No vinyl is used in the wallpapers produced by Mod Green Pod. This company, founded by Lisa and Nancy Mims, uses water-based paints and a water-based varnish to ensure greater durability to the product when in contact with light. And the fabrics they sell are made from certified organic cotton and paints.
Source: Inhabitat
Is boxed water better for the planet? This peculiarly named company—“Boxed Water is Better”—says it is. Similarly to milk boxes, the box produced by the company is 90% made from trees harvested from managed areas. Unlike regular plastic bottles, which come from petroleum.
The boxes are manufactured in a folded and flat shape, which reduces in 80% the carbon footprint of the packaging and distribution process, in comparison to plastic bottles.
Another nice thing is that twenty percent of the profits go back to “nature”. Ten percent go to foundations for the preservation of water springs and reservoirs, and the other 10 percent go to reforestation foundations.
Regarding this package, tetrapack has elaborated a guide (pdf file) explaining how it differs from plastic bottles.
Coconut fiber replaces fern fibers which are in danger of extinction, and is also a very ecologic alternative since its husk is usually discarded. It is renewable and our country has a large production of coconuts. Coquim is the name of a company that produces several types of vases made from coconut fibers, as wells as coasters, placemats and sous plats. Because their website does not make online sales you will have to e-mail the company to order the products.
I also found another product made from coconut fiber—the doormats manufactured by Komeco, available at CompraFácil starting from R$19.90.
Chuck’s Studio has developed this wastepaper basket for offices, made from recycled cardboard. They are available in two models and the paints used on the wastepaper basket—which has been nicknamed Chuck—are water-based and have very low VOC emissions (volatile organic compounds). The basket with the green print is not available yet, but the model with the botanical print is available at Chuck’s for US$ 9.99.
Source: Inhabitat
Another cool project created by the Ciclus studio. A while ago, we showcased an amazing eco-wine carton that can be used as a luminary. Likewise, this coaster for pans is a great way to recycle corks. A stainless-steel tray, which is used as a support, is inlaid with pointy little tines in order to hold the corks in place. This project was developed in collaboration with designer Nikoline Arns.
Read this post at Rodrigo Barba’s Blog: Pan Coaster Made with Corks
Rodrigo Barba
French Artist Gilles Eichenbaum has created projects that reuse household items, also known as “Garbage.” His works are mostly comprised of lamps made of teapots, forks, funnels, pots, lids, and other items.
Read this post at Rodrigo’s Barba Blog: Lamps that reuse household utensils
Made of wavy recyclable cardboard, this set of boxes is an amusement park for ecologic cats. This condo is interconnected by an opening in the middle box which allows its dwellers to visit other residents. If your cat is on the heavy side, like Garfield, don’t worry because these boxes are made of double cardboard sheets and are very resistant. The paint used on the boxes is soy-based, non-toxic paint.
Each one costs US$29.95, at Caboodle Cats.
Tip from MirrowAlice.
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It’s agony to make room for all of our pots and pans in our increasingly smaller kitchens. We even store them in the oven.
But here is a much cooler solution that requires very little space. This shelf was specifically designed to hold pots and pans but can be used as a fruit bowl—and an ecologic one, because it is made of bamboo. It costs US$175 at Crate & Barrel.
Read this post at Rodrigo Barba’s Blog: Shelf for pans
Project led by the architects from NL, reunited 100 trees in 100 shopping carts in a square, for the Urban Play event, in Amsterdam, Holland. The carts were put in a way, to block people from doing their usual way, forcing them to divert and walk in the middle of the mobile forest.
All of the trees, after the event ended (which lasted six weeks), have been donated, so, any person could grab a cart and take the tree home or plant in any urban space.
The Urban Play event is an international project organized by Droog Design, created and curated by Scott Burnham and presented as part of ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam 2008.
moving forest from michael schoner on Vimeo.
Moving Forest
NL Architects: Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse
Structure:
Experimenta Design 2008 Amesterdam
Commissionaire:
Droog Design / Urban Play Event 2
Projects Manager: Maaike Gottschall
Dean:
Scott Burnham
Designer / Project Architect:
General Yamamoto (Design)
Daan Roggeveen (Organization)
The Mexican designers Francisco Cantu and Andrea Fenyvesi (collaborator) created a couch that is a mix of crumpled cardboard and MDF of medium density. The recyclable couch, is beyond functional and very resistant. It also has smashed paper stuffed cushions.
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