Etsy has become a great resource for finding useful products cunningly crafted from recycled materials. Right now they have these great coffee tables made from reclaimed wood saved from 100 year old barns in Kentucky. It’s just the kind of loving restoration the Colonel would approve of. It’s a beautiful piece of recycled furniture and [...]
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Reclaimed wood coffee tables
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged eco table, ethical product, ethical products, reclaimed wood, recycled materials on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Taking recycled materials to infinity and beyond
Posted in recycled materials, Uncategorized, tagged eco building, green building, reclaimed wood, recycled materials, recycled wood, sustainable building on September 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of London’s most interesting ethical projects this summer has been The Jellyfish Theatre. A pop up theatre made entirely from recycled and reclaimed materials. The project was developed by Kobberling and Kaltwasser, award winning Berlin based architects, and was assembled by an army of volunteers from recycled pallets and discarded doors and chairs. You [...]
Flotsam and jetsam
Posted in Ethical product, recycled materials, Uncategorized, tagged eco building, ethical mater, ethical products, living green, reclaimed materials on June 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As any beachcomber will tell you identifying the flotsam from the jetsam is the least of your worries. The world’s oceans are becoming choked with assorted debris that has roughly the same half life as plutonium. Naturally the way to highlight the woe’s of the world’s ocean’s was to build a pop-up hotel from 12 [...]
Journey latin america
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s hard to place where Latin America comes into the American psyche. I mean on one hand you have the Ugly Betty toying with the perennial cliché of the downtrodden second generation immigrants. On the other that super hot piece of arse Nadine Velazquez who gets at least 15 seconds of screentime per episode and [...]
Bad day at the office honey?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In great danger of leaping across tangents I happened to watch some of the Nadal v Federer epic yesterday and thought to myself – what happens with all those used balls. I mean isn’t Rafa’s carbon footprint big enough from jetting around the world all year without demanding new balls every nine [...]
Recycle this Mr Miyagi
Posted in recycled materials, Uncategorized on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I happened to come across the clumsily name eco-retailer biomelifestyle.com the other day. I nearly didn’t make it past their home page where they announce (with not an ounce of tongue in cheek) … ‘A home without baltic linen cushions and a recycled frisbee is a home without soul!’ Hmmm … somehow I think [...]
Peep Show
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ethical rubber, french letter, peep show on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those who enjoyed the BBC series Peep Show there were one of two golden moments where the dialogue includes the neatest references to the parlance used by those coming of age in 80’s Britain. There’s a superb scene when Mark has got Spohie, his object of lust, so whipped up in the mood that she [...]
Circuit board cuff links
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged circuit boards, cuff links on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lets be frank about it cuff links are the cop-out gift for men when you can’t be arsed to engage your brain. There are some cool ones out there but there’s a shed load of rather naff ones too – some of which are made from recycled materials. It seems that when it comes to [...]
£12 for an egg – I mean that’s one egg right?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged t-shirts, tin can models, whole foods on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The US celebrity endorsed grocery concept store opened up last year in the old Barkers building. I visited for the first time last weekend and was a little surprised what the fuss was about. It was lunchtime but the ground floor was pretty much deserted. Perhaps not too surprising baring in mind the layout isn’t [...]
Freitag – this is where it all began
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bags, Freitag, Tarpaulin on January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The minute I spotted these fabulous messenger bags in Japan in 2004 I knew they were going to be a huge hit. The ultimate in urban-industrial style. Freitags are assembled from recycled truck tarps, tyre inner tubes and seat belts for straps. And I mean assembled this isn’t some run of the mill production manufacturered product. [...]
