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Change Your Shoes With the Click of a Heel

Click your heels three times and say: there's no thing like eco-fashion! Eco designers (and designers who are interested in fun and whimsy) have been...

Sawdust Furniture Is Nothing to Sneeze At

Yoav Avinoam's sawdust benches and stools are made from the remains from someone else's... well... benches and stools.

Piece-Meal High Heels Let Wearers Design Their Own Shoes

Mix and match the endless possibilities with Sharon Golan's Mr. Potato-esque DIY shoes. When it comes to fashion, and sustainable fashion, shoes may be one...

Armani & Others Pressured to Give Up Deadly Jeans

Versace caved to pressure to stop selling "killer" sandblasted jeans. Will other brands follow suit? Blue jeans are getting uglier by the day. Around Christmas...

The Recycled Plastic Bike that Never Gets a Flat Tire

Dror Peleg's recycled plastic bike will set you "Frii" from flat tires. You won't be able to do the Tour de France with this colorful...

Modular Toaster Design Makes Toast for the Long Haul

The modular toaster, designed by Hadar Gorelik, is sustainable by virtue of its intended long-term use. Sustainable design is often thought of in terms of...

Organic Computer Design Reminds Us to Take Our Eyes Away From the Screen

Hanging from the ceiling like an ivy plant, Omer Deutsch's "Secondary Growth" computer design softens the harsh, plastic, traditional work cubicle. If you're reading this...

Ecco Ukka Weaves Love, Magic and Recycled Materials into Fabric Jewelry

Ecco Ukka's funky fabric jewelry pieces are green, fashion forward, and comfy all at the same time. It's not easy to make it cool to...

Meet The Mexican Muslim Tree Huggers

Latin America, once a part of the Spanish Empire, is home to Trees Give Life, the Muslim ran tree planting project. Read more on the tree huggers in Mexico.

Jerusalem Festival of Light 2011 Brings Eco-Art to the Holy City

Echinodermus and Pissenlit--created by TILT. With towering trees made of light, flying acrobats, and psychedelic music, the Jerusalem Festival of Light seemed more like a...

Tal Gur’s Daily Chair Finds a New Use for Yesterday’s Irrelevant Newspaper

Yesterday's news finds new use in Tal Gur's Daily Chair. The chair is perhaps the most culturally ubiquitous form of furniture, and so it is...

Israel’s “Green Queen” Royally Stamps Her Approval on Eco Design Products

Royally save resources with Green Queen's eco friendly design products. Green Prophet has encountered several green royals over the past few years, between Jordan's Queen...

Ofer Zick’s functional erotic art

Medical device industrial designer creates eco-friendly Amazonian vibrators. Award-winning designer, Ofer Zick, didn’t intend to be a green advocate when he founded 'ThinkingOfYou -...

Cardboard Mounted Deer Heads for the Eco Conscious Decorator

Enjoy taxidermy without the guilt, with a recycled (and recyclable) cardboard deer head. In centuries past, mounted deer (or other animal) heads were considered a...

Pure Rootz Puts the Preppy in Organic Clothing

The Pure Rootz fashion label brings organic cotton to the Lacoste customer. Whereas organic food has been a relatively easy sell to high-end customers, organic...

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Dinner Venues In Sydney With the Best Views of Opera House & Harbour Bridge

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Sámi shaman drums: why owning one could get you killed in Scandinavia

For centuries, the Sámi shaman drum was one of the most powerful sacred objects in northern Europe, and one of the most feared by church and state. If ISIS looks bad to us today for its religious fundamentalism, Christians were just as fervent. 

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How to Effectively Promote Your Sustainability Progress

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Sámi shaman drums: why owning one could get you killed in Scandinavia

For centuries, the Sámi shaman drum was one of the most powerful sacred objects in northern Europe, and one of the most feared by church and state. If ISIS looks bad to us today for its religious fundamentalism, Christians were just as fervent. 

Flying the friendly skies… but can we get out in 90 seconds?

In a real emergency, romance takes a back seat to physics, panic, and how fast 150 people can squeeze through a narrow tube. The Federal Aviation Administration says every aircraft must be evacuated within 90 seconds. That’s the gold standard. But new research suggests that in the real world,  especially as we age, that number might be more aspirational than achievable.

Most of the world’s marine protected areas are polluted by sewage

Research from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the University of Queensland, published in Ocean & Coastal Management, found that nearly three out of four marine protected areas (MPAs) worldwide are exposed to sewage pollution.

Adamah in Los Angeles wants to make Jewish climate action local, practical and spiritual

At a time when climate anxiety can feel abstract and overwhelming, and being Jewish something people may need to hide in big cities, Adamah Los Angeles is trying something different: turning Jewish values into local climate action with dirt-under-the-fingernails practicality.
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