La Pell – How green is this local leather design project?
Leather packaging design by Sebastian Vecchio and Guillem Ferran.
Leather might not seem the most treehugger-liked material, but like with any material, it depends how you use it, where it comes from and what processes it has undergone. A few craftsmen and designers in Catalonia, Spain, got together and created some beautiful pieces to promote certain local trades (in this case the leather production) to prevent them from disappearing in the region due to the pressure of cheaper products from China or elsewhere. The project is called La Pell, which means the skin …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Declaring our love for the Best Green Valentines Around the Blogosphere
Love is the air as Valentine’s Day approaches this weekend. And while we regularly show our appreciation for all the other amazing green bloggers out there on TH Blog Love, at this time of year it seems even more appropriate to declare our feelings! Over on Planet Green we want to see if you feel the same with Sara Novak’s Green Valentine’s Quiz and here on TreeHugger we’ve quickened pulses with Emma Grady’s 10 Sexy & Sustainable Ling…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Become a Rich Person with a Seed Safe by Martí Guixé
Alessi has just launched a new product by Spanish designer Martí Guixé; the Seed Safe. It is a beautiful jar, dedicated to collect the seeds from vegetables and fruits we eat so that they can be planted instead of thrown away or composted. Guixé, who has a thing for seeds (see the Plant Me Pet), believes that the Seed Safe is a must in every home, and since “seeds are in some way more valuable than money”, planting those…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Valentine’s Day Gift Guide: How Green Is Your Love?
Photo via Frey Wines
Whether you’re a longtime duo marking a milestone anniversary this year, a pair of starry-eyed newlyweds still in honeymoon mode, or one-half of a brand new couple facing your first Valentine’s Day, it’s time to start making plans for February 14–but that doesn’t mean settling for faded roses and drugstore chocolate. Instead, use our green gift guide to find sustainable alternatives to classic gifts–from jewelry and wine to lingerie and, yes, even chocolate.
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The Leopoldo Urban Vegetable Garden becomes a Therapeutic Tool
Image by Leopoldo
For many years now (read our first article about Leopoldo in 2005), this Catalan design is appearing in more and more homes, restaurants, galleries and other spaces in need of green and locally grown food. It changed in size and colour, and another interesting aspect of the Leopoldo Urban Vegetable Garden is its use in hospitals. The flat-pack recyclable steel structure with its black recycled planters…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Ronen Kadushin’s LYTA Chair: lightweight and 100% recyclable
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What makes a chair eco-friendly? Well, it takes quite a lot of things such as recyclability, reduced weight, longevity, both technically and emotionally, and the possibility to repair it before tossing it away. An eco-friendly chair cannot be thrown out because of a broken leg, or a wine stain. It seems that Israeli-born, Berlin-based designer Ronen Kadushin has archived these requirements in his LYTA chair. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Nimli Offers 20% Off Online Eco Marketplace
Image via Nimli.
Today’s TreeHugger Deal$ comes from Nimli, a comprehensive and eco online shopping site. It offers everything from shoes (men’s and women’s) to beauty products to home decor and so much more from independent designers who combine their effortless creativity with our environmentally c…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Play Golf and Feed the Fish with Ecobioball
Our seas and oceans are badly contaminated, especially with plastic waste, which affects animals and plants in the waters. Jeremy wrote in The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Out of Sight, Out of Mind that “the floating expanse of waste and debris in the Pacific Ocean is now covering an area twice the size of the continental U.S. believed to hold almost 100m tons of flotsam, this vast “plastic soup” stretches 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan”. Between 40% and 60% of the waste collecte…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Best of Inhabitat: Last Minute Tips for a Green Christmas!
Photo credit: George Eastman House
‘Twas the day before Christmas Eve, when all through the prefab home
Not one person was ready, not even this gnome;
They’d been busy working and studying and living
Seems like only a second had passed since Thanksgiving!
But they knew they still wanted a green holiday
So they prepared to celebrate consc…Read the full story on TreeHugger
A-Listers Help with your Holiday Shopping, Charlize Theron Pairs with TOMS, and More
Photo via TreeHugger
Forget those same old gift cards, scented candles, and body lotions: for the pickiest people on your gift list, Farm Sanctuary’s “Peace for the Animals” Holiday Auction offers one-of-a-kind experiential gifts that also fund the organization’s efforts to rescue farm animals.
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