Category Archives: Responsibility
Outside-the-box Wind Turbines
Gone are the large, tall and 3-bladed wind turbines that the term conjures when one hears ‘wind power.’ Michigan-based Windtronics for Honeywell unveiled their WT6500 turbine recently that minimizes all the problems with a traditional turbine. At 6 feet (182 cm) in diameter and 170 lbs (77kg), this little baby can provide 18% of an [...]
Get a life…Life Box, that is.
Need to ship items in cardboard while looking to minimize your footprint? Look no further! Life Box has the solution for you! Their product, Tree Life Box, is made of recycled paper inserted with various varieties of tree seeds suitable and approved for shipping in the continental US and Canada. The corrugated cardboard is also [...]
5 Shipping Containers.
Shipping containers sure have made a splash in fancy circles the last few years. They have that certain je-ne-sais-quoi that renders them irresistible to cutting edge designers and aesthetic-embracers the world over. And I mean literally, the world over. From Korea to Zurich, to NYC to NZ, shipping containers are the places to be and [...]
Another way to protest.
As we citizens of Toronto wrap up a fiery day of protests surrounding the G20 Summit, I came across these photos from the CBC G20 Street Team of (casually named) “some protest art”. While we may not all agree with the ways in which people are demonstrating their freedom-of-speech, it is undeniable that there are [...]
The New Segway?
The good folks of New Zealand have come up with the first folding electric bicycle, known as the Yike Bike. At first glance, the bike appears functional with points for being both an electric and folding bike. Some quick specs of the Yike Bike are: Carbon fibre build Anti-skid electric brakes Speeds up to 25 [...]
That Pulp & Paper
For designers, there is little in the world that gets us salivating more than the thought of glorious paper – text or cover, bright white or natural, columns or laid or linen… So imagine my distress when I happened to attend yesterday’s xpedx 1-day Clearance sale. I felt like a kid in a candy store. [...]
