Tag: Cardboard - Page 3
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Recycled Cardboard Accessories by Diseno Cartonero
The first edition of Sustentable, a design festival entirely dedicated to sustainability and green design, is proving that Buenos Aires is ready to embrace the environmental movement. The event gathered a good amount and
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Rake and Take Cardboard Composter - Boon or Bust?
The Rake and Take is a cardboard composter that wants to offer itself as an alternative to plastic bags when it comes to yard work.
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Amazon.com Working To Cut Down Wasteful Gadget Packaging
Most people have had this experience:
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A Cardboard Boombox As Your iPod's New Home
Incase you are getting bored with your super sleek, minimalist iPod speaker set-up, or you miss the 80s, check out this new Boombox-style speaker dock.
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Moving Companies In Los Angeles Offer Low-Carbon Options
In a city with close to 10 million residents, Los Angeles just got a few new entrants into the moving arena that will not only cater to your every need but also do it with the smallest carbon footprint possible. Northstar Moving and Go Green Moving
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Meet the Cardboard Bicycle
Cardboard Bicycle Brings Costs WAY Down We already know how wonderful, efficient, fun, safe and green cycling is. The only problem, however, is that for people interested in getting into cycling--but who aren't sure if they'll like it or stick with
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"Re-Furnished" Recycled Cardboard Chairs from University of Idaho Student Designers
TreeHugger loves to see green student design (and we want to see more!); since they'll be designing the next generation of products we use, the greener they can be, the better. These examples are from a project called "Re-Furnished" from the University
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Cardboard Houses of the Future
From rocking the cardboard cradle to the cardboard coffin, there isn't much you can't do with cardboard. We've seen green furniture cut from cardboard, some called Bloxes and cardboard lighting and even cars made from the recyclable wunder-material,
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Green Furniture Cut from Cardboard: Collection at CNET
CNET takes a gander at a smattering of cardboard furniture, answering the question, "What does cardboard furniture have to do with technology?" and helping to lend credibility to what essentially amounts to paper design. TreeHugger loves the stuff --
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Mexico Gets Rolling with PET and Cardboard Recycling
Not long ago, we addressed Mexico's struggles in managing its burgeoning mounds of electronic waste.
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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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It Slices, It Dices: Perfect Perch; Portable, Cheap, Lightweight, Green Seating
22 year-old student designer James Chu set out to design and create "portable, cheap, lightweight and eco-friendly furniture," and the result is Perfect Perch: a modular, multi-functional, cardboard chair. According to the site, "The initial challenge
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It Slices, It Dices: Chair777, To Sit, Lounge & Relax
Between its materials and multi-functional design, die fabrik's Chair777 is not your normal chair. It's made from cardboard, a material that has proven time and again that it's not just for boxes anymore, and might go quite nicely with the designers'
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Cardboard Lounger for Cats
I loved the cardboard furniture I saw on MocoLoco and then I clicked through to the source and was surprised to find out that it is for cats! Marmalade Pets uses non-toxic adhesives and recycled content. They suggest that their beds "provide a long
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Flute, Exbox and More: Giles Miller's New Cardboard Designs
Giles Miller is at it again. The erstwhile "King of Cardboard" (that's an unofficial title, by the way, that he's earned after wowing us with his laptop case and coffee table) has added to his corrugated kingdom with a new collection of designs that
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Not a Box Lighting: More Cardboard Design from David Graas
Designer David Graas (remember his awesome furniture?) has applied his cardboard-centric no-waste design philosophy to lighting with the fun "Not a Box" series. Again, using the packaging as the product, the pendant lamp "comes as a box with all parts
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One Year Ago in TH: Dual Flushing, Cardboard Sitting, Biodiesel Brewing and More
One year ago today at TreeHugger, variety was the spice of life. We had our eyes on a bunch of different things, from a water-saving dual-flush retrofit system for your current bowl to Wildcard Creative's wildly creative cardboard bench; a 99%
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Nomad System: Instant Walls from Mio
The Salm brothers are at it again. The guys behind Philadelphia-based Mio, whose lighting, 3-D wallpaper, seating and flooring we've admired for almost three years now, have, with the help of designer Roger Allen, further expanded their portfolio with
