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Making Lamps from Mushrooms
Via Designer Pages: Edvard has also developed a lamp made from MYX that produces food for the consumer before it ends up as a functional light object. MYX is made from leftover hemp fibres from the...
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Growing Winter Vegies
As it gets colder and the days shorten up, I look at my garden and wonder what else I can hope to get out of it this year. I am slightly addicted to eating fresh from the garden, so when I saw this in...
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Why it Counts: Recycled Binders, Pocket Folders and Tab Dividers
What good is using a recycled binder or eco friendly pocket folders and tab dividers in the grand scheme of things? You pay attention to composting and what you eat, but what is the benefit to recycled...
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Inspired Marketing at North Face
This North Face Store’s Floor Disappears, Forcing Startled Shoppers to Climb the Walls Sudden sporting challenge for visitors. What? This is great. The truth is that most people who buy outdoor gear...
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Interesting Packaging Design for Your Bike – James Dyson Awards
PACKTASCHE Ready to hop on your bike to go to the grocery store to get your veggies for dinner? Check out this handy cardboard carrier – sort of a bike friendly paper bag but reusable. The whole page...
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High Speed Rail – See what it means to go super fast
High Speed Rail Lines – going 300 mph in comfort. For a lot of us, some cities are too close to fly to and kind of a haul to drive to. It would be nice if there was an alternative. Perhaps something...
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Clean Water – still a problem
40 years after the clean water act was passed, there are still issues with the water supply in the mid-west. Iowa has a voluntary program to encourage farmers to fix this problem which is great. At...
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Are Plastics Toxic? One take on Plastic information.
Plastics have become an everyday part of our lives, but are there issues we need to consider? What are the issues inherent in the type of plastic should that, say, you have it on the shelf as a vinyl...
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Healthcare Giants Boycott Furniture Containing Flame Retardants
Good news indeed for both employees and patients in hospitals! New measures are helping green healthcare furniture! Facebook, Kaiser Permanente, and Autodesk are among major buyers that have pledged to...
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Need some inspiration? Check out our Pinterest site!
Many of you know Naked Binder and Corporate Image are two halves of the same company. We manufacture custom and off the shelf eco friendly 3-ring binders, pocket folders, boxes and some crazy awesome...
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Buckminster Fuller – 42 hours of free lectures
Must listen material! I am grabbing directly from open culture because I feel like I can’t say much more except – Check these out! This guy has a fascinating mind and is well worth listening to. I will...
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Sustainable Holiday upgrades!
The 9 Best Kitchen Updates You CAN Do (When You Can’t Renovate Your Rental) FROM THE ARCHIVES: GREATEST HITS Pin it Whether you’re renting and can’t do a lot of permanent damage or even if you own a...
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Sustainable Holidays – Do a bit of greening
Naked Binder would like to offer some green, sustainable holiday tips from various places around the internet. This from Vanderbilt University: Tips for reducing your environmental impact during the...
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Apparently We CAN run the whole world on solar power.
Can all of the US (and World!) run on solar power? Elon Musk says yes,and the science seems good. Apparently, it won’t even take that much surface area to do it. What this would mean for the US in...
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REAUTHORIZATION OF AMERICA’S BEST CONSERVATION PROGRAM
Just saw this and wanted to share: This morning, President Obama announced a proposal to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund for the 2017 budget, along with permanently reauthorizing annual...
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Architectural awards – see who is designing great things
Women in Architecture Awards 2016: shortlists revealed 10 FEBRUARY, 2016 BY EMILY BOOTH The AR is delighted to announce the shortlists for the Woman Architect of the Year and the Moira Gemmill Prize...
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you emit too much — here’s how to stop
If you never turn to Grist to check out the environmental news, you may give it a try. One of their columns is Ask Umbra, a ‘Hints from Heloise’ for the green community. This one caught my eye and has...
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When will they all be Zero Energy Buildings?
In our quest to make our lives less impactful on the environment, we insulate our homes, plant low water gardens, recycle, compost, re-use, and fix whatever we can. While it can seem ultimately futile...
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