Tag: Bamboo - Page 9
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Most Huggable: Solar's Life Cycle Impact, Bamboo Bikes, Finding Biodiesel + More
A new life-cycle assessment study examined the four most common types of photovoltaic solar cells to find out how much energy and waste was involved in their creation.
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Choplery: Cutlery/Chopstick Bamboo Hybrid, for Your Eating Pleasure
One part cutlery, one part chopstick, and 100% bamboo, Choplery is a fun dining tool that begs the question "Does Pad Thai taste the same with a fork?" Created by Brooklyn-based designGO!, they simultaneously offer options and almost force a choice
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Karhu Greenlight Core: Paulownia for Skis
Somehow we missed this last year. Karhu have introduced Paulownia to the construction of their backcountry skis. We've blathered on about this timber before (once, twice or thrice,) regarding its application in surfboards, and even in shelving. As
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Constructive: Design Encouraging Debate About Sustainability
Swedish designers Form Us With Love (who first appeared on TreeHugger with their cool flat pack office accessories) recently held an exhibition at Stockholm Design Week that explored sustainability. Called "Constructive," the exhibition featured six
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What's So Great About Bamboo?
Bamboo has blossomed with the green movement, going from Panda chow to material extraordinaire in a few short years; we've seen it used in just about everything: flooring, anti-microbial bedding, and notebook computers, not
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Bright Fashion Lights to Watch: Conform
It's always fun to try and chart the new "bright lights" of the fashion scene and we have found one: Julia Smith, and her small company "Conform". First noted here when she won the Global Mamas competition at Topshop, where her made in Ghana batik
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How to Go Green: In the Kitchen
The eco-friendly kitchen begins with eating green, but it doesn't end there. Energy-efficient food preparation and cleaning habits, using equipment made from sustainable materials, and dodging toxic chemicals are also important if you want to have a
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Hoopla Paints DC with a Chic Shade of Green
Hoopla would like to
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Israelis Do Bamboo Too
TreeHuggers everywhere are already familiar with the environmental benefits of working with bamboo, and of course, the problems with recalls on Chinese toy imports.
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Terrasoles: Do they Need More Soul?
Apparently there is a footwear market known as the "casual after sport shoe" and Terrasoles want to redefine this niche. Some of these shoes (men and women styles) are made with bamboo, recycled polyester fleece and recycled microfleece.
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Matteriashop: Good Design + Smart Materials — a New Online Shop
Here's a new shop paradigm for you: Shop according to the revealed ingredients of every object. Because those ingredients sure look yummy with a range of products made from sustainable wood, cork, bamboo, organic and recycled materials. Monica Potvin
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Carabanchel Housing by Foreign Office Architects
Here is one way to make a building green: wrap it in bamboo. It makes sense in Madrid, where this apartment building was built on a north-south axis so it gets a lot of sun. Foreign Office Architects put a continuous five foot wide balcony around the
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Bamboo T-Shirts from Chile, by Rodrigo Alonso
Our previously featured Chilean designer Rodrigo Alonso continues his work with sustainable design. After coming up with his project N+EW (No More Electronic Waste) and recycling old computer and electronic parts into a bench and a lamp, he has
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Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve with Eko Noiz
Yesterday we heard about a groundbreaking initiative for international environmental education via the Permaculture Association Britain newsletter. Later, flicking further through the pages, we also came across a cool new organic t-shirt company, Eko
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Up & Coming Sustainable Designer: Dice Yamaguchi
It's amazing what a small bit of materials, intelligently partitioned, can do for you. Check out this project of student designer Dice Yamaguchi, from Pasadena, California's Art Center College of Design, who's made the most of a simple sheet of bamboo
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New York Times on Eco-Clothing
Ignore the idiotic New York Times headline "A World Consumed by Guilt" that has absolutely no relevance to this excellent article about the ins and outs of so-called green clothing; Writer Eric Wilson notes accurately that "No matter how sincere
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Bamboo + Ambulance = Bambulance for Kenya
The Canadian charity Design For Development Society (DFD) fights poverty with design. How? By coming up with design solutions together with communities in developing countries that can be developed and sustained locally. DFD's aim is to "reduce
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Toggery by Kate D'Arcy
With her Toggery collection, 26-year-old designer Kate D'Arcy melds sleek vintage-inspired silhouettes with a relaxed versatility that makes her pieces look novel yet timeless. Dressed up or dressed down, they are,
