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Tag: Green Design

  • Earthship Workshop with Michael Reynolds – Hollywood

    Two-day multimedia hands-on Earthship Biotecture Workshop in Hollywood, California led by internationally renown Earthship creator, Michael Reynolds. Covering a wide-range of topics, both pragmatic and philosophical, the popular sessions have been presented throughout the world, most recently in Australia, Toronto and Philadelphia.

  • Carbon Sponge Could Absorb Coal Emissions

    This press release today brings potentially good news concerning the reduction of GHG emissions from coal-powered energy plants. Emissions from coal power stations could be drastically reduced by a new, energy-efficient material that adsorbs large amounts of carbon dioxide, then releases it when exposed to sunlight. In a study published today in Angewandte Chemie, Monash University…

  • Modular Products from Reclaimed Wood: Pop-Up Office

    Built out of reclaimed wood palette boards, separate modules collectively form the modern work place, facilitating both individual work and collaboration. Our designers claim the result is a workspace that is simultaneously bare bones and tailored to the individual. In sinuous forms, the reclaimed boards morph from wall and floor planes into furniture elements.

  • Water Purification Tablet for Developing World: U.Va. Nonprofit Organization – PureMadi

    The design allows a user to pour water from an untreated source, such as a river or well, into the pot and allow it to filter through into a five-gallon bucket underneath. The pot has a flow rate of one to three liters per hour, enough for drinking and cooking. The filtered water is accessed…

  • Depp Helps Publish Woody Guthrie’s Long Lost Novel about Natural Building

    We came across this post from Rhonda Winter at Ecolocalizer concerning Woody Guthrie’s writing about natural building. Depp Helps Publish Woody Guthrie’s Long Lost Novel about Natural Building (via EcoLocalizer)   In 1947 Woody Guthrie wrote House of Earth, a fictional story about struggling young sharecroppers, poverty and building sustainably with dirt and natural ingredients.…