The first eco-sustainable house 3D printed from raw earth is now a reality
Vanessa Holden is the senior vice president and creative director of West Elm. Ms. Holden oversees all facets of the home furnishing brand’s expression
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Creating affordable housing solutions in Africa is a key challenge for many countries, and particularly homes that are eco-friendly. But Joelle Eyeson, co-founder of Hive Earth, is bringing a new and innovative solution to Ghana, and one that is replicable across the continent.
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A straw bale house is an eco-friendly building you will fall in love with. Light, sustainable, resistant and featuring a rustic flavor, the construction ha
An interview with designer and natural dye extrodinaire, Graham Keegan. Walking into Graham Keegan’s LA design space in Silver Lake, I am overwhelmed by the idea of simplicity. Natural light pours in from the front wall of windows and brilliantly reflects off of the remaining three. It smells of plants – some dried and cracked, some alive […]
Image 1 of 26 from gallery of Eco-lodges_les Echasses / Patrick Arotcharen Architecte. Photograph by Vincent Monthiers
A straw bale house is an eco-friendly building you will fall in love with. Light, sustainable, resistant and featuring a rustic flavor, the construction ha
Someone, please take me.
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I grew up in woods filled with white oak trees. The big beautiful trees would drop their tiny capped seeds each season, covering the ground with a blanket of acorns. As I have experimented more with natural dyeing, I have discovered acorns produce incredible colors in the dye bath. On their own, the
We're not buying anything, whether it is consumer crap, or conformity and compliance to tyrannical, illegitimate forces of evil, waste, and death.
Taking advantage of the stalled Filene’s construction site at Downtown Crossing, Eco‐Pod is a proposal to immediately stimulate the economy, and the ecology,...
Mario Cucinella Architects and WASP have tamed up to conceive the first 3D printed house made from local earth.
What does it mean to ditch usual fabrics and invent a new organic matter for clothes?
D661_036 07/07/2012 : Arles, magasin électrique : Learning from vernacular (Pierre Frey / EPFL) : tata tamberma, Warengo, Togo
Designed by architecture student and interior designer Konrad Wójcik, the Primeval Symbiosis (Single Pole House) aims to set organically living
Image 17 of 19 from gallery of Latin America's First Earthship is a Sustainable School Built from Found Materials. via Earthship Biotecture / Tagma
For those interested in Natural dyeing: We wildcraft a lot of our dyes... And we have the ready ability to make mordants! Fantastic isn't it. Let's back this up a little. Where I live (Coast Salish Territories, Vancouver BC) there are SO many dyes to go collect. But there is magic in making your own mordants. I collected rusted pieces of metal from one of my garden plots. That is what i'm using for the iron mordant. For the copper, i'm using some thich copper wire i've had laying around the studio for a while! For the iron, I put the rusted metal into a jar. I then put in 2 parts water, and 1 part white vinegar. I labeled the jar as such, and put it out on my porch. For the copper, I put the copper wire into jars. I then filled the jars with 1 part water, and 1 part white vinegar. I also labeled these jars, and put them out on the porch. These jars living on my porch have good company. As of right now there are 12 jars of various things being solar dyed. (A few of them are experiments to show what different mordants can do! Also, there are skeins of hanging naturally dyed yarns, and pots of dye plants growing. I think that all of these things together make the house look quite witchy, and that makes me happy! So now I wait! The jars of copper mordants will turn blue, and they will be ready to use. The iron jar will become the colour of light tea, and it will be ready! I can refill these jars again and again with their respective water/vinegar solutions, and continue to get my own homemade mordants!
vincent callebaut has revealed proposed plans to transform a once industrial area of brussels into a mixed-use eco-neighborhood.
Who needs acres of grass, anyways?
Richard Branson unveils his latest project, the Mahali Mzuri, an amazing eco camp on the Maasai Mara Reserve in Kenya.
French architecture firm Domespace offers highly-customizable, eco-friendly luxury residences, capable of rotating up to 330 degrees.
Phoenix Earth ship Phoenix Earthship Kitchen Earthship sitting room : my absolute dream room ...
Vincent Callebaut designed a beautiful shopping center mimicking orchids that takes the guesswork out of conscientious consumerism in China
A straw bale house is an eco-friendly building you will fall in love with. Light, sustainable, resistant and featuring a rustic flavor, the construction ha
in northwestern france, BRUT architectes has designed a low energy dwelling conceived as a large greenhouse.
Garden house design by Fritz Eisenhofer from New Zealand is an example of impressive and innovative green architecture and interior design
This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.
' "Are you ill, dear North Wind?" ' Jessie Willcox Smith illustration from 'At the Back of the North Wind'. More about the artist at vintagebookillustrations.com/
Lead by Vincent Callebaut who is known for his biophilic architecture and biomimicry designs, the Millenial Vertical Forest project focused on ecology.
