(TrendHunter.com) Startmotions Animation Studio claims to be the first Earth Friendly animation studio. All of the actors and scenes created by the studio are made out of recycled material.
Startmotions does animations for all ages and languages. The stars of the movies often animals look quirky and sometimes pret…
(TrendHunter.com) Water heaters are one of the primary power-hungry devices in most households. That’s why the prospect of an affordable solar panel system is particularly exciting. I have always argued that green energy alternatives must be affordable in order to be a viable choice by the masses.
The inflatable Sol…
(TrendHunter.com) While it’s not a new concept to Europe, bicycle sharing has yet to become mainstream practice in North America. Thankfully Washington has taken a clue from programs like the Velib public bicycle rental service in Paris and Bicing in Barcelona as they’re opening SmartBike DC next month.
It’s the fir…
(TrendHunter.com) The 2nd Skin Exhibit opening night took place on 4/25/08 in San Francisco. The event is a celebration of clothing creativity. Crave notes that, “[There was] a man wearing costumes covered head to toe in LEDs. Another man wearing a suit made of bubble wrap. A woman in a skirt made of Snickers wrappe…
(TrendHunter.com) Luxe ice cream manufacturer Haagen Dazs has developed an elaborate public awareness campaign to the help save the honey bees. Alarmingly “more than 25% of the Western honey bee population has disappeared over the last several winters.â€
The ad is an operatic video by the Goodby Silverstein & Par…
(TrendHunter.com) The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) launched an ethical fashion ezine named “Thread”. The online magazine seeks to address issues many fashion-conscious and environmentally-responsible people constantly grapple with such as the damage sustained by the environment due to irresponsible and unethica…
(TrendHunter.com) Trendinista follows her excellent fish-inspired fashion post with a superb study of Diana Bobar’s Spring’08 ready-to-wear collection. This time, inspiration seems to come from the endangered Wild Cyclamen, a tubular Mediterranean flower with breezy, spiral petals.
Trendinista explains that the g…
(TrendHunter.com) Loup Charmant (which means the charming wolf) is an organic sustainable and fairly made women’s lounge line of only grown fibers. Locally made in brooklyn, new york by designer kee edwards, it uses no synthetics and no toxins. Loup Charmant’s latest PURE Collection is presented at the Project Earth…
(TrendHunter.com) Wear your geekiness loud and proud with the new summer 2008 collection from Alphanumeric.
The centerpiece of the collection is a bold design with a retro Casio watch graphics all over the T-shirt.
Other designs carry on with Alphanumeric’s theme of promoting social, educational and environmental …
(TrendHunter.com) I always find it very disheartening that recycled products are mostly pretty expensive. Usually you have to pay a premium to go “green”, which both discourages and confuses me. Utilizing recycled materials should make the product cheaper not more expensive.
Take these giant bean bags by Spanish com…
(TrendHunter.com) The Seatbelt lounge chair combines two life savers: seatbelts that save human lives, and product recycling which saves our planet.
The chair is designed by Nuttapong Charoenkitivarakorn and created by Thai villagers who loop lengths of recycled cotton-nylon seat belts around the chairs’ plywood fra…
(TrendHunter.com) Facebook has launched its Greenbook application to help reduce CO2 emissions emitted by its servers and millions of worldwide users.
Basically what the Greenbook add-on does is generate money through sponsorship. The money collected through these sponsorships are then used to fund emission reducin…
(TrendHunter.com) Adidas has gone green with its advertising campaign. The advertisement, which is suspected to be for its Grün range of footwear, is made of bushes with the iconic three stripes placed using three strips of wood.
(TrendHunter.com) No, it’s not a scene from the 40 year old virgin, it’s Hollywood movie star Harrison Ford making a powerful statement about deforestation by getting his chest-hair waxed. While Britney Spears took the easy road and auctioned her clothes for the environment, Harrison invited Access Hollywood to docum…
(TrendHunter.com) Timeflex is a disposable concept watch called which is adhesive with a transparent skin allowing you to stick it to your skin or clothes. It comes with a touch screen that is used to “order” the menu. The watch comes with a power supply, control buttons, a flexible transparent base, protective tape,…
(TrendHunter.com) Get up, close and personal with this flexible and dynamic light design that promises its user a high level of entertainment and fun.
According to the designers, the knitted light object, called Matt, is meant to be moved and played with.
Through the use of an environmentally-friendly energy savin…
(TrendHunter.com) Next time your jeans look like they’ve had too much wear and tear to keep in your wardrobe, hold on to them. Thanks to RecycleYourJeans.com, you can now have your favourite denim pieces remade into chic sandals. A great idea sure to delight tree huggers the world over!
Recycling jeans into footwear…
(TrendHunter.com) Designer François Clerc has designed the Graine De Pot, a special biodegradable pot for city dweller gardeners.
The pot is made from a biodegradable plastic container that expands. The container has a lifespan of approximately nine months. You’ll want to plant the seeds this season so your full…
(TrendHunter.com) The designers at Nendo amaze me every time they come out with a new idea.
The design of this chair was created for the XXIst Century Man exhibition curated by Issey Miyake for the first anniversary of 21_21 Design Sight in Roppongi, Tokyo. The brief given by Mister Miyake was to make furniture out …
(TrendHunter.com) The Doomsday industry is expanding. A business by the name of Subivor has produced a so-called subway survival kit complete with protective mask, flashlight, a pry bar, a silver-tone metal whistle, and towelette pouch and a compact bag with a reflector tape.
The Subivor, which comes with its dooms…
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