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Five of the best…organic cotton t-shirts
Ruth Styles
10th January, 2012
Whether you’re taking up pilates or just going for a jog, there’s an fabulous eco-friendly t-shirt for you more...
Introducing Annie Le: America's hottest new eco-designer
Ally Boyd
25th October, 2011
America might be better known for Calvin Klein and co but as Ally Boyd discovered, eco-designer Annie Le is giving them a run for their dollars more...
Top 10...eco design for home
George Blacksell
2nd September, 2011
Green design doesn't have to mean scrimping on aesthetics; as George Blacksell discovered, combining style with sustainability is easily achieved more...
Lake swimming, wild berries and traditional smoke saunas: summer at Lake Saimaa
Ruth Styles
11 August, 2011
With its ultra-clean water and unspoilt countryside, Finland’s Lakeland is a paradise for nature lovers and foodies alike, says Ruth Styles more...
Fashion forward: the green designers whose clothes are making a real difference
Valentina Jovanovski
5th July, 2011
As Valentina Jovanovski discovered, today’s young designers have more on their mind than just making a quick buck more...
Erik Zwaga: Belgium’s newest eco-design star
The Ecologist
25th March, 2011
With a talent for breathing new life into what most of us would regard as junk, designer, Erik Zwaga, has taken the art of upcycling to new heights more...
Sustainable design shapes the future of food packaging
Leif Huff
30th September, 2010
PHOTO GALLERY: In exclusive images from a brilliant new eco-design book we illustrate innovative ways designers around the world are creating sustainable food packaging, products and appliances... more...
Reusing bike parts to power water pumps, corn crushers and more
Mira Olson
15th July, 2010
A tiny workshop in rural Guatemala is pioneering cheap, eco-friendly, pedal-powered machines made from discarded bicycle parts more...
Janine Benyus: we need to go way beyond energy efficiency in design
Laura Sevier
30th June, 2010
The president of the Biomimicry Institute on learning from nature, designing cities to perform like ecosystems and why chemists, engineers and architects need to learn more biology more...
Can the green, 'hairy' city work with our existing, 'mineral' cities?
Susannah Hagan
19th April, 2010
Cities are at a crossroads - 'eco urbanists' want efficiency and artificial ecosystems; conventional designers want to maintain the best bits of our current urban spaces. Can they co-exist? more...
Sustainable Futures – Can Design Make a Difference? 31 Mar–5 Sept
Explore the pioneering models and architectural projects leading sustainable design at London's Design Museum more...
10 groups campaigning against waste
Ecologist
19th June 2009
Viewed in new light, waste is a resource – to be used again, recycled or resurrected for another use more...
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Designing out waste means rethinking the system
Steve Evans
8th September, 2009
Design is everywhere, deciding how things look, how they work and how systems run. But effective ecodesign is difficult when decisions are made in isolation, says Steve Evans more...
Low-tech retrofit experiment could transform social housing
Eifion Rees
8th July, 2009
The Greening-the-Box initiative aims to demonstrate that retrofitting can transform hard-to-heat housing association and council properties into models of low-tech sustainability and fuel efficiency - with almost zero heating more...
The Visionaries
Ecologist
20th March, 2009
Mark Anslow, Laura Sevier, Dan Box and Matilda Lee profile 10 visionaries with 10 big ideas for a better world.more...
Visionaries: Carolyn Steel
Ecologist
1st April 2009
In many ways, Carolyn Steel was born to be an architect: as a child she used to dream of buildings.more...
Homes for climate change
Susan Roaf
1st June, 2009
Building a more sustainable future is vital if our societies are to survive in a post-fossil-fuel future – but, argues Susan Roaf, the way we build must itself first change more...
Blame the environmentalists
Richard Heinberg
20th June, 2008
As the second great depression gets under way, how will we deal with it and who will the fingers be pointing at? more...
Eco-home ruled a danger to dormice
News
30th July, 2007
The Roundhouse, an eco-home in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, faces demolition after an ecological survey concluded that it threatened biodiversity. more...
"My battle to green the clothing industry"
Katharine Hamnett
1st April, 2005
Katharine Hamnett is one of the UK’s leading fashion designers. In 1984 she famously wore a T-shirt opposing the purchase of US Pershing missiles at a reception attended by Margaret Thatcher. Since then she has campaigned on nuclear power, Third World debt, human rights, HIV and environmental issues. more...Members
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