GreenKraft

Green School Bali

2011-09-10T22:06:00.000-04:00

A short tour around the grounds of the amazing project that is The Green School located in the lush foothills of Bali, Indonesia.

Cyanotype Artist

2011-05-15T02:37:00.000-04:00

Christina McFall is obsessed with color, texture, form, and chemical reactions. She approaches the art of cyanotype printing with the mind of a scientist, carefully recording tests and cataloging results. She hand draws and tessellates patterns with her tablet to produce her negatives. Her innovative printing methods harness UV light to create Prussian Blue prints on fabric. She then hacks the dye with various treatments to induce a rainbow of unexpected results.

Without a Car

2011-05-05T07:07:00.001-04:00

Photographer Diane Meyer discusses her photo essay from the May/June 2011 issue of Orion about Angelenos, who not only survive, but often thrive in the City of Angels without automobiles. Includes additional portraits from her “Without a Car” project. Orion

Lightchimes

2011-04-23T11:46:00.002-04:00

Jimmy Chion, Jason Chua, and Kiran Malladi are the creators of Lightchimes, 169 hanging LED pendants. The circuit is simple, but the results are complex. This project is about interaction- without interference from a participant, the lights would never shine. Similarly, without collaborative interaction, this project would never have become a reality.

Dye From Plants

2011-04-13T11:49:00.003-04:00

How To Make Dye From Plants

Garden Dating

2010-12-15T08:41:00.001-05:00

A 'Big Shift' from the 20th century, a time defined by hyper-consumption, to a 21st century age of Collaborative Consumption, is underway.

Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping redefined through technology and peer communities. collaborativeconsumption.com

It is the subject of a new book, What's Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers.

Are Mushrooms the New Plastic?

2010-10-16T23:07:00.003-04:00

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment.

Jason Tennant

2010-09-07T09:47:00.003-04:00

Jason Tennant. His sculptures are quiet, flowing in the grace of their motion, but also hard and complex, like the wilderness that is their subject. Etsy

Brown Rice Family

2010-06-22T23:24:00.003-04:00

Brown Rice Family | Etsy

Hydroponic Herb Garden

2010-04-16T14:26:00.003-04:00

How to set up a hydroponic herb garden | make magazine

Farm Tables

2010-03-27T20:57:00.003-04:00

Process: Farm Tables With David Ellison of Lorimer Workshop | Etsy

Fallen Leaf Plates

2009-12-09T11:28:00.001-05:00

Verterra Dinnerware:Dinnerware made from fallen leaves.

Recycled Houses

2009-09-04T16:04:00.001-04:00

One Man's Trash | NYTimes

Build Your own Wormery

2009-08-11T20:48:00.002-04:00

Build your own wormery | National Trust Sign Off

Willow Sculpture

2009-07-26T22:56:00.004-04:00

Willow Sculpture Garden by Brian Birch

Vertical Vegetables

2009-07-12T00:18:00.004-04:00

Try this vertical vegetable garden | craftzine

Xmas Tree Furniture

2009-07-03T13:29:00.002-04:00

Royal College of Art graduate Fabien Cappello has created a collection of furniture from unwanted Christmas trees. | Dezeen

Grass Sleeve

2009-06-23T16:39:00.002-04:00

A $30 grass laptop "folder" from ABC Carpet & Home | Hollister H Hovey

Stone Leaves

2009-06-18T14:50:00.000-04:00

Last year I hammer printed plants and flowers onto fabric. Yesterday I tried it on some stones and I really love the result. It works best with smooth light colored stones. I used a rubber mallet instead of a hammer ........resurrectionfern

Handmade Soap

2009-06-13T20:52:00.000-04:00

Process: Handmade Soap with BeyondThePicketFence | Etsy

Plastic Fantastic

2009-06-08T19:11:00.000-04:00

Found object sheathed in knitted plastic bags by Anne Cecile Rappa via Dezeen

Sandals by MLeak

How to make Plarn

More Plastic Bag Crafts | Craftzine

Make a Messenger Bag out of Trash Bags | Make

Renegade Picks

2009-06-07T00:28:00.000-04:00

These were my favorites at the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn:
Bettula
Photosynthesis
The Black Spot Books
Forest Bound

Rustic Wedding

2009-06-04T12:50:00.001-04:00

Lauren and Andrew's diy rustic wedding | iDiY via craftzine

left: place cards made from eucalyptus discs

right: chipboard invitation wheels made from two circles of untreated, recycled chipboard diecut and letterpressed to look like an old planting wheel with redwood rings on it.

Design for a living World

2009-05-21T16:14:00.001-04:00

Design for a living World at the Cooper-Hewitt
Ten leading designers have been commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of conservation and design.

The Perfect Raised Bed

2009-05-01T14:26:00.000-04:00

How to build the ultimate raised bed | Sunset

Earthships

2009-04-29T01:21:00.000-04:00

Michael Reynolds is an architect, innovator, and founder of Earthships in Taos, New Mexico. For more than three decades, he has been using recycled materials to build self-sufficient, off-the-grid housing.| Waste?

Hammered Botanical Prints

2009-04-24T16:06:00.000-04:00

Hammered Flower and Leaf Prints by Buildmakecraftbake via craftzine
using the natural dyes in plants - great for making cards or simple botanical prints.

Kinectic Wave Sculptures

2009-04-13T02:52:00.000-04:00

Reuben Margolin - Maker Profile Kinetic Wave Sculptures on MAKE: television

Bamboo Biotechnology

2009-04-08T13:57:00.000-04:00

Booshoot is a biotechnology company that grew the first bamboo plants by tissue culture in test tubes in 2004. This scientific breakthrough instantly transformed the plant from a backyard ornamental to an economic powerhouse with the potential to be grown on a mass scale and the ability to compete worldwide in the pulp, paper, textile and hardwood markets.

Cheapskate Gardening

2009-03-26T13:36:00.000-04:00

This is a term I saw in a recent article in the NYTimes about Slow Gardening. It's a concept that fuses well with green sensibilites as it promotes use of recyled items like turning old tires into planters and uses paint buckets as pots. Joe Lamp'l aka Joegardener who was quoted in the article has a great post on the use of freecycle as a source for garden supplies. He takes the concept further with his series called twenty-five dollar organic victory garden on his blog. There's also this great post from last year in the Guardian called thrifty gardener. The image is from an instructable called Greenhouse From Old Windows.

Waste Not, Want

2009-03-20T00:51:00.001-04:00

David Stark's re cycling/re imagining of West Elm's cardboard packaging

Nothing office by Joost van Bleiswijk

Mark Langan

Composting

2009-03-13T19:54:00.000-04:00

How to make compost | Kitchen Gardeners International

How To Compost - with Rick Valley (LostValley.org)

Berkeley Method Thermophilic Compost | Hoodababba

Build a compost bin (with wooden Pallets) | Gardeners World

Change the Way you think

2009-03-08T13:23:00.000-04:00

My friend Shaun works for the WWF, so I'm regularly reminded, and rightly so about the impact of some of the many choices we make without knowing about their true impact. A few months ago he mentioned how many gallons of water it took to make a litre of soda, this recent video shows how many gallons of water it takes to make a latte. Mind blowing.

Seed Starting

2009-03-08T01:07:00.000-05:00

I'm about to start seeds so here's all my research in one spot:

Brooklyn Botanical Garden Seed Start from Greenhouse tv

Note use of bark as a alternative to peat.

Organic Gardening Magazine

From Gardeners World:
How to sow Sweet peas
Mint from Cuttings
Chillies from seeds

Hypertufa Container

2009-03-05T21:58:00.000-05:00

Make Your Own Hypertufa Container | Fine Gardening

Sunny Rising Leather

2009-03-05T21:25:00.000-05:00

Handmade Portraits: Sunny Rising Leather

Watershed Sculptures

2009-03-05T19:41:00.001-05:00

Maker Profile - Watershed Sculptures on Make: television from make magazine