Eco-tourism in Chile

13-3-2012

We saw this picture on website The Fancy. On the website of eco-hotel Tierra Atacama in Chile, we found many more inspiring pictures. So if you’re looking for inspiration, check their website.

Chutney made of fruits and vegetables

12-3-2012

Rubies in the Rubble, number 26 in the list of the Observer newspaper’s “New Radicals” series, makes delicious chutney out of discarded fruits and vegetables found at wholesale markets. Watch the video for more information!

Our Common Food

9-3-2012

The Kick Off of Our Common Food takes place at Pakhuis de Zwijger (Amsterdam) on March 23th. Between 13.30 and 18.00 o’clock youth and professionals who are committed to sustainable food can meet with each other. Created teams devise solutions for different cases to the final presentation in October (leading up to World Food Day). Using articles, blogs and/or videos the teams keep their environment informed of the products/actions they have devised.

Baked Potato Bean Bag

9-3-2012

Brook Abboud designed Baked Potato Bean Bag, a food inspired creation that will bring a smile to your face. Handmade from organic cotton the chair comes with silk butter pillows. It’s extremely soft and comfortable.

Self-sufficient farm-restaurant-hotel-amusementpark

8-3-2012

Guest speaker at the Battle of the Cheetahs , Oogst 1000 Wonderland is a design for a self-sufficient farm, restaurant, hotel and amusement park for 1,000 people per day. Food for the restaurant comes from the central structure and directly adjacent fields. They combine fun with usefulness. Hotel guests are also the farmers, when you work, you can stay for free. Oogst 1000 does also has the worlds first toilets that are linked to a bio-gas energy system and were you actually get paid € 0.50 per visit.

Seaweed cultivation on sea

7-3-2012

The consultancy firm Ecofys leads a group of companies with the cultivation of seaweed on a ‘farm’ at sea, 10 km off the coast of Texel (Netherlands). The production serves as fish and animal food, or as fuel to generate energy. The test will show whether large-scale cultivation of biomass is possible. The first breeding is expected at end of June.

The Story of Sushi

6-3-2012

The Story of Sushi is a short movie created for Bamboo Sushi restaurant in Portland. It is about sustainability and overfishing and the restaurants philosophy on this. Watch the movie!

Too Good to Waste extends shelftime

2-3-2012

The winner of the Battle of the Cheetahs on the first of March is the ‘Too Good to Waste’ team. The team stimulates food producers to use almost expired fruits and vegetables from supermarkets. Food producers use this ‘waste’ to make juices and soup and extend shelf time after the transformation. Supermarkets don’t have to pay for their waste and the food producers are provided with cheap resources. Both can profile themselves as waste friendly.

Package design by Janneke Hoeben

Purificate the water

28-2-2012

The WaterBOB Emergency Drinking Water Storage turns un-purificated water into drinking water. A nice example for hotels to work sustainable! Watch the video for further explanation!

Eco-Bar

28-2-2012

The Canadian company SYSTEMATEKS creates adjustable and personalized systems. For the Interior Design Show in Toronto they designed a modular Eco-Bar. The Eco-Bar consists of a grid with removable panels that can be adapted in racks, cabinets or (transparent) panels. The bar is also equipped with solar panels that provide power and it collects rainwater to watering the plants.

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