Acadia, by Anthony Marschak is a unique direction in table design. A blackened steel base supports a unique top made of reclaimed wood.
The Live Edge of two slabs face inwards reminiscent of the fault lines of California.
At $5,000-$8,000, it’s not too cheap but damn cool. Available at Modern Bamboo.
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Question - if you were stuck on a desert island, what would you rather have - An iPod Touch or a Self Powered MP3/Video Player?
Now replace “stuck on a desert island” with “stuck with no battery life” and you will greatly appreciate the Eco Media Player. The Eco Media Player features a hand crank for just those occasions. According to Eco Media, 1 minute of winding gives you 40 minutes of listening pleasure! You can also use it to charge up said iPod touch or a cell phone. Let’s here it for eco-superiority.
It’s available at Ecodigital and at £129.95, it’s a bargain. Just hurry up and get it before the dollar depreciates any more!
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Sometimes you just need to use disposable plates and utensils - like that 4th of July bbq where you had more guests than real plates. Well you don’t have to feel guilty anymore!
These plates, cups, and bowls are made of compostable sugar cane fiber which is a byproduct of the sugar making process. These are 100% biodegradable and since the byproduct sugar cane fiber is ususally burned to dispose of it, this is a win-win situation.
Reasonably priced and available at Branch.
As a side note, the term “biodegradable” is pretty complex but I guess it’s fancier than “decayable” or “rotable” althought I do think “rotable” kind of rolls of the tongue.
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Tonight the Washington Nationals face off against the Atlanta Braves in the first green U.S. ballpark. Completed just in time for opening day, the ballpark will surely become one of the most traveled LEED structures in the world. The ballpark’s Silver LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - rating is due to the park’s:
This is an exciting time for mainstream LEED architecture. A new Mets stadium, also set to be LEED certified, will open for the 2009 season.
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It’s a great feeling to know that Google is getting into it. I strongly feel that they are one of the most influential forces in the world right now. Hopefully Earth Hour can tip a great sea of change.
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Earth Hour is happening this Saturday at 8PM. What started as a citywide event in Sydney, Australia, is now a worldwide event. Last year, the residents of Syndey turned their lights off for an hour at 8PM to demonstrate solidarity toward the growing environmental problem of climate change.
My town has signed on for it and the beach town down the road is having an Earth Hour Bonfire - now that seems like a much better time than sitting home and watching the boobtube.
Check out this video, narrated by Jeremy Piven, and visit Earth Hour
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Back in 1993, Markus and Daniel Freitag decided to start making designer, functional messenger bags and accessories in Switzerland and the rest is history. All the accessories and bags you’ll find at Freitag are made using post-consumer recycled materials:
The coolest part is you can go to their website and design your own bag from different truck tarps. Check out our greenwix design shenanigans:
Special Thanks to Tellos for this great find. If you have any suggestions if your own, send them our way please!
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Luxim has developed a new lightbulb that’s about the size of a christmas light but heats to over 6000 degrees Kelvin (10,000 degrees Fahrenheit).
With great heat comes great responsibility - this little christmas light can generate more light than a streetlight. They have received over $400 million in venture capital funds which kind of proves that this green revolution is not a fad. So to revise the hierarchy:
For a cool video, check this out:
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Here’s an interesting gadget from British inventor Tom Lawton that uses wind power to generate electricity to power a lamp. Thankfully, all that functionality is included in a single, stand-alone device…just hang it up and you’re ready to enjoy the forthcoming “glow” (judging by the video, light would seemingly be a bit of an overstatement). Nevertheless, a cool gadget that requires surprisingly little wind (~3mph) to work.
Definitely worth considering if you’re looking for some outdoor mood-lighting. They’re taking pre-orders now for around $200 and will ship late summer.
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Scientists at Swansea University in the UK have come up with a new way of capturing solar energy by applying photovoltaic “paint” to steel surfaces. Now, we’ve seen print-on solar, so let’s take it a step further and scale out a bit.
This paint-on solution is not quite as efficient (offering about 5% efficiency for the sun’s input energy), but it is certainly a bit easier to implement. Another “limitation” if you will, is the need for a steel surface, which is not a very common building material for single homes, but is used extensively in commercial buildings. Think giant warehouses, that are usually very expensive (monetarily and environmentally) to keep lit, climate controlled…etc.
“Corus Colours produces around 100 million square metres of steel building cladding a year. If this was treated with the photovoltaic material, and assuming a conservative 5% energy conversion rate, then we could be looking at generating 4,500 gigawatts of electricity through the solar cells annually. That’s the equivalent output of roughly 50 wind farms.” (Dr. Woolsey, the man in charge)
No word yet on cost of production, or what the actual manufacturing method (other than paint applied to rollers applied to steel) for this product will be, but it should be quite interesting in the future. What about charging up your Prius while it sits in the parking lot? Sports stadiums, cargo ships…lots of possibilities here.
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