Tag: Dematerialization - Page 5
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SF Green Festival 09 - Rentalic Creates Profit Around Community Rental Service
Community based product service systems are an excellent green product service system allowing a lot of people to use one item when they need it, rather than everyone purchasing the same product only to use it once a year. But
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What Would Gandhi Do? Certainly Not Buy a Luxury Fountain Pen
Mahatma Gandhi, born 140 years ago today, is remembered as the father of modern India but it was his simple lifestyle that has continued to inspired activists around the world. This humble aesthetic, however, is at odds with
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Downloadable Designs: DIY iPhone Stand
Why do I love the idea of downloadable designs? Because people do such amazing things out of so little substance, and they ship ideas, not objects. Like this iPhone stand designed by french industrial designer Julien Madérou, downloadable from his
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Downsizing Your Home: How Much Space Do You Really Need?
When was the last time you really thought about how much space you really need to be comfortable? 250... 500... 1,000... 2,000... 3,000 square feet. While many people are concerned about their
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Downloadable Wonders From Virginia Tech
I could have spent all day with Robert Dunay, Director of Industrial Design at the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech. He was in a booth full of furniture that TreeHugger calls downloadable designs- created on a computer and sent to
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House of Furniture: Chairs that Pop Out of Walls
So you suddenly need a home office with a little privacy. Off you got to the neighborhood CNC shop, pick out a few sheets of FSC ply and a copy of The House of Furniture Parts by Studio Makkink & Bey. Bungee them to your cargo bike and off you
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3D Printing Comes to Pottery
We have shown a lot of plastic 3D printing, but pottery? Every arts and craft lodge at summer camp is out of business as the Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory figures out how to make a computer throw a pot.
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3D Printing Now In the Hands of Artists
Lisa at BoingBoing Gadgets shows some amazing work by artists using 3D printing, noting that "building ultra-precise objects out of nothing is undeniably awesome." She asks, "Can you imagine if Torolf Sauermann tried to make this snail
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Designer Shocker: He Won't Sell Design, Says It's Too Expensive
Often when we show designer stuff, we get the question "why is it so expensive?" We have tried to address the problem of local limited run manufacture and other factors, but the answer is never satisfactory. Over at Ponoko, we were shocked to find a
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Lika Volkova Sets Us Straight: There's No Such Thing As An "Eco" Clothing Brand
It's refreshing that Lika Volkova comes straight out and says that new clothing lines mean more factories running, more trucks transporting, and ultimately (especially since we know clothing distributors even burn stuff they don't sell) more waste. So
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Celebrities Who Downsize and Embrace Minimalism
"CDs create clutter," says Foo Fighters' bassist Nate Mendel, who buys music digitally. "And I abhor clutter." The Police drummer Stewart Copeland says he's happy
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ETech 2009: Tim O'Reilly and Our Reality Bubble Burst (Video)
In the midst of facing major problems like global warming, fossil fuel conundrums, and all the other ailments of the world, we're experiencing a dire economic malfunction. Tim O'Reilly argues that it isn't an investment bubble
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Heavy Metal Meets Downloadable Designs: 3D Printing from CAD to Metal
The technologies of 3D printing are fascinating. They may someday let us order up the things we need and print them out at the neighbourhood 3DKinkos instead of needing transport and inventory and bricks and mortar
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Downloadable Designs: Make Your Own
Making toys from paper cutouts is an old craft, but the internet and computers changed it completely as papercraft evolved into downloadable designs, where designers around the world produce lovely things that anyone can
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Zumbox Makes Paperless Postal Service Possible
Businesses wanting to go paperless can wipe their brows and say, "Phew!" Zumbox, a paperless postal service, has just launched - and that means your home's mailbox is on the web. But no, it's not email. It's actual post mail. Read on for how this
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UK Media Agency Grabs Attention with Low Impact Advertising
When you think of "green advertising", do you think of getting the message out on green issues, recycling the ad banners, or just plain greenwashing? The UK agency, CURB, claims to be "the first and only agency in the world to offer
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6 Green Lessons We Can Learn From Communism
What do you think of when someone mentions communism? Stalin, a hammer and sickle, the color red, Russia, Cuba, factories, soldiers marching in unison, and cold, cold oppression? Yeah, me too. But what if I told you that in some ways,
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Make Your Own Obama Inauguration Tchotchke
We love downloadable designs, dematerialized bits and bytes put together again when we need it, without the waste of a physical intermediary. Why ship your memories of the moment halfway around the world when you can print them out and make them
