More vertical gardens

24-2-2011

Bring nature into your home Earlier this year a three-storey vertical garden was realized in Spain, making it the largest in the country. This indoor garden not only brightens up the office, but also filters the air and extracts pollutants.

Green Beer from Copenhagen

22-2-2011

Global Ale beer by the Nørrebro brewery in Copenhagen is the first eco-friendly brewed beer. The restaurant, also part of the brewery, serves several ‘green’ dishes to accompany the beer.

Wine store made of 1.500 wine boxes

21-2-2011

This wine shop is made from 1.500 wine boxes. The classy Albert Reichmuth store in Zurich Switzerland, is perhaps the greenest wine shop in the world with all its recycled ‘waste’. Created by design agency OOS.

The easiest way to grow your own

18-2-2011

This’ BTTR Gourmet Garden is an all in one package which you only have to place in a little sunlight. The only thing required is that the box is sprayed 2x a day, this spray is included in the package and costs $ 19.95.

Drink responsible

18-2-2011

The Bottle is a smart arlternative for plastic bottles. Water you drink from this bottle is purified by an ingenious carbonfilter. Through this filter chlorine, lime and organic bacteria will disappear from the water. The Bobble is available at  € 11.95 at  the Bijenkorf and Schiphol Amsterdam Airport.

Grow your own

17-2-2011

A British art student, Ben Huttly, designed vetgetable packaging that is 100% biodegradable. By laser cutting the labels you avoid using polluting ink and it is also is also filled with seeds so the buyer can harvest his own vegetables.

SODIS Solar Water Desinfection Method

16-2-2011

It sounds too good to be true, simply fill plastic bottles with water and UV-A rays kill all viruses, bacteria and parasites, known as SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection method). Problem is that it cann’t be checked if the water is really clean. Students of the University of Washington now developed the PotaVida, an electronic sensor that can determine if the water is clean or not.

What happens when? project

11-2-2011

A 9 month lasting crowdfunded and crowdsourced project in a restaurant in New York. Each month the restaurant will be runed by a different group of people. After 9 months the restaurant will be demolished.

Carrotmob

5-2-2011

Carrotmob is a group of activists that buy goods of a company to reward them for socially responsible change. Often the changes are of environmentally-friendly, such as energy-efficiency upgrades.

Machine to recycle office paper in toiletpaper

5-2-2011

The Japanese company Oriental has developed the White Goat, a machine that directly recycles office paper into toiletpaper.

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