Far from wooden (sorry) these are three very clever designs by the collaborative partnership Draw Me a Sheep. In answer to the ongoing debate over how we use our natural resources, they created a series of chairs made exclusively from great chunks of wood shown here.
We not sure what kind of statement they wanted to make but they look amazing and are literally statement pieces of furniture.
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Scary stuff, but we love this graphic illustration of our current course through time. We also wonder if this is found in a thousand years how accurate it might be?
(source: Ffffound!)
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The Dandella by DIC is modern take on a dowsing rod which looks much like ET’s finger – it’s a highly technical solution for a simple concept and provides an intuitive way to navigate, and find directions by ‘pointing’ to the right way. Simply put when facing in the right direction the Dandella glows.
Though it behaves more like a sunflower always point towards the sun, this device lights up & bends towards its direction or other dandella that it’s been synchronised with. Easy for finding your friend in a crowded mall, or for parents to keep track of their kids at the mall. The form is kept minimal and humble, likened to holding a flower in the hand. Dandella simplifies the complex interface of current GPS devices to a simple notion of ‘just follow where it points.
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Tagged biodiversity, endangered, fungi, katharina mischer, shelf, shevles
So the world’s biggest ever conference on climate change is approaching, and everyone from world leaders from grass roots activists has something to say about it.
Well funnily enough, you can now read what everyone has to say about it, and even have your say too. The UN’s dedicated Copenhagen Conference page has a section dedicated to “your thoughts”, and each one is represented on a shiny interactive blue spinning globe.
Celebrity posters include Paul McCartney and inevitably Bob Geldof, but you can have your own name in lights next to theirs, and even vote for your favourite green comments. Look out for a post from Baby!
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We’ve always thought ipods were pretty cool – along with millions of others. And they have always had some of the funkiest accessories to go along with this. What could be left to add?
The answer – a new range of products from Vers.
These ipod cases are the pick of the lot, with a full choice of sizes and even different woods from bamboo to cherry available.
On top of this, Vers do a fabulous range of sound systems – see their website for details (source). What separates these from the scores of other ipod accessory ranges? They are hand-crafted, custom-made and above all renewable. And we think they’re not too bad looking either.
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European Mobility Week is a really simple, and hopefully effective, idea. It offers celebrations of green transport all over Europe where residents can reclaim roads. Here are just two examples;
Residents of the town of Almada in Portugal can swap recyclable materials for free rides on public transportation.
In Budapest, Hungary, they closed a road to all but public transit vehicles and hybrid cars. Best of all the road was even turned into a “living street” and paved with green grass that hosts sports and theater events for three days. If only it could be like this all year round, most certainly in the summer.
Here is our pick of some of the other events from all over Europe.
Germany, Bielefeld
United Kingdom, Greenwich
The Copenhagen Conference is almost upon us so we have decided to dedicate a special section of the Baby Creative blog to all it’s news and developments – a one stop shop for all news from the COP15, as it is also known . If you want to read more in advance then please click here.
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Tagged change, cliimate, climate change, cop15, copenhagen
Activists take note – you can’t miss this banner if you tried.
A team of climate and Native Rights activists unveiled this banner from the US observation deck at Niagara Falls. It’s purpose was as a “welcome message to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ahead of his first official visit to Obama to push dirty Tar Sands oil” (source).
Elsewhere, we also love the move by 25 Greenpeace activists who managed to bring Shell’s oil sands operation in Northern Alberta to a complete standstill.
We can only hope that Harper & Obama had their eyes open.
