Kathreen Ricketson

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  Biosculptures: Filtering Water the Natural Way

  Biosculptures™ are living sculptures that use the capacity of carefully chosen plants to clean and filter water. They can be modified to function in different contexts--at smaller scale to clean household or office graywater, at larger scale as parts of

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  DIY: Root Cellar

  Eating local produce is a good way to reduce your share of green house gas and has the added benefit of supporting local farmers, not to mention locally produced foods tend to be fresher and taste better. If you happen to grow your own or know someone

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  Futurefarmers Victory Gardens

  Futurefarmers is a collaborative group of designers and artists exploring the relationship of concept and creative process between interdisciplinary artists making work that is relevant to the time and space surrounding us. Their current project is

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  Aurora Robson's Recycled Plastic Sculpture

  Aurora Robson makes her art, these whimsical sculptural pieces that are reminiscent of childhood nightmares, using discarded plastic bottles. She says "to me, making art is about recognizing and embracing new possibilities and encouraging others to do

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  Anti-diamond Ring

  Check out recycled rings jewellery range, gorgeous and original, totally planet friendly and without the internal conflict that comes with wearing diamonds and other mined gemstones. Other conflict free jewellery includes the GreenKarat and Liana

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  DIY: Slippers From Discarded Blankets

  We have said at TreeHugger that some of the most important ways to live a green life, lie in the small simple things. One suggestion towards this is wearing slippers around the house instead of turning the heating up. TreeHugger does love a good

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  DIY: Upcycling Men's Shirts for Women

  Burda style is a website dedicated to sewing clothing, techniques, patterns and how-tos. All you need to to do is download the patterns and follow the directions. Its a great resource for DIYers, Nikki, the powerhouse behind .... has a tutorial on how

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  DIY: More Fused Plastic Bags

  A while ago we wrote about fusing plastic bags together to make a hard wearing plastic fabric that can be sewn into something else. Etsy Labs published a tutorial on this process and CRAFTzine and WhipUp both published stories on this technique. Now

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  Thousand Year Bloom: At the Taipei Biennial

  The fifth Taipei Biennial (4 Nov 2006 - 25 Feb 2007) with a theme of "dirty yoga' attempts to explore the conflicts that exist among different extreme values, and was translated by participating artists into works about consumerism, youth culture,

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  Green Lawn: A Monument to Suburbanites Recreational Activities

  Portia Munson's work Green Piece: Lawn is a colourful display of consumer waste products. She collects and catalogues man made plastic garbage to create a tension between the artificial and natural within our consumerist leisure obsessed society. She

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  Etsy & Instructables: Sew Useful Contest

  Etsy and Instructables have partnered for their 'Sew Useful' contest. Etsy is a marketplace for independent artists and craftspeople and Instructables is a web community of makers who share their how-to's, visiting both sites are an excellent way to

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  DIY: Recycling Floppy Disks

  The floppy disk was the medium of choice during the 80's and 90's, they are now relegated to landfill, and cost dollars to dispose of correctly. People are great at finding ways to recycle and are making the floppy disk into something useful!

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  Extreme Knitting in Action

  Knitter Ingrid Wagner is breaking the world record for big knitting, she is using knitting needles bigger than broomsticks and knits with recycled materials to make a rug in a day. The current world champion for knitting with the biggest needles is

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  DIY: Plastic Bag Fabric: Reclaiming Plastic Shopping Bags for Good

  Plastic shopping bags are a scourge on the environment. What to do with all those plastic bags that seem to be just hanging around everywhere. One idea that seems to be a hit amongst the DIY and creative arty crowd is to fuse various plastic bags

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  Design for the Other 90%

  Design for the Other 90%, on view at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum through September 23, 2007. Of the world's total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us

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  Anni Rapinoja: Wardrobe of Nature

  Wardrobe of Nature is about the naturally occurring variations of nature, and humans as a part of nature. Anni uses plants to make clothing, shoes, bags etc for people in a very beautiful way. The works vary, with some the shape is taken from the human

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  DIY: Reclaiming Trash to Make Books

  A good way to recycle paper that is used on only one side is to make a blank journal from the papers. There are excellent instructions at instructables on how to use simple binding techniques to bind together the cut papers with a thicker cover of your

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  Beanie Festival in the Australian Desert Unites Communities

  The Alice Springs Beanie Festival is a community based event that began in 1997 with a ‘beanie party’. The festival was organised to sell beanies crocheted by Aboriginal women in remote communities. It has grown into a fun event where Aboriginal and