Category Archives: green roots

cause I care, cycle back, DIY, green roots

this Earth Day …

22/04/2008 DesignFlute 1 Comment

(Designer: Groovy @ artgallery18)

An outdated telephone handset (exception: still very much in use in India) recycled into a lovely single-flower vase. The vase is water sealed and cut on an angle.

Material: Recycled plastic telephone handset

This Earth Day I want to share, communicate, say and salute quite a few things!

And when I start posting with a plastic vase I do not just mean recycling. I want to say something else!

Stay tuned and please keep coming back!!

(I am going to do many posts today!)

design screw, green roots, simplicity, vertorizontical

pen holder

18/04/2008 DesignFlute Leave a comment

oslo – penholder

Designer: Harri Koskinen For Danese Milano

Most of the times simple things are most functional and beautiful.. A simple creation and lot of thinking (sustainable too) is the beauty of this memo and pencil holder.

Designer Harri Koskinen has taken only two birchwood rings and a sheet to create this.

I would take lots of pencils & things to decorate this!

cycle back, design screw, green roots

in a nutshell

09/04/2008 DesignFlute 3 Comments

hut carved of a raw coconut

Designers: @ Vibrant Nature

Vibrant Nature manufactures all types of handcrafted products made of natural fibers like Banana Fiber, Sisal Fiber, Screwpine, Palm, Talipot, Kora Grass, Coco Fibers, coconut shell and raw coconut etc.

Their creative input brings forth some very innovative products:

These pieces are made by carving a single raw coconut – ?

Ganesha

Vibrant Nature works in close association with hundreds of established artisans, cooperative societies, Women Groups with traditional talents and experience in their respective fields and village community.

These products are made of coconut shell – ?

cup

spoon

pickle jar

small box (kumkum daan)

locket

tea-set

See more of their products made of natural materials @ flickr here.

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memory and ties

26/02/2008 DesignFlute 2 Comments

shopping bag

Designer: Mårten Lindquist @ Plenty Design

For some stiff upper neck freedom!

Wear your formality on your bag!

Tie-recycling! A shopping-bag by Plenty in collaboration with Beyond Retro Stockholm.

shower curtain

For those who are excellent bathroom singers but have problems with memory!

The one who can’t remember even one full song!

“Singing in the Rain” shower curtain. (Though I think it is a bit romantic…)

doormat

Again something for forgetfulness and mostly for paranoia!

The doormat ‘Reminder’ says:

KEYS, WALLET, MOBILE PHONE.

The second one says: IRON, STOVE, WINDOW.

Put inside the door and don’t forget to look down. Or better put on the door itself!

(Don’t you worry- you are not alone -happens with all of us many a times!)

wallpaper

And at last if you are the cheating kind and the kind who feels guilty too!

This wallpaper ‘Glance’ is for you.

Watching eyes to make you constantly nervous!

For more of this Stockholm based designer Mårten Lindquist’s simple, fun creations go here.

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greener Conscience or a clean Slate

25/02/2008 DesignFlute Leave a comment

~~All ye~~ (can’t count me out so)

all of us power consumers answer my two questions :-

Is guilt an excellent motivator?

Or is it the money counting strategies that motivate our spending or saving?

So when asked how much electricity we have already consumed in terms of money, in terms of dollar – everyday or even every moment – do we sit up and start listening?

Do we start changing our habits?

To green our Conscience and to start a clean SLATE – two greener gadgets – two electricity meters are here to help us.

conscience

Designer : Delroy Dennisur via Core77

slate

Designer : Adam Chang via Core77

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Events, green roots

the Grass that binds – Vetiver

19/02/2008 DesignFlute 3 Comments

I call Vetiver grass the eco steel!

The roots of Vetiver grass have strength of 1/6 of mild steel.

Something as simple as grass and what could be the count of applications and environmental solutions it offers – somewhere around 10,000!! (see some here)

No, I am not joking or exaggerating!

I came to know about this wonderful grass when I did this post.

And there is some great news ?

The first ever National Workshop on the ‘Vetiver System for Environmental Protection and Natural Disaster Management’ is going to be held from 21^st to 23^rd February 2008 at Cochin, Kerala, India. Overseas participants are welcome.

This workshop provides the means for low cost and immediate action using a proven and tested technology. It is of great importance for people who are looking to remedy many land and water resource problems relating to climate change, resource degradation and pollution.

Please check all the details about workshop here.

urban landscaping with vetiver (floating) in China

It is organized by The Vetiver Network International and India Vetiver Network.

handicrafts from vetiver made in Venezuela

Images via Vetiver Network International.