas or the sneaker sites, so...
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Toyota Volta
(11 March 2004) - Finally. A good looking hybrid. Fabrizio Giugiaro, son of famed automotive designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, joined Toyota to launch the Volta in Geneva earlier this month. The hybrid sports car is named for physicist Alessandro Volta who invented the battery....
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Fonebak
(27 January 2004) - Fonebak is a UK based initiative to recycle discarded mobile phones. Participants can drop off their handset at one of several participating shops, or they can mail it to Fonebak directly. The device is then dismantled and whatever bits...
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American Apparel NYC
(05 January 2004) - The best T-Shirt maker ever, American Apparel, has opened 2 shops in NYC. At 712 Broadway and 373 6th Avenue you can find the perfect fitting, luscious feeling, environmentally friendly and sweat shop free products American Apparel is becoming...
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Fuel Cells
(11 February 2003) - ABCNEWS.com : Fuel Cells to Power Portable Electronics President Bush is actually pushing R&D on an environmentally friendly, long lasting power source that can be used in mobile phones or even cars!?...
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