5:10 am in cool but ugly, Design & Architecture, designers, materials, prefab, recycled, recycled building materials, sustainablility, urban life by TreeHugger
Photo: B. Alter
The original
Festival of Britain in 1951 was a huge celebration of British culture, design, art, science and ingenuity. Now
its 60 year anniversary is being celebrated on the banks of the Thames in London.
But these are different times and one of the keynotes of the exhibits is a recognition of sustainability and environmentalism in the future. Hence the urban fox on patrol...
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10:01 am in california, Cars & Transportation, recycled building materials, recycling, san francisco, transportation by TreeHugger
Road being repaired the old (slower, more polluting, more expensive) way
Image: Grand Canyon NPS
A green technique for pothole repair is on the rise in California: "Cold In-Place Recycling" is
not all that new, but the Bay Area has been adopting it in recent months, from
San Francisco up
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3:34 pm in china, Design & Architecture, dogs, pets, recycled building materials, upcycling by TreeHugger
Image: blog.sina.com
I'm a little late posting this, but it's just as irresistible as when the pictures first came out: an old refrigerator recycled into a dog house for a puppy that had nowhere to sleep.
Inhabitat reports that the
Y-town folks in China have been designing furniture from recycled fridges (and other recycled materials, including electronic waste) for years, so when they offered Chuichui a home but...
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10:35 am in designers, recycled, recycled building materials, united states by TreeHugger
Photos: Unite Two Design
For those who find the relentless uniformity of modern, mass-produced furniture tedious (and not to mention
environmentally unfriendly), there's always the option of furnishings that are made from recycled materials, like these pieces by the resourceful American trio
Unite Two Design. Combining unlikely elements of rustic with the industrial, Unite Two Design's distinctive furniture is handcrafted from farm beams that are reclaimed locally,...
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4:47 am in chairs, cool but ugly, Design & Architecture, designers, dining room, furniture, recycled building materials, tables by TreeHugger
Photo: madeinpeckham
First spotted at the
Clerkenwell Design Festival, Made in Peckham furniture turns out to be the work of a creative design studio called Hendzel and Hunt who take an experimental approach to their furniture design.
Hendzel and Hunt make
all of their tables, cabinets and chairs out of wood found in their little 'hood in south London. To add to the fun, recently they held a 24-hour design...
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9:44 am in 100 mile diet, bathroom, composting, decorating, Design & Architecture, designers, dining room, energy efficiency, food, Food & Health, food miles, green building, interiors, leed, local food, materials, recycled building materials, restaurant, shelving, spain, storage, toilets by TreeHugger
Image Credit: Fastvínic
The other day I had a delicious
local sandwich in the fabulous new space
Fastvínic in Barcelona. It seems the Catalan capital has finally got a place where
fast slow food meets good design (and not hippyness). What's on the menu? Sandwiches. What's around you? Beautiful <...
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Photos: Le Porc Shop.
Mexican design studio Le Porc Shop has a cool project called UFO (Unknown Folk Object): a workshop in which the designers work with people to design items with wood leftovers from their shop.
As the process is intuitive and without much plan, the result is a series of objects that are uneven but intriguing in their own way, and which expose the recovered materials they're made of....Read the full story on TreeHugger
ReVision bar stool made with 200 plastic bags. Photo: courtesy Artists of Humanity
From Artists of Humanity comes an innovative design that turns more than 200 plastic shopping, dry-cleaning or newspaper bags into a colorful plastic bar stool, called "ReVision."
Made by inner-city youth in Boston, Massachusetts, the stools received the Social Responsibility Award by the 
Photo:
Photos: Paula Alvarado.
Illegally located between major tourist hubs and one of the most upscale neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, the shanty town 
