(TrendHunter.com) Making your house chic and elegant while saving the environment is always good in my book, so I was happy to stumble upon Ryan McElhinney’s site. McElhinney makes artistic yet practical pieces of recycled Toys which are bonded together and then coated in a High Gloss polyurethane lacquer. Each piece…
(TrendHunter.com) The Windy City dyes their river green for St. Patrick’s Day, but that’s not all that goes green. A two mile bridge in the Monroe Harbor will cement Chicago’s position as the Greenest City in the U.S. It will provide space for wind turbines to provide economic value to a recreational source. Chicago …
(TrendHunter.com) This is extremely ecologically cool and really helps the environment and all but it is pretty gross. Researchers at EAWAG Aquatic Research in Switzerland have developed a simple way to extract the phosphorus and nitrogen from urine to be used as fertilizer. Untreated urine reaches the oceans, feedin…
(TrendHunter.com) There is a currently an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City that is creating buzz around the world. The exhibit, Design and the Elastic Mind, is a combination of art, science, technology and design and includes influential projects from around the world.
We’ve featured a few indiv…
(TrendHunter.com) The Façade Vase from Orcadesign is a creative wool felt slip-on cover that turns any standard plastic (or non-plastic) bottle into a minimalist eco-friendly vase. I like the concept, it provides a cool unbreakable vase for clumsy people like myself that is very easy to trasport. You can easily have…
(TrendHunter.com) Looking through a cluster of homes of future, I recognized a few from past features on Trend Hunter, such as the Cardboard House. I was left mesmerized by the Concrete House, a curvy home with rounded lines and a green roof covered in grass. The house is environmentally friendly and provides comfort…
(TrendHunter.com) Not to be confused with Dubai, Abu Dhabi is on a building binge of its own. This is the World Trade Center to be built on Al Raha Beach, the spectacular spit of land for the waterfront east.
Everything that can be housed in a city building will be in this spectacular piece of architecture by Fost…
(TrendHunter.com) I’ve been using Method’s line of environmentally friendly cleaning products for about two years now, and never really considered how cutting edge the company really is, both in the product and the company’s branding. They line, which also includes body care items, is biodegradable, all natural and c…
(TrendHunter.com) Lovers of eco-friendly buildings will not be disappointed with the hippies in NoCal. This fall, the new museum will be open and the public will have the chance to see what is under those giant bulges covered with grass and flowers. The roof alone is a marvel.
“The $484-million structure will most …
(TrendHunter.com) One-line summary: Greenlite Lighting Corp literally gave away 32,000 CFL spiral energy-efficient bulbs to Microsoft employees!
Details: On February 28th, Greenlite Lighting Corporation gave away 32,000 Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs to Microsoft employees on the company’s Redmond Campus. …
(TrendHunter.com) A brand spanking new 1.2 million square meters city in the United Arab Emirates is in the works that is intended to be completely self-sustainable.
With cutting edge solar technology as its source of energy, the Ras al Khaimah eco city development in the United Arab Emirates, was designed by Rem K…
(TrendHunter.com) Advertising and product placement have long seeped into our everyday life; from the bus we ride to the music video we see. The Packaging Lights by designer Anke Weiss show the transformation of a mass-product into a unique advertising platform. Packaging, which traditionally aims to support and prom…
(TrendHunter.com) I am not sure whether the image is just a creation of the blog owner I took this message from or a copy of the ad the energy company released. Whatever the case, it is a perfect design for a billboard promoting the energy company’s “green” intentions for sustainable energy.
As a matter of fact, i…
(TrendHunter.com) Edoc Laundry, a Seattle based clothing company, is all about encouraging the interactive social experience. By combining fashion and technology mediums, Edoc Laundry creates garments with codes and messages that most people can’t see unless they are searched for thoroughly.
These hidden details a…
(TrendHunter.com) The Vatican has updated the list of sins to include modern day evils like environmental disregard. Today’s soul’s need to take bioethics into consideration if they want to live in purity and land themselves a spot in heaven.
“(Within bioethics) there are areas where we absolutely must denounce som…
(TrendHunter.com) Interior designers are increasignly looking at stairs for a multi-function creative space saving design. Joining the “Library Staircase” we featured a while back is this eco-friendly stairs design that is made of slats of wood bolted together.
The stairs double as a bookcase that saves you space a…
(TrendHunter.com) We all know by now that green is the new black and that engaging in ecologically- and environmentally-friendly behavior as individuals or group entities is the sane thing to do.
Through my short stint as a Trend Hunter, I have been exposed to all kinds of really beautiful objects made from recycled…
(TrendHunter.com) In Arlington, VA, a suburb of Washington, DC, a cab company called enviroCAB is putting out a fleet of all hybrid cabs. It says it is the first hybrid cab company in the country.
“The county regulates the fares so it’s exactly the same cost as any other taxi in Arlington County,” said Hans Hess, ow…
(TrendHunter.com) The Brelli is a 100% biodegradable umbrella. In addition to being attractive and protecting people from the elements, this umbrella promises not to clutter our fragile and overburdened eco-system with harmful, ecologically-adverse material and offers instead an eco-friendly solution. Cheers.
(TrendHunter.com) It was definitely news when Sumer Erek decided to build a house out of 60,000 scrapped newspapers. The newspaper art installation is the artist’s way of emphasizing the ecological impact of the newspaper waste we accumulate everyday.
Erek built the house by piling rolled up newspapers. With the h…
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