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Barcelona Forever, a Recycled Interior Design Installation by Mette Bak Andersen
Casa Decor, the international interior design show, chose “Pathway to a Sustainable Environment” (or Rumbo Sostenible in Spanish) as this year’s theme for their exhibition in Barcelona. We already wrote about the elegant recycled restaurant by designer Nancy Robbins in a previous article, and we would now like to present you the project Barcelona Forever, by designer Mette Bak Andersen. It ...
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GreenBuild: So Many Booths, So Much Greenwashing
GreenBuild is just huge, 800 booths, 30,000 people, there probably are more green vendors and green architects in this room than there are green clients in America. One doesn't even want to think about the carbon footprint of bringing everyone to town for this thing, but they just had to change the name of Architecture 2030 to 2035.
The start was inauspicious....
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GreenBuild: Project Frog
A great way to start one's visit to Greenbuild in Boston is at Project Frog, a prefabricated building system that is as far from the standard school portable as a Prius is from an Edsel. (Seen previously in TreeHugger at Project Frog: Too Cool for School
There are certain basics everyone wants in a green building, starting with energy efficiency and non-toxic materials. Construction processes that limit the building's impact on the environment. A building that simply makes us feel better when we're inside, with its abundant daylighting, good acoustics and superior air quality. Sounds simple en...
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Ecologic Sustainable Tableware For Your Holiday Fiestas
Image source: Ecologic Products
Not that we are advocating for a throw-away culture, but if you happen to be hosting a holiday party and have more guests than tableware, why not try the Ecologic tableware made from 100% organic plant fiber. The bowls and plates are made to last for years, but are healthy enough that they can be thrown in your compost bin when you are done.
More images after the jump. ...
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Does Green Greeting Cards Mean E-Greeting Cards?
The short and sweet answer is yes.
One of those "will-you or won't-you?" questions this season may well be around holiday greeting cards. Sending no cards at all is obviously the greenest option, but not very festive. If you've always sent paper-based cards, you may feel that guilty tug to continue the tradition. If you are dedicated to sending e-cards...continue! Which type of greeting is greener - e-cards or paper-based? That question's not quite as fraught with difficulty as the old "paper versus plastic" conundrum. E-cards are more energy-efficient than paper cards. However, having ...
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Eight Ways to Build a Better House when They Start Building Houses Again
James Russell, architecture critic for Bloomberg, should have been at the Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design after the age of Oil conference last week, because he certainly has the right idea. He concurs with this writer that the solutions for building in a world with expensive oil won't be high tech but simple and logical, things we have known for centuries and have just ignored. He writes:
Americans finally may have understood the relationship of oil supply and demand. If you want fuel to be cheap, you have to use less of it. For all the talk of achieving energy independence through drilling, solar or wind, ...
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Alpine Capsule by Ross Lovegrove
TreeHugger readers have a love/hate relationship with London designer Ross Lovegrove; most loved his solar trees and hated his car on a stick. He is at it again with his Alpine Capsule,
A compact shelter where one may spend the evening admiring the stars and the beautiful surrounding mountain range. It would offer the opportunity of overnight stays within a spectacular 360 degree view. ...
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The Pot Plate is Perfect for One Pot Meals
On Planet Green, Kelly is cooking up a series of one pot meals. She tries to find cooking techniques and recipes for people without a lot of time (who usually buy too much takeout) or money (not uncommon these days) so these meals are "fast, easy, nutritious, delicious and cheap."
What she and her readers need is the Pot Plate, designed by Joong-Ho Choi & Hyun-Soo Choi to reduce the number of dishes and the space required for them all. You cook your food inside and used the compartmentalized lid as a serving tray.
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Gastronomic Garden by Taebeom Kim
We have been showing some of the work of students at London's Architectural Association School of Architecture, where they were looking at models for integrating food production into the fabric of the city.
Taebeom Kim envisions a Gastronomic Garden. Pruned writes:
Of the four projects, this is the least site-specific and therefore hardest to determine how well it fits into the city or if its contextual engagement is, per the studio brief, primarily urban. Is it in London or could we even be in the countryside? One has to give it a generous benefit of a doubt to accept that it wasn't ...
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15 Years, 15 Stories: Seeds of a Green Revolution
My bike and I are off to Boston for the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, to see eight hundred exhibitors, dozens of speakers ranging from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Van Jones and Bill McKibben, with Bill Clinton thrown in. It's huge, and every hotel room in Boston is booked.
Yet 15 years ago it might have been held in a phone booth; the green building movement was tiny and disorganized...
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