Neoprene is everywhere these days from wetsuits to laptop sleeves. The stretchy, squishy rubber based material is useful and versatile, unfortunately it’s not very earth-friendly. Neoprene (or polychloroprene) is a petroleum based rubber that is treated and bound together with a nasty mix of chemicals & VOCs including Formaldehyde, lead, chlorine and toluene.
This past weekend Matt and I thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the Greener Gadgets Design Competition. Jill Fehrenbacher and Mike Chino of Inhabitat were great hosts along with Allan Chochinov of Core77. We were thoroughly schooled on the latest in upcoming sustainability concepts, the new wave of design all over the blogosphere, and some hip [...]
What can you do with entire army tanks left over from the Vietnam War, NYC subway cars, and entire bridges? Strip ‘em, clean ‘em, and sink ‘em!
Living in the city I see discarded mattresses out on the curb every week. They are difficult to recycle, create a large amount of waste, and no one wants to use someone else’s old mattress. Frank Willems has created funky furniture by bending and folding mattress into usable forms.
For over a year now, Joe Harmon and his crew of graduate students from North Carolina State University have been building the Splinter, a “Supercar” made mostly from wood. This car is Joe’s NC State Master’s thesis, a project which he explains is a “scholastic endeavor in which we are simply trying to explore [...]
Howies created an ad campaign for their winter clothing line catalogue that reflects their values. The oversized tags depict care instructions (like you might find on clothing labels) for rivers, seas, forests, and mountains.
As the US economy continues to slow, our demand for Chinese goods diminishes and China’s demand for the world’s recyclables, used to produce some of these goods, has subsequently diminished. Now our trash is stuck on our shores!
Thai monks from the Sisaket province have used over one million recycled glass bottle to construct their Buddhist temple. Mindfulness is at the center of the Buddhist discipline and the dedication and thoughtfulness required to build everything from the toilets to their crematorium from recycled bottles shows what creativity and elbow grease can accomplish.
Durat makes a dynamic and multiuse plastic from recycled plastic that can itself be recycled. Going into the future designers, engineers, and manufacturers need to look further down the line when producing a good. Durat has shown that product end life planning is possible and productive. The lifecycle of a product should be highly considered [...]
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