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SCAD student creates waterless sand-removal system using Astroturf and bamboo

Posted by DeshRaj on 21/11/2009

Designed by Casper Krouse, a senior industrial design student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, the system (pictured above) uses collected rainwater, a mat of bamboo poles and AstroTurf. The design-work is the part of a project that asks...

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Eco artists change Houstans poor recycling image with their creations

Posted by AditiJ on 20/11/2009

Not until Divya Murthy and Nicola Parente attended the Systems of Sustainability: Art, Innovation, Action (SOS) conference held at University of Houston, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts last spring, did they realize that their idea of...

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Colin Lin reuses discarded newspapers to create eco-friendly shoes and tote bags

Posted by DeshRaj on 20/11/2009

Designer Colin Lin, 50, chanced upon a brilliant idea of creating eco-friendly footwear and tote bags using recycled newspaper. The Taiwanese designer recycles Chinese language newspapers and weaves them into a lattice pattern. In order to endow...

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Oberthur Technologies intros EcoSIM - The First Eco-friendly SIM Card

Posted by DeshRaj on 17/11/2009

Oberthur Technologies introduces the worlds first patented eco-friendly SIM card called the EcoSIM. Being only half the size of a regular SIM, it naturally brings the use of plastic down by 50%. Since recycled paper, PEFC, and FSC certified...

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David de Rothschild has high hopes with his catamaran made of recycled plastic

Posted by AditiJ on 16/11/2009

David de Rothschild hopes to sail out the Golden Gate and across the Pacific to Sydney Harbor in his magnificent 60-foot catamaran made completely from recycled plastic. Dubbed as Plastiki, the high-profile project from the 31-year-old eco-celebrity..

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