UK will soon be building 195 zero carbon homes by the end of this year with the first homes expected to be completed by 2010. Developed by HTA Architects, the Hanham Hall Eco Village can be the largest eco-friendly village in UK, as it occupies 6.6 hectare of space. This former hospital in Bristol will …
Remodeling, recycling, and rehabilitating are just a few of the eco-acts people are trying to do to help save the environment. Designer Caryn Grossman has just successfully transformed a historic warehouse into a modern corporate headquarters of a prestigious ad agency. The result is impressive that one will never see any mark of an old …
Rehabilitating an abandoned structure is really rewarding to the people around it and to the environment as well. James Corner Field Operations has managed to rehabilitate an abandoned elevated railway and resulted it into a beautiful 1.5-mile long park in New York. The said remodeled freight railway houses beautiful plants, benches and more that surely …
Fasten your seatbelt to keep yourself safe! This can be the common messages you will get if you are going to use a seatbelt. But today, not anymore because the then normal seatbelt is now also a hip and durable wallet to keep our money safe. This wonderful wallet from recycled seatbelt has 8 available …
Resources for recycling things is really endless, Latvian designers from Marci design has again showed their resourcefulness with the use of a recycled paper pulp to create a various wonderful and useful children’s furniture. This furniture called Tamago (Japanese word for egg) was presented at the DMY Youngster in Berlin. It has seven different educational …
Creating items from waste materials can be hard, but these Italian designers called Transalpino seemed like super talented enough that they have created wonderful products using waste materials from a veneer factory. Created for DMY Festival in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg borough, Transalpino came up with products like a wall lamp and a transformable fruit box. …
Everybody wants to live green and save the environment. To help save the earth, designer Jon Dubin come up with his eco-friendly designed called the Cardboard Rocker, a rocking chair made from recycled cardboard. Aside from the recycled cardboard as the chair’s main materials, the production of the chair includes the gluing process wherein the …
Recycling things is always fun and rewarding. Designing things from recycled materials can be hard, but designers from Grain Design never let this as a hindrance and come up with the Café America chair that is made from recycled from recycled chain-link fencing material. This chair can also be flat-packed for easy transportation. Assembling is …
Junktion treated what people from Tel Aviv have already considered as junk in a different way. These junk materials are turned into useful items like a piece of artistic bench, table lamp made from junk plastic telephone unit, a rocking chair from wood cable drum, and a bench made from wooden shade. All are well …
The plant itself provides many benefits to the environment. However, planting them in an eco pots made them even more eco-friendly. Designer Anton Webb created the Packit Potz, an eco-friendly non-plastic plastic pot. This pot is made from recycled materials and Low Opacity Polypropylene, and the production and transportation cost for this pot is minimal. …
