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Artifex & The Lab Present Detroit Trash Fashion | Eco Trending

Detroit Style Trash-Fashion Bash From the Artifex Detroit Website: Come one, come all to the Tangent Gallery on April 27th for a night of fashion and fun brought to you by Artifex Detroit in collaboration with The Laboratory, LLC! Our … Continue reading

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Re-purposed Roadside Billboards | The Other Side Campaign, Thailand

Thailand billboards can be used to build homes when they’re not in use The Other Side campaign has modified road-side advertisements so they can be repurposed as the materials for homes of poor people in the country. We recently wrote … Continue reading

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Recycled Silicone Jewelry | Belle Noir

Fashionable recycled silicone jewelry from baking molds. Source | http://www.notcot.org/ Jewelry Website | http://www.bellenoir.nl/

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Wood Pulp Jeans | Eco-Friendly Fashion

‘Wooden’ denim uses less resources by replacing cotton with tree pulp Dawn Ellams, a PhD researcher from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, has developed Tencel – a denim made from the pulp of eucalyptus trees. The textiles industry is one with … Continue reading

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Multi-Family Shipping Container Developments | Detroit

Shipping-container apts set to break ground in Woodbridge, Corktown Detroit’s first shipping container building is about to break ground in Corktown. Three Squared (formerly Exceptional Green Living) plans to begin building a couple model units of the larger multi-family project … Continue reading

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All Clear | Portable Water Purifier

Bottle uses UV light to sterilize unsafe drinking water New from California-based CamelBak the All Clear water bottle uses a built-in UV light to eliminate impurities and make water safe for drinking. Disinfecting water of questionable purity is a challenge … Continue reading

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Naim Josefi | Melonia 3D Printed Shoe | Video

Melonia shoe from Naim Josefi on YouTube. Source: digitaldesigntherapy.com

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3D Printable Textiles | Video

Eco-Friendly Printable Clothing is Like Modern Chain Mail Trendspotter |  Allison Love The future of clothing and fabric is eco-friendly, especially if designers start using the 3D printable textiles made from ink cartridges and powered plastic. The idea is to … Continue reading

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Eco-friendly knitwear contains skin-healing properties

German fashion label Twosquaremeter produce knitwear made with milk and seaweed fibers thought to benefit the skin. The eco-friendly fashion trend continues to flourish. In the recent months we’ve seen flipflops made from upcycled newspaper and biodegradable shoes. The next … Continue reading

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UBeauty Recycled Garden Pots

Really cool garden pots made from recycled tires.  Check out the story behind the pots at the UBeauty website. Source: NOTCOT

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