Is Bottled Water Really That Bad? Yes.
In February, I wrote an article in relation to bottled water. You can read it here to get up to speed. The article recieved all sorts of feedback from constructive and educational (Thanks Ando_F), to boring with no purose through to inspiring and supportive.
Following, I decided to cease using plastic bottles and paper cups for [...]
Ecosia:: The worlds greenest search engine.
Every year a rainforest area larger than England is burned or cut down. Therefore the deforestation of the tropical rainforests is the single most important source of CO2 emissions in the world and about 20% of all global CO2 emissions are caused by rainforest deforestation. It is a major contributor to:
• Global warming
• Global climate [...]
We each hope to have over 4,000 weeks in our lives. We’ve decided to give one of ours to STREAT – Join us.
We each hope to have over 4,000 weeks in our lives. We’ve decided to give one of ours to STREAT – Ben Rennie & Adam Webb
Every night more than 100,000 people are homeless on Australian streets. That’s more people than the MCG seats. Of these nearly 18,000 are teenagers between 12 and 18. 58% are unemployed [...]
A pop up bar made from 420 IKEA boxes
Reverting back to the word of innovation. The Bull often refers to innovation as a new way of viewing something that either exists or does not. Surely this errs-towards an innovative way to use Ikea tubs. Instead of dumping old storage boxes, why not give them a second life as alcohol-slinging pop-up shops? Designers Diogo [...]
Fuel-Cell Powered BMW Bike Concept Revealed
First Bloom Energy revealed its much-hyped fuel cell-powered Bloom Energy Server earlier this week, and now a group of design students from the ISD of Valenciennes in France have unveiled a slick concept BMW motorcycle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The bike doesn’t physically exist yet, but the students imagine that a lithium polymer [...]
Another day, another set of bewildering climate figures.
Another day, another set of bewildering climate figures. Today, key climate scientists withdrew their predictions. of a metre sea-level rise by 2100. Other scientists meanwhile claimed the 1m figure was way too conservative anyway. They predict anything up to 2m sea level rises over the next century.
It’s difficult to keep track of all this shifting [...]
A floating office for two from WaterSpace.
Today we have drawn our attention to inspring spaces. Inspiring to visit, live or work.
The H2Office is a purpose-built floating office that can comfortably accommodate one or two workers. In addition to a sun deck above, the H2Office comes equipped with a work area featuring wood-like flooring and an L-shaped desk and shelving unit across the [...]
Cool List 10:: Keep Cup taking really big small steps.
Most disposable paper cups are not recyclable.
The paper cup is made from a composite of materials: kraft bleached paper sprayed with a polyethylene coating. Paper cups are often impregnated with toxic dyes which make them difficult to recycle. The plastic lining in disposable paper cups means they are not recyclable.
In arid regions like Australia, biodegradation [...]
Good Magazine:: Design an Infographic for Haiti Submissions
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Good Magazine presents the competition for budding visualizers to help us better grok the situation in earthquake struck Haiti. Some really great contributions for talented web folk. This ranks as our #1. The runners up for white spaces are listed below:
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Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish:: Teach every child about food
Have you ever been so moved by a speech that it change the very foundations of your life? I have. The majority of the speeches that moved me to create changes in my life were delivered by TED.
Last week, they did it again. After awarding Jamie Oliver with the TED Prize for 2009, in his [...]
A few facts about plastic bottles and the resistance.
Seth Godin has been talking a lot lately about the Lizard brain. The conversation in your head that tells you no, don’t do it. In a recent interview with white spaces, he made an interesting comment. When he hears the lizard in his head (the resistance), he takes that as a signal to forge ahead [...]
Fashion that touches the World
Holstee is an Eco-friendly clothing company. Their style is simple, functional, unique and made out of 100% recycled material.
Although there are quite a few Eco-friendly fashions on the market, Holstee captivates through its inimitable concept. The brand founded by brothers Dave and Mike Radparvar was not only created to be fashionable and functional but also [...]
COOL LIST 9 :: Ponoko. The worlds first online marketplace for making things.
Ponoko is an online marketplace for everyone to click to make real things.
It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers meet to make (almost) anything.
Ponoko kicked off at TechCrunch40 at the end of 2007 with a vision to reinvent how goods are designed, made and distributed worldwide. The core of this vision is the trade [...]
Information is beautiful: Haiti, who gets what?
The global response to the Haiti earthquake has been extraordinary and generous. But in the midst of all the reporting, it’s difficult to keep track of the numbers.
In particular, who has given what, who has dug deepest, and how the Haiti relief fund currently compares to those of other tragedies.
This is an image created for The [...]
We think you should visit:: For The Love Of Bikes
In a new segment for uncluttered white spaces called :: WE THINK YOU SHOULD VISIT :: we start off in the design category with uncluttered white spaces recommending:: For The Love Of Bikes
For The Love Of Bikes is a design collection by student Vanessa Marie Robinson. She’s created a number of unique products aimed at [...]
The Transforming Apartment: 24 Rooms In One
Compressed into a mere 344 square feet, Chang’s “domestic transformer” living space holds 24 possible configurations. Move a wall, pull out a table and the room’s now a kitchen – or pull out the hidden Murphy bed, and it’s a bedroom. Sliding wall units and fold down furniture come together in various formations to create [...]
Cool List 8 :: Where Self-Propulsion & Sustainable Entrepreneurship Go Hand in Hand
For fun, for learning, for building a better ride and a better world: see how the Bamboo Bike Studio offers the unique and intimate chance to create your own ride, and also produces positive effects that extend to the lives of cyclists, workers and entrepreneurs abroad.
Shoppers at Urban Outfitters can already design their own bikes in [...]
Cool List 7 :: Streat Coffee
Streat have ventured into new territory launching Streat Coffee. The new STREAT Coffee blend is an example of a new type of consumer product: one that is ‘triple certified’.
This means it has been designed and created to:
meet the exacting sustainable and ethical standards of Fair Tradewith beans sourced from farmers around the globe who are paid fair wages.
has [...]
Top 10 Reasons To Shop Local First
Significantly more money re-circulates in greater grand rapids when purchases are made at locally, owned, rather than nationally owned, businesses. Money Is kept in the community because locally-owned businesses often purchase from other local businesses, service providers and farms. Purchasing local helps grow other businesses as well as the greater grand rapids tax base.
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A Map to Power the World.
According to the United Nations 170,000 square kilometers of forest is destroyed each year. If we constructed solar farms at the same rate, we would be finished in 3 years. Information is Beautiful creates a graph to illustrate. Click on the image for a larger view.
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The Cool List 3 :: Republic of Everyone
Welcome to the Cool List: #3
Company: Republic of Everyone.
Years Alive: Not sure but who cares, its cool.
Goal: Improve sustainability & create social change.
Web: www.republicofeveryone.com
Email: hello@republicofeveryone.com
Skype: hellorepublic
We’ve written about various ventures that connect social enterprise, eco brands and companies with agencies to create social change and green [...]
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