Eat House – Edible And Sustainable House Concept
by: EnviroGadget, 2011-09-05 09:00:33 UTC
The Eat House is a fun concept for a building made from growing plants. The modular frame houses many vegetable crates, re-purposed into small beds for plant growing, allowing plants to cover the whole of the outside of the building.
The Eat House has been designed by Marijke Bruinsma from the dutch firm De Stuurlui Stedenbouw and Marjan van Capelle and Arjen de Groot from Atelier GRAS!. The concept takes advantage of modern intensive farming techniques to provide a fruit and vegetable garden that moves beyond the garden and over the whole house. Being so close to all the fresh foods will certainly tempt anyone to pick their own and enjoy, helping to encourage home growing for fresh produce.
The Eat House is created from vegetable crates, the crates used to transport vegetables from place to place. Each crate is converted into a small bed for growing plants such as fruits, vegetables or herbs in, while providing some structural framework for the house. This concept may not be exactly practical for house construction in the future, but does help to demonstrate just how much space we could each be using for growing plants, even those we can eat. The re-use of vegetable crates helps to highlight the amount of miles a lot of produce has to travel to finally reach our homes.
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Leaf LED Light by Herman Miller
by: EnviroGadget, 2011-09-07 09:00:11 UTC
The Leaf LED Light is a stylish modern desk lamp that uses LEDs to produce a bright white light while using very little energy. The lamp is fully adjustable allowing you to be able to use it for a variety of tasks.
The Leaf LED Light by Herman Miller has been created to provide stylish modern lighting that is environmentally friendly. The light uses 20 LEDs to produce its illumination, it has 10 blue LEDs that provide a cool intensive light, and 10 yellow LEDs that help to give the light a warm feeling. The light can be adjusted to provide you with any combination of these, also allowing you to select the strength of the light, this is all achieved through the touch sensitive pad located on the base of the lamp. Due to the use of LEDs the lamp will never be very hot to the touch, adding extra safety to your home or office.
The Leaf LED Light can be adjusted to light any angle you wish, the lower blade swivels 180 degrees and pivots 27.5 degrees forward, 23 degrees backward, while the upper blade pivots 210 degrees. The lamp is thought to use only 40% of the electricity a standard lamp bulb would as it draws only 12 watts and the LEDs will last around 100x longer than a standard bulb. The lamp furthers its eco credentials with its composition, it is crafted from 37% recycled materials and 95% of the lamp can be recycled when it has reached the end of its useful life.
The Leaf LED Light is available in 5 colours: black, polished aluminium, red, nickel, and white and each lamp measures 53.5 cm x 22 cm (21 in x 8.7 in). The lamp is an aesthetically pleasing object to have, be it in the home or at work. The lamps ability to adjust allows you many lighting options, and helps to ensure it will always provide the right lighting for the job. With its use of recycled materials and its low energy usage its a stylish option for those who wish to be eco-friendly.
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M. Patmos Gets Fresh at New York Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2012
by: Inhabitat , 2011-09-11 16:00:24 UTC
Eco-fashion does not have to compromise style, as proved many designers this year, including Marcia Patmos with her Spring/Summer 2012 lineup. The line debuted at New York Fashion Week on Thursday, boasting a supply-chain footprint that favors domestic production, local yarns, and zero-waste techniques. The collection was filled with pale neutrals, coupled with citron, navy, and shimmery metallics, giving the clothes a laid back chic vibe. Click ahead to check out photos from the show!
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Green-Roofed Czech Tea House is Naturally Lit by a Gilded Oculus
by: Inhabitat , 2011-09-11 05:30:49 UTC
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PHOTOS: Check Out Gretchen Jones Spring 2012 Collection at New York Fashion Week
by: Inhabitat , 2011-09-10 20:11:51 UTC
Project Runway winner Gretchen Jones debuted her Spring 2012 collection at New York Fashion Week this week. Describing her collection as “esoteric meets psychedelic,” the eco-minded fashion designer lined up the looks – mug shot style – calling numbers from the queue to the front to show themselves. With an sky meets earth color palette, and styling reminiscent of Chloe Sevigny in “Big Love” meets Najavo reservation. her holistic approach to design as a lifestyle showed through the garments and geometric jewelry (also designed by Jones herself and made in NYC). Click here to see the lineup for yourself.
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Jennifer Collier Recycles Old Literature Into Incredible Paper Objects
by: Inhabitat , 2011-09-10 15:00:12 UTC
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Sloan’s Innovative AQUS Grey Water Toilet System Recycles Your Sink Water
by: Inhabitat , 2011-09-11 06:23:33 UTC
One of the oddest quirks in our homes is that we flush toilets with water good enough for drinking — and toilets consume on average 40% of a household’s water use. To address this issue Sloan Valve Company has been hard at work perfecting the AQUS water reclamation system, which takes your bathroom’s sink water and recycles it for flushing in your toilet. As a do-it-yourself project the kit takes about 1 hour to install and promises to save up to 6,000 gallons each year. Other than perhaps saving water in a bucket, the Aqus provides the simplest and most effective solution to reducing our water footprint — and it has garnered a lot of attention for its innovative design.
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Leanne Marshall’s Spring 2012 at New York Fashion Week Line Offers Eco Constructions, Girlish Sophistication
by: Inhabitat , 2011-09-11 17:00:43 UTC
Leanne Marshall, the Season 5 Project Runway winner (and Inhabitat designer crush), showed her eco-friendly Spring/Summer 2012 collection at New York Fashion Week on Saturday. With her flirty and feminine collection of intricately constructed cocktail dresses and evening wear, Marshall successfully balanced on the fine line between youthfulness and elegance. With billowy confections of hemp silk, bamboo jersey, and organic cotton, we fell in love with her ability to make a classic evening look seem young and fresh. Click ahead to see our photos of the show!
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Winners of the EESC Design Eleven Competition: Ageless Design
by: Sustainable Design News, 2011-09-05 21:40:34 UTC
The second edition of the EESC Design Eleven competition is ready to reward the best innovative and sustainable design project and packaging.
Design students and designers in all 27 EU Member States and European designers living abroad, were asked to focus on an important issue: "Intergenerational solidarity in times of an ageing population," by creating innovative and pertinent solutions in terms of "ageless design," through a process of participative design and/or co-design.
Exhibition featuring winning prototypes will open on September 21, 2011.
The Future of Sustainable Business Metrics
by: Sustainable Design News, 2011-09-07 18:21:11 UTC
Amidst continued global economic instability, population growth, increasing strain on our natural resources, and increasing demand that business be retooled for sustainability, business leaders are faced with one of the most compelling challenges of our time: to reassess future paths to value creation and sustainable business success.
Underpinning the successful transformation of business for the future is a need to identify a new set of metrics by which value is measured.
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