Sustainable Living

  • Plastic bottle homes are the future

      Using 14,000 plastic bottles and some mud, you can make a two-bedroom house with a kitchen, bathroom and living room. Not bad considering you will also be helping save the environment and at a quarter of the cost of a conventional home.   Australians spend over $500 million on bottled water every year, according […]
  • Back to nature – Honeycomb and Grass inspired footwear

    Want a pair of shoes inspired by bees and nature? Well you have come to the right place. Inspired by a honeycomb image, Pharrell knew he had found the latest inspiration for the fourth collaboration between Timberland and Bee Line for Billionaires Boys Club. The end product is a 6-inch Honeycomb boot, containing the actual […]
  • After heading south, self-sustaining restaurant gets ready for an evolution

    For the past 12 years, visitors to the Copenhagen restaurant have enjoyed 24-course delights such as quail eggs served on smoldering hay, raw razor clam encased in a tube of parsley gelee or stranger yet with fermented grasshopper. However no matter your initial thoughts these are dishes that will send your taste buds on a […]
  • Rock the night away in a shipping container

    Shipping containers are slowly making the evolution from their intended purpose, into unique and creative architecture.   It was back in 1956 that the shipping industry starting make use of shipping containers. Nearly 60 years later and with approximately 17 million scattered around the world, they have become a common sight on ships and trucks. […]
  • NYC’s food trucks enter the 21st century with solar power

    The food truck business in the U.S. is booming with the epicentre being New York City, but with this great increase in revenue for food truck owners, so comes the negative impact on the environment. Across New York City, there are approximately 8,000 food trucks that are serving up delicious food on a daily basis, […]
  • Upcycling takes to the skies

    With the aim of cutting the weight of their airplanes and subsequently saving fuel, Southwest Airlines had over 80,000 obsolete leather seat covers and a real challenge on their hands. They didn’t want to add their lot to a landfill, but rather wanted a sustainable solution for their 174,000㎡ of leather.   Enter Project LUV […]