Strawberry academy
17-1-2011
Home grown strawberries are the very best. Therefore the Dutch, “Lambada” strrawbaerry farmer Jan Robben organizes the first Strawberrie Academy on April 2. People can buy their own strawberry plants, to take home and grow their own strawberries at home.
Ark Hotel
12-1-2011
The Ark Hotel by Remistudio is an eco-friendly design for a hotel that is resistant to weather and completely self-sufficient. Wind turbines and solar panels provide energy, and rainwater is collected for use in the hotel.
A soap grater
10-1-2011
Designer Nathalie Staempfli made these two soap graters. One to put on the wall, one to use under the shower. This allows you to be more frugal with your soap.
Keykeg, the bag-in-ball principle
10-1-2011
KeyKeg works according toe the bag-in-ball principle. Because of that, no CO2 comes in contact with the beer or wine. It also reduces foam and sputter. The Keg is easy to handle, lightweight and environmentally friendly to dispose.
Your own champignongarden
10-12-2010
The Californian company ‘Back to the Roots” offers people the opportunity to grow their own mushrooms. Through the website and in some supermarkets in the U.S., the “Easy to Grow Mushroom Garden” can be purchased. All consumers have to do is moist the Muschroom Garden two times a day with recycled coffee grounds.
Intelligent street lightening
2-12-2010
Within one year an area of Eindhoven will have intelligent streetlighting. These are streetlights that burn brighter when someone passes by. It saves energy this way. In which area in Eindhoven the lights will be hung is not yet known.
Less common parts dinner
28-11-2010
Last Sunday restaurant Fifteen restaurant in Amsterdam organized a ‘Less common shares dinner’. It was a seven-course menu with ‘less common parts’ of food. These ingredients are often discarded because they are ‘scary’. Many chefs are scared to work woth ingredients like: kidneys, bone marrow or blood. By wokring with less common parts the initiators want to make sure kitchens will work more sustainably.
Sustainable 4-star hotel
21-11-2010
Near trainstation Amstel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands a durable four-star hotel will be build. The hotel will have twenty floors and a total of 300 rooms. Designstudios Paul de Ruiter and Mulderblauw take the utmost account of the environment by sustainable use of energy, water, waste and materials. The hotel will get a smart facade that responds to the outdoor climate, heat loss and possible overheating by the sun. The hotel will also generate energy with biomass that comes from the hotel.
Eco-friendly pop-up store
18-11-2010
The Detox Market, an eco-friendly pop-up market, sells natural beauty products and organic food, produced by serveral small farms. The interior consists of recycled wood. Besides grocery shopping, people can visit The Detox Market for facials, tastings, demo’s, parties or just for a conversation with the owner.
Sustainable built hotel in six days
16-11-2010
In the Chinese city of Changsha a sustainable summer hotel was built in just six days. The 15-storey hotel that was put together from prefabricated building blocks. During construction, 6x less material was used and only 1% waste was produced. The building is very sustainable using 5x less energy than usual, it is powered by solar energy, thermal isolation in the walls and the roof, triple windows and LED lighting. Additional advantage for the guests is that the air in the hotel is 20 times cleaner than outside!