Tag: Biodegradable - Page 7
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Ecolect: Creating A Sustainable Materials Database and Community
The site was created to save designers time and money by answering these questions: where do
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TH Forums Highlights: Avoiding Plastic Bags, Blog Action Day + More
1) Let's talk plastic bag ridiculousness with Forums user TheSilentChamber. At issue: various retail
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TH Forums Highlights: Green Living, Biodegradable Packaging + More
1) When it comes to reconciling the demands of life with the demands of the green life, Forums user dfdphdcandidate acknowledges that it ain't always as easy as maybe it should
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A Greener Ganesh
An age-old tradition of molding Ganesh idols out of clay is being revived just in time for Ganesh Chaturthi, or the Ganesh Festival, which takes place on Sept. 15 this year.
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Symren Natural Skincare uses Biodegradable Packaging
After writing recently about the attention paid by Nude Skincare to their packaging design, which uses recycled and recyclable plastic and biodegradable cornstarch sleeves, we were contacted by Symren Skincare. New York based Ingrid Anderson wrote to
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Bio+ Chair: Oil-Free Plastic Seating
With a mission to demonstrate that it is possible to create well-designed, thoughtful furniture without cutting down forests, employing oil-based plastics, glass fibers or toxic glues, designer Michael Strom and civil engineer Lasse Svensson came
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plyFOLD Containers: Fresh New Designs from ply design
TreeHugger is always on the lookout for simple, creative solutions to create less waste, use materials more efficiently and incorporate these ideas into our everyday lives. plyFOLD, the handy little tabletop catch-alls from ply Design, are a great
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EPA: Humans No Longer Biodegradable
WASHINGTON, DC—The Environmental Protection Agency issued a bulletin Tuesday warning the bodies of American citizens, with their large concentrations of artificial, synthetic, and often toxic substances, have been reclassified
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TH Forums Highlights: How to Green Your Friends, Best Green Bumperstickers and More...
It's been another fascinating week of chatter and discussion at TreeHugger Forums. It's great to see such a wide variety of people and subjects under discussion; as always, we encourage you to register here (it's free!), log in and talk amongst
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Disappearing Act: Biodegradable Lawn Furniture
If John Ryan didn't read Made to Break, he sure channelled it with his Abeio (latin for "to disappear") line of garden furniture and accessories, created as his thesis at OCAD. He notes that many people live in urban locatrions with limited storage space
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TH Forums Highlights: Green Wood Stoves, Cloth Diapers and More
1) stevejust has some bad news to report: "Friday (the 13th) I was riding home,
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Sharpen, Write, Plant, Repeat: "Seed of a Pen" by Zeev Zohar
A great companion to a Bloomin' Flower Card or Grow-A-Note Recycled Cards, the "Seed of a Pen" (which is actually a pencil -- go figure) has a seed embedded in the top. After wearing the pencil down to a nub, in the ground it goes; with some water, sun
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Clercdesign's Expanding Planter: Graine de Pot
Combining our old favorite "less is more" ideal with watching the miracle of photosynthesis from the comfort of your patio, clercdesign's "Graine de pot" goes from carrying a disk home from the store (above at left) to growing pumpkins and other large
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Sofa for One: Emir Chair by Lars Urheim and Trøkk16
Starting with the idea to make a contemporary, sustainable alternative to traditional upholstered furniture, Lars Urheim and Norwegian firm Trøkk16 (mostly) succeeded with the design and creation of "Emir". Designed as a "sofa for one", Emir is created
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TreeHugger Picks: Biodegradable from Beach to Green
An items' "biodegradability" goes a long way to making it more TreeHugger-friendly, and while we've seen lots of things like bioplastics and disposable cutlery that really make sense to be easily (and harmlessly) degradable, we've seen some kinda wacky,
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Biodegradable Films: They Do a Body Good
Now here's a story you can really sink your teeth into: scientists from the U.S. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have created biodegradable, milk-based and biofuel-derived protective films. By combining the milk protein casein with water and
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Green Fireworks Come in All Colors
In a perfect example of green design, a firework company has developed a new type of casing which creates a perfect sphere when it explodes, is biodegradable and is cheaper to produce. By mixing sawdust and rice chaff with biodegradable plastic,
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TreeHugger Picks: Going Out In Green Style
Proving that there isn't anything you can't do a little greener, green burials seem to be all the rage; from caskets to "leave-no-trace"-type burial techniques, check out some of the ways to go out in green style.
