“Catch of the Day,” a guerrilla ad-campaign sponsored by Surfrider Foundation to educate people at farmers’ markets about ocean pollution, immediately caught our eye at Cool Green Mag. Working with the ad giant Saatchi & Saatchi, real-life trash was collected from various beaches in America (the condoms are from Newport Beach, California), packaged to look like seafood and then offered at various farmers’ markets. A fairly powerful message from a simple juxtaposition. Sure, the [...]
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Living simply and sustainably: Six years ago, at ages 59 and 45, Jim and Mindy Phypers set out to build their own place on four acres in the Sonoran desert. On there website, www.solarhaven.org, Jim and Mindy display about 400 photographs, diagrams, and documents explaining how to build your own US$15.00 per square foot, ultra energy-efficient, self-sufficient, no utility cost, straw bale house! Here is the recipe: OVERALL DESIGN: Load-bearing straw bale, six courses of bales at the front, seven courses of [...] Small Footprint Homes Living Homes Builders is committed to building homes that are as healthy as possible minimizing their “ecological footprint” with respect to the resources they use for their construction, operation and eventual decommission. Homes built using traditional stick methods can be very unhealthy and extremely resource intensive. In contrast, Living Homes use sustainable, use healthier building materials and energy-efficient environmental systems and products. The first 2,500 square foot Living Home generated more than 22,000 pounds LESS waste during construction than [...] Drain Pipe Hotel When I travel I like to experience something new. I let go of my everyday “I know it all feeling” and try what ever the world has to offer. Usually when you’ve seen one hotel room, you have pretty much seen them all. Well here is a real new hotel room for you to experience in more than one way! Dasparkhotel is a hotel where the rooms are constructed from repurposed, incredibly robust drain pipes. The external simplicity surrounds [...] Habitat Earth Earthship is a company that has put together a book that will tell you everything you need to know if you want to build your own house totally out of recycled materials like used tires and cans. This is also a house that can function almost 100% off the grid. I read this on their website and I think it says it all: “We must realize that we, the users of the vessel (the home), are part of the [...] |
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