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Blue Forest is a company that specializes in building eco-friendly, luxury tree-houses. I have no hope of ever affording one of these, but I hope someone in my life will get one so that I can hang out in it all the time.
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Luke Lamp Co out of Mamaroneck, New York, makes awesome lamps made from salvaged material. Check him out on Etsy.
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It’s beer-themed gift cards made from the leftover barley from a microbrewery. A gift to guzzlers everywhere, and even available to breweries with their own logo, these cards are by Twisted Limb, purveyor of many other awesome recycled paper products. Let the spirits flow!
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Eco-conscious, independently wealthy geeks take note: Texas-based DeLorean Motor Company will be selling electric versions of the car made famous by the Back to the Future films.
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Globe Hope gives new life to old army sleeping bags, curtains, and seat belts. Now they also give new life to your dead phone battery or iPod. This bag from recycled materials has a build in solar panel, and inside the pocket a collection of different cables for you to charge your electronics. On the [...]
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Free Dominguez is a 5’4″ bottle o’ kick-ass and Bruce Somers rips hard-as-steel riffs outta his Les Paul. Together, they form Kidneythieves and are about to drop a new album on their loyal followers. As if the music isn’t killer enough, the entire album was recorded in a 100 percent solar-powered studio. They also use [...]
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Right, this is the chance to pimp my newest shoes. While there is a lot to say about a new group of kick-ass shoes for men and women, I’mm sure the pictures do a better job. At least in showing off everything that’s outside.
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For $10,000, you can be one step closer to energy independence with this Honeywell wind turbine that attaches to your roof, creating your very own windfarm.
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Reinventing from ship to shore, Catalan designer Ramon Llonch works with local West African craftsmen to turn old boats (used by the fisherman of Senegal) into quirky and colourful domestic furniture. One-of-a-kind hutches, chests, chairs, tables and a banging foosball table are among the eclectic collection of upcycled domestic fittings. The pieces are currently available in Barcelona and Paris.
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I really dig artists that have a knack for crafting murals out of different goods. I’ve seen toast, plectrums, handwriting and now corks. Chicago-based Scott Gunderson perfectly reused a multitude of eco-friendly corks to create this meticulous face montage, and many more. Some portraits use 9,000 corks and take up to 50 hours to produce.
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I was mesmerised by a small seal pup colony at Ohau Stream, just north of Kaikoura in New Zealand. The small Ohau stream is a playground for seal pups, who swim up to a pool at the base of a 30-metre waterfall while their mothers are out at sea hunting fish. The pups are completely at home in their nursery — undisturbed by tickled onlookers, who are offered a privileged glimpse of a carefree existence.
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I am a keen bicycle lover and rider, but I’m also a lover of anything vintage and recycled, so when I found Starling and Hero I knew I was onto something good. Starling & Hero restores old bikes into new glories.
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This is the kind of furniture I’d like to fill my house with. Not only is it original and innovative, skate decks have some some great design on them, too.
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They handcraft sunglasses out of different types of timber and slot in some quality Carl Zeiss lenses. Skateboards are (largely) made out of wood. It seems only logical, then, that Oregon-based artisans Shwood would experiment with the remnants of pro skater Keith Hufnagel’s broken deck to see what happens. The result? Turns out eco-innovation can [...]
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UK company Re-Worked turns rubbish into recycled products in an effort to reduce carbon emissions. Their latest effort is Çurface, a range of furniture (including coffee tables, appropriately enough) made from a mixture of used coffee grounds and polystyrene. The pieces can be ordered through their website and apparently they may smell like coffee grounds for the first few weeks. Sounds like a caffeine addict’s dream.
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