Xeros System Cuts Water Use ‘Up to 80%’
by: Environmental Leader, 2014-05-01 14:45:42 UTC
A California athletic club has reduced water usage for laundry washed with a machine using Xeros laundry system by nearly 50 percent. The Capital Athletic Club’s installation of the Xeros Laundry System, which uses polymer beads rather than water, has enabled it to cut its water consumption while improving laundry cleaning quality and reducing costs, […]

Improving Indoor Air Quality the Easy Way
by: Environmental Leader, 2014-05-02 12:00:38 UTC
The natural first step most building managers take when they suspect that their building is causing health problems is to find the root cause and remove, replace or fix the problem. However, there are often more direct and less costly ways to attack poor indoor air quality, LEED trade magazine EDC reports. Among these ways: […]

Jule Waibel recreates origami paper dresses in chiffon
by: Dezeen, 2014-05-05 05:00:55 UTC

German fashion designer Jule Waibel has turned her intricate pleated paper dresses into steam press templates for wearable fabric garments that expand and contract as the wearer moves. (more...)