18 Mar
It won't help you avoid being eaten by zombies

Grocery bags, they’re everywhere you look. Fluttering from tree branches, stuck in sewage drains and jammed into that one drawer in the corner of your kitchen. Why do you jam that drawer full of plastic bags? Do you need…


Frank M. Rinderknecht — Swiss-born inventor, entrepreneur and founder of Rinspeed Inc. — always seems to debut something wacky and automotively fringe every year in Geneva, and this year was no different. Compared to the


11 Feb
Up recycling bottle caps into fine jewelry

Yoav Kotik designs his Kotik Precious Metal collection of earrings, brooches, rings, bracelets, necklaces and pendents from discarded bottle caps. Although they’re called “Precious Metals”, I’m not sure I see any actual precious metals — unless…


These solar-powered LED lights by Miniwiz illustrate the true potential of design intersecting ingenuity. Re-purposing the ubiquitous plastic bottle — that heinous bane of the enviroment — into a usable light source, Miniwiz have…


31 Jan
"A Study In Green Grass" by Mitsuru Katsumoto

Somebody should really pass these along to Dick Cheney. Designed by Japanese artist Mitsuru Katsumoto,  her “A Study In Green Grass” piece would do wonders for his ecological wraith mindset. And if they don’t change his…


28 Jan
Recycle your old Schwinn and get drunk

You have to love it when recycling unused parts and old machinery can be used in the aiding of drinking beer. These flexible, recycled bike chains come attached to anodized aluminum heads available in 5 colors, tho I prefer…


27 Jan
Can personal hydrogen stations jumpstart the fuel cell movement?

Honda today began operation of a next generation solar hydrogen station (SHS) prototype, intended for ultimate use as a home refueling appliance capable of an overnight refill of fuel cell electric vehicles. Designed as a single, integrated unit to…


15 Jan
An explicit message in sustainability

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Reminiscent of the Serif Tote Bag we covered by Little Factory , this Bio Bag from Danish designer Thorbjørn Ankerstjerne aims to remind the consumer of his actions as explicitly…

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