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DIY: Make Your Own Popstar-Shaped Earbud Holders Using These Pop Wrap Templates

DIY: Make Your Own Popstar-Shaped Earbud Holders Using These Pop Wrap Templates

Pop Wrap are DIY popstar-shaped earbud and cable organizers that you can make yourself using one of these downloadable templates designed by Sebastiano Ercoli and Alessandro Garlandini. Choose

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Rotunda Living’s Tiny Eco-Friendly Roundhouses Are Inspired by Yurts

Rotunda Living’s Tiny Eco-Friendly Roundhouses Are Inspired by Yurts

Rotunda Living, a new small house builder in the UK, has developed a range of small, contemporary roundhouses that would be perfect for a holiday getaway or a backyard studio. The structures are similar

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How Green Lighting Can Save American Businesses Millions of Dollars

How Green Lighting Can Save American Businesses Millions of Dollars

Installing green lighting may seem like a small and simple change, but it's surprising how hefty the bottom line savings can be. Many companies across the globe have been switching to LEDs quietly and

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huzi’s Handcrafted Toy Set Lets Kids and Adults Build Their Dream Car

huzi’s Handcrafted Toy Set Lets Kids and Adults Build Their Dream Car

huzi Design is a start-up brand with an eco-friendly toy collection that encourages kids and adults to get imaginative. The company recently launched their first product, “Dream Car“, on

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The Farm Buddy Makes It Easy to Grow Your Own Large Living Walls

The Farm Buddy Makes It Easy to Grow Your Own Large Living Walls

A new approach to living walls has arrived! Called the Farm Buddy, this cool vertical garden kit aims to simplify living walls with its unique design. Using a peat moss sponge with a felt covering as its

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Aether & Hemera Launch a Flotilla of Interactive LED Boats at Canary Wharf

Aether & Hemera Launch a Flotilla of Interactive LED Boats at Canary Wharf

Voyage is an art installation by Aether & Hemera that consists of a flotilla of 300 paper boats sailing along Canary Wharf's Middle Dock. Each boat is illuminated by colored LED lights that form

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The Sprout Hog Is a Cute and Fun Way to Get Kids to Grow Plants

The Sprout Hog Is a Cute and Fun Way to Get Kids to Grow Plants

Check out this little Sprout Hog – an earthenware sculpture made for growing sprouts for small people. Simply place a piece of old washcloth or similar fabric in the bottom of the hog, sprinkle some

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Paperwallet Wallets Feature Unique Artworks and Are 100% Recyclable

Paperwallet Wallets Feature Unique Artworks and Are 100% Recyclable

Paperwallet wanted to expose people to art in a whole new way, so they decided to combine original artworks and tyvek to give way to a new kind of eco-friendly product. From wallets to clutches to

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Road of the Future Infographic Shows Better Ways to Build Streets

Road of the Future Infographic Shows Better Ways to Build Streets

Ashpalt concrete roads are slowly being replaced by more environmentally friendly options, such as Eco-Pave, which is based upon an organic resin. Another option road surface manufacturers are considering

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Wake Forest Develops Revolutionary New FIPEL Light-Emitting Polymer Lamp

Wake Forest Develops Revolutionary New FIPEL Light-Emitting Polymer Lamp

Researchers at Wake Forest University recently developed a revolutionary new type of light bulb! Forget the days of fragile glass and toxic mercury - these amazing new bulbs use nanotechnology to create a

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Mathew Arthur Challenges Space and Conventional Living by Turning His Van Into a Home

Mathew Arthur Challenges Space and Conventional Living by Turning His Van Into a Home

We choose the buildings we live in, the clothes we wear, how we want to be entertained, and we keep things around us to tell the story of who we are. For one year, Mathew Arthur, a designer from

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Sedes,-is.’s Eume Chair Is a Handcrafted Seat Made with Burnt Wood

Sedes,-is.’s Eume Chair Is a Handcrafted Seat Made with Burnt Wood

Thermotreated chestnut has been used to bring a new chair into the Sedes,-is. project. The design recalls the old Japanese torii; a wood structure that resists the passage of the time, and symbolically

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Wooden Heritage Trees Are Intricate Christmas Tree Alternatives

Wooden Heritage Trees Are Intricate Christmas Tree Alternatives

Still debating if you'll be getting a real Christmas tree or an artificial one? Go the green route with a modern, sustainable and a timeless piece of art with the new Heritage Tree. Intricate in its

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Emily Hesslegrave’s Just Radio is a New Take on the Classic Radio Made from Recycled Wood

Emily Hesslegrave’s Just Radio is a New Take on the Classic Radio Made from Recycled Wood

Seeking to produce a classic radio for the modern user, Emily Hesslegrave has designed Just Radio, a small radio with a touchscreen that is made from reclaimed natural timber wood. According to

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Castle Square’s LEED Platinum Renovation Is the US’ Largest Deep Energy Retrofit

Castle Square’s LEED Platinum Renovation Is the US’ Largest Deep Energy Retrofit

Originally built in the 1960s, Castle Square was recently retrofitted into an 192-unit affordable apartment building, making it the US' largest LEED Platinum building to receive a Deep Energy Retrofit.

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Chartana’s Cubox Table is Built from Salvaged Crates and Rolled Up Newspaper

Chartana’s Cubox Table is Built from Salvaged Crates and Rolled Up Newspaper

Designed by Chartana, the Cubox table is a distinctive piece of upcycled furniture. The main structure of the Cubox is crafted from wood salvaged from fruit crates, while the 4 sides are formed from

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CVDB Arquitectos’ Jarego House is a Naturally Daylit Home in Portugal

CVDB Arquitectos’ Jarego House is a Naturally Daylit Home in Portugal

The Jarego House is a gorgeous two-story home designed by CVDB Arquitectos in the historic Portuguese city of Cartaxo. The home, which presents itself as a white volume over a transparent ground floor,

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Jiangmei Wu Creates Beautiful Origami-Inspired Pendant Lamps with Sustainable Materials

Jiangmei Wu Creates Beautiful Origami-Inspired Pendant Lamps with Sustainable Materials

Designer Jiangmei Wu, a faculty at Indiana University and principal of Tacit Design, has created a series of folded light fixtures that are made from 100 percent recycled cotton paper and LED light bulbs.

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StarEnergy’s INTI Solar Charge Point is a Solar Charging Station for Public Spaces

StarEnergy’s INTI Solar Charge Point is a Solar Charging Station for Public Spaces

Portuguese energy company StarEnergy recently unveiled the INTI Solar Charge Point, a solar-powered charging station for mobile phones, tablets and laptops that can be installed in public spaces like

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MisoSoupDesign’s Invisible Farm is a Vertical Garden Inspired by a Traditional Taiwanese Window Cover

MisoSoupDesign’s Invisible Farm is a Vertical Garden Inspired by a Traditional Taiwanese Window Cover

MisoSoupDesign's Invisible Farm is a vertical window farming concept that was created as a part of the Taiwan Wanderer Guide 2012 Exhibition at Taichung, Taiwan. The unit combines vertical farming with

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StitchWorks Brings Together Artists and Designers to Create Prints to Raise Money for Rwanda

StitchWorks Brings Together Artists and Designers to Create Prints to Raise Money for Rwanda

StitchWorks is bringing together the non-profit design office GA Collaborative, Tiny Showcase Print Shop & Gallery along with 14 emerging visual artists together to create a series of fabric and

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MDC Interiors Creates Awesome LEGO Table With the Help of 3rd Grade Students

MDC Interiors Creates Awesome LEGO Table With the Help of 3rd Grade Students

MDC Interiors was invited to work with The Museum School of Avondale Estates for an art auction to raise money for the school - and they teamed up with a group of talented third graders to assemble this

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Sales of Erik Abel’s Limited Edition Wood Prints Go to Help Hurricane Sandy Relief

Sales of Erik Abel’s Limited Edition Wood Prints Go to Help Hurricane Sandy Relief

Erik Abel recently released a fresh set of limited edition prints, and 15% of all sales will be donated to Waves for Water for their Hurricane Sandy relief initiative. Six

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Terapia Urbana Installs Flourishing Slimgreenwall at Ayesa Advanced Technologies’ Office

Terapia Urbana Installs Flourishing Slimgreenwall at Ayesa Advanced Technologies’ Office

Spain-based Terapia Urbana is passionate about bringing nature indoors through gorgeous living wall installations. They recently installed one of their Slimgreenwall systems in the new office of the Ayesa

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The Food Guide Makes It Easy to Remember Foods High in Vitamins and Minerals

The Food Guide Makes It Easy to Remember Foods High in Vitamins and Minerals

The Food Guide is an easy-to-use infographic that makes it simple to remember key foods that are high in vitamins and minerals. Smaller than a recipe book, it's a quick guide for everyday reference and

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Solar-Powered LuminAID Lamp Launches “Give Light, Get Light” BOGO Initiative

Solar-Powered LuminAID Lamp Launches “Give Light, Get Light” BOGO Initiative

LuminAID is an inflatable, solar-powered light designed for a range of uses including disaster response and camping. Each light recharges with about five hours of sunlight, producing eight to 10 hours of

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Fallen Industry Transforms Fallen Trees and Driftwood Into Beautiful New Pieces of Furniture

Fallen Industry Transforms Fallen Trees and Driftwood Into Beautiful New Pieces of Furniture

Fallen Industry's beautifully crafted furniture is built from 100% reclaimed fallen trees and salvaged NYC man-made industrial driftwood. The bases are forged from American-made or recycled steel parts

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Aether & Hemera’s Glowing LED Wheels Light Up the Night

Aether & Hemera’s Glowing LED Wheels Light Up the Night

Aether and Hemera employed arrays of LEDs to build three giant kinetic POV (Persistence of Vision) lighting installations. These bright and lively wheels project ‘illusions’ of texts and patterns to

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Bright Agrotech’s Vertical Towers Make it Easy to Grow Vegetables At Home

Bright Agrotech’s Vertical Towers Make it Easy to Grow Vegetables At Home

Hailing from Wyoming, Nate Storey and Paul Bennick founded Bright Agrotech in 2009 to help revolutionize agriculture for small-business farmers and consumers. More recently, they've created  modular

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Shigeru Ban’s Temporary Onagawa Housing is Made from Paper Tubes and Shipping Containers

Shigeru Ban’s Temporary Onagawa Housing is Made from Paper Tubes and Shipping Containers

In March 2011, the town of Onagawa, Japan was devastated by a powerful earthquake. In the months that followed, Shigeru Ban Architects designed a temporary housing complex for survivors who had been

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