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This eucalyptus-based hoodie can be composted in your garden

September 7, 2020 by Ivar Laanen

Just over a year ago, we wrote about Vollebak, a Dutch clothing startup making T-shirts that you can bury in your backyard once you’re through with them. That’s because the shirts are made entirely out of wood pulp and algae, which breaks down in soil and becomes “worm food” … [Read more...] about This eucalyptus-based hoodie can be composted in your garden

These colorful solar panels show renewable energy can look beautiful too

June 24, 2020 by Ivar Laanen

There’s beauty in solar panels in that they capture light from our precious sun and convert it into electricity. With that said, the solar panel itself is not necessarily beautiful. To give solar panels an aesthetic boost, designer Marjan van Aubel has created a set of stained … [Read more...] about These colorful solar panels show renewable energy can look beautiful too

A Dutch design studio is turning storm-felled trees into beautiful benches

October 31, 2019 by Ivar Laanen

When a powerful storm ran through the Dutch city of Eindhoven last year, nearly 1,000 trees fell victim to heavy winds and found themselves uprooted from the ground. Typically those felled trees would be thrown into a wood chipper and disposed of, but a Dutch design studio … [Read more...] about A Dutch design studio is turning storm-felled trees into beautiful benches

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