Inspired by the current vending machine, industrial design graduating student at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette Justin Pittman has created a design that functions the same as the existing vending machine but in an eco-friendly way. Hailed as smartVND, this green vending machine used natural cooling techniques and materials to keep the contents at …
When buying flowers particularly and orchid, they are packed with a paper or plastic that is destined to be thrown away right after. Members of the Packlab Partners came up with an eco-friendly orchid packaging design that will allow the buyers to recycle the flower packaging by simply using it as the flower’s vase. Hailed, …
Normally, when people see falling trees, they tend to have it cut and use the wood it produces, but not the owner of the falling 40-year old pine tree at the rear of Brentwood, Los Angeles. When the pine tree fell, he just leaves it that way giving the tree a chance to revive itself …
Recycling is a fun activity to do especially if you want to help save the environment. Joining with you in your aim or recycling is the people from Studio Jo Meesters who have created the TESTLAB, an ongoing experimental project about recycling discarded item and used it to create a brand new useful item. As …
Billboard posters are generally disposed of to landfills when a certain advertisement is already over, and literally, it adds up to the thousand piles of landfills we already have at present. To avoid this thing from continuously happening, American design brand Artecnica introduced to the public a stylish and hip bag made of discarded billboard …
Compact appliances to save space are now spreading in the market like mushroom. One great example of it is the one of a kind and eco-friendly creation of Inesa Malafej called the Smart Space. As the name suggests, the Smart Space is a washer, shower, and dryer. Occupying only 1 meter by 1 meter space …
The known social networking site Facebook has just recently moved to their new office. Designed by a San Franciso company Studio O+A, Facebook’s new headquarter is a former laboratory facility of Agilent technologies, a high-tech manufacturer. With the Facebook employees desire to have a green headquarters, their facility became the first commercial project to have …
An exhibition is happening at the Global Environment Information Center or GEIC in Tokyo, Japan and the masterpieces in the said exhibition are made of pigments, felt, nonflammable cloth, fluorescent lights, acrylic cases and more. With the materials used, the exhibition is called “Is This Waste?†Investigating the possibilities of using waste or rejected material …
An air-conditioning system is important to almost every household especially in areas with hot climate. This is the reason why households of today are the highest energy consumer. However, a group of people that include Mathew Holloway, William Penfold, Daniel Becerra, Karina & Matthew Judkins are now working on a project that will lower down …
Another green robot that will do the collecting, segregating, and recycling your waste is now in prototype and is currently navigating the streets of Peccioli, Italy. The electric DustCart robot is part of a $3.9 million worth of research program by DustBot. How does it work? The DusCart collects your waste. It has on-board sensors …
