Tag: Disposable - Page 2
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Ending the Consumption Addiction
We are on a race to nowhere. Consumption drives our economy (watch www.storyofstuff.com to see why). We measure our success by consumption (how much we spend). Global consumption is equal to the cumulative GDP of all
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Biodegradable Pen Oozes Style and Non-Toxic Ink
It's easy to see why the disposable pen makes a worthy addition to any list of wasteful things you can live without. One need only look at Chris Jordan's striking images of dead albatrosses, their insides riddled with snarls of plastic detritus, to be
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Stone Houses, Solar Flowers, and More at Interni Think Tank
Rendering of "T-Garden" by Luca Trazzi. Photo via Interni Philippe Starck -- one of the participants in the FuoriSalone 2010 Interni Think Tank exhibition held at the same time as the Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010 -- is one
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: A Room Made of Cardboard...Can You Tell?
Cardboard is one of those underrated materials, often with a short and meaningless lifespan that ends when your package is delivered. Unless you are cardboard in the hands of io10design's cardboard fiends
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Indestructible Umbrella? Senz Uses Extreme Sports to Find Out (Video)
So we are pretty keen on finding a solution to disposable design, or objects conceived to break here at TreeHugger, and one of our favorites is the shoddily-designed umbrella, which we gave its due way back in 2006 with our Umbrella
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Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging (Book Review)
A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in their daily lives. Reuse is often better
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Could this be the Perfect Water Bobble?
It certainly hits all the right marks: 100% recycled and recyclable, BPA and phthalate-free, made in the US, good-looking, and affordable. Self-filtering water bottles are becoming more popular (see our head-to-head comparison of several) and are a
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The Betacup: Eliminating Paper Cup Wastage Through Collaborative Design
Photo courtesy of Betacup. Guest contributor Toby Daniels is an entrepreneur with 10 years experience in running businesses in digital media and marketing. Toby is the co-founder of ThinkSocial at the Paley Center for Media and co-founder and community
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Dell Ships Netbooks in Bamboo Packaging
Image: Dell Competition to be and look green in the personal computing industry is reaching a fever pitch. Debates rage over which companies are raising the bar and which are baiting and switching. Packaging, to be sure, is a big piece of the puzzle.
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VerTerra Dinnerware Made from Fallen Leaves
If the meal calls for disposable plates, they may as well be biological nutrients that can be readily returned to the soil. Elegance doesn't hurt, either. These disposable plates, bowls, and serving dishes from VerTerra are made from fallen leaves,
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The Biodegradable Toilet Teacup
(Image: Index Award) We've been reveling in the entries to this year's Index Award, a Danish design competition claiming to offer the largest purse in the world for such a contest: half a million Euros. The Bambulance is a thoughtful example of a
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Shrinking Jug Keeps Milk Fresh an Extra Week
Image via James Dyson Award One of the main reasons milk goes bad is its exposure to air. As you tip the carton, drenching your seventh bowl of Chia Goodness Cereal you are getting rapidly closer to the moment of pouring the chunky remnants down the
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Get on the Bottle with SIGGskins Customizable Wraps
Image via SIGGskins A quality water bottle is a must for anyone striving (or even casually trying) to live lighter. With bottled water becoming a pariah, SIGG, the Swiss maker of classy, minimalist aluminum bottles, has teamed up with Original Wraps to
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Instant Table, Just Add Cohda Legs!
Sometimes an idea is so simple that you can't understand how it wasn't invented before. Like these good looking table legs by Cohda design.
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Does Recycling Waste Precious Water?
Photo credit: jcheng @ Flickr
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Un-TreeHugger: Beer in a Pouch
When we first saw the CarboPouch on Dvice, we figured it for a rather silly product that had more cons than pros, but we could at least think of some pros. However, we caught a glimpse of something on their website that is a big
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11 Eco Upholstery Textiles Revolutionizing the Global Market
"High-tech" isn't what you'd normally think of when it comes to fabric, but in recent years, that's exactly what it has become. Innovation has brought about revolutionary new materials and processes, and one
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What is More Valuable - Material or People's Time?
So many coffee lovers have switched to single portion delivery devices produced by a variety of brands, including Tassimo, Flavia and Green Mountain. The coffee tastes is always fresh, perfectly brewed and one doesn't waste extra coffee left from
