Composting that cuppa: PG Tips launches tea bag recycling initiative
The manufacturer of the U.K.'s most popular brand of tea, PG Tips, launches a pilot tea bag composting campaign in an effort to curb the millions of pounds of tea-related waste that is landfilled each year.
No, you're not hallucinating: Designer unveils wooden light bulb
Marrying traditional Japanese craft techniques and energy-efficient lighting technology, designer Ryosuke Fukusada creates an LED bulb wrapped in a thin wooden shell that, yep, glows.
NY Design Week 2012: 12x12 exhibition
Appealing to both design nuts and NYC history buffs, the 12x12 exhibition showcases the work of a dozen furniture designers supplied with lumber reclaimed from 12 demolished buildings across the Big Apple.
NY Design Week 2012: Live Screen by Danielle Trofe
Live Screen, designer Danielle Trofe's ingenious vertical hydroponic gardening system geared towards space-sensitive indoor environments, makes its international debut at WantedDesign.
NY Design Week 2012: Sk8 Tile by Art of Board
Holding on to a box of broken skateboard decks from when you were a teen? Well, it's time to let go — by recycling them through Art of Board, a firm that gives your busted decks new life as kitchen backsplash.
NY Design Week 2012: Broom Chair by Philippe Starck for Emeco
American chair manufacturer Emeco continues to make good green use of discarded materials with Broom, a stackable, Philippe Starck-designed seat made from a whopping 90 percent pre-consumer factory waste.
NY Design Week 2012: Naked Cabinet Line by MIO
MIO returns to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair with a range of sustainable plywood storage units that can be adorned with the work of 3 different artists or your very own artistic masterpieces.
The Daddy Dozen: Father's Day Gift Guide 2012
On the prowl for a Father's Day gift that's unique, useful and not a necktie? Consider a cigar ashtray made from recycled tequila bottles, a killer pair of work boots for DIY projects and these 10 other ideas.
Playing catch up: Summer's coming, Summer's gone
Count down to summer with the assistance of a few green home and garden news items accompanied by the music of the late, great Donna Summer. Because really, nothing says summertime fun like 70s disco.
Mary Richardson Kennedy leaves legacy of green design
Although she left this world best known as the troubled estranged wife of Bobby Kennedy, she'll also be remembered as a 'tremendously gifted architect' and 'relentless advocate of green design.'
