Photographer Douglas Gayeton explains the genesis of his giant-sized, mural-like photos designed to protect from corporate marketing the meaning behind the words we use to describe sustainability.
Showing posts with label GreenNotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GreenNotes. Show all posts
Lexicon of Sustainability
Photographer Douglas Gayeton explains the genesis of his giant-sized, mural-like photos designed to protect from corporate marketing the meaning behind the words we use to describe sustainability.
Green School Bali
A short tour around the grounds of the amazing project that is The Green School located in the lush foothills of Bali, Indonesia.
Without a Car
Lightchimes
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.
Garden Dating
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?
 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. |
Xmas Tree Furniture
Royal College of Art graduate Fabien Cappello has created a collection of furniture from unwanted Christmas trees. | Dezeen
Plastic Fantastic
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
Design for a living World
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.
Earthships
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?
Bamboo Biotechnology
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
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.
Change the Way you think
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.
