Tag: Biodegradable - Page 6
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FreeFunk Festival in Cradle to Cradle Haven Venlo (NL)
The Cradle to Cradle enchanted Dutch town Venlo is hosting the 5th FreeFunk festival this year. Last year, the festival’s turntables and LED-lightshow were powered by 12 solar panels, home trainers (!) and wind turbines. This year, the FreeFunk
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Compost Conundrum: Backyard Box, Indoor Bin Or A Can-O-Worms? (Part I)
Let me just say up front that I've got a black thumb and a lazy disposition. It's taken me about ten years to go beyond backyard gardening 101, with many frightful failures. The only
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Removing the Hair Down There
The hair on your legs, silly! If there is a way to improve on leg-waxing, then Moom has done it. This Canada-based product works just like regular wax in theory, only its better because its nicer on your skin, Certified Organic and has reusable
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EcoffinsUSA: Biodegradable Caskets
Our guide on How to Green Your Funeral already offers a huge array of resources for those looking for more environmentally sustainable end-of-life options, from a conversation with Joe Sehee of the Green Burial Council to some very funky green casket
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Green Eyes on: Green Funerals
I attended a funeral earlier this week and it got me thinking. A short while back, I did a segment for an episode of Get Fresh with Sara Snow on green funerals. First off,
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How to Go Green: Funerals
Worldwide, more than 50,000,000 people pass away each year. Traditional burial and cremation practices can have significant negative environmental impact, but green funerals and eco-burials are one way to lessen the impact.
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When Disposable Plates Are Green
Products like disposable chopsticks, disposable diapers and disposable coffee cups have often drawn TreeHugger's ire for adding more mass to the waste stream, and while compostable tableware and other biodegradable kitchen goods are a step in the right
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Are These Straw Shoes Made For Walking?
Ok, these shoes may not be as stylish or elegant as those from the Danish label PJUX that we featured last week, but we love thought provoking concepts and experiments with materials just as much as anything practical or functional. Moco Loco recently
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Point/Counterpoint: Leigh Steinberg's "Green" Super Bowl Party
For the past 22 years, sports agent Leigh Steinberg has been hosting a swanky Super Bowl party, commemorating football's big day with a VIP affair. This year, for the first time, the party incorporated a handful of green initiatives -- carbon
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Best of NY Gift Fair: Looolo's New Cushions and Blankets
Add some comfort and a pop of color and texture to your life with LoooLo's new cushions and blankets -- that's "La Rue" two tone above, with more La Rue and "Honeycomb" cushions and blankets below the fold -- unveiled this week at the New York
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Grown Skis Go Back to the Future
The other day Collin noted some of the winners at the ISPO SportsDesign Awards for EcoDesign. If you didn't follow the link through you might've missed Grown Skis, who picked up the ski equipment category. This young German company is combining
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The Ecopak: Moulded, Printed, Biodegradable Paper-based Packaging
We're big fans of packaging done right, and we really hate packaging done wrong. It's no wonder then that we were intrigued when Mark Appleford of Varden contacted us about their new Ecopak packaging solution that "combines elements of pulp paper
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Most Huggable: Free Range Falacy?, Super Bowl Goes Green, Biodegradable Bubbles + More
A run of programms on British television has created a sudden upsurge of interest in free range chicken, but the supermarkets are still denying that there is a market for the more expensive meat.
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Bags of Change: Carrot Better Than Stick
As we reported previously, folks like San Francisco, China, Australia, IKEA and Whole Foods are jumping aboard the ban wagon with regard plastic shopping bags. Ireland took a different approach years ago with their PlastTax of a several pence per bag,
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Biodegradable Plastic Basket, by Coza Brazil
Brazilian home accessories brand Coza, specialized in 'cool' plastic designs, has launched its first 100% biodegradable plastic product. The baskets from the picture belong to the Coza Organic line and are produced with bioplastic: a commodity from
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Plastic Politics and Sweden's Bio-Bag Backlash
In spite of San Francisco's enlightening example, and Australia and China and other nations' plans for all-out bans on plastic bags, the world still uses a million of the suckers each minute. In Sweden 70% of surveyed consumers support a ban on plastic
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TreeHugger Picks: Smart Packaging Design
Often, we see poor examples of packaging design that lead to more junk for us to deal with and more waste in the landfill. In the spirit of taking your own bags to the grocery store, here are some picks for packaging that does a more than just wrap up
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We Can't Make This Stuff Up Dept.: One Cup or Two Sugar Mug
Offering an interesting new take on the "disposable" coffee cup, designer Anna Bullus' mugs are made from 100% sugar. Not only do they slowly melt away when hot coffee or tea is poured in one, but you don't have to add whatever sweet stuff you might
