The Five Personalities of Innovators: Which One Are You? Fabrication Cafe Offers Lattes And Laser Cutting [Pics] 暖岛. Brandnü » Products. "Mobile Gardening," the Hottest New Trend? 6 Ways to Mash-Up Bikes and Gardens. FriendOfHumanity/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Last year I participated in the installation of the Mobile Garden, a garden installed on a CTA train by Joe Baldwin of NoisiVelvet, which TreeHugger Jaymi wrote about here.
Since then my interest in “mobile gardening” has led me to research ways people are creating mobile gardens of their own. Bicycle gardening is perhaps the most ingenious examples of mobile gardening I‘ve come across. The examples are easy to adapt and modify to create your own bicycle gardens. These hobbies, nay, lifestyles dovetail nicely as you will see from the examples below. Zero Waste to Landfill. The Works In A Drawer: Dining Table and Seating Pull Out Of Kitchen.
Swim Down Through a Sea of Trash With Dramatic, Eerily Beautiful Photos by Mandy Barker. © Mandy BarkerSOUP: Bird's Nest.
Ingredients: discarded fishing lines that have formed nest-like balls due to tidal and oceanic movement. Additives: other debris collected in its path. What would it be like to swim down through the estimated 100 million tons of trash swirling around in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Mandy Barker's photographs bring viewers probably as close as they'd ever want to come to finding out. Looking at the images in the U.K. © Mandy BarkerSOUP: Refused.
"I have always been interested in collecting natural objects from the beach but began to notice that there was more and more man-made materials debris amongst them," Barker told TreeHugger in an email this week. Inspired By Photographer Chris JordanThe visually striking, even beautiful "SOUP" photographs were inspired, Barker says, by TreeHugger favorite Chris Jordan, who famously photographed the extensive collection of plastic pieces found inside albatross chicks after they died. Home. Mechanical, physical and environmental properties of wood. Start Making. Bus Life. Good News Bus - 1995 Genesis International DT-466 School Bus Conversion Project into a Motor Home. Scholten & Baijings. Scholten & Baijings I have fallen in love with Scholten & Baijings textiles featuring fantastic plaids by by Thomas Eyck. A Case For Recycled Tire Bags & Chic New Models By Cyclus. Photos: Cyclus-col.com If you've been around the green scene for some time, you may feel some ideas get a little tired over time.
That could have been the case for bags from recycled tires, but ever since I got one (not from this brand, of course) I've felt quite in love with it: it doesn't need any cleaning and looks exactly the same every time, resembles leather nicely (which as a vegetarian I don't use or buy) but you can see it's something else, and the rubber is super durable. Home - BalkanTango - Recycled Bicycle Inner Tube Bags, Purses and More. Contributors c/o Quarterly Co.™ Studio Schneemann. A Flip Flop Story It are the Flip Flops’ telling the story.
They are discoloured, worn, torn, patched up and eventually tossed away or lost. After a long trip through Asia or Africa they end up in sewers and in the ocean. Then they are washed up on the shores of Eastern Africa. There they are found, collected, and eventually reclaimed. Modern and Unusual Lamps Made From Plastic Bottles. © Sarah Turner Eco artist Sarah Turner creates unique lamps from locally collected waste, including plastic bottles.
She transforms trash into some rather amazing designs for interior decoration. Upcycled Farm Steel and Wood Furniture That Thinks Cradle-to-Cradle. Herso/via The patchwork aesthetic of reclaimed wood furniture has become something of an eco-cliché.
CORA. iPhone App Connects Your Trash Directly to Artists and Upcyclers. © Team Cora We all have heard of groups, websites and apps that help people swap their stuff or give their old items to folks who want them.
They're all great ways to keep things out of landfill and reduce how much we consume. But Team CORA wants to go one step more and connect you with people who need your old junk as raw material for new projects, literally transforming your trash into treasure. © Team CORA. From a Recycled Paper Vase to Toy Blocks: The Best Green Products at the New York Gift Fair. © by eebo -- Eco-Choice winner "Life on Earth" building blocks by eeboo.
“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love,” said George Bernard Shaw. Perhaps we can achieve it all with recycled paper, if winners at the recent gift show are any indication. A paper vase, eco-building blocks and reused pulltab apparel took the prizes at the 5th semi-annual Eco-Choice Awards at the New York International Gift Fair. Partnered with Green America, the winners were selected from 250 green wares featured in the “SustainAbility: Design for a Better World” exhibit at the show. The winter expo has a total of 2,800 exhibitors representing 85 countries, with a wide variety of homewares, artisan crafts, garden goods, gourmet foods, and sustainable products. 1.