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Energy in motion

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:30:48 GMT

Every day thousands of people are moving relentlessly producing kinetic energy which ends up dissipated and lost. If we could sum up the movement of each single person we would have a sustainable source to feed many human activities. An effective mec

Clothes at 100%

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:54:15 GMT

Love for sustainability has over time become inspiration for a lifestyle that is actively seeking sensible and alternative solutions. Thus in the same way, some designers who invented and perfected the techniques for creating clothes without "waste"

Where's the OFF button?

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The choice of sustainable energy solutions often leads to the perpetration of old habits lightly. The idea that new energy-saving technologies are a valid alternative must be supported by good practice for this reason. In this sense, LED is a case of

Principles of good Design

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:17:06 GMT

The book "Crandle to Crandle" by William McDonough, written with the German chemist and colleague Michael Braungart, has become the manifesto of ecologically intelligent design. This book redraws a new market that is based on an industrial system gen

Preserved energy

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:00:53 GMT

Renewable energy is up to now able to guarantee, with certainty, the energetic support for the future. It’s, in fact, a spontaneous resource of our planet that acts non.-stop creating a safe and a moreover sustainable source! But like any other techn

Technology by nature

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:34:45 GMT

The perceptible phenomena primarily depend on the operation of microscopic structures that constitute the intimate nature of everything around us. From this idea Biomimetics was born, a discipline that studies the systems and processes of nature as a

Plants as friend

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:28:50 GMT

Unlike in the animal world, the plants are able to transform toxic substances in nourishment and oxygen. It is currently in study how to rebalance exactly the levels of pollution in our cities, with integration initiatives of green urban environment.

"E" as E-commerce and Eco-sustainability

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The Web is a virtual place to exchange an infinite number of information: space vanishes and time speeds up, opening doors that put very far parts of the world in connection with each other. No coincidence that one of the increasingly common phenomen

To “wash” with care

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:02:33 GMT

Cotton is one of the most widely used tissue for its inimitable characteristics of natural fiber, versatile and pleasant to the skin. When we check the garment label, the presence of a percentage of cotton reassures us and it guarantees us the qualit

Recycle the air

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Nowadays we're trying to understand better and better in which quantity chemicals, invisible to the eye, are present in the environment and in products and how they affect our lives. The basic problem is that from many points of view making individua

Design at the taste of LED

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

LED technology is a recent innovation that has many advantages in terms of savings. It consists of a light source that is born as a result of a phenomenon that requires a minimal amount of energy, called electroluminescence. For this reason it is con

A pack of ideas

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

How many times discarding a product or a gift we think that the envelope containing them is nothing but a passage of time that allows us to get in touch with our object of desire? But the packaging is also a product and like any other object, studied

Clean advertising

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Never as before the advertising has invaded our daily life in different ways, from paper to posters, from TV to Web. We are, in a certain sense, polluted by the constant presence of advertisements. Yet there is an advertisement that does not pollute

The water bulb

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Often simple solution is the most intelligent and economical key to solve complex problems. Infact, the students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a method of illumination for three million homes in the city of Manila (Philippines

Do we Clean up the world?

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

It's very ironic and sharp the communication campaign "Clean Up the World" sponsored by Legambiente from 16th to 24th September 2011. In the spot, like in a real horror movie, some boys, intent on jogging in a forest, are caught from the back by a zo

A sea of ideas

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

A case to mention is "Vac from the Sea", a vacuum cleaner produced by Electrolux with small pieces of plastic recovered from the oceans, which are used to create the body. The result are enjoyable objects that are different one from another, which en

Naples: waste and change, a good news!

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

The increasing emphasis on Italian and Community legislation (eg in the EU directive of December 2008 in which prevention is placed at the top of the hierarchy of waste management community and that Italy will have to work within the same 12 December

sostenibilità: giocare o dovere? - Sustainability: play or duty?

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:00:00 GMT

Rigenerare gli stereotipi della sostenibilità: giocare o dovere?

Sostenibilità e rigenerazione spesso sono vittime di ragionamenti stereotipati che possono, a mio avviso, riassumersi in: sostenibilità come dovere, educazione dei g

L’Aquila, wounded Town

Wed, 11 May 2011 22:00:00 GMT

L'Aquila, wounded Town.

I spent some days of rest in Abruzzo with my family. The impact of the reality in L'Aquila has been shocking. There is no distinction between center and suburbs, ancient buildings and new ones, stores and schools, c

la Bellezza e il Lavoro - the Beauty and the Job

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:00:00 GMT

the Beauty and the Job

"We are tiny silkworms crawling on a small leaf among the branches of an enormous tree. Some men - the bravest - they reach the edge of the leaf. From the edge of the leaf, they wide their gaze over the cao

Recycling, reuse, regeneration: what methods for what future?

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The reuse of products has been - and is in part - a way in which people were experiencing economically and effectively the life cycle of the product and of the raw material. The spread of consumerism has led to the gra

Friday: Day of Venus

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Friday: Day of Venus

Today is Friday: day dedicated to Venus (from "Venus": beauty, in Italy Friday= Venerdì), the Greek god of love, understood as attractiveness of the various parts of the universe among t

SCARTI=MATERIA PRIMA DISCARD=RAW MATERIAL

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:25:49 GMT

IL RIUSO E IL RICICLO NEL MONDO DEL DESIGN
SCARTI = MATERIA PRIMA

Il riciclo e il riuso sono diventati negli ultimi tempi, in tutto il mondo, una pratica diffusa che riesce ad unire l’utile al dilettevole attraverso l’uso della creati

MERRY SUSTAINABLE CHRISTMAS!

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Montaggio/Smontaggio/Autocostruzione

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:43:42 GMT

EPA has just announced the third Lifecycle Building Challenge winners. The contest, open to architects, engineers, builders, re-use experts, teachers and students, gathers innovative ideas about green building, in order to reduce environmental impact

Plastic bags in Africa are not used for shopping...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

In the Xhosa language, the word "Kunye" means "forward together", which is what Alison Coutras had in mind and was able to realize wi

Se del maiale non si butta via niente, perchè non possiamo farlo anche con il resto?

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:54:45 GMT

Oggi aiuto a montare il nuovo mobile che le mie zie hanno preso all’Ikea per mia nonna che seppure in gamba ha sempre ottantacinque anni e seppure facili da gestire, i mobili Ikea, non hanno fatto i conti con la senilità.
Cosi mi metto al

Aesthetics and ethics in a product?

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

What do we mean when we talk about something that taste good? And what about something that is nice? Ethics, as Wikipedia reminds us, sets our behavior in a frame and "demands a rational basis, and not emotional, in the attitude taken, not reducible

Brazilian colours for the environment

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

The Fernando and Humberto Campana’s brothers live and work in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Their career as designers began in 1983 in the Estudio Campana and their productions started in artistic dimen

“IT’S POSSIBLE TO RE-USE!”

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:21:36 GMT

“In our era it seems that there isn’t the space to invented anymore. Everything’s already said, already done. So why not to take what has been already done and said, what has finished its lifecycle already, and re-compose it, giving it a new shape? F

Leather regenerates itself

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Few materials have characteristics of recycling so close to the original as those of the leather. The manufacturing process of the leather is highly polluting because it uses chemicals. The tanning with substances based on minerals (alum) is then lef

Hampi, the single-use 100% ecological dish

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Too few research has been made to make fully ecological single use products, and I found interesting to bring out the story of Hampi, a company born to produce ecological products that also boost local comunities economy.

Eco-unsustainable policy

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:06:02 GMT

When we speak about Italian eco- sustainability abroad we are bound to speak about the Italian policy on eco-sustainability.

It is worrying that – although they exist – public service announcements of this kind are poorly promoted by our

To make a dish, it takes… a can?!

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Thanks to the collection of items for the recycling, an increasing in the quantity of materials recovered gives significant benefit to economy and environment. Besides the technical, functional and design aspects, the environment var

Organizational beauty or beauty organization?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Once the organization of companies was structured only by organizational charts, rules and procedures to be followed. In these years, the only way to be part of the organization were characterized by the infinitely repetition of behaviors, the execut

Regenesi Awards

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT

In 2008 was born the cooperation between the program of study in
Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Torino and Regenesi, finalized
to the study of new products with eco-compatible material from recycli

Corporate social responsability: are you looking for beauty or approval?

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Corporate social responsability: are you looking for beauty or approval?
Companies have developed a growing interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issue, that means that the firm wants voluntary

Eco way

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Using banana leaves as a new material to create new ecological packages
for take away. Banana leaves are a product which exists in many regions
around the world. This material has a wax-like surface which i

It's aperitivo time: cut'n paste

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The jury of the competition It's Aperitivo Time, composed by Alberto Alessi, Martin Harlow, Stefano Giovanoni, Alberto Gozzi, Emma Moore, Ekow Eshun and Birgit Lohmann, declared the winners last 28th of September. The winner<

Plastic Bags for a green Sweden

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT
There's no city in Sweden that has followed the green trend of banning plastic bags, even if Swedes love to be green.
To understand this unusual position there are two simple reasons:
1) in Sweden you must put your garbage

Waste food for fabric!

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT
We look around in the fashion world, and everywhere we can see natural elements and its inspirational power.
Last Friday in Paris, Premier Vision, the World's Premier Fabric Show, closed with many eco-lifestyle materials

Paper Dispenser with a message

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT
A common product hardly finds an easy way to communicate, as this paper dispenser do! WWF suggests a simple paper dispenser, but with a laser cutting that represents Latin America, so when you use one green paper suddenly you can notice your

Manifesto: beauty is sustainable

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT
"Here's the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for status quo. You can quote them, disagree

Manifesto: beauty is sustainable

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT
"Here's the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for status quo. You can quote them, disagree

Preliminary Eco-Audit tool for sustainable design process

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT
A new design approach focused on social, economical and ecological sustainability, is needed taking in consideration the new socio-economic scenario and the new challenges started from global crisis.
We know that the 80%

Waste or resource?

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT
To solve the waste problem we like to think about new networks among different companies in geographic proximity to establish relations that lead to zero emission by implementing a sustainable management of wastes. How do you see

The respect of Nature is changing fashion design

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Taking in consideration not only the human needs, but also the environmental ones, the fashion design find new and unexpected ways of express itself.
Many textile firms are promoting lo

Graphic design for sustainability: know-how and know-what

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT
Graphic design for the sustainability: know-how and know-what
The ecological sensitivity establishes itself and spreads more and more at different level and in many ways, where the environment is split. In that situation, tec