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WebUrbanist Launch New Green Website, WebEcoist
WebUrbanist, a great site dedicated to architecture, design, travel and culture, has just announced the launch of their sister site, WebEcoist. Based on the premise that the natural environment is not only fundamentally important in practical terms but also amazingly intriguing in ways many rarely consider.
Continue reading...18. August 2008
Are These 8 Green Credit Cards the Best in the World?
With all the concern about ongoing climate change and the need to conserve our environment, it seems like even financial institutions are becoming more responsive towards the green aspirations of their customers. So with a raft of new credit products, not just in the United States, but also in Europe and Asia, can we shop our way to a cleaner planet?
Continue reading...11. August 2008
Introducing the Recyclable Plastic Bicycle
Innervision is a recyclable plastic-framed bicycle designed to be mass produced as cheaply as possible and made entirely from recycled materials. It consists of two basic frames, split into two halves, with a triangular structure to stop it over-flexing. An outer frame slots over the top and both halves are then welded together.
Continue reading...23. July 2008
The Awesome Way To Recycle a Dumpster [pics]
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Goldsmith's design graduate, Oliver Bishop-Young, unveiled two interesting proposals for the re-use of dumpsters (or skips as they're called in the UK) at the New Designers' festival earlier this month - but would you have lunch in a dumpster, or more to the point, would you swim in one? The first proposal is for a website where people can share information about the contents of their skip and others can salvage it (demo now online).
Continue reading...22. July 2008
Rothschild Sails Across the Pacific on a Piece of Junk
Our friends at Men's Vogue recently featured an interesting interview with eco-adventurer, David de Rothschild, and although he may be a member of one of the world's most famous banking families, he's far from being all about the deal - his environmental interests have taken him across the globe from New Zealand to the frozen ice caps of Greenland and now the intrepid explorer is about to embark on one of his most challenging expeditions to date: crossing the Pacific on a boat made of garbage!
Continue reading...15. July 2008
World’s Most Expensive Places to Have Sex
For obvious reasons you can’t recycle a condom, but have you ever wondered which countries “tax” sex the most? Well… Environmental Graffiti has decided to create a detailed graphical diagram, complete with wallpaper download for your viewing pleasure. The data, which gives the average condom price around the world has been compiled from UK price comparison site pricerunner and a blogger from an interesting little site called condomunity.
Continue reading...4. July 2008
The Electronics Junkyard Dismantlers of Guiyu
image via Ink Solutions Guiyu was once a peaceful rice-growing village located in the eastern province of Guangdong, southern China – that is - until a surge of broken computers and laptops arrived from the Western World. Since then, Guiyu has been proclaimed the World’s electronic-waste capital.
Continue reading...20. June 2008
Eco-Nightclub Launches: Dancers Generate Electricity
Image by Steve&Sara With a bouncing floor and a series of power generating blocks, the first eco-nightclub in Britain will open its gates on July 10, in London. The bar is supposedly powered by renewable energy and will serve organic spirits in polycarbon cups. It also has plans [...]
Continue reading...19. June 2008
The Secret Voices of Bridges
In the second part of our “playable buildings” series, Environmental Graffiti reporter Jammie Nicholas, explores the work of Sonic Artist Jodi Rose. All images courtesy of Jodi Rose. Since the 20th of June 1994, Jodi Rose has been travelling the world in search of the unheard voices of [...]
Continue reading...19. June 2008
Amazing Japanese Light Ball Universe in Your Bathtub [pics]
Technology infiltrates every part of your house, even your bathroom. Oh yes. The days of the rubber duckie are numbered. We geeks here at Environmental Graffiti love it: this device from Sega Toys brings the universe to your bathtub, where all the stars shine as if [...]
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