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- Clever Cloud Pot Showers Your Flowers with Gentle Rain Sun, 11 May 14, 3:00amPlants need water to thrive, but how much is enough? A few extra seconds of blasting with the garden hose, and you could drown the roots; forget to water them for a few days, and you'll find shriveled leaves...
- Harry Yoell’s Potato Starch Plant Pots Biodegrade at the End of Their Lifecycle Tue, 28 Jan 14, 9:00amDesigner Harry Yoell created this set of sustainable herb pots from his own potato starch-based bioplastic. The green material is very light and strong, and once the pots have served their purpose they can be composted in...
- Bocci’s Gorgeous Recycled Glass ’38′ Lamps Double as Hanging Planters Fri, 3 May 13, 6:10amOmer Arbel's dazzling 38 Collection for Bocci features a series of suspended green lamps that double as planters. The surreal recycled glass spheres are blown with a multitude of cavities. Some spaces are deep enough to house...
- FreshWall Indoor Vertical Garden Purifies the Air While Growing Fresh Veggies Fri, 5 Apr 13, 8:00amFreshWall is a vertical garden that redefines indoor agriculture while maximizing the air purification ability of plants. The innovative green wall combines high-end technology with Scandinavian design aesthetics to encourage...
- The Solecan Combination Waste Bin Makes Recycling a Breeze Wed, 20 Mar 13, 8:00amCan a simple redesign of the trash can make recycling so easy that everyone will do it? That is what husband and wife team Jeff and Liz Helfrich, asked when they invented the Solecan, a trash/recycling bin made from recycled...
- ECO-Cycle Aquaponics Kit Turns Any 20-Gallon Aquarium Into an Indoor Garden Tue, 19 Mar 13, 8:00amThe ECO-Cycle ™ Aquaponics Kit is an innovative retrofit system that turns an aquarium into a productive garden. Sized for a standard 20-gallon aquarium and suitable for smaller tropical aquarium fish and goldfish, the...
- Future Tech Farm: A Distributed Farm Made of Modular, Internet-Enabled Aquaponic Gardens Tue, 5 Feb 13, 9:00amFuture Tech Farm is a decentralized and distributed farm that consists of a series of small aquaponic grow systems connected via the internet. Upon receiving a module, users open up their grow systems, fill them with water...
- Make a DIY Modern Herb Garden From Recycled Wine Bottles for $30! Wed, 20 Jun 12, 6:00amLooking for a fun weekend project that will infuse your home a breath of fresh air? Ben Uyeda recently created a great video for FreeGreen.com that shows how to make a stylish modern herb garden from several recycled wine...
- Vicky Pendant Lamp Terrarium Shines a Light on Indoor Gardening Fri, 27 Apr 12, 5:47amMexican-born, Netherlands-based designer José de la O unveiled a brilliant hanging pendant lamp that doubles as a vegetable garden at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair...
- Rainwater Harvesting PET-Tree System Makes Urban Gardening a Breeze Wed, 23 Nov 11, 4:40amPet-Tree is a vertical eco gardening system made from recycled PET containers. The design consists of structural plastic pieces and PET pots that are combined to form a tree-like shape. The system also has a built in water...