ZEDfactory is the architects studio of BedZED, the UK’s first and largest Zero Energy Development. Bill Dunster established ZEDfactory in 1999. "Back in the mid 1970s, it was clear that things had to change,” says Bill Dunster; “Oil and gas reserves were running low, fuel prices were going up every year ...

As the energy bills continue to soar a clever solar lighting idea is diffusing across the slums of the Philippines. A 1.5 litre plastic bottle filled with purified water and three spoons of bleach and then fitted to a hole in the roof. The sun rays are curbed by the bottle. “Designed ...

  I think it is never enough when we speak about behaviour change in manufacturing products. Resuming from my last post about Steelcase I would like to introduce one of their most interesting projects: The Think chair. In 2000 Steelcase was the first office furniture company to apply the Life Cycle thinking in the ...

Steelcase Inc. is a nearly 100 years old  brand that offers a comprehensive portfolio of workplace furnishings, products and services. Designing to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Steelcase was created by a few people with a strong commitment to integrity and doing the right thing for their customers, employees, ...

Voluntourism (Volunteering + Tourism) is one of the sustainable ways to approach tourism, and PEPY Tours is a model for responsible voluntourism. Pepy is both an international non-governmental organization registered in the USA and Cambodia, PEPY, and an educational adventure and service-learning tour operator, PEPY Tours that helps to fund education programs ...

  August, vacation time for antonomasia, inspired me for a series of considerations about Travel and Tourism. I love to travel, most of the people do! This makes us consumers of one of the world’s biggest industries: Tourism. For many countries, tourism is in the top three sources of foreign exchange. Italy ...

  The human body contains from 55% to 78% water. To function properly, the body requires between one and seven litres of water per day to avoid dehydration. Globally, one every five person doesn’t have access to clean drinking water. Two in five do not have adequate sanitation facilities and many countries ...

In 1994 Jeremy Moon received a T-shirt by a shepherd in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. The T-shirt was remarkably soft and do not hold body odour. "It didn't look too good, but it felt amazing. And I fell in love with the feeling of it," says Moon. The ...

  The "world's most livable cities" is an informal name given to any list of cities as they rank on a reputable annual survey of living conditions. The three most prestigious are, the Mercer's Quality of Living Survey, The Economist's World's Most Livable Cities (using data from Mercer as well) and the Livable cities index by the ...

The Union Street Urban Orchard is created by The Architecture Foundation, Bankside Open Spaces Trust, ProjectARKs and the Wayward Plant Registry. This summer they will transform a derelict site, 100 Union Street-Southwark-London, into the Urban Physic Garden, a pop-up community built garden celebrating medicinal plants. The Urban Physic Garden will be shaped ...