(TrendHunter.com) A lot of people are reflecting on contributions they can make to create a greener planet with Earth Day next week. One of the simplest things people can do is to select organic when purchasing consumer goods, and that doesn’t just pertain to food, although that’s mostly what this feature highlights.…
(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter has featured stories about showers that kick you out or remind you to conserve water. So how about an environmentally sustainable water conservation shower that allows you to indulge as long as you want without wasting water? Bring it on, I say!
The Quench Shower system allows you to t…
(TrendHunter.com) The product is environmentally friendly, but it might take a few weeks become truly “green”. I’m talking about cheese sculptures. These time-sensitive art productions can change colour, and maybe even grow hair, depending on how long they are kept.
Having never attempted this activity myself, I…
(TrendHunter.com) It’s always nice to see someone come up with secondary uses for items the majority of people discard. Craig Arnold, a designer obsessed with cameras came up with the idea to recycle old camera parts and turn them into jewelry.
Most of the pieces used in the re:vision line come from old school came…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve thought about powering your house with solar technologies, Sungevity is a new Berkley website that would be of great interest to you.
Sungevity looks for your home via satellite images after you input your adress. After pinpointing your location, the service identifies the size of your r…
(TrendHunter.com) Tang Hua Motors is responsible for this odd looking, amphibious, four-wheeled yellow car. With its oddball shape, it really is hard to take The Detroit Fish very seriously. At least it is environmentally-friendly and amphibious to boot.
Yanko Design has fun describing this vehicle and they rag it …
(TrendHunter.com) Project Or is a vortex-shaped surface installation at the Milan Furniture Fair 2008.
When in the shade, Project Or, which reacts to ultra-violet light, turns a transluscent white and when hit by the sun, the segments become colored with different hues. At night, Or turns into a huge chandelier.
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(TrendHunter.com) This is the winning design for an eco-friendly floating village that is planned for Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve in Preston, northern England. The winning concept, created by Adam Khan Architects, plans to use wood and other sustainable materials to build this floating village whic…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re looking for a way to take part in Earth Day this year, but don’t have time to do participate in an urban cleanup, why not sign up for 600 free newspapers on PressDisplay?
Switching to digital newspapers can save millions of trees, which is the idea that NewspaperDirect is trying to covey…
(TrendHunter.com) April 22 is Earth Day, but New Yorkers are limiting their thanks for the earth to one single day. The green celebration has turned into one that’s being called Earth Weekend as it extends from April 14 to 22, and includes events around the city.
At Grand Central station, Giant Earth Images are bei…
(TrendHunter.com) Toronto has really basic, yet eye-catching, signs all around the city to promote a community clean-Up. Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, Mayor David Miller is hoping people will be inspired to pitch in on April 18 to make the city a greener place.
The 20-Minute Toronto Makeover takes place th…
(TrendHunter.com) LUSH, a company known for its dedication to environmental awareness, is engaging customers in an eye-catching live viral campaign. Outside of stores in the UK, LUSH sales reps were spotted in dresses made of plastic bags enticing customers to bring their bags in exchange for fun samples of their bea…
(TrendHunter.com) From pink gardening tools to the world’s fastest lawnmower, this list will provide you with more than a dozen new ideas for your lawn and garden. Don’t have a yard? No problem, we’ve also got an array of urban gardening trends from living walls to vertical gardens.
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(TrendHunter.com) First Aunt Bessie introduces cones with mashed potatoes, and now there are these ice cream lamps! No question about it, wafers are HOT at the moment. Even if you’re not massively into kitsch, there’s no denying the Whippy light fixtures are kind of cool. Best of all, they support eco friendly CFL b…
(TrendHunter.com) City Transport Cell (CTC) is a car concept designed to be used 12 years from now. Specifically designed for urban life, the CTC is based on a concept which allows all the parts to be replaced on a click.
“Built for the year 2020 it is a flexible and easy to navigate car in the hectic urban live,” …
(TrendHunter.com) The tankless Neorest AH by Japanese Toto is a water-saving hybrid toilet that uses both inboard and outside water sources of about 5.5 litres per flush campared to the wasteful 13 litres used by traditional tank-type models.
Other features include warm water and gentle warm-air drying built into th…
(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter recently featured the eco-friendly Aussiebum Bamboo underwear, one of the first brands to utilize bamboo in its products, and it seems that bamboo is going to be featured in more and more environment friendly fashion lines.
The Spring 2008 Collection from fashion house Loyale Clothing…
(TrendHunter.com) The “Au Naturel” campaign for Avondale Wine is simple and straight to the point: we are getting back to nature.
The brand made a decision a few years ago to produce wine in a natural way that will not harm the environment. They use cover crops instead of fertilizers to restore the balance of the so…
(TrendHunter.com) “This table will self-destruct,” notes the product page. Well, not literally. The table is made by Studio1am and the way it works is that every time they make a table, it will be slightly smaller than the previous one by virtue of the fact that one pixel will have been removed. That tells us that 1…
(TrendHunter.com) During a virtual safari, visitors of the Futuroscope in Poitiers (France) can learn about future animals. The exposition shows how the fauna of our planet evolve over the next million years.
It is not likely that anyone of us will have the pleasure to experience the changes and meet the future an…
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