I’m really loving the wit and sheer design smartness of 4mula. Not only are their soaps cruelty-free, vegan and made from organic ingredients, they are also designed with care using a simple, clear approach. For example, their Barbox is designed to solve the age-old problem of melting soaps and messy soap dishes. The Ergobars feature [...]
Toujours dans l’optique de ré-enchanter le quotidien, Martine Camillieri cherche des façons inédites de prendre sa nourriture,
elle conçoit des buffets décalés, simples et poétiques, souvent à tendance végétarienne : Flowerbar, Le potagerJardinier (France-5).
“Ébauche de vaisselle jetable écologique / 16 incitations à de petits actes poétiques individuels pour pratiquer une écologie ludique” est une série de [...]
Véritable départ d’une gamme d’électroménagers d’un nouveau genre, utilisant des plantes très répandues comme le Chlorophytum, « Bel air » est une mini serre portative qui aspire en continu l’air vicié de la pièce pour le soumettre à trois filtres naturels : les feuilles de la plante, ses racines, enfin un bain humide avant de [...]
Freitag has done it again. If you have a music afficionado on your Christmas list, you can stop searching for the perfect gift right now. The new and improved Freitag F24 and F25 iPod cases (for nano and classic pods) are THE ecodesign gift that everyone will lust after. Made from sturdy recycled truck tarpaulin, [...]
Come to my garbage-glamorous fashion show and help save the planet one fashion-victim at a time!
This annual benefit is the perfect opportunity to come to the shop if you haven’t yet or haven’t in a while, and it’s only 10 bucks (tx inc!).
Special discounts for one night only to thank you for coming all the [...]
A house north of Halifax is being built by the book. Literally.
Architecture students at Dalhousie University are stacking about 7,000 phone books to build a one-room house.
Students call the house the Phone Booth.
“The phone book is something that everyone is familiar with,” said Richard Kroeker, the professor who came up with the idea as a [...]
I’m listening to the Renouncing the 6 sins of greenwashing podcast by Joel Makower, founder of Greenbiz. He has interviewed Scot Case from TerraChoice.
In the spring of 2007, TerraChoice sent research teams into six category-leading “big box” retail stores with instructions to “record every product-based environmental claim they observed.” In all, the teams examined 1,018 [...]
En 1986, un mot nouveau a été inventé pour désigner l’extraordinaire richesse des espèces vivant sur Terre : la biodiversité. Malheureusement cette richesse disparaît à une vitesse vertigineuse. Au Canada seulement, on compte plus de 400 espèces d’animaux et de plantes vulnérables, dont une trentaine en voie de disparition.
Dans un souci d’offrir une alternative écolochic [...]
I recently received From Somewhere’s press package for Spring-Summer ‘08 and liked it so much I decided to cut and paste some esential infos about the brand.
The operating principle behind London ecofashion label FROM SOMEWHERE is simple: what happens to the fashion’s industry’s waste (such as off-cuts, end of roll, damaged fabrics) at the end [...]
From the Unpackaged website, the evolutionary grocery shop in London (if you must visit ONE SITE ONLY today, this is it):
The Problem with Packaging
Cost: Unnecessary packaging increases the price of the goods you buy. It means you are charged twice; first when you buy over packaged goods and then through your council tax to dispose [...]
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