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Buenos Aires Biggest Design Fair Features Green Section
From April 8 to 13, Buenos Aires hosts its biggest annual design fair, Puro Diseno. For the first time, this event presents a green section with responsible designers as one of its main attractions.
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Citibank Argentina Reduces Paper, Protects Rain Forest
Though a trend toward green banking hasn't fully taken yet in Argentina, the local branch of Citibank has launched a campaign to replace paper statements with digital ones in order to reduce unnecessary use of paper. To mark the occasion, the bank has
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Energy Consume Grows in Argentina, Government Launches Yet Another Plan
Despite the Energy Saving Plan the Argentine government announced last December, energy consume in Argentina kept growing during the summer.
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Faber-Castell Launches EcoPencil Line in Argentina
(Picture: marellinux from Flickr) In line with the beginning of the school year in Argentina, German firm Faber-Castell has launched a new line of products called EcoPencil, produced with 100% FSC certified wood from reforestation sources in
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Crazy Weather Causes Tornado in Buenos Aires
(Picture: Francisca Steverlynck for La Nacion.) In the middle of a crazy-weather week with unstoppable rain and flooding in various areas of Buenos Aires, two waterspouts (tornado-like shapes over water) formed yesterday over the Rio de la Plata River,
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Buenos Aires Fashion Week Winter 2008
It's fashion week in Buenos Aires, and from February 25th until 29, designers have gathered at La Rural to share their styles for the starting winter. Even though the event didn't have the green actions it had last year, we were glad to see at least
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Gas and Nuclear Power Talk at the Presidential Summit Between Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia
(Brazilian, Argentine and Bolivian presidents in Buenos Aires. Picture credit: Infobae.) As we previewed last week, Argentine, Brazilian and Bolivian presidents gathered in Buenos Aires last Friday to discuss gas supply to this country (which could
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First Wind-Powered Building Inaugurated in Mar del Plata, Argentina
Buenos Aires' most famous summer destination recently got its first wind-powered building. Its name is Cefira (in reference to Cefiro, god of the wind), and has a generator called IV 4500 which can produce 4,5 kilowatts: more than enough for the
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Mestiza: Repurposed Fabrics' Bags from Argentina
Mestiza is a small brand founded by textile artist Rosa Arena, graphic designer Irene Guntsche and entrepreneur Maria Sarobe, whose main product is a line of bags from repurposed lycra remaining from a tights factory.
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Argentina Supports Development of Organic Products
The Argentine Agriculture State Department has approved a development project to support organic production, informed La Nacion newspaper. The plan will have financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) for 900,000 US dollars.
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Soda Stereo Asks Fans to Donate One Day of their Lives
First of all, Happy New Year Everybody! If you're in Argentina and one of your resolutions for 2008 is to help somebody, take note of this one.
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Argentina: Organizations Demand New Government Environmental Action
A demonstration involving hundreds of environmental organizations and an estimate of "thousands" of people, took place in Buenos Aires last week. Its main purpose was to join the people from Gualeguaychu (a city 230 kilometers north from Buenos
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First Design Exhibition at Malba Focuses on Responsible Creators in Buenos Aires
The Buenos Aires Museum of Latin American Art (aka Malba, the most modern in the city) is holding its first industrial design exhibition from December 7th until next January 28th; and for our delight, the three chosen designers for it are creators who
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Tatu Diffusion: Design with Pure Materials and Native Work
"Tatu Diffusion is what the whole fashion industry will have to offer someday: Preservation and identity". With those words, Teo Gincoff presents his fashion label, Tatu Diffusion. Under this brand, he presents clothes produced mostly with natural
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District Cotton Goes Bowling For Billboard Bags
Turning retired billboards into toteable purses isn't a new idea: Both Relan and Vy & Elle have been doing it for years. Even Whole Foods recently teamed up with Alchemy Goods to reinvent its used marketing banners, which are difficult to recycle
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Vacavaliente's New Leather Gadgets: Play, It's Allowed [+ News]
Yesterday we told you how many cool green we found at Design Connection 2007, an annual exhibition taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, until next Friday, October 26th.
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Clever Green at Design Connection 2007 in Buenos Aires
The products pictured above are just three of the neat green designs we spotted at Design Connection 2007, an annual design exhibition that is taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, until Friday, October 26th.
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The TH Interview: David Holmgren, Co-Creator of Permaculture
"Many of the mainstream approaches to how we might make things more energetically efficient and ecologically friendly, although well intentioned, are a waste of time", says David Holmgren. From a permaculture point of view, that is.
