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Green Coffee Table Makes Energy Enough to Power Your Stuff

March 9, 2010

voltpot photo Photo via Nectar

For people who aren’t satisfied with the fact that the greenest thing about their coffee table is the mug of organically grown joe resting on top of it, finally there’s a truly appealing alternative in the Voltpot. Not only does its grassy surface bring a bit of oxygen producing plant-life to your living room–the metabolic process is captured and converted to energy to char…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Postcarden: Postcard Grows Into Mini-Garden

March 8, 2010

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A postcard can brighten up your normal mail, but then it just sits there, commonplace and static. That’s why A Studio for Design developed the Postcarden, “created to be more playful, curious and interactive. It encourages you to bond, live and grow the greeting on day by day basis. Over time to card reacts to you and your environment evolving in beauty and charm. ”

You simply unfold these little flatpack wonders, sprinkle water, watch it grow, and then have a salad.

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Green Gowns on Oscar’s Red Carpet

March 7, 2010

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Jillian Ganz overlooking Suzy Amis Cameron’s green dress fitting. Photo by Jim Peck

Even with Linda Loudermilk and Stella McCartney’s high-end sustainable clothing, it is still an effort to get eco-minded celebs into black tie worthy gowns. A couple years ago, retro Chanel was all the rage, which was a great idea, until Reese Witherspoon discovered hers wasn’t a one-and-only dress, as she’d been told, and her ’50s number showed up on somebody else. These are problems we don’t have to worry about, thankfully. To avoid the whole thing, actress Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of Avatar’s James Cameron) held a contest f…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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