Spotted at New York Design Week, we are in love with the Urbio, a system of mix and match modular planters and organizers that snap into place with high-strength magnets. The series of various sized containers allow for the creation of a personalized wall garden, an elegant centerpiece, or a space-saving solution for organizing your home office.

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Read the rest of Alessandro Jordão’s Giant Lego Chair Debuts at “Fresh from Brasil” During NY Design Week

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Author Angela Youngman has released a guidebook that will immerse you in world of green roofs through case studies, imagery, and must-know terminology related to design, build, and installation of these vegetated scapes. Green Roofs is not a self-help manual, but rather a light read that takes a broad stroke look at many of the variables and considerations surrounding what should really be called “living buildings.”

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Read the rest of HOW TO: Use Naturemill’s Metro Composter to Compost Indoors Without the Odor

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A free public recycling program in Chicago was recently halted by Mayor Rahm Emmaunel, and the development has been causing quite a stir. The recycling cans were installed at some of the trendy Wicker Park neighborhood’s busiest intersections, however the initiative was pulled after just a few months due to accusations that it was actually being used for political campaigning by Alderman Proco Joe Moreno (the cans were printed with a photo of him). We understand that it’s important to keep things on the up and up in government but this particular scenario looks like it might be a case of politics overshadowing sustainable progress.

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The auto world is buzzing today about Tesla‘s highly-anticipated Model X family-sized vehicle, which was unveiled just last night. Built for parents with a need for speed, this car breaks the mold for crossover vehicles with “falcon wing” doors, a completely web connected digital interface, an ultra-performance dual motor all-wheel drive, and room for seven passengers. All of this comes at a price though since the car starts at around $50,000, but from the looks of this sexy all-electric crossover, it will be money well-spent.

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Through an extremely in-depth report, paired with dazzling visual representations, design and think tank group Rollerhaus imagined an eco-centric future vision of Chicago that is without cars, with new systems for energy and water, and built in a whole new architectural language. Their project was started in response to the Living Future Institute’s Living Cities competition, whose challenge was to conceptualize what a city of the future may look like if it work like a certified Living Building. Their interpretation of a reclaimed eco-architecture city — featuring reused parts of building facades and billboards pieced onto skyscrapers — drew a lot of controversy, but we echo Rollerhaus in their proposal, which begged the question: Is a sustainable city really the picture perfect one we’ve seen in past architectural movements?

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Groopti – the website that combines crowdsourcing with bespoke manufacturing – just unveiled its latest cardboard creation, this time from designer Svetlana Kozhenova. Simply called “ECO” this modular set can be used to create tables, chairs, benches, or lounges with slim slots for storing magazines or books. These crevices give ECO blocks the appearance of a perfectly geometric fractured rock, but with the added green benefit of being crafted entirely from recycled cardboard!

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Greenbiz.com recently released their free, downloadable “State of Green Business 2012″ report and some of the statistics are quite surprising. The report begins by explaining the stalemate on green progress by saying that “…sustainable business is suffering a recessionary hangover.” The study goes on to look at 20 key indicators, such as organic agriculture, e-waste, and  toxic emissions, to determine whether US businesses are “swimming”, “sinking”, or “treading water”. With 80% of the indicators getting a “Tread” or “Sink” rating, this is a big wake up call that most big companies are not doing their part to make progress towards a sustainable future.

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Read the rest of Top 6 Exercise and Standing Desks to Get You in Shape While You Work

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Today Groopti expanded their fun cardboard furniture series with their brand new Urban Tree coat hanger. The design was conceived by Gerardo Belmonte and then selected for production using Groopti’s method of crowdsourcing opinions from design enthusiasts. The Urban Tree is composed of 6 legs and 5 rings that are machine cut from 90% recycled corrugated cardboard. Each piece is cut from layers of corrugated board to ensure that the coat stand is extremely sturdy, and the legs and rings can be easily assembled without screws, nails, or adhesives.

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Read the rest of PHOTOS: Smart Unveils Quirky For-Us Mini Electric Pickup Truck at the Detroit Auto Show

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Read the rest of Design Website Groopti Unveils Museum Quality Cardboard Furniture Series

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Read the rest of Top 10 Crazy Christmas Trees Made from Bottles, Bikes, Shopping Carts and More!

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In a happy marriage of brand marketing and global restoration efforts, Tree Cards are a way for a business to encourage clients and customers to help developing communities become self-sustaining. Tree Cards are promotional postcards offered by the Seed Our Future, a program that collaborates with non-profit organizations worldwide. Gifted by earth conscious businesses, the Trees Cards direct recipients to a website where they log in to select which country they would like a new tree to be planted in.

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The innovative digital musicians from the Data Garden label are giving fans an alternative to wasteful vinyl EPs, by offering downland codes embedded on seed paper. Digital music in inherently an eco-friendly genre, with artists that have been known to create tracks with laptops, synthesizers, or even upcycled 8-bit video game systems. To put it in perspective, these revolutionaries can tour the country by packing all of their music gear in a suitcase, instead of a tour bus. To bring awareness to the connection between nature, music, and technology, a collective of Data Garden artists held a plantable “record release” party this week at Bartram’s Garden, the country’s longest running botanical garden.

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DIRTT Environmental Solutions has created a modular wall system that minimizes construction waste, is easily reconfigurable, and serves as a platform for plug and play sustainable furnishings. They even plan out their projects using custom specification software, so interior designers can re-imagine an interior by shifting walls and ceilings in a video game-like experience.

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