Here’s a baking competition with a difference. The idea is to make a gingerbread house (the sort that Hansel and Gretel were lured to), and here’s the twist, it needs to be an eco-gingerbread house. The rules state that the house has to have at least four sustainable building design elements and must be entirely …
What do you get when you take a product of our fear of terrorism, cut a bit off and tumble it around in a cement mixer with some sand, and then add some creative magic? Stuart Haygarth tried it and ended up with a striking chandelier. He collected 1800 confiscated plastic water bottles from Stansted …
Jason Elliot, photographer, artist and Yorkshireman, has had a stab at depicting the future of the Calder Valley after a few years of global warming. He’s taken a tongue-in-cheek approach to a serious concern by transforming local scene’s with lush tropical vegetation and exotic animals and birds. Storm over the Co-op Parrots on New Road …
Current TV and the Alliance for Climate Protection challenged the public to create Ecospots, 60 second short films with a message to get people involved in combating climate change. The winners have been announced. The video below is the winner of 3rd place and my favourite. [via: Eco Chick]
London based boutique electronics company, Hulger, is searching for a producer for their latest design project, the Plumen low-energy light bulb. They were designed to counter the ugliness of CFLs that are currently available, and are objects d’art in their own right. No need to hide these babies under a bushel lampshade. [via: dezeen]
Aleksandar Rodic is a young Serbian artist who looks at his work as a blend of art, design and engineering. Energy Plant is a combination of nature and technology intended to show the beauty of renewable energy sources. It was awarded with the first prize at the AWEA wind power conference in Pittsburgh. This work …
As promised, here is another finalist from the One-Minute with Meaning short film competition. Vote for the film that you want to see win the “People’s Choice Award”.
Friends of the Earth ran a competition earlier this year inviting amateur and professional film makers to submit a one-minute long film to their One-Minute with Meaning Competition. Now all the submissions are in, and in addition to the Best Green Film award that is being judged by a panel of experts including Oscar-winning David …