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  • Radiohead teams up with Millican to create an eco-friendly bag

    Radiohead teams up with Millican to create an eco-friendly bag

    Now here’s an interesting collaboration. Rock band Radiohead is working with Millican, a company that makes bags out of sustainable materials and promotes conscious traveling, to create a bag that features artwork from their latest album, A Moon Shaped Pool. Artist Stanley Donwood, the band’s designer, in particular worked with Millican to recreate the album…

  • Another vertical forest tower rises, this time in Utrecht

    Another vertical forest tower rises, this time in Utrecht

    Stefano Boeri Architetti is at it again with its vertical forest towers. One of its latest such projects is Nanjing Towers in China, but an even newer one is being planned in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Called the Hawthorn Tower, the building is to be a part of the Wonderwoods development and…

  • Liam Neeson’s son Daniel launches Pine Outfitters, an eco-friendly clothing line

    Daniel Neeson, Liam Neeson’s younger son and a junior at Tulane University studying theater and digital media, is venturing into the world of fashion, launching Pine Outfitters, a clothing line featuring sporty, yet fashionable outdoor wear. In an interview with People, Daniel shared that he came up with the idea for Pine Outfitters while sitting…

  • This bamboo turntable lets you listen to your music in an eco-friendly way

    Vinyl’s been experiencing quite the resurgence, and some great new players have been popping up as well. Take Tri-Art’s Sprout turntable as an example, which is mostly made of bamboo, known as an eco-friendly material and is soaked in hemp oil and sealed in beeswax. Of course, it’s not made entirely out of bamboo; it…

  • Save your mascara wands, save animals

    We’re supposed to throw out makeup once they’ve been on our dressers a little too long, whether we’ve used them up already or not. It seems like such a waste, but apparently, if we keep makeup for too long, it’ll be crawling with bacteria sooner or later. So into the bin they should go. If…

  • Baltimore’s Mr. Trash Wheel is keeping the river clean

    A curious contraption has been keeping the river in Baltimore clean since 2014. Dubbed “Mr. Trash Wheel,” the machine is found in the city’s Inner Harbor, and it works just like a water wheel, using the current of the river to move and pick up trash from the water. The trash is then placed in…

  • Clean the World gives leftover hotel soap a new life

    If you’ve ever wondered what happens to the soap that you didn’t fully use up and left behind in your hotel bathroom, you’re not alone. The same issue crossed the mind of Shawn Seipler, so while staying at a hotel, he decided to ask about the fate of leftover soap bars in hotel bathrooms and…

  • Tomato skins and eggshells can be used to make tires, researchers find

    Food waste is a major problem throughout the world, and people need to keep coming up with ways to reduce it or use it. At the same time, petroleum use continues to grow and keeps people dependent on foreign sources of oil. Fortunately, Dr. Katrina Cornish, an Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair in Biomaterials…

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