ign London Pop-up Shop Showcases Best of British Design By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:01:35 -0500 Our friends over at the design blog Dezeen have launched a pop-up shop in the smartest part of town. Calling it Temporium, because it is only up for 10 days, it features the best of new British design. Full Article Design
ign The top 10 Urban Design stories of 2015 By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:19:21 -0500 Many of them seem to be about bikes and transportation though.... Full Article Design
ign Best of Show, Booth Design at Greenbuild: Kohler And Living Machine By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:29:02 -0400 The point of having a booth at Greenbuild is to attract attention, and like with everything else, design matters. I immediately fell in love with the Kohler booth; In some ways it is so 2005 green, with its recycled materials Full Article Design
ign Scottish architect's Design-Build company MAKAR is doing wonders with wood By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:02:55 -0500 MAKAR is doing the kind of work that puts North American architects and builders to shame. Full Article Design
ign The Shakers' Design Sense is Still an Influence in America By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:00:00 -0400 The Shakers may be long gone but their simplicity of design still has an influence on American furniture. Full Article Design
ign Event: Recycled Swimwear Designer Aaron Chang Opens Green Art Gallery By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:30:00 -0500 Image via: Aaron Chang Gallery Aaron Chang, popular recycled fashion swimwear designer and professional photographer, not to mention surfing legend, is opening a green art gallery in San Diego, February 28, 2009. Each of the pieces are printed with Full Article Design
ign On MNN: The year in urban design By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 11:26:42 -0500 Stories from TreeHugger's sister site about how streets are for people. Full Article Living
ign CupClub is a poster child for sustainable, circular design By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:28:04 -0400 It is a cup as service, rather than cup as product. Full Article Business
ign Speaker system is designed for deconstruction By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 11:13:56 -0500 Everybody should be doing this, planning for repairability from day one. Full Article Technology
ign Bank signs one contract, goes 100% renewable by EOY By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 06:30:02 -0500 Fifth Third Bank shows us just how easy it is becoming for corporations to source all of their electricity from renewables. Full Article Energy
ign Google's new HQ, designed by BIG and Thomas Heatherwick, says a lot about the company By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 07:59:44 -0500 If you want to attract good people these days you have to give them a nice place to work. Full Article Design
ign Montreal design studio exchanging free coworking space for food donations (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:58:09 -0500 You can work with other location independent workers and do some holiday good deeds at the same time. Full Article Living
ign Volkswagen designs "micromobiles" for life after traffic collapse By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:00:59 -0400 From scooters to cargo bikes, a bunch of alternatives to driving that car. Full Article Transportation
ign Arup designs a living wall scaffold for London renovation By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:12:15 -0400 It looks a lot better than the usual kind, cleans the air and absorbs noise. Full Article Design
ign Scientists just uncovered ancient signs of child labor By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:00:00 -0400 Kids have been digging in salt mines for thousands of years. Full Article Science
ign NY Design/ ICFF Preview: Patty Johnson By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 09 May 2013 14:17:00 -0400 The peripatetic international designer explains it all in Core77 Full Article Design
ign Save the trees! Sign up for Rainforest Alliance's 30-Day Sustainability Challenge By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:10:29 -0500 Get simple but powerful personal actions delivered to your inbox every 3 days; 30 actions in all – are you up to the challenge? Full Article Science
ign Anthony Thistleton: Sustainable design is over. It's time for Regenerative Design By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 08:32:15 -0400 It's not enough to not make things worse. Our buildings and our actions have to make things better. Full Article Design
ign This Month in Wallpaper*: Design Directory 2007 By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:28:00 -0400 This month's issue of Wallpaper* magazine is dominated by the 2007 Design Directory, their hand-picked favorite architects and designers from the past year. Always the epitome of cool, the mag's slick picks Full Article Design
ign Did Bucky Fuller really design a soccer ball? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:08:56 -0400 A lot of websites are saying so, but there is no evidence that it ever happened. Full Article Design
ign Beetle-Inspired Design Uses Old Plastic Bottles to Pull Water from the Air By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:00:00 -0400 A concept water bottle pulls water from the air like the Namib Desert Beetle. Full Article Design
ign Global treaty signed to ban HFC refrigerants By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:05:09 -0400 This is a very big deal, but just the first of many more bigger and harder deals that we need. Full Article Business
ign US and Canada Sign New Great Lakes Accord By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:22:00 -0400 It's been forty years since Nixon and Trudeau signed the original; it's time for an update. Full Article Business
ign It's time to ignore Instagram's portrayal of zero waste By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 20 May 2019 07:00:00 -0400 Too much DIY, not enough realism. Let's just do our best. Full Article Living
ign BrightBuilt Home introduces line of healthy, net-zero modular designs By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:11:00 -0400 A mix of modern and traditional design elements that are appropriate for the Northeast make these very interesting houses. Full Article Design
ign Towns in Maine declare food sovereignty with local ordinances By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 19 May 2016 10:00:00 -0400 In an effort to support local food production and defend customers' rights to buy and eat whatever local farm products they want, 16 towns in Maine have created their own local food ordinances. Full Article Living
ign Good luck finding Maine's Katahdin Woods and Waters; The governor has banned signs and directions. By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 23 May 2017 17:20:01 -0400 It's another national monument established by Obama and threatened by Trump. Full Article Business
ign GO Homes are predesigned, prefabricated, Passivhaus and possibly perfect By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:58:31 -0400 GO Logic have always designed beautiful homes. This was the next Go Logical step. Full Article Design
ign Experimental office space uses biophilic design to create a 'living lab' By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:24:11 -0500 Humanity's innate love for nature is integrated into this design for a biologically attuned and meditative workspace in London. Full Article Design
ign Designers used bacteria to make these textiles By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:50:52 -0500 This experiment may kickstart a new age of microorganism technology. Full Article Design
ign Closed or open kitchen? Charlotte Perriand's design is the best of both worlds By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:47:41 -0400 Lessons from the kitchens at Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation in Marseille. Full Article Design
ign How to design a compact kitchen By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 06:00:50 -0500 You really don't need all those big appliances. Full Article Design
ign Modern Oasis Design Provides Shade, Makes Energy By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 08:20:00 -0400 Artist/inventor Michael Jantzen's new concept for a Solar Winds Desert Power Plant envisions a large public gathering place, inspired by the shape of a flowering plant, to be located in a public park in a hot, dry climate. Full Article Energy
ign Brooklyn Fashion and Design Accelerator welcomes its first entrepreneurs By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:05:31 -0500 A new collaborative space dedicated to sustainable fashion design is now open for production. Full Article Living
ign Lovewild Designs crafts beautiful confetti and stationery that blooms By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:45:31 -0500 A sustainably-minded designer makes cards and paper coins that you can plant. Full Article Design
ign Czech Out This New Small Prefab Design From Architect Marek Štěpán. By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:01:00 -0400 The Freedomky is a nicely done modular design Full Article Design
ign The Fjällräven Kanken Rucksack, a Swedish Eco-Design Classic By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:44:08 -0400 Last month, my partner gave me a Fjällräven Kanken rucksack for my 30th birthday, and I have to tell you about it, as this is a classic amongst the eco-designs nowadays. I first spotted these slightly odd-looking bags in London many years ago, and Full Article Science
ign Why you should save for the real thing instead of buying knock-off designer furniture By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:59:59 -0400 It has become a trillion dollar industry where nobody wins. Full Article Design
ign Joris Laarman Lab shows the future of digital design By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:05:54 -0400 An exhibition of their work is at the Cooper Hewitt in New York. Full Article Design
ign Split design on sit-stand adjustable height desk lets you do both (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:43:10 -0400 This modern work desk lets more than one person sit and stand -- at the same time. Full Article Design
ign Scott Amron's Fruitwash Label Solves Huge Design Problem By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:00:00 -0400 It has challenged designers since the invention of the bar code: What to do about those stupid little labels? Full Article Design
ign Design competition for a New York Aquarium makes a splash By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 12 May 2016 12:42:56 -0400 But I am in the tank for the one that came in second Full Article Design
ign The City above the city: designing for preservation and intensification By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:37:40 -0400 A design competition that shows that we can have our cake and eat it too. Full Article Design
ign SkyCity Challenge: a design competition to figure out how to use the world's tallest prefab By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 08 May 2017 08:20:05 -0400 There are 17 atriums that need to be filled with creative uses. Full Article Design
ign Winners of the INDEX: Design to Improve Life Awards announced By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 07:32:00 -0400 They really do live up to their billing this year. Full Article Design
ign Lessons from Le Corbusier in sustainable design By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:28:18 -0400 Really, there is a lot to love about his work that applies to green building. Really. Full Article Design
ign How design decisions on materials are "disproportionately damning the world to further climate change" By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:59:02 -0400 Steve Webb thinks we should tax upfront carbon like cigarettes, and we should build in wood and stone. Full Article Design
ign How Design is Shaped by Purpose By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:00:00 -0400 Can products be better for people? Can buildings be better for the planet? Gradually, business is waking up to the fact that design can be beautiful and responsible. Full Article Design
ign 101 Tiny House Designs (Book Review) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 12:08:15 -0400 This book full of small space design ideas is a handy tool for those wanting to get their own tiny house built. Full Article Design
ign Paw Pods offer a dignified biodegradable burial option for pets By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 17:55:18 -0400 Our pets become like family to us during their lives, so why not treat them with the dignity that a family member deserves when they die? Full Article Living