LivingOn Lifestyle is a new page of the blog devoted to ideas about sustainability and the environment. Below are some of the posts we have featured on the blog that relate to sustainable design and in future we’ll file all new posts here as well, so you can access them all in one place. Most of all we’d like you to share your ideas and thoughts on sustainability and environmental change, so please feel free to comment.
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Reusable water bottles
Sept 22, 2009
With the warmer weather upon us, a few of us at Living Edge have recently invested in a reusable drink bottle to save on buying plastic which we all know is bad for so many reasons – cost, transport, potential chemical contamination, not to mention that horrible plastic water taste. Here are our top 3 [...]
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Recycle your old mobile for the gorillas
Sept 07, 2009
Living Edge is currently participating in a mobile phone recycling program Taronga Zoo is running ‘They’re calling on You’. A rare mineral ore called coltan, found in mobile phones, is mined in Gorilla habitat and this mining is accelerating the decline in Western Lowland Gorilla numbers and at least 10 other African primate species. By [...]
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned…
Sept 01, 2009
Republic of Everyone are masters at making us think more about sustainability and their latest campaign, supported by indesign is no exception. Have a look at the One Thing I’ve Learnt blog to read more about it. Our favourite video so far is of Lianne Rossler (founding member of Dinosaur Designs) whose observance of people [...]
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The Age of Stupid / Not Stupid
August 24, 2009
The Age of Stupid is an independent film about climate change set in the future (2055) starring Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in a wrecked world and looking back at archive footage from 2007, wondering why we didn’t do something about climate change when we had the chance. Not Stupid is the action [...]
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The Uniform Project
July 16, 2009
The Uniform Project was sent to me by a friend this week and it certainly captured my attention. Sheena Matheiken has taken it upon herself to wear the same dress every day for an entire year as an exercise in sustainable fashion, whilst also raising funds for the education of children living in slum communities [...]
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LivingOn Ads
June 26, 2009
Have you seen our new ads that have started appearing in magazines recently? Basically we took a selection of our furniture and created two futuristic landscapes. Look closely to see if you can pick out the pieces… here’s a clue – there’s some Eames, Frank Gehry, George Nelson, Jon Goulder, Norman + Quaine and Charles [...]
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Green Marketing Forum
June 11, 2009
The second annual Green Marketing Forum is on in Sydney the 30th June and Melbourne 09th July. It takes the form of a conference and workshop which explores strategies for successfully marketing green products and services, profiling current campaigns by a range of leading companies. We’re proud to be one of the businesses being profiled, [...]
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What is Eco-Design? Resource
June 03, 2009
Design Victoria have recently launched their ‘What is Eco-Design’ kit. It enables you access to a number of resources and guides to help you minimise the impact your business has on the environment. The information is tailored to three core design industries, Industrial/Product, Graphic/Multimedia and Fashion/Textiles.
Below is one such resource, a video of Alan Pears [...]
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KeepCup
May 25, 2009
Finally, a well designed alternative to the disposable coffee cup. KeepCup is a new Australian product that has lots of smart features that include being designed in three barista standard sizes to ensure the right coffee/milk ratio and a clever little silicon band where your coffee preference can be marked off. It’s made of recycled [...]
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Reusable Shopping Bags
May 20, 2009
We all know we should be using them, but frankly the green supermarket bags with the plastic bottoms aren’t convenient when you drop by the shops on your way home unless you buy yet another one, which defeats the purpose really. One or two that fit nicely into your handbag (or manbag) makes much better [...]
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Whale Tail Campaign Hits New Yor
May 18, 2009
We are big fans of Republic of Everyone, the agency who are dedicated to finding interesting ways of promoting social change by making sustainability, ethical, social and corporate responsibility a positive thing you just want to be involved in (we chose them to help us develop Living Edge’s own sustainability strategy LivingOn). So we were delighted to see their very successful Tails for Whales campaign [...]
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Tupperware Lights
April 13, 2009
This series of Tupperware lights by Frank Criscione is one of 15 finalist in a recent Greening Design competition run by inhabitat. It gets our vote – we had to look twice they’re so gorgeous and how great is that colour palette… circa 1970’s? Check out the other finalists and cast your vote here.
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Earth Hour
March 25, 2009
If you’ve been reading this blog over the last month you’ll have seen some of the posts about Living Edge and Woodhead’s Power of 1 campaign, which culminates this Saturday the 28th March with Earth Hour. Living Edge and Woodhead will be hosting a candlelit cocktail party to mark the occasion and in the spirit [...]
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Architects Without Frontiers talk
March 23, 2009
On Friday Woodhead Architects hosted a talk for staff by Jane Rothschild of Architects Without Frontiers Australia a not-for-profit organisation who assist communities afflicted by social, environmental or natural disasters in the sustainable re-building of their cities and communities. The talk was focused on AWF’s recent work building preschools in India (learn more about it [...]
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The Power of 1: Doing More with Less
March 16, 2009
The theme of the week for Living Edge and Woodhead’s Power of One campaign is doing More with Less. Here are a few design practices doing just that.
1.Interior: Recycled Office
i29 Interior Architects created the office below for Gummo advertising agency, embracing the mantra “reduce, reuse, recycle”. The entire office is fitted out with second [...]
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The Power of 1:Recycling
March 10, 2009
The theme of the week for Living Edge and Woodhead’s Power of One campaign is recycling. Here are some inspired examples.
1.Alice potter Jewellery
Alice Potter is an Adelaide based jeweller who uses a lot of repurposed objects to create her delightful pieces such as laminate samples and discarded plastic and magazine clippings.
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The Power of 1:Transport
March 04, 2009
The theme of the week for Living Edge’s and Woodhead’s Power of One campaign is transport (see pdf here). Here are a few transport related ideas that might inspire you.
1.On yer bike
Cycling to work has plenty of health benefits and in a city like Sydney or Melbourne it’s proven to be quicker than driving short [...]
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LivingOn + The Power of 1
March 03, 2009
As part of Living Edge’s sustainability program LivingOn (you may have read our post about the LivingOn book) we have teamed up with architecture firm Woodhead for the month of March to launch ‘The Power of One’. The program is inspired by Earth Hour and will include a number of initiatives throughout the month based [...]
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LivingOn Book
Feb 06, 2009
Have you seen our new book, LivingOn? It’s all about Living Edge’s commitment to sustainability and the environment. It was designed in-house and is just the beginning of a very exciting new project you’ll hear a lot more about. Swing by the showroom to pick up a copy, or order one online from the website. [...]
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GECA- Good Environmental Choice Australia
Jan 29, 2009
If you’ve visited the Living Edge website lately, you’ll notice that GECA certified products can now be searched for separately to the rest of the range. GECA stands for Good Environmental Choice Australia and is the only environmental labelling program in Australia which indicates the environmental performance of a product from a whole of product life [...]
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Inhabitots: sustainable design for kids
August 19, 2008
The sustainable design blog inhabitat now has a younger version called inhabitots with the motto “sustainable design for the next generation”. It is full of baby/child products with a focus on sustainability and good design. We were happy to see that our Eames Rocker rates a mention for being child and environmentally friendly, read the [...]
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Great sustainability resource for designers
May 05, 2008
As passionate advocates of sustainable design we were really impressed to find Sustainability Victoria’s series of Quickstart PDF’s aimed to assist designers and product developers with integrating environmental factors into new product design projects. Each document deals with a specific topic or theme related to environmentally oriented product design and breaks down the enormous umbrella [...]
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