Petz Scholtus
Petz left Luxembourg in 2000 to study eco-design at Goldsmiths College in London, trying to figure out what it’s really all about and how green she could make things. Her work took her from London to the small Tanzanian island Pemba, the Netherlands and to Barcelona where she has been working as a freelance eco designer since 2004, and writing for TreeHugger since 2005. Some of her design projects are the StuffBump and We Need More Trees cards.
Petz believes in design for people, planet and profit, connecting people and eating local food. She loves simplicity, good design and fairness, making practical and fun things, bringing people together (the more the better), travelling, speaking 5.5 languages, scuba diving, the Eden Project in Cornwall, open air parties, and her wormcompost on the balcony.
Apart from designing sustainable products, services and concepts, Petz is also a teacher at various design schools, (re)started the eco-design network o2Spain with some friends, founded the R3project, brought PechaKucha Nights to Barcelona in 2008 and launched the Barcelona Green Map.
To see all of Petz's work, visit her studio Pöko Design.
Latest Stories from Petz Scholtus - Page 10
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The Electric Bicycle World Tour and What The World Looks Like from an E-Bike (video)
Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage
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Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging (Book Review)
A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in their daily lives. Reuse is often better
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An iPhone App about Biomimetic Architecture: BioDesign #3 by Dennis Dollens
This seems to be the year for green iPhone apps, with already over 100 to choose from, including TreeHugger's own which was launched last month and the Green Map app launched recently. Now here is one for the biomimicry and architecture fans amongst
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La Pell - How green is this local leather design project?
Leather might not seem the most treehugger-liked material, but like with any material, it depends how you use it, where it comes from and what processes it has undergone. A few craftsmen
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PechaKucha for Haiti - saturday 20/02 worldwide
In a matter of seconds, thousands of lives and dreams were destroyed in Haiti last month.
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Become a Rich Person with a Seed Safe by Martà Guixé
Alessi has just launched a new product by Spanish designer Martí Guixé; the Seed Safe. It is a beautiful jar, dedicated to collect the seeds from vegetables and fruits we eat so that they can be planted instead of thrown away or composted. Guixé, who
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How perfect is the Park Slope Food Coop?
Having moved to Booklyn NY from Spain for a couple of months, I was eager to get to know the Park Slope Food Coop (PSFC), one of the oldest and largest in America. A lot of people told me stories about it, some enjoy being a
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The Leopoldo Urban Vegetable Garden becomes a Therapeutic Tool
For many years now (read our first article about Leopoldo in 2005), this Catalan design is appearing in more and more homes, restaurants, galleries and other spaces in need of green and locally grown food. It changed in size and
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Batalla Verde: From Mud Battles to Green Spaces, Guerilla-Gardening Style
You probably heard of la Tomatina, the tomato fight, in Spain, where each year some 50.000 visitors get together to throw 100.000 kilos of tomatoes at each other. And then there are
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Ronen Kadushin's LYTA Chair: lightweight and 100% recyclable
What makes a chair eco-friendly? Well, it takes quite a lot of things such as recyclability, reduced weight, longevity, both technically and emotionally, and the possibility to repair it before tossing it away. An eco-friendly chair
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Play Golf and Feed the Fish with Ecobioball
Our seas and oceans are badly contaminated, especially with plastic waste, which affects animals and plants in the waters. Jeremy wrote in The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Out of Sight, Out of Mind that "the floating expanse of waste and debris in the
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Airports Use Antacid to Fight Ice and Snow
Last week, the temporary closing of Frankfurt's airport in Germany, due to bad winter weather, affected 8000 people. In order to fight the ice and snow, the airport used 700.000 litres of antacid to get rid of the three-day snowfall. This is
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Burn Calories and get your Christmas Nougat Candy from the Vending Machine
The Spanish inventor Pep Torres from the studio Stereonoise, who also created the flowerpot that automatically rolls your plants into the sunlight, has thought up a vending machine that only dispenses the snacks once you have burned enough calories.
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Nespresso Recycling Program Launched in Spain (Video)
Just a few months ago, we thought George Clooney's coffee choice could be better. Although fair-trade, Nestlé's Nespresso coffee capsules could not be recycled or reused- until now! At the beginning of this month, Nestlé announced in Madrid, Spain, the
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Angels, Reindeers, Pigs and Christmas Trees; sustainable wood decoration by Lovi
more images below Matteria, good design+smart materials online store, suggest a spicy Christmas this year, without forgetting the environment. Apart from the gorgeous cork advent candle holder, the cosy Finnish red felt slippers, and giftbags to spoil
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Mop More Efficiently; Separate the Waters!
Carlos Rivadulla got the idea when he was sweeping floors in the army, and now, a few years later and with the help of his brother Juan Rivadulla, the siblings launched the Ecofrego, an eco-friendlier bucket that separates the clean water from the
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The Open Source House Project, Sharing Eco-Affordable Housing Solutions (Video)
Affordable and sustainable housing for urban, low-income areas is much needed all around the world. In order to improve the overall quality of life in these places, architect Vincent van der Meulen together with Enviu, the Dutch organisation behind the
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