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Recycled Tea Strainer Lamp Creates Soothing Glow

As an alternative light fixture, Israeli designer Marina Rudinsky lights up a string of loose tea strainers. Items found in the kitchen are often endowed...

Chic Reusable Cotton Bags Make Eco-Friendly Shopping Cool

These designed cotton bags are way cooler than plastic. Plastic bags are undoubtedly bad for the environment, but sometimes it's hard to get motivated to...

Silicosis Kills 50th Worker At Turkish Denim Sandblasting Factory

Your sandblasted Armani jeans could be killing people. "Distressed" jeans are commonly made by blasting the denim with silica (pictured above) after it has...

World’s Largest Quran is Bound With the Skin of 21 Goats

For Mohammad Sabir Khedri, compiling the pages of this enormous and intricately detaied holy book was a 5 year labor of love. A master calligrapher has...

Recycled Furniture to Be Sold at Israeli Auction Next Week

Select pieces of recycled, eco friendly furniture will be sold at an auction house in central Israel next week alongside paintings and other fine...

Recycled Furniture from Middle East Rugs and Doors

Recycled furniture by Israeli designer Naama Futerman. She gives disposed objects a second life. If all the products that we ever used or came into...

First Solar-Powered Eco Pool in Morocco Uses Zero Chemicals

A family near Essaouira, Morocco happily splash around in a natural pool with zero chemicals. A beautiful, luxurious swimming pool in Morocco that contains none...

Fashion Beirut’s New Photo Campaign Says Animal Abuse Is Wrong

Simply put: "best friends are not meant to abused". The fashion industry is not known for being friendly towards animals (particularly those of the furry...

Recycled Furniture by Lebanon’s Niloufar Afnan

Long live the queen, if she can manage to sit on Niloufar Afnan's recycled 'Royal Stool'. At this year's New Designers Exhibition in London, Lebanese-born...

Beirut’s Eco Fashion Boutique is “Green and Glam”

Green is glamorous, according to Beirut's eco fashion boutique. People need to eat and people need to dress every day, so food and fashion are...

Nader Khalili Built Earth Buildings Fit for Space

If Hassan Fathy is the father of sustainable architecture, then Nader Khalili must be his close cousin.

Will Bridges of Recycled Plastic Work in Middle East?

A bridge like this of recycled plastic could also work in the Middle East A bridge from recycled plastic, and strong enough to support a...

Ugly Plastic Window Shutters Become Chic, Minimalist Furniture Pieces

These plastic window shutters by Kulla Industrial Design can still be used to sit on. Finding new uses for old wooden window shutters has been...

Biodegradable Orange Peels Make Fragrant and Functional Tableware

Orange peels are already the perfect shape for a mug or small bowl, so Israeli designer Ori Sonnenschein helped them transform. Oranges are in season...

Raw Bamboo Bench is Green, But Is It Comfortable?

Bamboo is universally praised as a sustainable material, but when used in its rawest form is it comfortable? Beauty has been said to increase sustainability,...

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