Tagged environment

Are you still wearing this old-fashioned T-shirt? Is it your grandma's or what?- the pressure from society to buy new 'trendy' clothes is stronger than you think. We don't buy clothes, because we need them, we ...

The ice caps are currently melting, forests are on fire and our planet is rapidly facing the consequences of climate change. For the sake of the entire human race, it’s imperative to make immediate and firm s...

Harvesting electricity from the sun, lowering the building's energy demand, the geometry of the facade creating shade where needed, these are the features creating the basic ECO-DNA of the Vertical Oasis Buil...

When you’re getting started in the green living world, it can be daunting to know how to make the switch. That’s why we’ve done the research for you and covered off on 10 key places to start. Read on to b...

The fashion industry is a huge one - it ranks among the biggest and the most expansive industries. It exemplifies the cut-throat pace of events in the world today; the rate at which clothing trends change is in...

At this year’s Dutch Design Week, Studio Marco Vermeulen built the Biobasecamp, a pavilion that gives architectural expression to the contribution that ‘building with trees’ can make to reducing the amoun...

Corporate cleanliness can be defined in a number of ways. You could be talking about the presentation of a company’s office space, or the impact that the business has on the environment. Other times the word ...

The cigarette butt is one of the biggest underestimated polluter of our soils, waters and oceans. This interactive art installation created by environmental artist Thijs Biersteker makes the impact of one cigar...

+ POOL Light is a public art installation in NYC’s Harbor designed by Playlab Inc. and Family New York in collaboration with Floating Point. The project visualizes the conditions of NYC’s waterways through ...

Environmental impact is one of the biggest global topics right now with scientists urging people and businesses to make changes in their daily lives to reduce damage. Additionally, there are constantly new regu...

The world is evolving into a more environmentally-friendly community and with good reason. Choosing materials for any task in life is an important one in regards to the sustainability for anything we use. You ...

Three young Singapore-based designers, Lim Jing Jie, Tommy Cheong and Kevin Yeo, have created a one of its kind reusable straw. Instead of having what looks like a long, metal pole sticking out of your pockets,...

London-based architectural and urban design firm ecoLogicStudio, led by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, unveils Photo.Synth.Etica, a large-scale installation, designed for their first collaboration with Cli...

Amsterdam-based architects Angelo Renna has conceived a 90-meters high artificial ‘Sponge Mountain’ in order to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. The idea is to reuse the soil excavated from the constructio...

Designer Simon Hjermind Jensen of SHJworks has unveiled ‘Biotope’, an experiment to understand how a microcosm of plants and insects can survive when sited at an exposed and harsh urban location. Located in...

Currently, there are more than 29.000 objects larger than 10 centimeters floating around the earth. It is space waste; parts of rockets and satellites. This waste can damage our satellites, with collisions crea...

Italian start-up Kloters has unveiled RepAir, a generdelss cotton t-shirt that cleans two cars worth of pollution from the air. The t-shirt cleans the air thanks to an insert made of ‘the Breath’, a patent...

Irish architect Declan Scullion of de Siún Scullion Architects has designed 5CUBE, a pavilion that physically represents the volume of oil consumed every five minutes in Ireland. The volume represents 473 ...