Make it a skirt / dress / cape / shrug / you decide!
Video demonstrations available at http://www.angelrox.com/videos.htm and a brochure showing some of the infinite variations comes with your purchase.
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Form Follows Function: OVOPUR by AQUAOVO
By Ann Alexander Leggett
Filed Under Green Living, Sustainable Style, The Big Picture |
It’s no mistake that AQUAOVO looked to the egg for inspiration in designing OVOPUR, its water filter that is revolutionizing drinking water quality in urban areas. According to Manuel Desrochers, the designer behind the sleek, eco-friendly filter, the life-giving egg shape, combined with the thermal properties of porcelain, preserves and revitalizes something available to us all: basic tap water. Here marks the end of your traditional, unattractive water cooler. This water filtration system
DESIGN WITH CONSCIENCE: Design Meets Social and Environmental Responsibility
By Ann Leggett
Filed Under Arts & Culture, Conscious Commerce, Green Living | Leave a Comment
Artisan making TransNeomatic
“The journey of our product is as beautiful as the product itself.”
Enrico Bressan and Tahmineh Javanbakht
Enchant, inspire and transform, that’s the vision formulated by Artecnica’s art directors Enrico Bressan and Tahmineh Javanbakht to elevate the purpose of everyday objects. Based in Los Angeles, Artecnica is a design and manufacturing company that collaborates with celebrated international designers to express
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Make It Green This Halloween
By Lindsey Wolfe
Filed Under Arts & Culture, Green Living |
According to the National Retail Federation, annual Halloween spending has surpassed $5 billion in the United States. With the average person spending the most money on costumes, followed by candy and then decorations, it’s a holiday enjoyed by adults, kids and even pets across the country. Halloween is second only to Christmas in the decorations market. Unity Marketing found that consumption in this area has grown with people’s fascination with ghosts, the supernatural and sci-fi, often prompted by popular cable television shows. However with billions of dollars
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parts contractor, one part inventor, one part child, a dash of magician, and a whole mess a' genius. He is known to some as one of the most brilliant green architects of our generation and now, due to new documentary film by Oliver Hodge, to some Mike's known simply as the "Garbage Warrior."
Mike began building what he dubbed "earthships" back in the 1970's. These maverick structures are intended to allow
homeowners to be virtually self sufficient, providing their own water,
heat, electricity, and food, and hence eradicating the need for
centralized distribution of the most essential human needs. (Back in
the 70's, Mike also eradicated the...
eConscious Market recently brought our online eCo giving model to the streets – to a store-font at the Sundance Film Festival. We sold environmentally and socially responsible products from some of our favorite vendors, such as Avita, HER Design, Fair Trade Sports, and English Retreads. We donated the proceeds to charity. Basically, this is the same as we do everyday online, but this was really different! It was face-to-face interactions with actual people!
A lot of people say it’s too late – the world has gone to crap and it’s too late. What I found at Sundance, was a community. A movement – living in the hearts, souls and intellectual pursuits of almost everyone that came into our shop. People got it. People got what our model was and what we
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