When in Doubt, DIY.

Forget the Karung Guni man and his horn! David Stovell shows you how to DIY it! nads Part of a range of products made from tightly rolled newspaper, Sunday Papers explores their compressed lifecycle and was inspired by a bundles of newspapers left out side shops on a Saturday night, which had cultural and economic [...]

Eco Dollhouse

Imagine your first dollhouse. Now imagine that it’s a contemporary design and made of bamboo with green features such as a working solar panels! we believe to change the future, you have to start young and make conservation a way of life. green team www.modernlola.com See it here first! If your LOVE your planet and [...]

Against the Odds, Eco-Cities Moving Forward

Eco cities sound like the stuff of science fiction yet in this Treehugger report, countries from Korea to Australia are starting to make headway in shaping the architectural vision of eco-sustainable cities. Even in Singapore where land reclamation has been the main way population expansion on the tiny island, it has been rumored that the [...]

Singamas Turns to Making Houses From Containers as Recession Hammers Trade

Hard times calls for diversity. In the face of declining demand, Singamas Container Holdings, the world’s second largest maker of sea-cargo boxes, is recycling containers into livable studios. Shipped from China, the “instant housing units” are fully furnished and cost between $30,000 to $100,000–plot of land, not included. green team Singamas Turns to Making Houses [...]

Cleantech Group report: E-readers a win for carbon emissions

You can almost hear the trees breathing a sigh of relief and rooting for e-readers to sweep the world. For booksellers and magazine shops, this could mean the beginning of the end as the record stores such as Tower has gone bankrupt and others like HMV have closed several operations globally once the pirates and [...]

The Smart Sun Solar Cooker

DesignQuadro designers, Anil Dincer and Murat Ozveri, have just made cooking more energy efficient and compact by creating the Smart Sun Solar Cooker which uses solar energy (even on cloudy days) to cook your food. The design is simple and sleek and is great for outdoor use in areas where an electric outlet is nowhere [...]

Artist transforms McDonalds bags into stunning paper trees

Artist transforms McDonalds bags into stunning paper trees Yuken Teruya creates ethereal paper forests out of throwaway objects like fast food bags. Who says garbage can’t be art? If you’ve ever eaten at McDonalds, you will have experienced the amount garbage generated from a single meal–paper wrappers, paper bags, plastic cups, straws, ketchup packets, paper [...]