Trashing Batteries for Brighter Sidewalks by Yanko Design

 

We all know alkaline batteries are really bad for the environment if you don’t dispose of them properly. The right thing to do is send them to special recycling centers but hundreds of tons end up in landfills where their toxic innards seep into the earth. Perhaps a good solution is the Energy Seed, an LED lamp post powered by trashed alkaline batteries.

The idea is to encourage people to throw their batteries away into the Energy Seed. There’s a slot for nearly every size battery. The unit combines any left over juice from all the batteries to power a super efficient LED ring.

Of course once the bins are full, we’re left with the same original problem. Somebody has to collect all those spent batteries and recycle them. 

 

The great green design is a cool eco solution, just looks at the images below.

Eco Architeture: Sky Village

Eco Architeture: Sky Village – A sustainable, adaptable eco-structure for Copenhagen.

 

“Sky Village,” a design by MVRDV and ADEPT architects, has won the competition for a new building design for Copenhagen, Denmark. The 116-meter tall structure will be host to some fascinating eco wonders, which are incorporated in an effort to make the tower as sustainable as it could be.

 

The super structure will provide an area of 21,688 square meters and will be located in Roskildevej. The design is based on a “pixel” design that allows the designers to relocate some of the pixels to modify the shape of the entire tower. These 60 square meter pixels are arranged around the central core of the building, where they can be moved around. As seen in the design, the lower floors are kept slim so that enough space can be provided for the surrounding public plaza with retail and restaurants. These slim floors will have offices, the middle floors will have apartments with sky gardens, will would give the tower its name – “The Sky Village.” The topmost pixels will contain hotels with the fascinating views of Copenhagen city center.

 

For the full article and more pictures go to EcoFriend.

Strata Furniture by Ryan Frank

This is are third Greet Green Design and it is the Strata furniture range by South African, Ryan Frank, who was Inspired by London’s heaps of discarded furniture and usable timber.

 

This recycled furniture range is made from sawn-up desks salvaged by GreenWorks, a charity and social enterprise that reclaims timber from redundant office furniture collected around the UK.

 

There is so much office furniture out there which just gets dumped when companies or CEO’s are taken over and removed and I feel that this approach is a great and fairly cool way of dealing with this problem.

Topi Footstool by Elisabeth Nossen

 

Norwegian designer Elisabeth Nossen based her Topi Footstool upon a Salvation Army thrift shop purchase. Nossen’s stool is a “50’s style” reclaimed from a thrift store and redecorated by the designer with wool roses. Nossen is considered one of Norway’s up and coming young furniture designers. The Topi Footstool was displayed as part of the 100% Norway exhibition, which had recycling and sustainable design as a theme.

 

One of the more interesting elements – though hard to photograph – of the show was a two-store prefabricated bedroom unit called the Bedroom Box by architects Brendeland & Kristoffersen and used in an affordable housing area in Trondheim. At the show itself unemployed youth from Trondheim rebuilt 40 meters of shelving from old materials for display, and after the show they’ll go to a children’s center to be re-used yet again. Via: Haute Nature and 100%Norway.  

 

Source: treehugger.com

Large Recycled Lentil Lamp

We just just love this eco designer lentil lamp which is handmade in good old London. This home item is going to be a must in the trendy eco home this Autumn. It is is going to be out with the Lava Lamp (please recycle) and in with the Lentil Lamp (don’t eat it it may hurt your teeth!).

 

So what are these lamps made from lentils only, no! They are made from recycled paper, porcelain clay and cleverly infused with lentils. The designer of the lamp says;

“My porcelain, paper clay lamps are made by mixing recycled paper pulp and porcelain clay. In the firing process the paper burns out leaving a delicate, translucent structure, which suffuses any room with a warm glow.”

 

As one of Biome Lifestyle’s favourite pieces they retail at £200 so go and create that lentil eco glow today.

 

Width 48 cm
Length 16 cm
Colour porcelain, natural, clay

 

Please note – the image shows the lamp turned on. When turned off, the lamp is a natural ceramic colour.