 Green Banking - e3bank::e3bank is setting a new standard for environmentally-friendly banking. e3bank, the first green bank on the east coast, is being built inside a sustainable building and will conduct all of its business… [MORE] |
 Designer Concept Bicycles - Bike To The Future::Bicycle: A vehicle consisting of two wheels and a seat powered by a human.
HA! Not if you are a designer!
Changing the way we look at things is the lifeblood of designers. You see a bike and you think,… [MORE] |
 Interactive Animal Posters - San Fransisco Zoo Ads::The San Fransisco Zoo has gotten the citizens of San Fran involved with their advertising campaign.
Marketers kill for this kind of involvement. The success of the campaign shows how well people respond… [MORE] |
 Coca-Cola Containers for Developing Nations - Coke Distribution for Meds::The Coca-Cola brand is everywhere, so why is it tough to get medical supplies and other humanitarian goods delivered? Simon Berry wondered the same thing and took the initiative to convince Coke to use… [MORE] |
 Personified Trees With Eyes - Voyeurs in Nature::Some trees like to do “it.” Others just like to watch. I thought the earlier post about the trees caught in the act of “procreating” was a very interesting phenomenon of nature. Curious, I wondered… [MORE] |
 Designer Doggie Doo Bags - Fashionable Poo Poo Bags::Doggie leftovers! That’s how poopoobags.com describes your dog’s excrement which needs to be put in their bags.
Junge Schactel says that poop-scoop bags should be pretty, so they made their line… [MORE] |
 Tree Porn - Greenpeace Gets Sensual With 'Forest Love'::This has got to be the 'most unique' awareness video EVER. ForestLove is a new viral video by Greenpeace that shows trees getting it on and getting naughty.
With a message of, "Come Together For Forests,"… [MORE] |
 Pigs That Look Like Sheep - Boris the Lincolnshire Curly Coat Pig::I love this creature, who incidentally is named Boris. He is in fact a pig in sheep's clothing. Is he trendworthy? He is very cool, and very random and darn well worth a mention!
Looking like a sheep… [MORE] |
 Virgin Galactic Spacecrafts Unveiled - The White Knight Two::Virgin Galactic showed off the White Knight Two, the long awaited aircraft that will carry tourists into space. SpaceShipTwo will be flown up to 50,000 feet and launched for suborbital flight, making non-stop… [MORE] |
 Eliminating Vending Machines - Ikoma, Japan to Toss Machines::Vending machines are very inefficient because they run for 24 hours. Japan has 5.4 million vending machines, half of which are for beverages. If all the refrigerated beverage vendors were eliminated, one… [MORE] |
 Futuristic Eco Faucets - The Guru Tap::The Guru tap was so named because it comes from the Hindu word which means master. The Italian designer, Ernesto Messineo, is based in Milan and has high hopes that his tap design will become the leader… [MORE] |
 Chic Recycled Jewellery - Holly Anne Mitchell's Newspaper Jewellery::Holly Anne Mitchell changes losing lottery tickets into a revenue generating enterprise. The American artist designs and constructs her line of jewellery out of recycled paper products. Mitchell uses expired… [MORE] |
 Chic Solar Bags - Noon Solar Collection::Solar bags are a great way to juice up your gadgets in a free and environment friendly way. Trend Hunter has previously featured a few bag designs with embedded solar panels, but I have to admit that they… [MORE] |
 Biodegradable Umbrella - The Bamboo Brelli::This rather strange looking invention is the world's first biodegradable umbrella. The frame looks gorgeous and it is made from bamboo, which is of course, is a renewable resource. The clear canopy… [MORE] |
 6 Ads That Clean Sidewalks + GreenGraffiti::GreenGraffiti™ is an eco-friendly media form which clearly makes the statement that clean is green.
How does it work? Simply. The message which is being advertised is revealed by using a template and… [MORE] |
 Eco Butt Backpack - The Back Peach::The butt backpack is called “Peach” by its creator, Yen-Hsiang Skeet Wang who one suspects either adores the female form or has a great sense of humor.
However, he said, “The idea behind this project… [MORE] |
 Scooters to Fight Oil Prices - US Scooter Sales Up 65.7 %::Record gas prices in the US mean big changes. Italy: prepare to be generous, because the US is moving in to take over one of your stereotypes!
In the first half of 2008, scooter sales are already up… [MORE] |
 Hip Recycling Campaigns - E-Donor by MTV & HP::E-Donor is a joint campaign by MTV and HP that raises awareness about recycling old technology. The initiative aims to educate people, particularly teenagers, about the different ways they can reduce their… [MORE] |
 Human-Powered Monorails - The Shweeb::Starting off as an adventure park ride, the Shweeb may soon become a popular mode of transportation.
Designed by Geoffrey Barnett, this high efficiency, no emission urban transport system combines recumbent… [MORE] |
 10 Grassy Designs::A lot of designers are integrating grass into their green designs, from big architects who integrate green walls and roofs to their buildings, to cars covered in astroturf, to every day people incorporating… [MORE] |
 Living Shoes - Grass Flip Flops for Krispy Kreme::Summer has hit in the UK and to celebrate, Krispy Kreme has created the world's first (living) grass flip flops.
Each green flip flop has over 5,000 blades of grass growing from its sole. If tended… [MORE] |
 Secret Shadow Signs - Hotel Sign Seen Only At Night::The Gallery Hotel Art in Florence has a sign that you won't notice in the daytime for it is just a series of metal wire attached to the side of the building. But come night time, a spotlight above lights… [MORE] |
 Supercar Designs by Art Students - The Royal College of Art Concept Cars::Dream with the designers from the Royal College of Art. Dream about a future for cars where they are made of aerodynamic glass. Dream about running a red rocket-bar that resembles a motorcycle with a side… [MORE] |
 Solar Power Yachts - The Volitan::You couldn't get more eco friendly than a sailboat, but there are times when the wind fails and people have to resort to noisy and polluting outboard motors. Now a Turkish design team, Gürsu and Dogan,… [MORE] |
 $18,000 Electric Vehicles - Nice MyCar::Nice is debuting its new plug-in electric city car, the MyCar, at the British Motor Show in London on July 23. The two-seater, eco-fun car with zero emissions be available in the U.K. this fall, with prices… [MORE] |
 Boats Powered by Human Fat (FOLLOW UP) - Earthrace Sets Records::Despite being threatened by pirates and having almost been sunk by submerged logs, the Earthrace biodiesel trimaran (powered by recycled human fat) made the fastest trip around the world. This knocks 14… [MORE] |
 Eco Activism in Iran - Bloggers Try to Save Wetlands::Environmental activists in Iran are upset because some of the most beautiful wetlands in the northern part of Iran are being destroyed. Among those seeking heightened conservation for the wetland ecosystems,… [MORE] |
 Eco Bike and Car Combos - The Free Spirit::The Free Spirit is a cross between a bike and a car. What Leonid Lucenko has really designed, of course, is a tricycle.
Sometimes designers let creativity get in the way. For example, the Free Spirit… [MORE] |
 Imaginary 2090 Scenes - Flooded London by SquintOpera::Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" showed what major cities such as San Francisco and New York would look like when the sea encroached due to global warming. The prepared images were shown from the perspective… [MORE] |
 Repurposed Rockers - Rocking Chair Platforms::Constantinos Economides believes he can help save old chairs including favourite ones by repurposing them into rockers. He has designed curved wooden platforms where the chairs can be strapped on. There… [MORE] |
 Very Green Crossover Cars - Mazda Kazamai::Mazda has unveiled the first official images of the new Mazda Kazamai concept. Mazda must be super excited about the design, it seems they couldn't wait until the car's official debut on August 26 at the… [MORE] |
 25 Prefab Homes - From Cardboard to Shipping Containers (SUPER GALLERY)::Flat-pack, pop-up and prefab are all terms that are becoming increasingly popular in the world of design and living. Prefabricated products go way beyond the shelves of Ikea; in fact, prefab homes—yes,… [MORE] |
 Wooden Artificial Islands - Vicente Guallart's Hexagonal Islands::What do you do if the only access to your local oceanfront property is lined with jagged stones and pointy coral? You do what humans do best - make it the way you want it.
Architect, Vicente Guallart,… [MORE] |
 Eco Fun Packaging - Tofu & Pudding in a Balloon::Packaging is a necessary evil. We need it to preserve the items and keep them organized. However, once we open up our packages, and use the actual product, the packaging material is bound for the garbage… [MORE] |
 Make cake, Not War - Peace of Cake::Peace of Cake is a cake tray with a message, "Make cake, not war."
Fred says, "Everybody knows if we made more cake and less war the world would be a happier place."
However, we all know that it takes… [MORE] |
 32 Electric Cars (SUPER GALLERY)::Electric cars are not the future: zero-emission vehicles are the now! There are a variety of eco-friendly, battery-powered cars on the market today and thousands more in design and concept stages.
In… [MORE] |
 UK All-Electric Cars - ZeCar & Zevan by Stevens Vehicles::Zecar isn't a German car, Zecar isn't French either. The Zecar and the Zevan are zero-emission, all-electric vehicles by Stevens Vehicles, built in Whales!
The battery-powered Zecar is only three metres… [MORE] |
 Dolphins in the City - WWF Guerrilla Donation Campaign::When Maui's dolphin population hit an alarmingly low number of only 111, WWF had to act fast. They wanted to raise awareness about this terrible fact before a crucial parliament vote could take place in… [MORE] |
 Environmental Art Wars - Make Some Green Design 2008::Keeseh Studio is holding an international competition to promote upcycling through utilizing waste material. The Make Some Green Design Competition 2008 is open to all students and design enthusiasts.… [MORE] |
 Methanol Powered Laptops - PolyFuel Lenovo T40 ThinkPad::Fuel cell technology could be coming to your laptop in a few years. PolyFuel, a company based in California, has a working prototype that converts methanol fuel to electricity that can run a laptop computer.… [MORE] |
 Ethical Bug Removal - The Spider Catcher::Ewww.....gross! It's a spider! I don't know about you, but if I see a spider, I scream very loudly and run very far away. I then commission my lovely boyfriend to brutally murder the bugger as soon as… [MORE] |
 Futuristic Eco Cities - Foster + Partners Plans in Rimini, Italy::Giant architecture firms tend to think big. Foster + Partners not only want to make a statement in the sleepy beach town of Rimini, Italy, they want to transport the entire seafront to make a tourist mecca… [MORE] |
 Stylish Eco Scooters - The Nissan Mori::Nissan has a team of innovative designers that understand that eco-friendly products don't have to sacrifice on design or style. As a result, the Nissan Mori scooter was designed to be aesthetically appealing… [MORE] |
 Design Inspiration from Sea Creatures - Marine Muses::Trend Hunter's regular readers know they can depend on this site to bring them creative inspiration. These odd sea creatures are just simply mesmerizing. These may trigger an idea for a new color combination,… [MORE] |
 Pink Dog Poo - Poop Scoop Awareness Campaign::Pink doggy doo is being spotted on streets in the UK thanks to a bizarre new poop scoop awareness campaign.
Oak Tree Heath nature reserve in Nottinghamshire has unleashed activists with pink spray paint,… [MORE] |
 Breakdancing Honey Bees - Haagen-Dazs Bee-Boys for Awareness::Colony collapse disorder is threatening honey bees with extinction and Haagen-Dazs wants to help. The ice cream company is debuting a video with break dancers dressed as honey bees for SaveTheHoneyBees.com.… [MORE] |
 Carbon Neutral Flying Cars - The Parajet Skycar::The Parajet Skycar, a biodiesel-powered, all-terrain dune buggy, doubles as a powered paraglider. It will be "the world’s first carbon neutral flying car," according to the company.
The Skycar Expedition… [MORE] |
 18 Innovative Initiatives to Save Trees (SUPER GALLERY)::Throwing yourself on the ground of a forest to try to protest clear cutting isn't the only way you can save trees. In fact, there are hundreds of ways you can help save the livelihood of the planet, many… [MORE] |
 Hats Made of Upcycled Coffee Sacks - Trilby Hat by Ataahua::Once again I am dumbfounded by the outrageous price tags of eco-friendly items that are made by recycling CHEAP material.
A very good example is this traditional Cuban coffee roasters' Trilby hat by Ataahua.… [MORE] |
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