Happy Groundhog Day! Since spring is just around the corner, we took a spin around the web today, looking for signs of life to lead us into the warmer months. From the looks of it, the rest of 2012 is coming up roses. For starters, Anthology presented a gorgeous series of photographs this week featuring LA-based [...]
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Lime green and black futuristic space age mobile home
Functioning on completely independently renewable energy sources, BLOOM by Olga Kalugina is an ingenious mobile home of the future. With a lush lime green and black exterior and interior, the module is as stylish as it is innovative in its design. Equipped with solar batteries, air and liquid solar collectors, water treating filters, a slow-burning [...]
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The Fab Lab House Project – innovative solar powered house
Selected by the IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) as their official entry into the European competition of mid-Solar decathlon in Madrid in 2010, the Solar Fab Lab House went on to win the People’s First Choice Award. An innovative and climate passive home, The Solar FabLab house utilizes the resources of its surrounding [...]
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Green Living Kitchen – a solution for recycling energy and water
Created by Ludovica + Roberto Palomba, the concept of this original kitchen design is to fuse technology and ecology closer together, integrating each section of space to recycle energy and water. Energy efficient and eco-friendly, the Green Living kitchen not only incorporates eco-friendly technology, but also takes on stylish modern furniture design aspects, as seen [...]
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Eva – the indoor green alternative to traditional compost heaps
Our homes dispose of a huge amount of organic waste, old foods which could easily be recycled by ourselves. Eva is a green and exciting eco-friendly alternative to traditional compost heap methods, designed by innovative French product designer Francois Hurtaud, who lives in Shanghai. Eva is a self-contained biosphere homefarm system, which not only allows [...]
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Eco friendly 3D wall panels made from sugarcane residue
Some months ago we featured 3D wall panels made from bamboo, here we look at a similar concept, but this time the panels are made from sugarcane residue. This collection of eco-friendly wall panels are by UK company 3D Wall Panels. Except for the renewable materials used the designs are very similar in appearance, with [...]
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Indigenous style furniture made from coconut palm trees
With the threat posed on the environment by mass deforestation and the need to find more sustainable hardwoods, Pacific Green went on a mission to find a ecologically-sound substitute for tropical hardwoods from the South Pacific. Having established the world’s first Palm wood factory at Sigatoka in the Fijian Islands, Pacific Green pioneered the creation [...]
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Colorful eco-friendly home with appealing modern interior
Designed by Zero Energy Design, this LEED Gold certified residence was designed to replace the original building, yet remaining true to the family traditions which have developed since the land was purchased in 1958. With a colorful exterior and unusual contemporary architecture the home has a very unique appeal about it. The interior is light [...]
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Toto washlet – the innovative green and clean WC
The washlet by TOTO provides a revolutionary new method in WC technology and hygiene. Popular in Japan, with over 80% of households having a washlet installed in the bathroom, this form of all-in-one toilet and bidet is fast becoming more popular in the west. Features you’ll find in the TOTO Washlet, which are far from [...]
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Ekokook – the futuristic eco-friendly kitchen
As product designers are looking for more and more ways to introduce environmentally friendly ways into interior products, the more intuitive the concepts are becoming. Ekokook by Faltazi, the compelling and innovative all-in-one kitchen unit, is a concept which totally reconstructs the kitchen as we know it. The most unusual feature of the kitchen (and [...]
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Fabric Room creator by Mod Green Pod
Rather than throw out old furniture a lot of homeowners these days are opting to recover old sofas and armchairs with new fabrics. This not only brings the aged items back to life but is also an eco-friendly solution by using organic fabrics which haven’t been chemically treated. Mod Green Pod, a Texas based wallpaper [...]
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Stylishly crafted tables made from reclaimed wood
In recent years we have seen some quite stunning furniture designs made from reclaimed, recycled or reused wood. Here we showcase Uhuru, a Brooklyn design studio who create furniture and products which are beautiful in their simplicity with an awareness of sustainability and eco-friendliness. Uhuru means “freedom” in Swahili, and there is certainly a free [...]
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Living Tomorrow – our homes of the future
Bringing together contemporary interior product designers with high-tech companies, Living Tomorrow, a company from Belgium, show how life could be more comfortable and more energy efficient with their prototype ‘Houses of Tomorrow’. Designed for an age when the Earth’s fossil fuels would have run out, the house is totally run on two hydrogen fuel cells. [...]
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