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A Liter of Light is an inspiring project to bring lights to the poverty-stricken regions of the Philippines. Dwellings built too close to one another made natural lighting almost impossible, while electricity is unaffordable. The project aims to light up these houses by creatively reusing plastic bottles, filling them with water and bleach, then fixing [...]
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Italian designer Fiore Arcangelo’s ECCO chair does double duty as a terrarium pregnant with plants. There’s something very cool about having vegetation grow as you sit and being slightly panicky that it will all uproot you eventually. If you ever get one of these, resist the urge to grow a rainforest in there.
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AluMosaics is an art form that transforms aluminum cans into stunning works of art. Founded by artist Jeff Ivanhoe, AluMosaics combines recycling and reuse with creativity and imagination. Ivanhoe’s pieces have been featured in My Modern Metropolis, Travel Host magazine, MyTekLife magazine and the Pheonix Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, he teaches the art of AluMosaics to dozens of students in the Arizona-area, inspiring others to explore the depths of their creative imagination.
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These chaps have a passion to see people live a greener lifestyle by growing their own vegetables, and so they specialise in installation and maintenance of chemical-free vegetable gardens. They also have a book to assist and inspire the potential DIY home gardener, along with selling a range of seasonal heirloom vegetable seeds, so you [...]
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Add one QR code, some ice, and then you have a smart way of connecting people in Amsterdam to the melting ice caps. Gin is optional.
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The same Harvard University professor who thought up Le Whif has now dreamt up the ultimate storage bottle: an edible one. Thhat’s right, biomedical engineer David Edwards has invented WikiCells, ‘natural food membranes held together by electrostatic forces,’ which he is applying to all types of food, including juice, water, wine, and chocolate. So once [...]
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Imagine a spot of night swimming at your local beach, only to have the shoreline and waves glow an ethereal blue at any sign of agitation. The images here are from Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives, a place where a concentrated population of bioluminescent phytoplankton exist, much to the delight of photographers who snapped these pictures. These concentrations are a field of study all to itself – potentially harmful, always stunning.
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Fuck going green. Go blue. Most of the untapped real estate on Planet Earth is under water anyway. These concepts may appear a bit far fetched, but they offer as many positives as they do unrelenting fears. Sustainable climate control, protection from atmospheric devastation, tranquility, no escape, loss of oxygen, giant squid attack, drowning, and [...]
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There’s origami, and then there’s Chairigami. All completely recyclable, of course: ‘Chairigami is an innovative designer and manufacturer of cardboard furniture. Our product is inexpensive, lightweight, and completely recyclable’. Smart.
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Greenhouse by Joost is clearly a project we love, having featured it in a few different ways in the past. But when this brilliant, sustainable, waste-free restaurant popped-up at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, we had to showcase it one more time.
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Back to the future. Ok, we can’t hover yet, but we can skate a deck at 20 miles per hour on battery power. These battery powered and weight sensitive decks are the way of the future. And at 10 miles per charge, these wheels are no joke. The ALTERED electric skateboard features a handheld controller and is proven on the carving circuit. Go green, go mean, and go lean on the next wave. Next level ply, skate or die.
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I just hung out at the Baltimore Free Farm, an ambitious and multi-faceted permaculture farm in the middle of Baltimore City. Most exciting is their plans to have a sustainable prawn-farming facility, where shrimp will consume compost and vegetable waste and provide fertilizers for the farm with their own waste and a healthy and delicious protein source for people.
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Greenbutts are biodegradable cigarette filters that would break down quickly in the natural environment. The manufacturers of Greenbutts use organic flax, cotton and de-gummed hemp as opposed to acetate cellulose (plastic) and dangerous glues found in standard cigarette butts that take 10-14 years to break down. This also means redefined all-natural tobacco taste. Greenbutts also [...]
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I really like Casuasakks. It’s hard not to. Randi Wagner has taken coffee sacks that have finished their stint carrying coffee across the Pacific and combines them with other vintage or designer fabrics to create unique, very cool cushions, each one a little, or a lot, different from the last. Even the filling is made from something finding a new life: recycled plastic bottles. Smart, functional, friendly.
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Imagine the coolest thing ever. Let’s say, you take old bebop records from a beat poet’s secret stash, melt them down, and turn them into t-shirts for a band you’ve never heard of. Farfetched? Not as much as you may think. Brisbane’s Holloway Eyewear are taking old skateboards, and handcrafting insanely cool sunglasses from the [...]
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