Buy Tapped and Help Put an End to Bottled Water.
“these companies are taking something great, that belongs to all of us, repackaging it and selling it back to us. And we think we are getting something great in return” We feel a little late on this one. Brought to you from the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car, Tappedspills the goods on all the bad [...]
California’s 19 Billion Bag a Year Habit Now a Mocumentary
Filmed in the style of a nature documentary and narrated by Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons, this “mockumentary”, though lighthearted in tone, hammers home the stark reality of California’s plastic bag pollution situation. View on YouTube and share to help get AB 1998 approved by the Senate! Help stop California’s 19 billion bag-a-year habit and put an [...]
Re-Invent The Book Review with The Rise of “Collaborative Consumption” & Win
We have teamed up with Collaborative Consumption and Shareable.net to give you the chance to win. We believe in sharing and recognize that sharing is also an important emerging industry. It’s critical for the future of the environment, the way we mobilize and socialize—ultimately, the way we live and function together as a society. It’s [...]
Help Crowdfund The Future & Create a Thirst for Change.
321 Water Crowdfunding 2.0 View more webinars from Half A Teaspoon Pty Ltd. Gretha Oost doesn’t believe there are any problems too big to solve. Her high ideals and big ideas mean that if she sees something that needs to change in the world, she figures out a way to do it. Running a small [...]
The Surprising Hidden Facts Behind the Water We Use Everyday
The largest part of your water footprint may be the surprisingly large amount of water needed to grow and produce the food you eat. Here is a look at much water it really takes to support your lifestyle. Here, National Geographic take us through the surprising hidden facts behind the water we use. The average [...]
uncluttered white poll | uws asks for your thoughts on making water better
Did you know that 70% of bottled water companies gain high profits by drawing water from public water sources, putting it in plastic containers, and reselling it at 2,900 times the price of regular tap. Not only does bottled water contribute to excessive waste, it’s likely no safer or cleaner than our tap water in [...]
DBA Pen is the only 98% Biodegradable Pen in the World
DBA 98 Biodegradable Pen from DBA on Vimeo. [/pro-player] The DBA Pen is the only 98% biodegradable pen in the world. It’s also the only pen to use ink composed of simple, environmentally responsible ingredients. Produced at a wind-powered facility in the United States, it was designed as a responsible alternative to the wasteful and often [...]
An Infographic On The Coming Water Wars.
Click for larger image It is forecast that in the U.S. by 2050, energy will be 40 percent higher than it is today, (Energy Information Administration), a research unit of the federal Department of Energy. Climate change is steadily reducing snowmelt and rainfall that feeds lakes and rivers, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [...]
We are Creating an Infograph on How You Get to Work Each Day.
uncluttered white spaces is interested to learn more about your day. We want to start off with how you get to work. With an increase of people choosing to ride their bike to work of 37% since 2003 in the USA, we wanted to see how our readers get around town. This should take you [...]
Redesigning Parking Meters to Help the Homeless
Can a parking meter help deal with homelessness? Montréal’s retired mechanical parking meters, ParcoDons, have been recycled and redesigned to collect donations to help the city’s homeless. The project was launched in 2007 and this year, its organizers asked local Quebec celebrities and organizations to “adopt” and personalize the parking meters with acrylic paint. Accordingly, the [...]
Otarian | The First Ever Low-Carbon Restaurant
Australian chain Otarian bills itself as “the first ever low-carbon restaurant, using a cradle-to-grave analysis in the carbon footprinting of every menu item.” Almost everything in Otarian’s restaurants—from the floor to the tables and chairs—is made from recycled materials. Its “Eco2tarian Labelling” shows the difference in greenhouse gas emissions between its veggie meals and similar [...]
7 Collaborative Companies That Will Change The Future.
We have curated a list 7 of our favorite sharing platforms. Collaborative consumption is used to describe the cultural and economic force away from ‘hyper-consumption’ to re-invented economic models of sharing, swapping, bartering, trading or renting. These methods have been enabled by advances in social media and peer-to-peer platforms over the past 12-24 months. In [...]
Starbucks Coffee Co Experiments with 15th Avenue E Coffee & Tea
With a new purpose and new vision, Starbucks has gone back to basics with the launch of their 15th Avenue E Coffee and Tea store. The first of three experimental stores in Seattle, this Capitol Hill location loses the ubiquitous Starbucks branding and adopts the ambience of a traditional neighborhood coffeehouse. Completely gutted and redesigned [...]
Jamie Oliver Introduces the openIDEO Challenge with Food Revolution
Jamie Oliver Introduces the OpenIDEO Challenge / OpenIDEO.com from IDEO on Vimeo. How can we raise kids’ awareness of the benefits of fresh food so they can make better choices? Jamie Oliver won the TED Prize wish last year. His wish was to create a Food Revolution in America, to change the way kids eat [...]
What BP Could have Bought With All the Money They Lost in the Oil Spill
Life in the world of planetary destruction. Visual Economics have created an amazing infograph pointing us towards things BP could have bought with all the money they lost in the oil spill. 10 years of clean water for each of the 884,000 people without access to it. A new home to replace all 275,000 homes lost [...]
An Easy to Clean, Reusable Water Bottle to Help Save the Planet
Over time, even the best reusable water bottles start to stink, because of how hard they are to clean. That means people stop using them and buy another–which is extraordinarily wasteful–or they stop using refillable bottles altogether. Alex attempts to solve those problems, with a design that screws open in the middle, producing two easy-to-clean [...]
4 Books That will Change Your Perspective on Business, Marketing, Productivity and the Environment
4 books that changed my thinking I read a lot. Perhaps a bit too much. I figure that with 100 billion humans having lived, there must be a heap of amazing minds that I can learn from. It’s mostly non-fiction; business, marketing, design, creativity, life. So here are four books that I rate as powerful, [...]
Electrolux – Cleaning Up the Oceans, Turning Garbage into Vacuums
Home appliance manufacturer Electrolux is setting out to clean up plastic-covered marine environments and turn the spoils into a limited range of vacuum cleaners. Causing the deaths of over a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year, Electrolux hopes ‘Vac From the Sea’ will raise much-needed awareness on marine trash and ‘environmental [...]
Bottled Water is a Symbol of Modern Day Consumerism. A Symbol we Don’t Need.
Bottled water is simply an indulgence for western culture, and despite the stories we tell ourselves, it is not a benign indulgence. The USA alone are moving 1 billion bottles of water around a week in ships, trains, and trucks. Picture this, that is the same as 37,800 full size trucks delivering water a week. [...]
Want to know the Environmental Impact of your Levi’s 501s?
Sustainability has proven to be a powerful motivator for consumption of everything from Prius vehicles to conflict-free diamonds and Method household cleaners. The Wall Street Journal reports has written an article on the recent devlopments of around 100 companies in creating software/ eco index to emasure the impact of your Nikes versus your Adidas. The [...]
Good Childhood Obesity | An Infograph
VIEW FULL SIZE Good have created a contest that asked you to create an infographic about childhood obesity, in partnership with the Let’s Move! Initiative. Thye have started to receive submissions and we have attached our favourite inforgraph.To view the rest, head over toGood Magazine and they will be announcing the winners on July 27. [...]
The Dirty Water Campaign New York by UNICEF Reminder
1 year ago this week in Manhattan, New York, UNICEF devised a very original way of raising awareness to the water problem millions of people across the globe are facing every day. The Dirty Water campaign gave people the chance to buy a bottle of disease-infected water, other people are forced to drink on a daily basis. [...]
A Visualization on Lopsided Energy Subsidies
Following on from the interesting discussion in relation to the Sustainable Future by the recent IF talks in Sydney, Andrew Fallshaw has pointed us towards this article and follow up series by Jon Taplin’s blog, Boing Boing and more recently Good. Boing Bing goes on to point out: Not all fossil fuel subsidies are evil. [...]
Parasitic Guerrilla Architecture Hijacks the Arche de la Défense
Habitat imagines a world where housing has grown so limited that people revolt and construct their own parasitic homes on any available space they can — like the interior of the famed Arche de la Défense in Paris. Pocket of Active Resistance is a modular complex designed by Parisian architect, Stéphane Malka, who sees existing buildings and infrastructure [...]
