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Plane stupid : Bringing the aviation industry back down to earth

msalou — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:40:05 +0000

From British advertising agency Mother London and production company Rattling Stick, Plane Stupid raises public awareness on environmental impact of air travel.

Greensleeves

msalou — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:04:11 +0000

Eric Cheung and Sean Martindale “work” to make streets (and illegal advertising spots) greener.

Their blog
PIctures via Torontoist

this was supposed to be the future > the magical highway

ntimm — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:30:30 +0000

Which reminds me of a t-shirt I have

photo by alexi hobbs

Space taken by 60 people

ntimm — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:05:13 +0000

via flickr

Iphone and Itouch paper stand / dock

ntimm — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:19:15 +0000

Paper dock from dessine moi un objet.

1. Download the pdf
2. Print it
3. Cut it
4. Done

Why pay for something less original and wasteful?

Iphone Paper Dock / Stand from Dessine moi un objet on Vimeo.

VIRTUAL WATER > Water footprints

ntimm — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:48:43 +0000

The Virtual Water project > www.traumkrieger.de
300g of beef = 4500 litres of water…

Water is probably one of the most precious resources and vital for everyone’s everyday life. In spite of this obvious fact, people use large amounts of water: drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, etc.

One of the most important research papers in this field is Chapagain, A.K. and Hoekstra, A.Y. (2004), »Water footprints of nations«, Value of Water Research Report Series No. 16, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands.
Designer Timm Kekeritz created a poster, visualizing parts of their research data, to make the issue of virtual water and the water footprint perceptible.

The water footprint of a person, company or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the commodities, goods and services consumed by the person, company or nation.
The idea of the water footprint is quite similar to the ecological footprint, but focussing on the use of water.

www.traumkrieger.de/virtualwater/

The art of John Fellows

msalou — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:20:43 +0000

I recently re-discovered the work of Colorado based artist John Fellows. Despite a sporty promised carrier (Fellows was a rugby player) he started sending a zine named PaperCut to anyone he thought would be interesting in his artwork. Things work well and he gets contracts…

save time. save money. save the planet

ntimm — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:52:18 +0000

Graham Hill at Gel 2009

Graham Hill at Gel 2009 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

Gorm studio

msalou — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:37:06 +0000

I really like details in this compact kitchen concept by Orgeon based Gorm studio. (the number 2 flow kitchen by Gorm studio, you can check out the first concept here). A green kitchen with worm composter, edible plant and lots of good ideas.

A tea box that makes you want to have a cup of tea.

Édouard François > green buildings

ntimm — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:16:08 +0000

When it comes to green buildings, few architects today can touch Édouard François of Paris. in François’ view, working with nature offers a welcome complexity: ‘Watch a tree. It has a thousand branches, it moves, grows, changes colour!’ He builds with what are known as green façades, much simpler than the current rage of living walls as they are planted in the ground and do not need elaborate watering systems…

The whole story on treehugger.

Favela painting in Brazil

msalou — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:16:02 +0000

Favela painting is a project by the Firmeza foundation which creates striking artwork in places where people are beng socially excluded. Art as a sustainable solution to attract the world’s attention. Presented project is a creation of tattoo artist Rob Admiral. A beautiful solution to contribute to the sense of pride and awareness of the communities who produced the artworks.