Design
This firm is designing earthquake-proof homes in Indonesia using bamboo
In 2018, a series of earthquakes struck the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing 560 people. The area was reduced to rubble and hundreds of thousands were displaced. Near the epicenter, most buildings were destroyed, in part because of poor concrete construction. A new project in the area aims to Read More...
This is how Ikea plans to be climate positive by 2030
If you live in Sydney, Australia, and want to get rid of an old Ikea chair or bookcase, you can take it back to your local Ikea store, which will buy it back from you and resell it to help it avoid ending up in a landfill. The program, along with programs for furniture leasing that the brand is Read More...
These sustainable zip-off shoes are meant to reduce emissions and purchases
While it's nice to own multiple styles of shoes, each one of the things has a big rubber sole that will ultimately end up in the landfill. On top of that, each pair’s production adds to the footwear industry’s environmental footprint, which is equivalent to the amount of carbon emitted by 80 Read More...
This winery used rusty oil drilling pipes to create a solar-powered barn
Winemakers in California have given unexpected new life to old oil field drill stem pipes, using them to create an equipment barn covered in solar panels. The use of the rusty oil pipes gives the barn a bit of steampunk vibe, fitting in nicely amongst the rolling vineyard-lined hills. But beyond Read More...
World’s first vegan football club to build a stadium made entirely out of timber
Praised to be the greenest and first vegan football club in the world, there are many things the Forest Green Rovers have done in a bid to make the sport more sustainable. Now, the planet-friendly football team is preparing to take it even further by building the world’s first wooden football Read More...
This low-cost 3D-printed prosthetic arm provides feedback to its users
Creating prosthetics that are low-cost and capable of providing feedback to the brain is a massive challenge, but a student at the University of Leeds seems to have pulled it off. For his final year project in the Product Design bachelors, Lorenzo Spreafico created a 3D-printed arm that Read More...
This biodegradable plastic substitute is made out of fish waste
As the quest to find a viable planet-friendly alternative to plastic continues, a bioplastic made of organic fish waste has landed its UK designer a prestigious international award and a £30,000 prize. Lucy Hughes, a graduate in product design from the University of Sussex, scooped the James Read More...
This brilliant system turns food waste into natural pigments for paints and dyes
Many of the artificial pigments that are used to color clothing or to produce paints can be toxic. That’s why a graduate of the Imperial College London has designed a system called Kaiku that turns plants into powdered paint pigments that can replace artificial pigments. Using vaporization Read More...
Tall wooden buildings are popping up around the world. Here’s why that’s good
The tallest wooden building the world has ever seen just completed construction in Norway, standing at a total height of 85.4 meters. Surely some of you are wondering whether or not that’s a fire hazard, but while it would have been worrisome to build towering structures out of wood in the Read More...
Hedonistic sustainability: this clean energy plant doubles as a ski slope
How do you make a waste-to-energy plant a more appealing proposition to the public? How about putting an artificial ski slope on top of it? In Copenhagen, Denmark, city officials recently opened the “cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world”, capable of converting 440,000 tons of Read More...