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Earth Safe Art & Craft Finishes

Posted by: notbeige on: July 24, 2009

Earth Safe’s range of eco-friendly art and craft finishes includes acrylic paint, perfect paint, fabric paint, varnishes, textures, sealers and stains.  Find out more on their website.

via Crafting A Green World

The Waste Is The Best furniture collection from Skate Sudy House, is made 100% of throwaway materials and is constructed from excess skateboard cutouts of laminated wood.

Skate Study House’s collection of furniture and home accessories made from skateboard components includes the Jet Set Lounger – instantly recognisable now having been featured in many design [...]

Cool Accessories From Recycled Inner Tubes

Posted by: notbeige on: May 14, 2009

Margaret Teich over at The Lazy Environmentalist has put together a round up of uber-cool accessories made from recycled inner tubes – check it out.

An Eco-Friendly Alternative To Bubble Wrap?

Posted by: notbeige on: May 14, 2009

Designers WonJae Lee, Sunkyu Kim and Sangjun Hahn have developed a paper based, biodegradeable alternative to plastic bubble wrap.  The product is called Paper Wrap, and while it’s not as versatile as bubble wrap, it has great potential for further development, and is definitely a big step in the right direction.

via Ecofriend

The Tesla Roadster

Posted by: notbeige on: May 4, 2009

How much visualising would I have to do to manifest one of these babies in the driveway of my (future) eco-house…?  Sleek, sexy, silent, carbon fibre body, all electric so no emissions… one day, it will be mine. Oh yes.
Well, a girl can dream…
Tesla Motors website
Check out Sam Leppanen’s piece on the Tesla [...]

Green Living Kitchen by Whirlpool & Elmar

Posted by: notbeige on: April 30, 2009

Whirlpool and Elmar have unveiled the Green Living Kitchen at the Milan Furniture Fair.   The concept was designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba who describe it as “a new kitchen dimension in which technology and ecology meet and blend in a convivial and wellness oriented setting”.
Using Whirlpool Sixth Sense technology and Elmars’ natural high temperature [...]

Greenhouse Nightclub, New York City -
“is the first eco-friendly nightlife destination.   A bi-level 6,000 square foot club, lounge and event space built from recycled or recyclable materials, Greenhouse went the extra mile to receive L.E.E.D registration, which is awarded by the United States Green Buildings Council for environmentally conscious construction and design.
Greenhouse was designed by [...]


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