Created by Kianee, an german and pretty creative girl, this is a luminaire made from pots of yoghurt. Instead of throwing 70 plastic pots in the bin, you can too make this for your own home. She amended all with metal rings, and the result is amazing.
It’s good to remind: you can do it at home, but use Cold Lamp Fluorescent so the plastics won’t melt!
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As cities around the world try to get cars off the roads, there’s been increasing emphasis on public transportation, ride-sharing, telecommuting and bicycling as eco-minded alternatives. One we hadn’t yet seen, however, is a luxury eco-bus used to give commuters a high-end ride to work.
San Francisco now requires that all employers with 20 workers or more offer a transit benefit program to support greener commuting. With that in mind, Bauer’s Worldwide Transportation recently launched Wi-Drive, a green, weekday bus service that offers high-end transportation for commuters. Targeting professionals who wouldn’t normally consider public transportation, Wi-Drive aims to emulate the comfort of a limousine or company shuttle. Padded leatherette seats, wifi, LCD screens, ports for phones and iPods, and work tables at each prereserved seat are among the amenities Wi-Drive commuters can enjoy, as well as the availability of food and beverages and an attendant on duty. The 52-seat vehicles themselves, meanwhile, run on CNG, propane or bio-fuel, and most stops on their routes are close to major companies or transit hubs. Bauer’s will also work with companies or groups of commuters to build custom routes, and it has partnered with pre-tax transit programs Commuter Checks and WageWorks to integrate their offerings as well. One-way prices on Wi-Drive are USD 8.20 for most trips among Marin County, San Francisco and San Jose.
From: Springwise
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Six Senses Hideaway Hua Hin, Thailand.
If a hotel or resort doesn’t say much or anything at all about its environmental and eco-practices on its home page (hey, a simple link is enough), it’s hard to take them seriously. Communicating green to guests and prospective guests is important, so in some ways if a hotel isn’t talking about it, they might as well not be doing it. This communication seems more fraught with difficulty the more luxurious a hotel or resort is, perhaps because asking guests to re-use towels seems crazy when charging them $400 to $1,000 a night. Perhaps that is why Six Senses, located 200 kilometers southwest of Bangkok, wrote its own pamphlet on its green practices. Some efforts are slightly incomprehensible–like switching from 60 to 20 watt bulbs (why not CFLs?), and a carbon offset program (others are already doing it better). Others are much more in keeping with the environment: a permaculture organic vegetable garden and an orchard; a high-tech hydroponic garden; a hut for growing mushrooms; and, an electrically-propelled long boat.
From: www.treehugger.com
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This new campaign, launched by the website Recycle For London.
They say that around 60% of what we feed our black bins could be recycled.So… time to make your bin starved!
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They do amazing things in the Philippines with all those discarded portable juice packs people sip on here, there & everywhere! Enterprising women from a fair trade certified NGO (non-governmental organization) cut recycled juice packs into strips, fold and weave them together to create some very cool stuff! Well-made, vibrant, fashionable and functional are just some of the ways to describe these water-resistant handmade creations.
Here http://www.organicbug.com/ you can find tousands of nice gifts, clothes, cosmetics, etc. Susteinable, organic, recycled, and handmade stuff.
Here they are: SCUPPIES!
Scuppies are ’socially upwardly mobile persons’, wich means: young adults who are philanthropic, eat organic and try to live as green as possible. Some people say that they’re the ‘marriage’ between hippies and yuppies lifestyle – they pursuit peace and happiness (like the hippies) but not forgetting the cash (like yuppies). They love to consume, but in a concious manner.
If you want to read more about scuppie’s belives: http://www.scuppie.com/ascuppiebelieves.html
Bamboo Disposable Plates
Now you can make eco celebrations. This new company, Eco My Party makes no-fuss party supplies. All the shop contains only eco-friendly stuff, like plates, bowls, spoons, knives, forks, napkins, etc. The best part is: they’re all biodegradable, ethical and sustainable products.
How? They can all be chucked onto your compost heap, where they can help to grow the flowers and food for another party!
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Dyson Airblade it’s a faster hand dryer than the eletric-classic ones. Also, it’s more hygenic than the others – it purifies the air before blowing onto your hands!
And its green because… It uses up to 80% less energy than warm air hand dryers! Other hand dryers typically take in excess of 22 seconds to dry hands. Dyson Airblade dries hands in just 12 seconds.
It’s greener than paper and the usuals hand dryers.
http://www.dysonairblade.com
Available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and US.
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A idéia do blog ‘nasceu’ junto com a idéia da monografia (ou trabalho de conclusão). O trabalho é/será sobre comportamento de consumo consciente, ou seja, eco-people lifestyle, neo-greens, scuppies, como preferir nomeá-los. Nesse meio tempo de pesquisas, vou encontrando muita, muita coisa legal que seria um desperdício não compartilhá-las.
Bem-vindos!
The idea of this blog was born with the idea of my final paper for university. The paper will be about sustainable consumer behavior, or eco-people, neo-greens, scuppies, whatever you prefer to name them. Meanwhile, I have found too many nice stuff. It would be a shame not share them.
Welcome all!
