| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jul 16, 2008 at 12:58 pm by Mike Sowden 10 Links to Give Us a Break With the whirl of stories we've sent your way, we need a few moments to catch our breath. So grab a green tea and have a look at these, and we'll enjoy a quick break. Thanks! .jpg){kind=small} As passionate advocates of home-grown cities, we're fully behind the spread of High Density Vertical Growth gardens, as outlined by Treehugger.Weburbanist list 15 green archirectural marvels, including the proposed rotating skyscraper in Dubai that left my jaw on the ground.Here's another winning eco-house design over at Ecofriend to add to the list - this one looking like it's sculpted out of desert sand.For a more off-the-wall architectural style, check out San Francisco's house of falling furniture. Even more bizarrely, the artist responsible claims these tottering pieces of furniture are ...Read MoreRelated Posts ↓ |
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| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jul 9, 2008 at 11:25 am by Sarah Irani How Do I Recycle This? As I have said in a previous post, “anything that can be reused, must be reused,” and the design world has been up to the challenge with brilliant green dreams like Jens Praet’s ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jun 28, 2008 at 5:00 am by Mike Sowden Links to Green Your Weekend Read through all our articles for the week? At a loose end? Curl up with a few of these... The home of Good Housekeeping over in Harlem, NY, has had an eco-friendly makeover. ...Read MoreRelated Posts ↓ |
| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jun 26, 2008 at 4:30 am by Mike Sowden DIY Civil Engineering: Home Grown Cities A truly modern city is one that's overgrown. I love cities. In Rome last month, I was fascinated by how Italians utilized every corner of their balconies and gardens (more so in the Republic of Georgia) - admittedly as much for rusting motorbike/moped parts as for greenery. That's ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jun 21, 2008 at 8:00 am by Mike Sowden Smell the Coffee: 10 Links to Green Your Weekend A summery weekend ahead - and there's no real excuse to be indoors during the day (no arguments, please). But if you find yourself online just now, here are a few links worth a read: Related Posts ↓ |
| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jun 13, 2008 at 1:00 pm by Mike Sowden Links to Green Your Weekend Is the week over already? How did that happen? And there are so many other things we wanted to tell you about, such as:
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| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jun 11, 2008 at 5:00 am by Mike Sowden Mid-Week Eco Links Weekends are precious things: we don't work them. But we'd still like to click around and have some fun during the week, right? So...
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| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jun 10, 2008 at 6:00 am by Mike Sowden Greenopia: It's a Regional Thing Being "over here" in the U.K., I tend to forget (as many Brits do) how huge the U.S. is.....and how frustrating it must be to hear about an enticing new eco-restaurant or artisan fair that's a day's drive away, or more. Meanwhile, you're stuck with Denny's. There's a site that wants to tell you about how green your very ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jun 4, 2008 at 1:00 am by Mike Sowden Mid-Week Green Links We're midway through the busy working week. Grab some chocolate, kick your shoes off and click a few of these...  For the Brits among you: make sure you close your windows at night....or ...Read MoreRelated Posts ↓ |
| ARTISAN / ECOSALON HOME Jun 12, 2008 at 6:00 am by Kim Derby Live the Maku Lifestyle The summer before my junior year in college I dated a surfer - the real, authentic kind who lives, breathes, sleeps and eats waves. We worked nights at the Charthouse restaurant in Malibu, CA and lived the perfect surf-couple lifestyle. 75% of our time was spent outdoors; we ate little and drank a lot; we had few clothes and rarely ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |