Tag: Colombia - Page 2
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Neat Wood Mat Folds Into A Stool, Disappears In The Floor When Done
Another product from Colombian studio DosUno Design (whose Rubix transformer furniture set we reviewed yesterday), Deckstool is a simple wood mat that folds into a stool. Apart from being perfect for small spaces,
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Rubix Transformer Furniture Set Turns Your Living Room Into Dining Room In No Time (Photos)
Perfect for small spaces and aiming at the less-is-more approach, Rubix is a transformer-furniture set that can be both a living room lounge and a dinning room set up. Designed by Colombian firm DosUno Design, the set
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A Case For Recycled Tire Bags & Chic New Models By Cyclus
If you've been around the green scene for some time, you may feel some ideas get a little tired over time. That could have been the case for bags from recycled tires, but ever since I got one (not from this brand, of course) I've
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Scientists Discover New Bearded Monkey
Scientists Thomas Defler, Marta Bueno and Javier García have discovered a new species of monkey in the Caquetá region of southern Colombia. The region, which is part of the Amazon rainforest, had been inaccessible for years due
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Shouldn't a Company Protect the Species in its Logo?
Smart marketing is an essential part of every successful corporation, and few strategies are more important than creating a memorable logo--and among these designs, animals have long been fixtures. From cars and clothing to cigarettes and booze,
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Habitable Polyhedron: Garden Office by Manual Villa
One would expect bigger things from an architect aptly named Manuel Villa, but one certainly cannot complain that he does lovely garden offices like this Habitable Polyhedron. Arch
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Brave Hippo is a Dentist's Perfect Patient
For a lot of people, visiting the dentist is a traumatic experience--the poking, the prodding, the unnerving sound of the drill. Some even shudder just to receive that 'friendly
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Developing Cities from India to Colombia Leapfrog Ahead With Clean, Green Bus Rapid Transit Systems
Ahmedabad, India, leads the pack as cities in developing nations race ahead of
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10 Breathtaking Waterfront Campgrounds Around the World
From the jungles of Colombia to Turkey's Mediterranean coast, camping is even better when you have a breathtaking waterfront view.
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Las Gaviotas: A Sustainable Community Cut Off From the World Almost 40 Years Ago
It sounds like something out of a fairy tale or a children's book, a community deep in the wild jungle of Colombia, cut off from society almost 40 years ago. Then, after the rest of the world turned their back
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Fair-Trade, Vegan-Friendly Mola Shoes Fuse Traditional Art With Contemporary Design
These hot tamale Mola shoes from Down Under-by-way-of-Colombia are not for the wilting wallflower or the fashion conformist. Ethically made by the indigenous Kuna Indians from reclaimed Mola textile art, the
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Bamboo Chairs, Retractable Tables by Union Elemental
Bogota-based firm Union Elemental makes these neat pieces of furniture using only bamboo and sustainable wood combined with stainless steel.
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Cocaine Blues: Coke-Heads Aiding Rainforest Destruction
Image Credit: The Sun Anti-Drug Campaigners Target 'Ethical' Consumers Type "cocaine" into the search bar on TreeHugger and you won't come up with much. That's because cocaine use is not a very TreeHugger-like activity, right? (If you need
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Rio: An Environmentally Conscious Album by Aterciopelados
Even if you don't speak a word of Spanish, there's a pretty big chance that you know Aterciopelados, a Colombian band that jumped to the international scene in the '90s. Its heartbreak-song Bolero Falaz travelled around the
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World Bank and Andean Countries Will Spend $32 Million To Study Glacial Retreat and Create Adaptation Plan
The Andean Community, an organization that gathers Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to treat common interests, announced recently a project to help three of
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Coca-Cola Femsa Faces US$ 111,000 Fine over Contamination in Bogota
(Photo: To the right, the Coca-Cola plant accused of spilling in the Bogota sewage system. El Tiempo newspaper.) Industria Nacional de Gaseosas, a subsidiary of the biggest bottler of Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Latin America (Coca-Cola FEMSA),
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Earth Day: Latin Celebrities Give Green Advice
In the first year Earth Day that has gathered attention in Latin America, a couple of the region's biggest musicians, actors and performers have participated in a campaign held by National Geographic to raise awareness in society about our part in the
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Roving Classroom Helps Rare Parrot Once Feared Extinct
What to do when you’ve found a flock of 14 members of a species of parrot last seen in 1911 and the local human population is so spread out it’s impossible to get them all in one place to educate them about it? Well, bringing the education to them is
