An eco-friendly brush that calculates the plastic you have saved from the trash
Toothbrushes are infamously difficult to recycle; their plastic bodies paired with the silicone over molds make the materials a challenge to separate, resulting in them…
Sustainable Design
Nike’s new free Circular Design Guide helps designers embrace sustainability
We’ve all seen those memes about how our CO2 levels are at the highest they’ve been in 3 million years, and that we’re going to…
These grooved cork discs act as coasters as well as air-tight container-lids
Nominated as a finalist for the prestigious James Dyson Award, the Montados are a set of lid/coaster hybrids made from recycled cork. Its unusual grooved…
The Humla Forestry Drone is a forest planner’s best friend
Forest planning is quite literally, from especially the scale of the task, a very difficult job. A handful of planners are required to cover massive…
The Birò O2 is the only car to be made from more than 80% recycled plastic
Apparently, in just 31 years, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. It’s an incredibly scary statistic, given how many fish exist…
Clairy’s Planter/Purifier keeps the house green and the air clean
It’s pretty commonly known that plants have a way of cleansing the air we breathe. A forest has much healthier air than a busy intersection,…
This innovative composting crate can repair the earth’s soil
Earth. We’ve literally named our planet after the soil beneath us (even though the 75% of the planet’s surface area is water), yet with time,…
Here’s an Innovative Little Grip That Helps You Easily Sprout Avocado Seeds
If you’ve seen enough food and craft videos on Facebook, you know that the correct way to sprout an avocado (or most seeds, tubers, roots,…
‘Mesa’ Combines a Planter and Hand-held Vacuum Into a Surprisingly Elegant Solution!
One’s designed to hold dirt, the other’s designed to eliminate dirt. Sam Lavoie says there’s no reason the two of them can’t get along! The…
Recycled cork, bison fiber, rice rubber are just some of the eco-friendly elements used in this shoe!
We go out of our way to be more considerate of the environment, whether this is by wasting less produce or being conscious of the…
This flower-vase is also a fire-extinguisher
As useful as they are, fire-extinguishers are also designed to be too utilitarian and technical. They’re stored in attics and store-rooms, because they aren’t particularly…
A lamp with a herb-garden? Yes please!
Providing a lovely dim light to your space as well as photons for a tiny kitchen-garden, the Brot is a lamp and planter combined into…
This colorful, marbled speaker is made from non-recyclable plastic waste
While plastic waste, to a certain degree, can be recycled, it’s just a small percentage of the total waste out there. Certain polymers grow past…
The pavement of the future turns your footsteps into electrical energy!
I vividly remember a video by David Guetta back in the day. The song was called Alphabeat (a melodic masterpiece, honestly) and it showed off…
Volvo is 3D printing mangrove-textured tiles to save our oceans
An unlikely yet enthusiastic new member of the save-the-oceans movement is the Swedish carmaker Volvo. Committed to the concept of ‘omtanke’, the Swedish word for…
Ochis Coffee Sunglasses: Turning a hot beverage into hot eyewear!
A little less than two and a half million cups of coffee are consumed every day. Just by that statistic, we generate 34 million kilograms…