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 [...]
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. [...]
People for Bikes | A Movement to Make Our World More Bike Friendly
People for Bikes is a movement to make our world more bike friendly- to build more trails, paths and bike lanes, to make riding safer and more accessible for all. Colle + McVoy have created a great campiagn for the new Bikes Belong initiative. The goal of peopleforbikes.org is to gather a million names of [...]
Is PUMA Creating a Social and Environmental Approach to cool?
Puma’s New Line of City Bikes The bikes were designed by Biomega and Jens Martin Skibsted (whose recently founded design firm we featured here). In all there are five different models, and when you factor in all the colors and sizes available, there’s 120 configurations. Though many of the designs are loud and style-heavy, there are [...]
Good Picture Show | Surfing in Oregon
Good Picture Show: With rugged tree-lined mountains that plummet directly into its oceanic waters—which tend to hover just over 50 degrees Fahrenheit—the Oregonian coast is cold, beautiful, and imposing. Yet all year long at beaches like Indian Head, a committed group of men and women regularly don thick neoprene wetsuits and brave the elements—for the [...]
Announcing new IF talk on The Sustainable Future and Pure Living
In the fourth installment of the uncluttered white spaces IF talks, we have curated a panel of experts to discuss sustainability and pure living with a diverse panel of 7 experts. This IF talk with be hosted by Matt Perry from Republic of everyone. As our environment is currently facing huge obstacles that have the [...]
Infograph | In Deep Water. Oil and how we really can’t afford to spill it
Information is beautiful has yet again created an amazing infographic. This time, on the oil and how we really can not afford to spill it. The oil spill is now on track to be the 3rd worst in history, depositing the equivalent of 22,000 cars worth of oil into the sea every day. The NYTimes [...]
Bottled Water Research on Australian Consumption and Perceptions.
Recently, research company Pure Profile conducted a survey of 1000 Australians on bottled water usage for Go Tap. Here are some key results: Perceptions of bottled water Over 89% or respondents said they believe bottled water is a costly marketing con, with over 97% saying they believe it is overpriced. 80% believe that water has [...]
The Bike Traffic of Utrecht, Holland | No Cars.
This is a really simple look into a beautiful approach to living in Utrecht, Holland, where transit is clean, efficient, and safe. What does that mean? It means everyone rides bikes and uses public transit. Now lets imagine for a moment if there were cars. via BuzzFeed
We think you should visit | Collaborative Consumption
Collaborative Consumption Groundswell Video from rachel botsman on Vimeo. Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers created the Collaborative Consumption site to help you contribute to and evolve the ideas in the upcoming book What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, (Harper Business, September 28, 2010). Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, [...]
Pepsi V Coke in the Sustainability Battle
I can not think of time when the Pepsi v Coke wars were not a topic of school yard, locker room or sunday drive banter. We all have an opinion in the Coke versus Pepsi taste wars, but things get a little murky when corporate sustainability is taken into account. Fast Company have released an [...]
Design | Transport For London Launches Routemaster
Costing $420,000 each, Transport for London claims that the new Routemaster will be 15% more fuel efficient than existing hybrid buses, 40% more than the existing diesel double deckers. Thomas Heatherwick, the brains behind the U.K. Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo was one of the designers involved in the redesign, which includes three doors, two [...]
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. [Click [...]
Infograph | The Worlds Leading Companies
This elegant chart, created by Tiffany Farrant for GDS Digital (the second from her today, we know; we can’t help it), started as merely a visualization of the Forbes 2,000, which lists the 2,000 largest companies in the world. And it does it’s job with tremendous efficiency–it’s pretty interesting to see, roughly, how big chemicals companies and media [...]
Infographic | Home Appliance Energy Consumption Chart
In the United States, over 20% of our total energy consumption is residential. In fact, in the United States, we are the 7th largest per capita consumer of residential energy. Where is all of that energy going? Are you living with a “gas-guzzler”? Explore the application below to understand more about how we consume energy [...]
B-Cycle | Giving Urban Transportation a Facelift
Introducing B-Cycle. A collaboration between Humana, Trek, and ad house Cripsin Porter + Bogusky, B-Cycle will soon be launching in Denver in the USA, with expansion plans in the works. The idea is simple, walk up to the B-station kiosk, pay, grab a bike, and go — you can drop off the bike at any [...]
Puma and Fuseproject | The Clever Little Bag
Puma and Fuseproject, the design firm led by Yves Béhar have spent 21 months studying box fabrication and shipping. Fuseproject realized that any improvement to that already lean system would merely be incremental. So instead, the “clever little bag” combines the two packaging components of any shoe sale–the bag and the box–with high-tech ingenuity. The bag [...]
How to “Green” your workplace
GOOD Magazine gives us some great insights into greening our workspace. Roberto Rhett, the director of Green Spaces NY, an eco-friendly co-working office share, shares with Good, how to lower the impact of your workplace without driving all your co-workers nuts. Here are 6 easy tips: 1) Switch your energy provider to 100% alternative power [...]
Freshman Andrew Kim’s Coke Bottle Design.
Industrial design student Andrew Kim has created a very cool concept creating the square bottle. This is beautiful, and a smart use of space. Not sure if it is manufacturable, but a great idea and design nonetheless. This is an ambitious take on the iconic bottle, going square in the name of eco-friendliness. The new bottle shape [...]
The Story of Bottled Water
Annie Leonard, the mastermind behind The Story of Stuff and The Story of Cap and Trade, has released the latest in her series of animations about environmental issues, just in time for World Water Day. The Story of Bottled Water breaks down the problems with our beloved water in signature Annie Leonard form, with juicy [...]
Switch off Your Lights for Earth Hour 2010!
It’s Showtime! It is time to stand up, to take responsibility, to get involved and lead the way towards a sustainable future. It is all about taking 60 minutes of discomfort and inconvenience to give the planet a chance. Take a stand and give world leaders the mandate they need to make the right climate [...]
An eco friendly Coke can design.
This colorless Coke can design is a concept that was designed by Harc Lee. “A convex logo substitutes colorfully sprayed can. Naked can help to reduce air and water pollution occurred in its coloring process. It also reduces energy and effort to separate toxic color paint from aluminum in recycling process. Huge amount of energy and [...]
