Well over one billion cellphones are manufactured each year, and their environmental footprint is huge. But most of the energy expended on a cellphone happens during manufacturing — not during use. Unlocking slows the pathway from cradle to grave.
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When is a pet bowl, not just any pet bowl? When it’s a BambuBowl by
Loving Pets – a pet food bowl made from a lightweight, renewable,
recyclable material that you won’t have to recycle for a long, long
time….
Okay so this whole thing isn’t ideal, but it’s also not as bad as it sounds. Basically on Tuesday there were two Navy AV-8B Harrier fighter jets that had launched from the USS Bonhomme Richard aircraft carrier and were doing a training exercise. They planned to drop bombs on Townshend Island bombing range, but were told by controllers that the area wasn’t clear. The problem was that they didn’t have enough fuel to land with such heavy loads. So they, you know, unloaded. Right onto the Barrier Reef.
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We think of flowers as some of the most delicate creations in nature. We think of bone as hard and durable. Japanese artist Hideki Tokushige disagrees with that traditional separation, and in his spellbinding Bone Flowers (Honebana), he shows that artistic brilliance can turn flowers into stone and bone into silk.
Confetti is a fun part of entertaining and celebrating that has been around for a long time. The problem is that in this day of recycling and going green it can seem like such a waste. The idea has evolved and you can now get Growfetti instead. These die-cast shapes are made out of biodegradable paper that has been infused with wildflower seeds. They can be recycled simply by being planted in your yard.
Marcus Daly is a Washington-based carpenter on a mission: to produce the most environmentally friendly handcrafted wooden caskets he can. This short film, by Dan McComb, reveals the beauty of his work.
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This series of ANICASE iPhone covers demonstrates how a great product invention can arise from a good cause. Can philanthropic ideals launch your ideas as well?
In Japan, bicycles are a popular mode of transportation and are great for a place like metropolitan Tokyo because they don’t need much space, don’t cost money to keep, they don’t pollute the air, unlike automobiles.
You will see a lot of bicycles parked everywhere here. Since there are many bikes, there are also various problems including a lack of bicycle parking spaces and bicycle theft. Also, especially during the morning commute, bicycle parking lots near stations get really crowded so that you need to line up to park your bicycle and it will take a lot of time. If you choose to park it on the street, it will be towed because it’s illegal.
To solve these issues, Giken invented a secure, smooth, space-saving underground bicycle parking system called ECO Cycle.
With ECO Cycle, what you need to do for parking your bicycle is set a device with a tag with an IC chip in it to your bicycle’s wheel beforehand, and set the bicycle and press the Start button at the entrance of ECO Cycle, and then it will be taken to the underground area. To get your bicycle back, hold your own IC card over the card reader at the entrance. Your bicycle will show up in front of you in about 13 seconds.
Please check out the video from Culture Japan:
It often seems that the modern generation of artists has become obsessed with using the most outlandish or unusual materials to create their work. Richard Shilling chooses to return to the literal roots of art and uses the elements of the natural world to inspire awareness and delight the senses.
Much has been made over the past few centuries of the amazing quality of the stringed instruments created by the Stradivarius family. Speculation still rages about exactly how the amazing instruments were made. However, there is a new contention for the most valuable instruments out there. They are the instruments belonging to a group of young musicians from Paraguay who perform together as the Landfill Harmonic Orchestra. Their instruments are made from the trash that they live with every day.
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