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GoodGuide’s Transparency Toolbar: A Game Changing Tool For Lazy Environmentalists
Lets face it, trying to determine which products really are safe, healthy, green and socially responsible is a drag. Even when we’re confident that products do, in fact, match our personal values, we’re not really interested in going that far out of our way to get them. But what if there were another way? Imagine, [...] -
When Green Makes You Laugh, It’s A Good Thing
We environmentalists tend to take ourselves so seriously. But just because our cause is serious doesn’t mean that being serious about it is a good way to attract others to it. Actually, in my experience it’s almost a surefire way to turn others off from becoming more environmentally minded. Humor is a great tool for [...] -
Loll Outdoor Furniture: Recycled Post-Consumer Plastic Goes Modern
From David de Rothschild’s plastic pollution awareness-raising journey on the Plastiki to Terracycle’s nationwide Recycling Brigades, innovators on the front lines of the environmental movement are devising new ways to inform and empower us how to either diminish our dependence upon one-use plastic items or turn that plastic to our advantage. Enter Loll, a modern [...] -
2012 VW Passat TDI: First Clean Diesel Car Built in America
To understand the 2012 Volkswagen Passat TDI you have to understand where it comes from: Just outside Chattanooga, TN there is a brand new, state-of-the-art, billion-dollar automotive production facility. The Passat is the only car they make in the new factory. VW designed the new Passat at their headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany. Better still, they [...] -
Replenish: How Design Innovation Solves Green Challenges
I came across this product yesterday at the Sustainable Brands conference here in Monterey, CA and was immediately thrilled. Replenish is not just good design, it’s brilliant design. It’s a high-concentrated cleaning product that’s about as green as it gets: non-toxic, biodegradable, and pH neutral. it’s also one of the few consumer products to be [...] -
Uhuru Design Melds Modern Sensibility With Ecological Materials
Brooklyn has been a hotbed of sustainable furniture design for years. In fact, the presence of so many sustainable designers is what led me to relocate Vivavi (my former furniture retail company) to Brooklyn in 2005. Uhuru is a design firm committed to sustainable principles. Making furniture pieces suited to every room of the home, [...] -
TRTL BOT offers Modern Accessories from Recycled Materials
I’m constantly searching for modern design products made with environmentally responsible materials. TRTL BOT fits the bill with its plastic cell phone cases made from recycled soda bottles and manufactured in Southern California. Not only are they sleek, they’re functional too – exactly what’s required of green products in order for most consumers to seriously [...]
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