Wire and Twine present: 50 Ways to help the planet. Fantastic! And they actually made 3 products specific to helping the planet.
eco picnic set
I am having major case of spring fever. Can’t wait to have picnics… This Eco Picnic Set will come in handy. Fitted into a jute bag with Life’s a Picnic print are plates, cups, glasses, cutlery and napkins – all fully biodegradable/compostable. In the bag are 4 or 8 plates, hot drink cups, glasses, napkins and sets of cutlery, held in place with a removable divider.
green dimes helps you stop junk mail
For a meager $20 GreenDimes promises to take me (and up to 8 other names at your address) off junk mail lists far and wide, including credit card offers, bank offers, and charitable solicitations. According to the blogs, users proclaim that they now go several days without receiving any mail at all.The only thing they can’t do is stop mail from companies I already have a relationship with, but this does not include catalogs. They can stop those at any time for no extra charge! In fact, they’ll even plant a tree for every catalog you cancel. Do you really need any more incentive? Stop Junkmail for Good
How Green is Your Printer?
By now everyone knows that routinely printing out e-mails or Web pages is a waste of paper and ink — and thus, of money. Now Xerox wants to persuade customers that it is also an assault on the environment. Xerox’s new tool can calculate the carbon footprint of printers and copiers…
How Green Is Your Printer? By Claudia H Deutsch
Uhm, is it just me but using a printer is simply NOT green. Period. ?
a serious toy
OPPS are Global Warning Toys and there are four characters in the group. First is “Bhzt” – which wants to come in at night an unplug all your electronics cause he has a serious electricity addiction. Second is “Spsh” – he is here to add a little green to your home. He is a planter in waiting. Third is “Blug” – he makes you think about your water consumption. Lastly is ” Hunh” – he is the strongest of the group. They claim he can actually stop a car. Just place this under your wheels and bike to work.
Via Jennifer of minor details who I had the pleasure to meet yesterday! In the middle of our lunch conversation I screamed, pointed to her index finger and said: THE TATOO! I completely forgot that she’s the lady with the ingenious moustache tatoo. I posted about it a while back here. (please note: I am NOT into tatoos at all, but this, is fabulous!)
Green Basics: Carbon Footprint
This post over on Treehugger helps you understand the Carbon Footprint. Green Basics: Carbon Footprint, by Collin Dun, provides a couple of ideas on how to reduce yours.
paper or plastic?
For those of that have put the few seconds to think about whether to choose plastic or paper, and which is better, this WashingtonPost article can answer that for you.
(thank you dana)
storyofstuff.com
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
(thank you Ilan)
When Santa Turned Green
In When Santa Turned Green
(via nesting)
grocery store wars
(via pan-dan)
staple free stapler
Staples are history! You’ll never have to run out of them again. The Staple Free Stapler cuts out tiny strips of paper and uses the strips to stitch up to 3 pieces of paper together. Environmentally friendly.
USBCELL- Rechargable Batteries Reinvented
Moixa energies are the makers of USBCELL
(via ecofriend)
That Green Thing.
Green Thing is a newly launched, not for profit community site. The idea is to unite people against climate change by making it easy and enjoyable to be a bit greener, with the help of London’s creative industries. Every month you get a different Green Thing to do – October’s is ‘walk once’.
Each month, Green Thing displays user-generated content (videos, photos, songs) which shows how people have done the Green Thing that month.
Collaborated to this project companies such as: PHD (Media Planning), Pentagram and Interbrand (brand identity), PR firms Shine, Cake, Bite and Mission Media (Pr and WOM). BigMouthMedia, Agency.com, Glue, Agency Republic, AKQA, Headshift and LBi are all bringing the ideas to life online.
(thank you sarah)
biodegradable utensils
Biodegradable utensils: This range of biodegradable utensils is good to look at, better for your waste disposal & great for the planet. The range is made out of Potato starch, Cornstarch & wheat. It is as tough as they come & can resist even temperatures in a microwave.
ecolect | a sustainable materials community
I am happy to learn that Ecolect.net just launched. It is a site that answers three questions:
1. Where do I find sustainable materials?
2. What makes them sustainable?
3. Who else is using them and how?
They’re having a launch party on Thursday to tie in with the IDSA CONNECTING conference.
Solar-powered ‘Energy Bucket’ collects sunshine
Wouldn’t it be great if you could store just a little bit of sunlight for a rainy day? That’s what designer Stefano Merlo thougt, and while actually storing sunlight might just be a bit too difficult, his solar-powered Energy Bucket, might just be the next best thing.
Inhabitat :: Solar-powered ‘Energy Bucket’ collects sunshine
(via bblinks)
green guilt
A survey by the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. in Atlanta recently found that 20% of Americans experienced so-called green guilt.
The ‘Guilty Green’ (gasp!) don’t always recycle
Beauty Engineered for Ever
Wow, this is my kind of cleaning product packaging design. Big large type! Hooray! B_E_E, a New Zealand-based company has created a full line of environmentally-friendly cleaning supplies that they claim will stand up with the best of the bunch — both eco-friendly and otherwise.
(via josh spear)
biodegradable milk jugs
Designed and manufactured in Britain, Greenbottle is a biodegradable milk bottle that uses a smart two-part system to aid recycling. The bottles are composed of a cardboard outer manufactured from pulped, recycled cardboard, which is lined with an inner sleeve of biodegradable plastic made from corn starch. The plastic keeps the cardboard from becoming soggy, and the cardboard makes for easy transport, storage and pouring. Once the bottle is empty, the inner sleeve can be pulled out and will decompose in a landfill within six weeks. The cardboard outer can be put out for recycling with other paper or thrown in with kitchen and garden waste for home composting.
(via springwise)
solar helicopter
The rotor blades of this wooden helicopter go round in the sunshine. Great for demonstrating solar power in action – in the shade the blades stop turning. Cool!