Patagonia – The Cleanest Line: Don't Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times →
Nothing about the Mac. Everything about what we believe in.
Like usual, another great brand choice.
(via mnmal)
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Black Friday
I made no purchases, and I’m fine.
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I really like the concept and the sentiment behind Nathalie Stämpfli’s Soap Flakes, a bath device that easily dispenses shavings from soap bars. Stämpfli developed a wall-mounted version (pictured), as well as a pepper-grater-esque hand-held version.I always love to hear the designer’s individual stories and rationale behind interesting inventions like this. Among her motives for creating Soap Flakes, Stämpfli has a personal dislike for the “weird slippery” sensory experience of handling bar soap, yet she prefers the ecological efficiency of it to liquid soap. She explains further on the project page.
I also recommend browsing through Nathalie Stämpfli’s other design explorations.
This is how the world changes for the better: individuals taking experimental steps to extinguish their own personal annoyances and sharing their results. Mankind ends up reaping the benefits.
via Designspiration
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via jxnblk:
Holy crap I want one of these.
More support to the idea that simple, intelligent monitoring is the future of conservation at the personal level.
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into
small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.”— Mark Twain
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Malthus, by Conceptual Devices via lifeattractslife:
A synopsis:
“As designers we give ideas a form and we transform them into things. We can’t certainly solve the world’s challenges, but what we can do is to create a concrete storytelling about them. A narrative.
Malthus is one of these tales. It is an in-home aquaponics unit designed for the next generation kitchen or living room. It grows one meal a day: a portion of fish and a side salad. Aquaponics farming is a technique that combines the cultivation of fish with the growing of vegetables. The fish provides rich fertilizer for the plants and in return, the plants clean the water from the tank. The fish and the plants co-exist in a symbiotic relationship.”
A link to learn more: http://bit.ly/lI45av
Take away:
Emulating nature’s perfect recycling (making no true waste) needs to be our aim.
(via smarterplanet)
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via curiositycounts:
The Mountain – certifiably the most spellbinding timelapse yet, of (mostly) the Milky Way from El Teide, Spain
There’s certainly something instantly gratifying about time-lapse videos that we miss in viewing our surroundings in real time. It pulls hours and hours of moments and forces you see the big picture; colors shifting from day to night, the sway of trees, the way the wind moves across everything. Unachievable with the naked eye? Nah. Spend more time doing nothing but observing the smaller details and you’ll find each single frame more interesting as a whole. Be concerned how each moment moves to the next, how real time lapses. Meditation has many forms…
Take your time.
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alternativeoperations asked: I saw the picture of your backpack, and I'd like to recommend using Eagle Creek's Pack-It System (http://www.eaglecreek.com/packing_solutions/). I'm fairly certain it will change your life!
I fell in love with the Pack-It cubes and Pack-It sacks during my recent around-the-world trip, and I refuse to travel without them now, even on short trips.
Separation, compartmentalization, organization! You'll never again have to rip your bag apart looking for the one item that's slipped to the bottom.
P.S. - Your blog rocks!
Thanks for tip!
I think the picture you’re referring to is actually an Eagle Creek pack (mesh compartment)… right before I put into my backpack. They seemed to have revamped their look as well diversify utility and sizes of what they offer nowadays.
My Eagle Creek’s products have held up wonderfully. I seemed have inadvertently collected enough of their packs to the point where I’ve put together my own “pack-it” solution that works well for me. One or two for base-layer clothing, one for miscellaneous gear or objects that typically get lost, and a smaller Sea To Summit toiletries bag.
I do highly recommend utilizing a packing solution much like what Eagle creek has put together for you here. Like alternativeoperations said “ I’m fairly certain it will change your life!”.
P.S. - Right back at you. Your blog rolls! Seriously, keep it going.
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![thedailywhat:
Green Initiative of the Day: It was announced yesterday that PepsiCo will soon begin manufacturing a biodegradable bottle composed entirely of plant material — this despite Coca-Cola Co.’s recent assertion that it would be years before a 100% plant-based bottle could be produced.
Materials used include switch grass, pine bark, and corn husks. PepsiCo plans to eventually begin incorporating organic leftovers from its food business.
According to PepsiCo senior VP of advanced research Rocco Papalia, the way the new PET bottles feel and protect their contents is indistinguishable from their plastic siblings. “We’ve cracked the code,” he is quoted as saying. “It’s a beautiful thing to behold.”
[ap via csm.]
This is a huge deal. While it’s still a mass produced bottle, it’s evidence that a large corporation can innovate towards a direction where the product can have a complete life cycle that includes a natural degradation process. As most of what we produce, plastics take an un-natural lifespan to decay… and even then, what was decaying wasn’t anything the Earth’s natural biosystems could collect and re-use on it’s own (at least within a reasonable time frame). And if it’s true, that they’ve created something biodegradable, we are another small step towards becoming as efficient as our nature counterparts, a system that produces no un-usable waste.
Now, my less optimistic nit-picky qualms:
While named third in the list of the bottle’s manufactured contents, I predict that a large portion of the bottle’s contents is corn husks. Farm production of corn is amassing it’s own set of environmental problems… mostly to maintain our culture’s fast food bingeing. Perhaps, Pepsi’s next step could be lessening it’s use of corn in it’s product altogether, bottle and soda contents.
And now the thing I’m stuck with is why isn’t all of the soda’s contents, the thing we ingest, as natural it’s container?](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li5swlUIZF1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Green Initiative of the Day: It was announced yesterday that PepsiCo will soon begin manufacturing a biodegradable bottle composed entirely of plant material — this despite Coca-Cola Co.’s recent assertion that it would be years before a 100% plant-based bottle could be produced.
Materials used include switch grass, pine bark, and corn husks. PepsiCo plans to eventually begin incorporating organic leftovers from its food business.
According to PepsiCo senior VP of advanced research Rocco Papalia, the way the new PET bottles feel and protect their contents is indistinguishable from their plastic siblings. “We’ve cracked the code,” he is quoted as saying. “It’s a beautiful thing to behold.”
[ap via csm.]
This is a huge deal. While it’s still a mass produced bottle, it’s evidence that a large corporation can innovate towards a direction where the product can have a complete life cycle that includes a natural degradation process. As most of what we produce, plastics take an un-natural lifespan to decay… and even then, what was decaying wasn’t anything the Earth’s natural biosystems could collect and re-use on it’s own (at least within a reasonable time frame). And if it’s true, that they’ve created something biodegradable, we are another small step towards becoming as efficient as our nature counterparts, a system that produces no un-usable waste.
Now, my less optimistic nit-picky qualms:
While named third in the list of the bottle’s manufactured contents, I predict that a large portion of the bottle’s contents is corn husks. Farm production of corn is amassing it’s own set of environmental problems… mostly to maintain our culture’s fast food bingeing. Perhaps, Pepsi’s next step could be lessening it’s use of corn in it’s product altogether, bottle and soda contents.
And now the thing I’m stuck with is why isn’t all of the soda’s contents, the thing we ingest, as natural it’s container?
(Source: thedailywhat, via fuckyeahpackaging)
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Patagonia Footprints - Product Manufacturing Maps →
Visually explains Patagonia’s supply chain, sourcing strategy, and considerations of sustainability for a number of its products. I think this is way cool, and I wish more companies from all industries would follow Patagonia’s lead.
I’m a fan.
(Source: dellcreative)
