The Leaf lamp from Room & Board is a sustainable task lamp offering a 60,000-hour lifespan and consuming 40% less energy than a compact fluorescent bulb. It has been designed according to Herman Miller’s demanding Design for the Environment protocol, which emphasizes sustainable processes, materials, and recyclability. It also comes in a number of other colors and finishes.
I stumbled upon ReusableBags.com and now I want to buy bags there for grocery shopping. I really think this is a great idea – if you think all shopping totes are the same, check out the variety on their site.
The ACME shopping set consists of 6 reusable shopping bags:
Here are some cool benches by A4ADesign made from recycled honeycombed board.
I got my copy of Domino yesterday and talk about interesting. They’ve dedicated practically the entire issue to Green furnishings, foods, and such. If I were you, I’d go grab a copy tomorrow, when it hits newsstands. It has a lot of valuable information that will keep you holding on to this issue for a long time.
Amenity has some gorgeous bed linens, and they have just announced a new line of organic products. Click here to see more of the collection. Hooray!
I saw this over at Great Green Goods – a stone doormat. I really like this and it’s probably pretty easy to keep clean.
I saw this book over at Inhabitat and I really think it’s very cool:
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
Amazon says “Edited by Architecture for Humanity, Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, health care, education, and access to clean water, energy, and sanitation. Featured projects include some sponsored by Architecture for Humanity as well as many others undertaken independently, often against great odds.”
Lots of plusses for Beeline’s Recyclobiles:
+ mobile
+ modern
+ recycled
+ colorful
+ artistic
+ handmade
Here are the specs: The Recyclobile, manufactured by local artists Ames Munden and Lisa Tyrrell, is handmade in San Francisco, California and is created by using recycled lampshade materials, hand-stained fiberglass, and filament. The hand-stained discs (1″, 2″, and 3″) are strung onto clear filament and hung from a circular ring.
I really adore this chair from Modern Bamboo Studio: the simplicity, the sustainability, the colors, the lines. I love it all.
