The Designers Accord

The Kaleidoscope Project consists of interviews and conversations with experts on sustainability, design and innovation, reflecting theory and generating actions between a diverse range of disciplines including design [product, fashion, graphic, web, architects and interiors], science, art, activists, business, psychology and academia. This is the first of the 5 Kaleidoscope Videos, split into four different values: Balance, Meaning, Innovation, and Culture.

Watch the short film about Balance

The Design for Reuse Primer is a free e-book, which profiles 15 successful material reuse projects from across the U.S. and Canada. From a school for children with learning differences to a center for holistic living, the case studies contained in the Primer provide insights about the material reuse process in a wide range of contexts. By discussing the challenges and demonstrating the benefits of reclaimed materials, the Primer is intended to demystify and inspire reuse.

Download the Primer from Public Architecture’s site

The team at Autodesk is at it again. This week, they launched updated content for the Sustainability Workshop, a set of free videos and online tutorials to help engineering, architectural and design students learn various aspects of sustainable design. Now available are resources teaching the path to net-zero energy building, and to come over the month of September are tutorials and videos on greener materials selection and energy efficient design. Since sustainable design principles aren’t often taught, the resource is helpful to students wanting to get a leg up in the job market.

Check out the Sustainability Workshop

Our friends at Elefint Designs created a cleaner more professional website for Hello Change – the non-profit run by high school and college students committed to fighting the ills of tobacco. Activities prompted on the site range from organizing cigarette butt clean-ups to taking celebrity smokers to task on twitter. The new site is easy to navigate through a large amount of dynamic content, while holding true to their youthful and edgy brand identity.

Check out the new site!

Window farming city dwellers can grow their own food in their apartment or office windows throughout the year by means of these elegant, inexpensive, vertical, hydroponic vegetable gardens made from recycled materials or items available at the local hardware store. The goal of Windowfarms is 1) To empower urban dwellers to grow some of their own food inside year-round; and 2) To empower citizens to collaboratively & openly innovate online toward more sustainable cities and improved urban quality of life.

Become a Windowfarmer!

Traditional bottles are filled with only 5% cleaning solution. The rest is water and plastic. Re:Consider bottles, on the other hand, come filled to the brim with 100% powerful cleaning solution that is readily biodegradable, and non-toxic to the highest degree for aquatic life. All you have to do is add the water right from your home faucet. One bottle of Re:Consider Clean can make 4. That’s good math.

Check out the Re:Consider Clean site for more information