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DIY Water and Energy Savings in a Box

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:00:01 +0000

The folks at Berkeley, California’s Boost Labs came up with the concept of do-it-yourself water and energy savings solutions when they were looking for easy to install, simple to use products for their own homes. Their search resulted in some … Read More...

Industrial Planter System Hangs Out Indoors Too

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:34:06 +0000

It’s winter, in some areas it’s indoor planting time. Don’t have enough space? No problem. I recently came across California designer, Eric Trine, who describes himself as “a maker of things.” He’s created this wonderful handcrafted mountable planter system … Read More...

Inside Peek at O’Hare Airport’s Vertical Farm

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:00:56 +0000

Photo: Future Growing

After traveling a lot for the majority of my career, airport delays are usually not something I get excited about. However, a recent (cancelled) trip from Columbus, Ohio to my home in Chicago (and a resulting wait … Read More...

Upcycled Furniture From Reclaimed Pipes

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:49:08 +0000

I’m smitten by Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek’s imaginative use of salvaged pipes upcycled into chairs and benches. They could be fabulous out in the garden or in the right indoor space.

The tube chairs and benches are made from … Read More...

Bird Apartment with Rooftop Pool

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:38:47 +0000

For fine feathered friends who wish to entertain on the their rooftops…a little design humor from Canadian designer Judson Beaumont of Straight Lines Designs.

Indoor-Outdoor Quadrant Table

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:36:53 +0000

The scored, cross axial lines of the Quadrant table from Brooklyn, NY company, Material Process Systems, can be used to orient the axis of your garden while the center basin can be filled with plants, stones, or water to … Read More...

Grass Growing PicNYC Table

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:05:37 +0000

picNYC table is a grass-topped table that, according to its designer “brings the rural picnic into the urban residence.”

Haiko Cornelissen, a Dutch architect with offices in Amsterdam and New York, cultivated the idea to bring one step … Read More...

Urban Parking Lot Doubles as Green Exhibition Space

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:11:12 +0000

At the intersection of architecture and art, architects Cheung and Vogl have designed a concept for a two-story concrete combination parking lot, street art museum, and public green space.

Shinjuku Gardens, in Tokyo, would feature layered soft-clad grass walls to … Read More...

What is Santa’s Carbon Footprint?

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:00:31 +0000

Sources: snopes.com; Nashua Telegraph; energy.cs; rivertown.patch.com; theguardian.co.uk; plantetgreen.com; carbonfund.org; eia.gov; greenblizzard.com; CIA World Factbook; New York Times; nike.com

via Ethical Ocean

Biophilia–it’s Catching!

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:00:39 +0000

Artist Daniel Goers, whose Scrap Ecology botanical sculptures we recently featured, runs Autumn Workshop, a Brooklyn, New York design fabrication studio where he works with “the idea of biophilia (a natural bond between humans and other living systems) and … Read More...