English model, actress, and Sky Rainforest Rescue ambassador Lily Cole has recently collaborated with the French accessory brand Veja in an effort to combine sustainable fashion with Amazonia preserva…
SPARK Device turns your Jam Session into Clean Energy
Percussionist Sudha Kheterpal has teamed up with eco-designer Diana Simpson Hernandez to create SPARK – a musical instrument that successfully generates electricity just by playing it.…
Piece by Piece, Elizabeth Brunner Stitches Ethics Back into Fashion
Filling up landfills, creating unfair wages for workers, and significantly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, fashion isn’t exactly excluded from the consumer driven decline of the environment …
Artist Barry Underwood Creates Landscape Auras to Reveal Human Impact on Nature
A thin but deafening azure pierces the forest; a chorus of coral rings dance on the water’s edge; a bed of tangerine rondure bloom in the dew of dawn—light artist Barry Underwood doesn’t simply toss n…
Scents and Sustainabilty: UC Davis Scientists Opt to Change Our Sensory Experience
UC Davis Scientists are making life a little sweeter by using cultured bacteria instead of nonrenewable oils to produce more eco-friendly fragrances.…
Sustainability in Fast Fashion: H&M’s New Conscious Exclusive Collection
Leading fast-fashion retailer H&M is offering a more conscious collection with their new Collection of Sustainable Formalwear, which provides the best in sustainability and ultra-chic designs.…
IAAC Students Design Bio-photovoltaic Cells that Extract Excess Energy from Soil
A team of research students at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Spain has recently designed and installed a bio-photovolatic wall at their Valldaura campus to generate some buzz…
The Al Bahr Towers by Aedas, Wrapped in Solar-powered Mechanical Parasols
Challenged to design two skyscrapers that could energetically handle the infamous heat of Abu Dhabi while still letting in naturally light through its windows, Aedas Architects have devised a clever f…
The Sustainable Style of Stella McCartney’s Pre-Fall 2014 Collection
Stella McCartney’s Pre-Fall 2014 collection demonstrates that ethical and sustainable fashion doesn’t have to resign to formless, potato-sack dresses. Using gentle organic fabrics and vegetable-oil-ba…
The Elegant Quandary of Industrial Sprawl: Edward Burtynsky’s Aerial Photography
Using a helicopter and a digital Hasselblad camera, renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky shows a side of global industrialization rarely seen by the public.…
Emergency Shelters Made From Paper
Shigeru Ban is one of Japan’s most accomplished and innovative architects, known for his use of Western and Eastern influences, themes, forms and methods of building to design beautiful, ultra-moderni…
Highly Efficient ‘Solid Rain’ Decreases Water Consumption up to 95%
Initially designed to combat northern Mexico’s droughts, chemical engineer Sergio Velasco created Solid Rain, a non-toxic, highly absorbent potassium-based powder that stores excess water to efficient…
Google Earth Engine Time Lapse
Watch Google’s time lapse video using satellite imagery gathered from NASA’s Landsat program and US Geological Survey since 1984.…
Living Building Challenge: Bullitt Center
The World’s greenest commercial building made its debut on Earth Day in Seattle.…